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I attended a classmate's memorial service today. I was there because he was important to my life 25 years ago, but sitting there listening to people describing the life of someone I'd lost touch with years ago evoked a vivid feeling of sonder—"the feeling one has on realizing that every other individual one sees has a life as full and real as one’s own, in which they are the central character and others, including oneself, have secondary or insignificant roles". (

Japan's Nikkei index crossed the 40,000 threshold for the first time early Monday on robust technology issues following the advance of their U.S. counterparts late last week.
The Nikkei benchmark quickly topped the 40,000 line after the market opening. In the first 15 minutes of trading, the 225-issue #Nikkei #Stock

Nikkei tops 40,000 for 1st time after upbeat Wall St.
Japan's Nikkei index crosses the 40,000-point threshold for the first time on robust technology issues following the advance of their U.S. counterparts late last week.

"The #media focus on spectacle turns statistically minor events, such as the “small boats” in the English channel or horrific shipwrecks in the Central Mediterranean into the main story. But away from the polarised politics the richest bloc of countries in the world is ageing fast and its economies have critical skills shortages that migrants have a key role in filling, potentially preventing imm…

Brain waste
Analysis of data previously unavailable to journalists reveals exclusion of skilled migrants from the jobs Europe most needs to fill to prevent economic decline

“Three independent scientific studies analyze how the human brain transforms notes into feelings, a mystery that has intrigued psychologists and musicologists for decades”
https://english.elpais.com/scien…

Music scientists find the connection between music and emotion: ‘Our neurons dance to the same rhythm’
Three independent scientific studies analyze how the human brain transforms notes into feelings, a mystery that has intrigued psychologists and musicologists for decades

Meine Frau hat mir ein äusserst edles Geburtstagsgeschenk gemacht #övlife #bahn #SBBCFFFFS

How Much of the Bible Was Written by Enslaved People?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-much-of-the-bible-was-written-by-enslaved-people

How Much of the Bible Was Written by Enslaved People?
We know Paul himself did not actually draft his letters to far-flung Christians, for example, but it’s still unclear how much credit he shares with his enslaved secretaries.

“…the problem, for viewers, isn’t wokeness run amok; it’s the incoherence of the world we are watching. We see an African man solving crimes in a rural English village of the 1950s, as the sun sets on the empire — yet his race is barely mentioned or considered and never makes any material difference in his experience.”

Hollywood’s New Fantasy: A Magical, Colorblind Past
Films and TV shows keep reimagining history as a multiracial dream world. Is that really a step forward?

#AaronBushnell is a hero.
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#10Authors5BooksEach
I've read at least five books by each of the following 10 authors:
Becky Albertalli
Lloyd Alexander
Robert Heinlein
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
Madeleine L'Engle
Mercedes Lackey
Anne McCaffrey
Robin McKinley
L.M. Montgomery
Tamora Pierce
The list skews strongly toward books I read when I was y…

Muy #LastFourWatched on this #LetterboxdFriday:
🔹American Fiction (4★)
🔹Definitely, Maybe (3½★)
🔹The Wolf of Wall Street (4★)
🔹Irish Wish (1½★)
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