Click Here to Read: Out of Frame: Lessons from the shameful events at CBS News by
Elliot Kirschner on his Through the Fog Substack on December 27, 2025.
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Americans are waking up. A grand reckoning awaits us
Optimistic people are all alike
Click Here to Read: Optimistic people are all alike: Shared neural representations supporting episodic future thinking among optimistic individuals PNAS website on on July 21, 2025.
Cheerful children playing at a beach in Malawi. Image: Amusiige. Cheerful children playing at a beach in Malawi. Image: Amusiige. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
How humpback whales are playfully communicating with humans, according to scientists
Click Here to Read: How humpback whales are playfully communicating with humans, according to scientists: Humpback whales blowing bubble rings may be a positive sign, researchers say. By Julia Jacobo on the ABC News website on June 9, 2025. English: Humpback Whale, breaching, Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Image: Whit Welles Wwelles14.
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell audiobook review – the life and loss of the woman behind the Bard
Click Here to Read: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell audiobook review – the life and loss of the woman behind the Bard: The wife of William Shakespeare takes centre stage in a rich, sensitive examination of parental grief, sensitively narrated by Jessie Buckley by Fiona Sturges on the Guardian website on December 25, 2025.
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How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
Click Here to Read: How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very: From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history by Robin Buller on the Gaurdian website on December 25, 2025.
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Read the CBS Report Bari Weiss Doesn’t Want You to See
Click Here to Read: Read the CBS Report Bari Weiss Doesn’t Want You to See: A transcript of the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, the notorious prison in El Salvador on the Nation Magazine website on December 24. 2025.
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