Sapient Librarian
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Retiree: teacher, dir. health sci librarian (copyright, archive, training, web admin), nonprofit exec, $/lib. consortia, research analyst. Yes: science nature & evidence. “Out beyond ideas of right or wrong there is a field I will meet you there” No "DMs"
Koalas remind me of how fragile we all are on the precipice of extinction www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 26, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Koalas remind me of how fragile we all are on the precipice of extinction www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Medpage: Child predators target vulnerable minors & appearance not turn-on; ability to dominate is. Abuse not for sex per se it's power dynamics Perpetrators don't enjoy mutual healthy sex as Epstein's crimes highlight: sex trafficking prostitution of minor & child sex abuse tinyurl.com/mr34jvkt
Opinion | Jeffrey Epstein's Crimes: Child Sexual Abuse Isn't a 'Type'
Playing semantics over what constitutes a pedophile serves no clinical purpose
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November 26, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Medpage: Child predators target vulnerable minors & appearance not turn-on; ability to dominate is. Abuse not for sex per se it's power dynamics Perpetrators don't enjoy mutual healthy sex as Epstein's crimes highlight: sex trafficking prostitution of minor & child sex abuse tinyurl.com/mr34jvkt
Robert Reich: How to get rid of Citizen's United: A state that no longer grants its corps power to spend in elections also denies that power to corps chartered in other 49 states if they wish to do business in that state. All state needs is enact a law w/provision-- Read more: tinyurl.com/2pmd886t
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Robert Reich: How to get rid of Citizen's United: A state that no longer grants its corps power to spend in elections also denies that power to corps chartered in other 49 states if they wish to do business in that state. All state needs is enact a law w/provision-- Read more: tinyurl.com/2pmd886t
Tricycle: When we resolve something with mindfulness, we can let it go and free ourselves from its power. by Ajahn Sumedho, “The Gift of Gratitude” tricycle.org/magazine/aja...
The Gift of Gratitude
Ajahn Sumedho recounts the joyful unfolding of a deep appreciation for his teacher and parents.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Tricycle: When we resolve something with mindfulness, we can let it go and free ourselves from its power. by Ajahn Sumedho, “The Gift of Gratitude” tricycle.org/magazine/aja...
Daily Beast: We Can See Trump Is in Gross Decline: Psychologist says INCREASINGLY UNWELL, Dr. John Gartner weighed in on what Trump’s behavior indicates about the 79-year-old president’s increasingly unstable state of mind www.thedailybeast.com/we-can-see-t...
We Can See Trump Is in Gross Decline: Psychologist
Dr. John Gartner weighed in on what Trump’s behavior indicates about the 79-year-old president’s increasingly unstable state of mind.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Daily Beast: We Can See Trump Is in Gross Decline: Psychologist says INCREASINGLY UNWELL, Dr. John Gartner weighed in on what Trump’s behavior indicates about the 79-year-old president’s increasingly unstable state of mind www.thedailybeast.com/we-can-see-t...
Literary Hub: Nothing Better Than a Whole Lot of Books: In Praise of Bibliomania, Ed Simon Considers the Many Different Ways an Obsession Can Manifest lithub.com/nothing-bett...
Nothing Better Than a Whole Lot of Books: In Praise of Bibliomania
Desiderius Erasmus lived his happiest months from late 1507 into 1508 at the Venetian print-shop of Aldus Manutius. A peripatetic scholar, the Dutch scholar had lived in Rotterdam and London, Basel…
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November 26, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Literary Hub: Nothing Better Than a Whole Lot of Books: In Praise of Bibliomania, Ed Simon Considers the Many Different Ways an Obsession Can Manifest lithub.com/nothing-bett...
National Museum of American Indian: Native Cinema Showcase Online 2025 Watch now through Nov 28 5 PM ET On demand short films feature Indigenous stories & perspectives from Western Hemisphere Museum’s Native Cinema Showcase is an annual celebration of the best in Native film tinyurl.com/ye22tfcv
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 AM
National Museum of American Indian: Native Cinema Showcase Online 2025 Watch now through Nov 28 5 PM ET On demand short films feature Indigenous stories & perspectives from Western Hemisphere Museum’s Native Cinema Showcase is an annual celebration of the best in Native film tinyurl.com/ye22tfcv
Ranker: 12 historical mysteries by JF Collins Includes DB Cooper $$, Zodiac Killer's cypher, drowned Mona Lisa, Tank Man in Tiananmen Sq, Man in Iron Mask, Babushka Lady's film from JFK assassination, Jack the Ripper, Green kids of Woolpit, Count St. Germain, Bansky tinyurl.com/yc6yc43f
12 Historical Figures Whose Identities Are Still A Mystery
It might seem counterintuitive to call someone a famous historical figure when we don't actually know their name. But in these strange cases, people managed to make their mark on history even while th...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Ranker: 12 historical mysteries by JF Collins Includes DB Cooper $$, Zodiac Killer's cypher, drowned Mona Lisa, Tank Man in Tiananmen Sq, Man in Iron Mask, Babushka Lady's film from JFK assassination, Jack the Ripper, Green kids of Woolpit, Count St. Germain, Bansky tinyurl.com/yc6yc43f
Atlas Obscura: Hollow Earth Monument, By Joshua Foer. Memorial in Hamilton Ohio for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow. e.g. 1800s lecturer John Symmes Jr wanted to tell people Verne's visions were not fantastic www.atlasobscura.com/places/hollo...
Hollow Earth Monument
A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Atlas Obscura: Hollow Earth Monument, By Joshua Foer. Memorial in Hamilton Ohio for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow. e.g. 1800s lecturer John Symmes Jr wanted to tell people Verne's visions were not fantastic www.atlasobscura.com/places/hollo...
Michael Cohen: When incompetence becomes policy, loyalty replaces expertise, major geopolitical decisions are made in Miami dining rooms not briefing rooms; you don’t get peace You get chaos wrapped in delusion sold as strategy & served w/side of pie. Read more substack.com/inbox/post/1...
"Peace Over a Piece of Pie"
When loyalty replaces expertise, you don’t get diplomacy; you get a Miami-made surrender plan that shocks allies, delights Putin, and proves Trump’s team can’t negotiate their way out of a salad.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Michael Cohen: When incompetence becomes policy, loyalty replaces expertise, major geopolitical decisions are made in Miami dining rooms not briefing rooms; you don’t get peace You get chaos wrapped in delusion sold as strategy & served w/side of pie. Read more substack.com/inbox/post/1...
1348 Syrian poem for entertainment tells of wandering trickster w/death from 1 location to another. Univ of Exeter article in Journal of Arabic & Islamic Studies of accepted belief Black Death’s spread from Central Asia to Mediterranean NOT from eyewitness b/from medieval poem tinyurl.com/382av2ws
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 AM
1348 Syrian poem for entertainment tells of wandering trickster w/death from 1 location to another. Univ of Exeter article in Journal of Arabic & Islamic Studies of accepted belief Black Death’s spread from Central Asia to Mediterranean NOT from eyewitness b/from medieval poem tinyurl.com/382av2ws
New Scientist: 4 brain ‘turning points’ @ yrs 9, 32, 66 & 83 w/age-related changes. Ex: @9 long convoluted connections in brain regions become shorter & more efficient eg. cognitive milestones. Findings point to why mental-health & neurological conditions occur @certain ages tinyurl.com/59p63ppb
Your brain undergoes four dramatic periods of change from age 0 to 90
Our brain wiring seems to undergo four major turning points at ages 9, 32, 66 and 83, which could influence our capacity to learn and our risk of certain conditions
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November 26, 2025 at 3:31 AM
New Scientist: 4 brain ‘turning points’ @ yrs 9, 32, 66 & 83 w/age-related changes. Ex: @9 long convoluted connections in brain regions become shorter & more efficient eg. cognitive milestones. Findings point to why mental-health & neurological conditions occur @certain ages tinyurl.com/59p63ppb
ALA: Court permanently blocks Trump’s exec order to dismantle fed agency for America’s libraries. US District Court for District of RI struck down Trump Admin attempts to dismantle Institute of Museum & Library Services IMLS Decision issued via lawsuit filed by AGs of 21 states tinyurl.com/27ef2vsd
Court permanently blocks Trump’s executive order to dismantle federal agency for America’s libraries
Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Administration’s attempts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
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November 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
ALA: Court permanently blocks Trump’s exec order to dismantle fed agency for America’s libraries. US District Court for District of RI struck down Trump Admin attempts to dismantle Institute of Museum & Library Services IMLS Decision issued via lawsuit filed by AGs of 21 states tinyurl.com/27ef2vsd
The real Epstein coverup is male violence & misogyny & our leaders financial social economic legal political systems that perpetrate & perpetuate it.. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | The Real Epstein Cover-Up
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November 23, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The real Epstein coverup is male violence & misogyny & our leaders financial social economic legal political systems that perpetrate & perpetuate it.. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Atlas Obscura: Bexell's Talking Stones/Sweden by Henrik Johansson 100's of mossy stones engraved w/philosophy literature random musings late 1800s by Alfred Bexell landowner using 2 stonemasons & rocks on his forest land Share history philosophy aphorisms w/us Rediscovered 1925 tinyurl.com/3km334tz
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Atlas Obscura: Bexell's Talking Stones/Sweden by Henrik Johansson 100's of mossy stones engraved w/philosophy literature random musings late 1800s by Alfred Bexell landowner using 2 stonemasons & rocks on his forest land Share history philosophy aphorisms w/us Rediscovered 1925 tinyurl.com/3km334tz
Literary Hub: The Enduring Global Legacy of the French Revolution, Donald Sassoon Discusses How Years of Political Turmoil Resulted in the Advent of the Modern Era lithub.com/the-enduring...
The Enduring Global Legacy of the French Revolution
Debate over the causes and consequences of the French Revolution has never abated. Complex events always have complex interpretations, and if they also have a political and ideological dimension, a…
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November 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Literary Hub: The Enduring Global Legacy of the French Revolution, Donald Sassoon Discusses How Years of Political Turmoil Resulted in the Advent of the Modern Era lithub.com/the-enduring...
What If Aliens Don’t Actually Do Science? Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner Consider the Many Forms Inquiry Can Take, In Our World and Others lithub.com/what-if-alie...
What If Aliens Don’t Actually Do Science?
Before we can achieve an interspecies scientific mind meld with visiting aliens and crack the secrets of the Universe, we have a few pesky problems to take care of. We are eager to download alien t…
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November 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
What If Aliens Don’t Actually Do Science? Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner Consider the Many Forms Inquiry Can Take, In Our World and Others lithub.com/what-if-alie...
BBC News First kiss dates back 21 million years, say scientists by Victoria Gill www.bbc.com/news/article...
First kiss dates back 21 million years, say scientists
A new study looks at how the mouth-on-mouth smooch came into being, and concludes that Neanderthals also kissed.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:42 AM
BBC News First kiss dates back 21 million years, say scientists by Victoria Gill www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump regime removed a congressionally mandated report on missing & murdered Native Americans from DOJ’s website calling it DEI content. Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto & Lisa Murkowski, who sit on Senate Indian Affairs Committee, asked it be restored. THEY SHOULD BE SCREAMING! tinyurl.com/kjwuv35v
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Trump regime removed a congressionally mandated report on missing & murdered Native Americans from DOJ’s website calling it DEI content. Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto & Lisa Murkowski, who sit on Senate Indian Affairs Committee, asked it be restored. THEY SHOULD BE SCREAMING! tinyurl.com/kjwuv35v
NYT interviews w/former DOJ attorneys: "Trump & his appointees have blasted through walls meant to protect political influence Attorneys were told to drop cases for political reasons They were forced to abandon investigations of terrorist plots corruption & white-collar fraud" tinyurl.com/ym9hka9w
‘It’s a Culture Now of Fear’: A Year of Chaos Inside the Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:11 AM
NYT interviews w/former DOJ attorneys: "Trump & his appointees have blasted through walls meant to protect political influence Attorneys were told to drop cases for political reasons They were forced to abandon investigations of terrorist plots corruption & white-collar fraud" tinyurl.com/ym9hka9w
NYT interviewed 60 DOJ attorneys who resigned or were fired, reporting on the drastic changes since Trump installed loyalist AG Bondi to lead the department. One described, “I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm.” tinyurl.com/ym9hka9w
‘It’s a Culture Now of Fear’: A Year of Chaos Inside the Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
tinyurl.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:07 AM
NYT interviewed 60 DOJ attorneys who resigned or were fired, reporting on the drastic changes since Trump installed loyalist AG Bondi to lead the department. One described, “I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm.” tinyurl.com/ym9hka9w
IG Live November 21: Is Bird Flu Back? Based on this reporting yes, and this does not bode well. Another pandemic is brewing and IDIOT RFKJr cancelled vaccine development for this specific need. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
IG Live November 21: Is Bird Flu Back?
After several quiet months, a human H5N5 case has emerged
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November 20, 2025 at 5:56 AM
IG Live November 21: Is Bird Flu Back? Based on this reporting yes, and this does not bode well. Another pandemic is brewing and IDIOT RFKJr cancelled vaccine development for this specific need. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
Of coutes Sabotaged fileshttps://www.thedailybeast.com//epsteins-brother-sounds-alarm-gop-is-sabotaging-files/
November 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Of coutes Sabotaged fileshttps://www.thedailybeast.com//epsteins-brother-sounds-alarm-gop-is-sabotaging-files/
Study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters—we can see that, in less than two decades, Earth has tilted 31.5 inches as a result of pumping groundwater. This equates to.24 inches of sea level rise www.aol.com/articles/ear...
Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn’t Happen.
In less than two decades, Earth has tilted 31.5 inches. That shouldn't happen. So why did it?
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November 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters—we can see that, in less than two decades, Earth has tilted 31.5 inches as a result of pumping groundwater. This equates to.24 inches of sea level rise www.aol.com/articles/ear...