Regret, superstition, and trauma-bonding: two champions on what it’s really like to play in the World Cup
By Categories: General

Click Here to Read: Regret, superstition, and trauma-bonding: two champions on what it’s really like to play in the World Cup: With eight appearances and three World Cup wins between them, soccer legends Abby Wambach and Julie Foudy peel back the curtain on life at the top of the sport Welcome to the Party and Danya Issawi On The Substack Post on
July 16, 2026.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950): “Wonder begins where the soul outgrows itself.”
By Categories: Poetry Monday

Click Here to Read: Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950): “Wonder begins where the soul outgrows itself.” by Robert Goodman on his Spoken Word Poetry Substack on July 15, 2026.

Edna St. Vincent Millay portrait (c. 1920) Image: Unknown author.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

An Ecology of Intergenerational Relationships: A way to apologize and develop a framework for beginning mutual learning between generations
By Categories: Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: An Ecology of Intergenerational Relationships: A way to apologize and develop a framework for beginning mutual learning between generations by Kenneth Silvestri
on his A Wider Lens Substack on  July 14, 2026.

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Houston to Investigate How ICE Agent Came to Kill a Mexican  Immigrant
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Click Here to Read: Houston to Investigate How ICE Agent Came to Kill a Mexican  Immigrant: The agency said Lorenzo Salgado Araujo tried to ram agents with a van before one shot him dead. A lawyer for his passengers said that was untrue By Pooja  Salhotra and Orlando Mayorquín in The New York Times on July 10, 2026.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Image: Gianluca Costantini.  Public Domain via Wikimedia. Commons.

 

Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining
By Categories: Politics, Science

Click Here to Read: Trump, Ending Decades of Protection, Opens Wild Habitats to Drilling and Mining: The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals by By Catrin Einhorn and Maxine Joselow in The New York Times on July 10, 2026.

Piping Plover.  Image: Mathew Schwartz  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons