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Judith L
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Higher Ed, Online Learning, History, Nazi Hater, Socialist, Tree Hugger. She/her(s)
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January 19, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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A new weekly top 40 list highlights bestselling indie books.
For as long as I can remember, a bestseller in the world of books has only referred to the Times’s list of top sellers, the reigning measuring stick of publishing success. But a new bestseller list…
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January 16, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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Bob Weir, Grateful Dead founding member and a jam band icon, dies at 78 via nbcnews - www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
Bob Weir, Grateful Dead founding member and a jam band icon, dies at 78
Weir had been diagnosed with cancer in July and beat it, but "succumbed to underlying lung issues," according to a statement on his website.
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January 11, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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Bob Weir 😢
January 11, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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Trump’s menacingly dishonest response to the Minnesota ICE shooting
Trump is telling us he doesn’t care why Renee Good died.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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Newly Digitized Records Reveal How Indigenous People Shared Their Knowledge of New Zealand's Plants With Captain Cook's Crew
Long-overlooked documents housed at London's Natural History Museum testify to the exchange of information between 18th-century European botanists and their Indigenous counterparts
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January 8, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Trump’s immigration crackdown turns deadly in Minneapolis
The fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis, briefly explained.
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January 7, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting To Shut Down After 58 Years - Slashdot
After Congress approved President Donald Trump's rescission package eliminating federal funding, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted to dissolve after 58 years, rather than continue to exist...
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January 6, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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Love, Lichen, and the Art of Trusting Time: The Best of The Marginalian 2025
Bless hindsight for how it clarifies the confusions of time, for how precisely it plots the true highs and lows on the terrain map of life once the quakes of the moment have died down, for how disp…
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December 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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My Most Popular Posts of 2025 - Experiencing Elearning
My top blog posts of 2025 (including time estimates, portfolios, AI images), LinkedIn stats, and end-of-year reflections.
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December 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Check out this video, "dmb do you remember" ❤️
December 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Source: XDA www.xda-developers.com/notebooklm-s...
6 tips I always give NotebookLM users just starting out
Learn from my mistakes
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December 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade 2025 Now Streaming on YouTube
Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade 2025 Now Streaming on YouTube
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December 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Discover the First Depiction of Santa Claus (and Its Origins in Civil War Propaganda)
It will no doubt come as a relief to many readers that Santa Claus appears to have been a Union supporter. We know this because he appears distributing gifts to soldiers from that side of the Mason-Di...
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December 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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12 Festive Pokémon GO Ideas to Try With Family and Friends This Christmas | Pokémon GO Hub
The food coma is setting in, your family’s arguing over board games, and you’ve already scrolled through every Christmas movie on Netflix. Time to grab your phone folks, as Pokémon GO might just be th...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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The Ultimate Best Books of 2025 List
Happy List Season, children. I hope you’ve been good. Just like every year, I have arrived to present to you the Ultimate List, otherwise known as the List of Lists—in which I read all (or at…
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December 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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New York enacts first-in-nation AI transparency, deceased likeness laws for film and advertising
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — New York has enacted landmark legislation requiring disclosure of AI-generated performers in advertisements and consent for the commercial use of a deceased person’s name o…
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December 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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www.openculture.com/2025/12/down...
Download 1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli
You may have seen every single one of Studio Ghibli's animated films, going well beyond the Hayao Miyazaki-directed My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, and Kiki's Delivery Service to the less widely kn...
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December 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/09/t...
The Lighthouse Keeper: A Tender Illustrated Meditation on What Saves Us
“I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being,” James Baldwin wrote in one of his finest essays. “I am aware that we do not save each other ver…
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December 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Pompeii construction site confirms recipe for Roman concrete
Latest results from a recently discovered ancient Roman construction site confirm earlier findings.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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What podcasts do to our brains
I quit podcasts for a month and discovered a new reality.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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San Francisco Will Sue Ultraprocessed Food Companies - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The San Francisco city attorney filed on Tuesday the nation's first government lawsuit against food manufacturers over ultraprocessed fare ...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Why We All Make Sacrifices to the Human-Created God Called “The Economy”
We live in a world created by capitalism. The ceaseless accumulation of capital forges the cities we inhabit, determines the way we work, allows an extraordinarily large number of people to engage …
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December 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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What Makes Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon Perhaps the Most Revolutionary Painting of the 20th Century?
Picasso, even if they've never seen it before and couldn't say anything else about it. That alone goes some way to explaining why the painting would end up ranked as the most important artwork of the ...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM