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...........A Totally SFW Collection........... ....................By Melissa Haas..............

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Margaret Atwood partnered with various companies to create an unburnable version of The Handmaid's Tale. This is potentially one of the greatest photos in the history of humanity.

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This has been republished with typo corrected

#sleepyhollow #halloween

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Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't Youtube channel

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Beavers gotta beave!

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Next To Me - Imagine Dragons - Violin Cover by Momento

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29 Heartbreaking, Yet Moving Pieces Made By Artists All Over The World After The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine

Artist all over the world joined together and expressed their support for Ukraine by sharing their heartbreaking and moving anti-war art.

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“We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application—not far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech—and learn them so well that words become works.” -Seneca

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BBC Earth - Pizzly bears | David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities | Facebook | By BBC Earth | Polar bear + grizzly bear = pizzly bear! 🐻

882K views, 2.9K likes, 585 loves, 472 comments, 996 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from BBC Earth: Polar bear + grizzly bear = pizzly bear!

Pizzly bears are a thing. Narlugas (narwhal + beluga hybrid) are also expected to make an evolutionary appearance in the not too distant future.

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The Mumford & Sons of classical music. The Danish String Quartet, a rather young ensemble, includes folk music as part of their traditional repertoire. This project was originally a crowdfunded one and ended up getting picked up by Naxos.

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BOOKSTORES: How to Read More Books in the Golden Age of Content

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Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Mark Twain's Marginalia

Mark Twain had an extensive library. As an avid reader he collected books of all shapes and sizes, subjects and specialties. He would spend

Mark Twain used the word "dude" - the same way we do today (or at least the same way we did in the 90s, ok?). See it in his marginalia.

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The Spencer jacket - often making a fashion statement in Jane Austen’s world (Regency period).

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One of my favorite things in the world - sunlight filtered through trees. This Japanese word is considered an untranslatable expression. The first kanji is for "tree," 漏れ is the stem of the verb moreru, which means to leak out or come through, and 日 is the kanji for day or sunlight.

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Writing With Fire | The Fearless Bravery of Khabar Lahariya and India's Women Journalists

Meet India’s women journalists redefining traditional notions of power amidst a male-dominated media landscape.

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ABOUT THE ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED DOCUMENTARY

In a male-dominated media landscape, the women journalists of India’s all-female Khabar Lahariya (“News Wave”) newspaper risk it all, including their own safety, to cover the country’s political, social, and local news from a women-powered perspective. From underground network to independent media empire—now with 10 million views on their YouTube site—they defy the odds to redefine power.