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All of Us Atoms by Holly Dawson review – what happens when a writer loses her memory?
(theguardian.com)
Samuel Butler
,
Unconscious Memory
“
It seems, then, that we owe to memory almost all that we either have or are; that our ideas and conceptions are its work, and that our every perception, thought, and movement is derived from this source. Memory collects the countless phenomena of our existence into a single whole; and as our bodies would be scattered into the dust of their component
atoms
if they were not held together by the attraction of matter, so our consciousness would be broken up into as many fragments as we had lived seconds but for the binding and unifying force of memory.
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Eighty percent of England’s peatlands are dry and degraded, mapping shows
(theguardian.com)
Harold W. Fairbanks
,
Conservation Reader
“
Peat
is dug from bogs or marshes. We might say that a
peat
marsh is the beginning of a coal bed.
Peat
is the partly decayed vegetation which has slowly accumulated in wet places. In the colder countries it is formed largely of moss and similar water-loving plants, but where the climate is warm other kinds of marsh vegetation, and even trees, aid in forming
peat.
Sometimes floods bring earth and deposit it in the marshes, in which case the
peat
is less suitable for fuel, but forms a rich and productive soil instead.
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There Are Two Chinas, and America Must Understand Both
(nytimes.com)
State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China
,
The Facts and China’s Position on China–US Trade Friction
“
China
is firmly committed to the sound development of
China–US
economic and trade relations. The US and
China
are the world’s top two economies. Trade friction between the two countries should be properly resolved as it bears on global economic stability and prosperity as well as world peace and development. For
China
and the US, cooperation can lead to mutual benefits while confrontation will do no good to anyone.
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A worshipper is murdered in a French mosque. How can this be ‘just another crime’? | Rokhaya Diallo
(theguardian.com)
Émile Zola
,
J'Accuse...! (I Accuse)Letter to the President of the Republic
“
It is a
crime
to poison the small and the humble, to exasperate passions of reaction and intolerance, while taking shelter behind the odious antisemitism, from which, if not cured, the great liberal France of humans rights will die. It is a
crime
to exploit patriotism for works of hatred, and it is a
crime,
finally, to turn into to sabre the modern god, when all the social science is with work for the nearest work of truth and justice.
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I was secretary of labor. Trump’s bizarre tariff scheme won’t revive American jobs | Robert Reich
(theguardian.com)
Frank Chodorov
,
The Rise and Fall of Society
(1959)
“
The effect of a tariff is to drive a potential buyer out of the market place. The argument that "protection" provides jobs is patently fallacious. It is the consumer who gives the
worker
a job, and the consumer who is prevented from consuming might as well be dead, as far as providing productive employment is concerned. Incidentally, is it jobs we want, or is it beef? Our instinct is to get the most out of life with the least expenditure of labor. We labor only because we want; the opportunity to produce is not a boon, it is a necessity.
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UK wage growth slows and vacancies drop, as labour market cools – business live
(theguardian.com)
Martha Gimbel and Cecilia Elena Rouse
,
The Pandemic’s Effect on Measured Wage Growth
(2021)
“
Usually when we see rising
wages,
the economy is growing. So how is it that April 2020 – the month when the U.S. economy lost 21 million jobs – saw some of the fastest
wage
growth in recent memory? And if
wage
growth slows in the coming months, or even goes into negative territory, what would that tell us about the economic recovery? We explain in this blog why we believe that two measurement issues—composition of the labor force and base effects—explain these trends and why average
wage
data will be easy to misinterpret in the coming months.
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Breeding for ‘Cuteness’ Is Making Dogs and Cats Look More Alike
(scientificamerican.com)
Charles Darwin
,
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
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We can thus also understand the fact that the young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements. We are so familiar with the fact of young and old animals displaying their feelings in the same manner, that we hardly perceive how remarkable it is that a young puppy should wag its tail when pleased, depress its ears and uncover its canine teeth when pretending to be savage, just like an old dog; or that a kitten should arch its little back and erect its hair when frightened and angry, like an old
cat.
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Drug price cuts: what is Trump planning and what will it mean for big pharma?
(theguardian.com)
Ralph Nader
,
If Sam's Club Can Negotiate for Lower Pharmaceutical Prices, Why Can't Uncle Sam?
(2003)
“
The defense of the "don't negotiate prices" provision in the
Medicare
bill is the familiar argument that any measure to protect taxpayers or consumers will undermine the development of new drugs. This argument is used time-and-time-again to justify an ever-expanding list of corporate welfare schemes and pricing abuses. Rather than simply accepting the notion that it is necessary to give unlimited pricing power to the patent holders and drug manufacturers (who spend more on marketing than on authentic research) Congress needs to explore more fiscally responsible alternatives.
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UK risks becoming ‘island of strangers’ without more immigration curbs, Starmer says
(theguardian.com)
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
,
The 2009 CIA World Factbook
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An excess of persons entering the country is referred to as net immigration (e.g., 3.56 migrants/1,000 population) ; an excess of persons leaving the country as net emigration (e.g., -9.26 migrants/1,000 population) . The net
migration
rate indicates the contribution of
migration
to the overall level of population change. High levels of
migration
can cause problems such as increasing unemployment and potential ethnic strife (if people are coming in) or a reduction in the labor force, perhaps in certain key sectors (if people are leaving) .
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Fear Below review – fins go badly for shark-dodging divers
(theguardian.com)
Ernest Ingersoll
,
The Book of the Ocean
“
An Australian pearl-diver, writing about this matter in “The Century” magazine a few years ago, assures us that a fifteen-foot
shark,
magnified by the water, and making a bee-line for one, is sufficient to make the stoutest heart quake, in spite of the assertion that
sharks
have never been known to attack a man in a rubber diving-dress. He adds:Neither is the sight of a large turtle comforting when one does not know exactly what it is, and the coiling of a sea-snake around one’s legs, although it has only one’s hands to bite at, is, to say the least, unpleasant.
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‘A horror movie’: sharks and octopuses among 200 species killed by toxic algae off South Australia
(theguardian.com)
Frank Thomas Bullen
,
Deep-Sea Plunderings
“
Every schoolboy should know that octopus signifies an eight-armed or eight-footed creature, and yet in nine cases out of ten where writers of fiction and would-be teachers of fact are describing the deadly doings of the gigantic
cuttle-fish
they call him an octopus; whereas he is nothing of the kind, for, in addition to the eight arms which the octopus possesses, the
cuttle-fish
flaunts two, each of which is double the length of the eight, making him a decapod.
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Fear Below review – fins go badly for shark-dodging divers
(theguardian.com)
C. A. W. Monckton
,
Some Experiences of a New Guinea Resident Magistrate
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The
shark
at best is a most cowardly scavenger of the sea; much preferring, even when hungry, to gorge on carrion than to kill its own prey. And even when made bold by hunger, it is readily frightened away by the sudden emission of air bubbles from the valve in the diver’s helmet. A diver, when approached by a large
shark,
seldom troubles much, so long as the fish does not get too near to his air pipe.
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Eighty percent of England’s peatlands are dry and degraded, mapping shows
(theguardian.com)
Samuel Calvin
,
Popular Science Monthly
(1881)
“
All around the globe, in the middle and higher latitudes, are beds of
peat.
Now,
peat,
especially when well pressed and dried, presents many very suggestive resemblances to coal. But there is not the slightest difficulty in determining how
peat
is formed, for we may see the process going on before our eyes. We can study every stage in the process, from the living and dead plants growing and accumulating in the marsh at one end of the series, to the completed
peat-bed
awaiting only the proper manipulation to be converted into useful fuel at the other.
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Can Head Start Survive the MAGA Era?
(newyorker.com)
Christopher Dodd
,
Remarks at the National Head Start Association's 10th Annual Luncheon
(2000)
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In my view, Head Start has one major shortcoming - it is too small. Too many needy children are unserved or under-served. There is no question we have made progress on this issue in recent years — Head Start has grown and grown exponentially. President Clinton, who has been one of this
program's
best friends ever, sent up a budget this year requesting the largest increase in Head Start ever - $1 billion. This will bring total funding to $6.3 billion and bring us closer to the goal of serving 1 million children in Head Start and expanding Early Head Start to serve more infants and toddlers.
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Mother’s Day in Germany is a reminder that motherhood is a battle that’s not for me | Carolin Würfel
(theguardian.com)
Marie Carmichael Stopes
,
Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those Who are Creating the Future
“
To far too many women the time when they are carrying a child is a period of strain and semi-invalidism, a time filled not only with surprises and difficulties, but too often coloured with actual distress and ill-health. This should not be. The time of prospective
motherhood
should be one of buoyancy, health, physical activity and mental vitality. The low standard of health which the modern woman tolerates is deplorable.
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Mother’s Day in Germany is a reminder that motherhood is a battle that’s not for me | Carolin Würfel
(theguardian.com)
The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV
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The maternal instinct is stronger in the hearts of most women than any moral sense....What is the suffrage going to do for
motherhood?
Women enter [Pg 267] upon this greatest function of life without any preparation, and their mothers permit them to do it because they do not recognize
motherhood
as a business. We do not let a man practice as a doctor or a druggist, or do anything else which involves issues of life and death, without training and certificates; but the life and death of the whole human race are placed in the hands of utterly untrained young girls.
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Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging Starmer to rethink AI copyright plans
(theguardian.com)
Copyright discussions/Archives/2016
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To note that just because the UK government holds the work, that does not make it Crown
copyright
as it is not the work of the Crown, and the Crown does not cancel property rights on death, and can only inherit property rights where they are prescribed in a personal estate (a will) . The work is either unpublished and any publication is a breach of
copyright
without permission from the author or their heirs of their intellectual property, or it is in the public domain due the period of time since the person's death.
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Are we heading for another world war – or has it already started?
(theguardian.com)
Inez Bigwood
,
Lest We Forget: World War Stories
“
We are all beginning to see that in the
world
as it is made up at present, some men must prepare for fighting and make fighting their life work. Universal peace must come through war, and many are hoping that it will come as a result of the
World
War.
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Do We Really Know Less about the Deep Sea Than the Moon or Mars?
(scientificamerican.com)
Camille Flammarion
,
Urania
“
There is more yet; the separation which seems to us to exist between the
Earth
and the
Moon,
or between the
Earth
and
Mars,
or even between the
Earth
and Sirius, is only an illusion due to the insufficiency of our perceptions. The
Moon
acts constantly upon the
Earth,
and moves it perpetually. The attraction of
Mars
for our planet is equally acute, and we in our turn disturb
Mars
in its course in submitting to the influence of the
Moon.
We act upon the Sun itself, and make it move as if we touched it.
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Six conversations that will unlock your relationships, from first date to old friends
(theguardian.com)
Mary Greer Conklin
,
Conversation
“
Society is no place for young children; and if older children are permitted to be present they should be led to listen attentively and to join the
conversation
modestly. If a child ventures an opinion or asks a question concerning the topic he is hearing discust, he should be welcomed into the
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Will Labour’s immigration changes make a ‘clean break’?
(theguardian.com)
W. H. Wilkins
,
The Alien Invasion
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In the cabinet-making, chair-turning, cigar-making, cheap fur trade, and other industries, the same evil is beginning to work, and always with similar baleful results.
Labour
is displaced; Englishmen are robbed of their work; and if they do not become paupers or something worse, they are driven from their homes to seek their fortunes anew in some distant land.The evil effect of this unchecked
immigration
upon the price of
labour
is very marked.
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The multicultural effort to defeat fascism | Letters
(theguardian.com)
Days to Remember: The British Empire in the Great War
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In the very first days of war events happened which proved that the German Emperor was right in dreading the entry of Britain into the struggle. The
British
Empire overseas awoke to action like a strong man from slumber, and there began an epic of service which was to grow in power and majesty up to the last hour of the campaign. No man can read without emotion the tale of those early days in August, when from every quarter of the globe there poured in appeals for the right to share in Britain's struggle.
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Better paternity leave wouldn’t just help Daddy | Letters
(theguardian.com)
Maternity: Letters from Working-Women
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Now, a working-class woman is habitually deprived of them all. She is lucky if her husband hands her over regularly each week 25s. with which to provide a house, food, and clothing, for the whole family. It has to be remembered that the ordinary family wage leaves nothing over for the additional outlay upon
maternity.
This ought to amount to £5 if the expenses are properly met. Too poor to obtain medical advice during the months of pregnancy, she “learns by experience and ignorance,” comforting herself with the belief that however ill she be it is only “natural.”
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‘Sun-soaked, wave-lapped and never crowded’: Sicily’s idyllic unspoilt beaches
(theguardian.com)
Arthur Stanley Riggs
,
Vistas in Sicily
“
Sicily
is the rarest flower of the great midland sea. Built up on the North in a series of beetling cliffs, the island slopes gently down through mountain chains and undulating plains to the golden Southern shore. An enormous triangle it is, spiny with lofty peaks—Ætna towers more than ten thousand feet in the air—spangled with flowering meads and dells where Nature loads the air with fragrance; pierced with infernal caverns, whence choking workers extract a large part of the world’s sulphur from the palaces of the former gods of the nether world
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Simon Mann, mercenary behind failed ‘wonga coup’, dies aged 72
(theguardian.com)
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
,
The 2010 CIA World Factbook
“
President Teodoro OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO has ruled the country since 1979 when he seized power in a
coup.
Although nominally a constitutional democracy since 1991, the 1996, 2002, and 2009 presidential elections - as well as the 1999 and 2004 legislative elections - were widely seen as flawed. The president exerts almost total control over the political system and has discouraged political opposition. Equatorial
Guinea
has experienced rapid economic growth due to the discovery of large offshore oil reserves, and in the last decade has become Sub-Saharan Africa's third largest oil exporter.
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Simon Mann, mercenary behind failed ‘wonga coup’, dies aged 72
(theguardian.com)
United States. Central Intelligence Agency
,
The 2008 CIA World Factbook
“
President Teodoro OBIANG NGUEMA MBASOGO has ruled the country since 1979 when he seized power in a
coup.
Although nominally a constitutional democracy since 1991, the 1996 and 2002 presidential elections - as well as the 1999 and 2004 legislative elections - were widely seen as flawed. The president exerts almost total control over the political system and has discouraged political opposition. Equatorial
Guinea
has experienced rapid economic growth due to the discovery of large offshore oil reserves, and in the last decade has become Sub-Saharan Africa's third largest oil exporter.
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Tim Dowling: Help! We have no internet and I really do have work to do
(theguardian.com)
Marie Lebert
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Interviews (1998-2001)
“
I can't imagine my professional life without the
Internet.
Most of my communication is now via e-mail. I've been using email for the last 20 years, most of that time to keep in touch with colleagues in a very narrow field. Since the explosion of the
Internet,
and especially the invention of the Web, I communicate mainly by e-mail. Most of my presentations are now on the Web and the courses I teach are all web-extended. All the details of my Silicon Valley Tours are on the Web. Without the
Internet
we wouldn't be able to function. And I use the
Internet
is as a giant database.
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‘Sun-soaked, wave-lapped and never crowded’: Sicily’s idyllic unspoilt beaches
(theguardian.com)
Giuseppe Garibaldi
,
Rule of the Monk; Or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century
“
IN the Italian Archipelago, which may be said to begin in the south at
Sicily,
and to extend northward to Corsica, there may be found a nearly deserted island, composed of pure granite crags, down which delicious streams of pure water flow, that never quite fail even in summer. It is rich in vegetation of low but pretty growth, for the tempestuous winds which rush over it prevent the trees from attaining any great height. This, however, is compensated by the healthiness of this little island, in which one may always enjoy fresh and pure air.
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Quakers march 300 miles to protest Trump’s immigration crackdown
(theguardian.com)
Robert Mackenzie
,
America: A history
“
The persecution ceased; and with it may be said to close, in America, all forcible interference with the right of men to think for themselves.The
Quakers,
as they are known to us, are of all sects the least offensive. A persecution of this serene, thoughtful, self-restrained people, may well surprise us. But, in justice to New England, it must be told that the first generation of
Quakers
differed extremely from succeeding generations. They were a fanatical people—extravagant, disorderly, rejecters of lawful authority. A people more intractable, more unendurable by any government, never lived.
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Trump’s tariffs are reckless – but they hold a key lesson for Democrats | David Sirota
(theguardian.com)
Frank A. Fetter
,
The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems
“
There is a strong feeling among business men that any
tariff,
be it high or low, is better than a shifting
policy.
Despite the great preponderance of domestic production over foreign
trade,
it is perhaps too much to say that the
tariff
is unimportant in our present conditions. It can, however, be said that the
tariff
agitation has taught that radical changes, especially sudden and large reductions, are fraught with evils, and that business can adjust itself in large measure to any settled conditions. The future of the
tariff
discussion in
America
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Taiwan cracks down on holders of Chinese ID amid fears over propaganda and espionage
(theguardian.com)
State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of ChinaState Council Taiwan Affairs Office
,
The One-China Principle and the Taiwan Issue
(2000)
“
The
Chinese
government safeguards all the justified and lawful rights and interests of
Taiwan
compatriots abroad. The people of
Taiwan
are of the same flesh and blood with us. The
Chinese
government has always worked for safeguarding their justified and lawful rights and interests abroad.
Chinese
embassies and consulates stationed abroad have always considered it their duties to strengthen their ties with
Taiwan
compatriots, listen to their suggestions and requests and safeguard their interests, and done everything they can to help them overcome their difficulties.
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