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Maria Popova: The Secret Behind 20 Years of Daily Writing
The writer behind the legendary blog “The Marginalian” David Perell May 13, 2026 vMaria Popova is famous for her personal blog, The Marginalian, where she’s published more than six million words. All the nights I’ve spent reading her writing were like an entry point into intellectual curiosity. She’s introduced me to more writers and ideas than just…
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December 15, 2023 DevelopmentsCOP28, climate governance, development View this email in your browser See Art of the Week. No. 50 | COP out Dear friend, The world’s leaders are not coming to save us. That was the message in brilliant technicolour from the 28th COP meeting that concluded in Dubai…
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The great Chilean poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904–September 23, 1973) was only a small boy, just over the cusp of preconscious memory, when he had a revelation about why we make art. It seeded in him a lifelong devotion to literature as a supreme tool that “widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites…
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‘I have written to get away from myself’: Literature laureate Jon Fosse’s Nobel Prize lecture ‘The literary language doesn’t inform, it is meaning rather than communication, it has its own existence.’ Jon Fosse Dec 09, 2023 · 05:30 pm When I was at junior high school, it happened without warning. The teacher asked me to…
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Mike Treen 21 November, 2023 Last month an Australian billionaire property mogul made headlines when he welcomed more “pain” for Australian workers through increasing unemployment to remind them they are lucky to be in a job. Gurner Group chief executive Tim Gurner took aim at “unproductive tradies” for being “paid a lot to do not too much”…
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December 4, 2023 Risk of damage to hospitals from extreme weather has increased by 41% since 1990 Flooding at Nalanda Medical College and Hospital (NMCH), after heavy rains in Bihar, India, 2018 On December 2, XDI Cross Dependency Initiative, an consultancy that specializes in understanding and managing unavoidable climate change, released report that evaluates physical climate…
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