Post Overview
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How-to
2 years ago+14 14 0Writer procrastination: having a writer’s block when writing? Here are 9 effective things you can do
Everybody who ever wrote anything knows what Writer’s Block is – it is a situation when you have to write something, probably want to write something but have exactly zero ideas of what to write, how to go about it, and where to start.
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Analysis
2 years ago+14 14 0Writing books is hard. Why do authors do it?
You can't drink writing or wear writing to keep you warm. It doesn't make good firewood, nor does it keep the rain out of your tent. What's the point?
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Analysis
2 years ago+18 18 0Paul McCartney on Writing “Eleanor Rigby”
How one of the Beatles’ greatest songs came to be.
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How-to
2 years ago+15 15 0Sitting too much drags down your mental health. Here's how to get moving
A lot of us have been sitting too much, and it's hard on us mentally as well as physically. Research shows breaking up that couch or desk time with short stints of movement can help lift your mood.
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Current Event
2 years ago+11 11 0Vikings were in North America in 1021, well before Columbus, researchers say
Vikings from Greenland — the first Europeans to arrive in the Americas — lived in a village in Canada’s Newfoundland exactly 1,000 years ago, researchers say.
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Analysis
2 years ago+22 22 0It’s Not Misinformation. It’s Amplified Propaganda.
A giant web of interconnected users, each with an agenda, shouting at one another to pay attention. It’s not disinformation. Our politics is awash in ampliganda, the propaganda of the modern age.
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Analysis
2 years ago+4 4 0‘Eco’ wood stoves emit 750 times more pollution than an HGV, study shows
Only ecodesign stoves can be legally sold from 2022 – but experts say the standard is shockingly weak
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Current Event
2 years ago+18 18 0Doctors treating Covid feel defeated by their patients' relentless skepticism
Exhausted amid hospital staff shortages and emotionally depleted, health care workers are also facing growing skepticism and rage from patients.
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Current Event
2 years ago+26 26 0Bowing to investors, Microsoft will make its devices easier to fix
A first right to repair victory, Microsoft devices will be more easily repairable.
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Current Event
2 years ago+17 17 0Southlake, Texas, schools restrict classroom libraries after backlash over anti-racist book
Teachers in the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, protested a new policy restricting books in classroom libraries.
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Current Event
2 years ago+9 9 0New Jersey man plummets nine storeys onto roof of BMW — and survives
Christina Smith, a 21-year-old witness, says she watched the man stand up and noticed one of his arms dangle unnaturally at his side
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Video/Audio
2 years ago+16 16 0Giant Puffball Forest to Fork
This video shows how to harvest and cook giant puffball mushrooms, similar to how I did about a month ago.
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Current Event
2 years ago+4 4 0Nations agree to 15% minimum corporate tax rate
The historic deal is designed to make big corporations pay a fairer share of tax around the world.
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Expression
2 years ago+8 8 0Do you want to hire a slave or a writer?
Some people want something for nothing. Tempting as the offer sounds, I just don't need any more nothing right now.
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Analysis
2 years ago+8 8 0This Manitoba community has a vaccination rate of 24% against COVID-19. Here's why
Only 24 per cent of eligible people living in Manitoba's Rural Municipality of Stanley have received one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. But an explanation for the low vaccination rate cannot be attributed to a single cause, residents and historians s ...
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Current Event
2 years ago+12 12 0Rwandan conservationist helps to save hundreds of cranes
The Umusambi Village has rescued more than 200 cranes from captivity over the years, helping to boost the population of the endangered birds to 881 from 487 just four years ago.
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Analysis
2 years ago+16 16 0Beijing finally releases two Michaels, but a hard lesson can’t be forgotten
Wave a relieved goodbye to Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou, but let’s not forget her
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Analysis
2 years ago+16 16 0AI’s Islamophobia problem
Language models such as GPT-3 have been hailed for their potential to enhance our creativity. Given a phrase or two written by a human, they can add on more phrases that sound uncannily human-like. They can be great collaborators for anyone trying to ...
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Expression
2 years ago+4 4 0Matt Smith Would Return To Doctor Who Under One Condition
Matt Smith previously had a caveat to his desire to return to 'Doctor Who,' but it may have been fulfilled.
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Expression
3 years ago+18 18 0Ebooks Are an Abomination
If you hate ebooks, that loathing might attach to their dim screens, their wonky typography, their weird pagination, their unnerving ephemerality, or the prison house of a proprietary ecosystem. If you love ebooks, it might be because they are portab ...