Click Here to Read: The Trump administration’s move to ban international students at Harvard escalates attacks on universities by Petra Molnar on The Conversation website on May 26, 2025.
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Global Forest Loss Hit a Record Last Year as Fires Raged
Click Here to Read: Global Forest Loss Hit a Record Last Year as Fires Raged
Forests around the world disappeared at a rate of 18 soccer fields every minute, a global survey found. Fires accounted for nearly half of the losses By Hiroko Tabuchi and Harry Stevens in the New York Times on May 22, 2025.
Burning rainforest in Brazil Image: NASA Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Sebastião Salgado, Acclaimed Brazilian Photographer, Is Dead at 81: Known for his powerfully impactful images of nature and the human condition, he was widely regarded as one of the most important documentary photographers of his time By Ana Ionova in The New York Times on May 23, 2025.
Click Here to Read and View: Sebastião Salgado: A Life in Pictures: The celebrated Brazilian photojournalist depicted the world in stark contrasts, from the depths of human suffering to the monumental grandeur of nature By Ana Ionova R in The New York Times on May 23, 2025.
Gran Exposicion Sebastiao Salgado – Madrid 2023 05. Image: Javier Perez Montes. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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In his fourth book, Love: From Motion to Feeling, Jack Wiener writes a moving account of his lifelong quest to retrieve lost love, from early childhood to age 91. Through the lenses of psychoanalysis, a life in the performing arts, and his work teaching dance and movement to students of all ages, he tracks his growing self-awareness from early childhood, amid disappointments, failed romances, and afrightening bout of long Covid…ultimately reaching a place of deep wisdom, acceptance, and joy. Continue reading New and Recent Books from IPBooks.net
On Being Jewish
Click Here to Read: On Being Jewish: There is something inside of me I can’t get rid of. It weighs me down at the center of my body like a stone by Alex Dezen on The American Psychonalyst substack newsletter on May 22, 2025.
Jews at Western Wall by Felix Bonfils, 1870s Image: Félix Bonfils (1831–1885) Public Domain via Wikimedia
