The Loveliness of Letting Go: An Illustrated Ode to Life’s Lasts
The Marginalianby Maria Popova·22 Aug 2026
The Loveliness of Letting Go: An Illustrated Ode to Life’s Lasts By Maria Popova The great cruelty of life, and also its great mercy, is that only hindsight ever knows each last — the last time...
How to Be Un-Dead: Notes on Waking Up from the Trance of Near-Living
The Marginalianby Maria Popova·22 Aug 2026
How to Be Un-Dead: Notes on Waking Up from the Trance of Near-Living By Maria Popova “When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist,” Henry Miller wrote in his stunning letter to Anaïs Nin...
Teen Girls Are Meeting for Coffee. And Changing the World | The Tyee
The Tyeeby Katie Hyslop·22 Aug 2026
When Zoya Reebye realized there was no space in her all-girls school to talk about issues impacting Black girls, Indigenous girls and girls of colour, the then-14-year-old founded a student club...
The debate on traditional gender roles has taken a turn
Channel News Asiaby Loraine Lee·22 Aug 2026
The debate on traditional gender roles has taken a turn A new study suggests that a larger proportion of younger men in Singapore hold traditional views of masculinity than older generations.
Why is it so hard to let go of the things we own?
Channel News Asiaby Daven Wu·21 Aug 2026
Why is it so hard to let go of the things we own? After nearly 19 years in a London flat, one writer confronts the coats, books, crockery and other possessions that quietly accumulated into a life...
The New Pornographers - Penny Arcade
Penny Arcadeby Tycho·21 Aug 2026
I always thought the comparison between "Actual Play" and Pornography was kind of a silly joke that had a little bit of truth in it, like all jokes which have the capacity to endure.
Killing Myself In Front Of You To Forever Change Your Bond And The Trajectory Of... | Know Your Meme
Know Your Meme Newsfeedby Owen·21 Aug 2026
Killing Myself In Front Of You To Forever Change Your Bond And The Trajectory Of... Confirmed Part of a series on Catchphrases.
The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom
The Marginalianby Maria Popova·21 Aug 2026
The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom By Maria Popova We move through the world largely unaware that our emotions...
LA Designer Kevin Klein Shares What Inspires Him
Design Milkby Anna Zappia·21 Aug 2026
After more than a decade working in hospitality development and collaborating with industry icons like Kelly Wearstler and Philippe Starck, Kevin Klein had a realization: “I was being paid to...
Another Photo Contest Falls Victim to a Controversy of its Own Making
PetaPixelby Jeremy Gray·21 Aug 2026
DarkSky International’s Capture the Dark 2026 photo contest undoubtedly featured some beautiful photos of the night sky captured by talented photographers.
When 'but they're your family' isn't reason enough to stay
Phys.orgby Elizabeth Weinstein·21 Aug 2026
When 'but they're your family' isn't reason enough to stay "She's your mom." "They're your family." "Blood is thicker than water."
What caused the global populist wave? It’s the Internet, Stupid - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby S. Abbas Raza·21 Aug 2026
Francis Fukuyama at Persuasion: Ever since the year 2016, when Britain voted for Brexit and Trump was elected president, social scientists, journalists, pundits, and almost everyone else have been...
Milei says legal abortion ‘madness’ is ‘costing Argentina dearly’
Buenos Aires Timesby James Grainger·21 Aug 2026
President Javier Milei has linked Argentina’s falling birth rate to the feminist movement and the legalisation of abortion, describing the latter as a “madness” that is “costing” the country...
Introducing Noema Issue VII: The Next Axial Age | NOEMA
Noema Magazineby Nathan Gardels·21 Aug 2026
Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. He is also the co-founder of and a senior adviser to the Berggruen Institute.
Life of M by Rachel Cusk - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Morgan Meis·21 Aug 2026
Clare Clark at The Guardian: In this post-saturation era of social media exposure, the intersection of appearance and authenticity has been exhaustively picked over.
MEA trashes US body's sanction against RSS, says it's biased
The Siasat Dailyby News Desk·21 Aug 2026
New Delhi: Calling it a “biased” organisation, India on Friday, August 12, sought to brush aside the call given by the United States Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) for...
‘A True Account of the Conquest of New Spain’: Chicanery, adventures and plunder recounted by a soldier-writer
El País Englishby Leonardo Padura·21 Aug 2026
Alejo Carpentier, a deep connoisseur of the origins, essences and behaviors of New World identity, and the author of the identity concept he called “American Magical Realism” — which he also...
Friday Poem - 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Dailyby Jim Culleny·21 Aug 2026
Buddha I used to sit under trees and meditate on the diamond bright silence of darkness and the bright look of diamonds in space and space that was stiff with lights and diamonds shot through, and...
Ahmed Faraz: The Politics and Poetry of Desire
Frontlineby Kanav Gupta·21 Aug 2026
Ahmad Faraz’s stature among the modern greats of Urdu poetry rests on a deftly cultivated paradox.
I visited No Man's Sky's thriving player-made utopia at the end of the universe, and spoke to a founding member of the group behind it
Eurogamer.net Latest Articlesby Matt Wales·21 Aug 2026
In the distant reaches of a doomed universe, perpetually 16 minutes from total destruction, something wonderful is happening.
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