Daily Cartoon: Friday, January 19th

Daily Cartoon: Friday, January 19th

“Everyone on this stage is committed to a future of net-zero income-tax payments.” Source link Read more »
Robert Glück’s Gloriously Unreliable Memorial to a Lost Love

Robert Glück’s Gloriously Unreliable Memorial to a Lost Love

Bob and Ed met at a San Francisco streetcar stop in 1970. The two men were in their early twenties. They had each come from watching the same film that evening, Andy... Read more »
What Enid Blyton and Brambly Hedge don’t tell you about being Black in the British countryside | Books

What Enid Blyton and Brambly Hedge don’t tell you about being Black in the British countryside | Books

It all started with Brambly Hedge and those exquisite drawings of Mrs Apple’s kitchen at Crabtree Cottage: her shelves overflowing with homemade jams, woven baskets heaped with currants and rosehips, drying herbs... Read more »
‘Sexual pleasure a gift from God’ but avoid porn, Pope Francis advises | Pope Francis

‘Sexual pleasure a gift from God’ but avoid porn, Pope Francis advises | Pope Francis

“Sexual pleasure is a gift from God” but Catholics must avoid pornography, Pope Francis has said. The pontiff made the remarks during a catechesis devoted to the “vice of lust” at his... Read more »
What Enid Blyton and Brambly Hedge don’t tell you about being Black in the British countryside | Books

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, January 18th

“Don’t worry—this stretch of extreme cold means there’s an unseasonably warm day ahead.” Source link Read more »
‘Sexual pleasure a gift from God’ but avoid porn, Pope Francis advises | Pope Francis

David Means Reads “Chance the Cat”

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly Books & Fiction newsletter. David Means reads his story “Chance the Cat,” from the... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Friday, January 19th

Researchers Expand Understanding of Genetic Mechanisms Underlying Fragile X Syndrome

January 18, 2024 • Research Highlight Fragile X syndrome  is a genetic disorder caused by the gene FMR1. It is the most common form of inherited intellectual disability and often co-occurs with... Read more »
Enemy of the State – Public Books

Enemy of the State – Public Books

“Citizen Darfour went to the House of Commons and presented a brief intended to destroy our institutions and upset the state …”—Le Télégraphe, gazette officielle extraordinaire, 1 September 1822   It is... Read more »
Five of the best postcolonial novels | Books

Five of the best postcolonial novels | Books

Novelist Chinua Achebe, hailed as the father of African literature, when speaking once of the medium’s complicity in colonialism said: “Literature is not a luxury for us. It is a life and... Read more »
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