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Keywords paleoecology predator–prey interactions feces ichnology nutrient cycle coprolites https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534726001564?dgcid=author
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Simon_(politician) Simon attended Concordia University, a Lutheran school in Portland.[3] He later attended the University of Oregon and Dana College in Blair, Nebraska, but never graduated. After meeting with local Lions Club members, he borrowed $3,600 to take over the defunct Troy Call newspaper in 1948, becoming the nation's youngest editor-publisher, of the renamed Troy Tribune in Troy, Illinois, and eventually built a chain of 14 weekly newspapers. His activism against gambling, prostitution, and government corruption while at the Troy Tribune influenced the newly elected governor, Adlai Stevenson II, to take a stand on these issues, creating national exposure for Simon that later resulted in his testifying before the Kefauver Commission.
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Renan argued Jesus was able to purify himself of "Jewish traits" and that he became an Aryan. His Life of Jesus promoted racial ideas and infused race into theology and the person of Jesus; he depicted Jesus as a Galilean who was transformed from a Jew into a Christian, and that Christianity emerged purified of any Jewish influences.[20] The book was based largely on the Gospel of John, and was a scholarly work.[20] It depicted Jesus as a man but not God, and rejected the miracles of the Gospel.[20] Renan believed by humanizing Jesus he was restoring to him a greater dignity.[21] The book's controversial assertions that the life of Jesus should be written like the life of any historic person, and that the Bible could and should be subject to the same critical scrutiny as other historical documents caused controversy[22] and enraged many Christians.[23][24][25][26] It likewise provoked anger within the Jewish community due to its depiction of Judaism as foolish and absurdly illogical, and for its insistence that Jesus and Christianity were superior to Judaism.[20] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Renan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_clause However, if the additional information does not help to identify more narrowly the identity of the noun antecedent but rather simply provides further information about it, the adjective clause is nonrestrictive and so requires commas (or a spoken pause) to separate it from the rest of the sentence: Broccoli, which people often leave uneaten, is very nutritious. Depending on context, a particular noun could be modified by either a restrictive or nonrestrictive adjective clause. For example, while "broccoli" is modified nonrestrictively in the preceding sentence, it is modified restrictively in the following. The broccoli which (or that) people leave uneaten is often nutritious.
Extract from the diary of N. S. Rubashov, on the fifth day of imprisonment “... The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it. “But who will be proved right? It will only be known later. Meanwhile he is bound to act on credit and to sell his soul to the devil, in the hope of history’s absolution “It is said that No. 1 has Machiavelli’s Prince lying permanently by his bedside. So he should: since then, nothing really important has been said about the rules of political ethics. We were the first to replace the nineteenth century’s liberal ethics of ‘fair play’ by the revolutionary ethics of the twentieth century. In that also we were right: a revolution conducted according to the rules of cricket is an absurdity. Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history, at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means. We introduced neo-Machiavellism into this country, the others, the counter-revolutionary dictatorships, have clumsily imitated it. We were neo-Machiavellians in the name of universal reason—that was our greatness, the others in the name of a national romanticism, that is their anachronism. That is why we will in the end be absolved by history, but not they. ... “Yet for the moment we are thinking and acting on credit. As we have thrown overboard all conventions and rules of cricket-morality, our sole guiding principle is that of consequent logic. We are under the terrible compulsion to follow our thought down to its final consequence and to act in accordance to it. We are sailing without ballast, therefore each touch on the helm is a matter of life or death. “A short time ago, our leading agriculturist, B., was shot with thirty of his collaborators because he maintained the opinion that nitrate artificial manure was superior to potash. No. 1 is all for potash; therefore B. and the thirty…
what we are watching in Trump’s US is not fascism, because the right only travels to that extreme in the face of a direct threat of organised socialism. “The left is doing itself too many favours by considering its opponents fascists,” he says. “You’re overestimating your strength. The contemporary far right is more a function of the crisis of liberalism than it is a function of the strength of the left.”
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A major problem for intentionalists was Hitler’s personal style of rule. While Mussolini toiled long hours at his desk, Hitler continued to indulge in the lazy bohemian dilettantism of his art-student days. When aides sought his attention for urgent matters, Hitler was often inaccessi ble. He spent much time at his Bavarian retreat; even in Berlin he often neglected pressing business. He subjected his dinner guests to midnight monologues, rose at midday, and devoted his afternoons to personal pas sions such as plans by his young protégé Albert Speer to reconstruct his hometown of Linz and the center of Berlin in a monumental style befit ting the Thousand-Year Reich. After February 1938 the cabinet ceased to meet; some cabinet ministers never managed to see the Führer at all. Hans Mommsen went so far as to call him a “weak dictator.” Mommsen never meant to deny the unlimited nature of Hitler’s vaguely defined and haphazardly exercised power, but he observed that the Nazi regime was not organized on rational principles of bureaucratic efficiency, and that 127 127 the anatomy of fasci sm its astonishing burst of murderous energy was not produced by Hitler’s diligence.49 I will consider further the mystery of fascist radicalization in chapter 6
"The Scientific Machine Is Getting Bogged Down"
https://www.academia.edu/41372918/Sun_Tzu_The_Art_of_War_Verse_3_03_ Thus, the best military method [to preserve one's own strength and prevent the enemy from consolidating his forces at the operational and tactical level] is to: - Ideally, attack the enemy's stratagem (伐๵); - As the next option, attack his allies (伐交); - Next, attack his main army (伐ฎ); - As the least preferred option, attack his fortified positions (攻城)
https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/ Regardless of its original intentions, the federal judge in the copyright lawsuit from authors against Anthropic, William Alsup, found that Anthropic’s creation of digital copies of the books was legal specifically because the books were destroyed. “Here, every purchased print copy was copied in order to save storage space and to enable searchability as a digital copy,” Alsup wrote in his ruling. “The print original was destroyed. One replaced the other. And, there is no evidence that the new, digital copy was shown, shared, or sold outside the compan
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https://atlanta.capitalbnews.org/shawn-harris-georgia-14-runoff-black-voters/ Rome resident Christopher Darden is a former Trump voter who said he plans to support Shawn Harris in an April 7 runoff race to fill former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat in Congress. (Chauncey Alcorn/Capital B)
https://siavashamini.bandcamp.com/community announces a new release with Eugene Thacker.
https://medium.com/@zehraanjum210/how-a-10-year-old-boys-butterfly-experiment-silently-rewrote-what-we-know-about-memory-1c1b18af9fe1 This wasn’t just idle curiosity. Jo had heard about a famous study by biologist Martha Weiss, who had shown that hawkmoth caterpillars could learn to avoid certain smells even after turning into moths. But that was with moths. What about butterflies? And could those memories pass on even further? At just 10 years old, Jo did what few adults would dare: He wrote a detailed letter to Dr. Martha Weiss herself. Inside were his observations, his data, and a polite but confident proposal to adapt her experiment for swallowtail butterflies.
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Abraham Lincoln, speech at Cooper Union, 27 February 1860 These natural, and apparently adequate means all failing, what will convince them? This, and this only: cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly - done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated - we must place ourselves avowedly with them. Senator Douglas' new sedition law must be enacted and enforced, suppressing all declarations that slavery is wrong, whether made in politics, in presses, in pulpits, or in private. We must arrest and return their fugitive slaves with greedy pleasure. We must pull down our Free State constitutions. The whole atmosphere must be disinfected from all taint of opposition to slavery, before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us. I am quite aware they do not state their case precisely in this way. Most of them would probably say to us, "Let us alone, do nothing to us, and say what you please about slavery." But we do let them alone - have never disturbed them - so that, after all, it is what we say, which dissatisfies them. They will continue to accuse us of doing, until we cease saying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_Republican_National_Convention The Republican National Convention met in mid-May 1860, after the Democrats had been forced to adjourn their convention in Charleston, South Carolina. With the Democrats in disarray and a sweep of the Northern states possible, the Republicans felt confident going into their convention in Chicago. William H. Seward from New York was considered the front-runner, followed Salmon P. Chase from Ohio, and Missouri's Edward Bates. Abraham Lincoln from Illinois, was lesser known, and was not considered to have a good chance against Seward. Seward had been governor and senator of New York, was from firm Whig backgrounds, and was a very able politician. Also running were John C. Frémont, William L. Dayton, Cassius M. Clay, and Benjamin Wade, who might be able to win if the convention deadlocked.[9] As the convention developed, however, it was revealed that frontrunners Seward, Chase, and Bates had each alienated factions of the Republican Party. Seward had been painted as a radical, and his speeches on slavery predicted inevitable conflict, which spooked moderate delegates. He also was firmly opposed to nativism, which further weakened his position. He had also been abandoned by his longtime friend and political ally Horace Greeley, publisher of the influential New-York Tribune.[9]
Robert Paxton "The Anatomy of Fascism" Seen from this perspective, the famous meeting of high-level Nazi leaders under the chairmanship of Himmler’s deputy Reinhard Heydrich on January 20, 1942 (the Wannsee Conference), looks more like further state coordination of local extermination initiatives than the initiation of a new policy from above. Exactly when and why the old policy of expulsion, punctuated by the murder of many Jewish men for “security” reasons, gave way in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe to a new policy of total extermination of all Jews, including women and children, remains one of the most hotly debated issues in interpreting the Holocaust. It is not even certain whether we should focus on Hitler or on his underlings in the field. If we focus on Hitler, the absence of any trace of an explicit Führer order for the final stage of annihilation has caused trouble to the “intentionalists,” probably unnecessarily. No serious scholar doubts Hitler’s central responsibility.⁴⁴ The Führer’s unswerving hatred of Jews was known to all, and he 160
three panel meme. Doc Sportello, looking at man with swastika face tattoo: Is that a swastika on that man's face? Doctor Threeply: It's an ancient Hindu symbol Doctor Threeply: It means all is well from the film Inherent Vice
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1870634358169555455 Tweet where the US map has expanded to include all of Canada, Greenland, northern Mexico, Cuba and parts of Central America. The text reads "We have 2 years left to bring this map to life in time for our 250th birthday:
Ernest Renan, "What is a Nation?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_a_Nation%3F Yet the essence of a nation is that all individuals have many things in common, and also that they have forgotten many things. No French citizen knows whether he is a Burgundian, an Alan, a Taifale, or a Visigoth, yet every French citizen has to have forgotten the massacre of Saint Bartholomew, or the massacre that took place in the south in the thirteenth century.
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/03/birthright-citizenship-the-exceptions-provide-the-rule/ Second, public ships flying foreign flags enjoy foreign sovereign immunity. In a classic 1812 decision authored by Chief Justice John Marshall, the Supreme Court unanimously held a French warship “exempt” from “the ordinary jurisdiction of the judicial tribunals.” (Two Marylanders sought a legal declaration of ownership, claiming that Napoleon had stolen the vessel from them.) The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act has since codified the customary international law on which Marshall relied.
https://www.science.org/content/article/why-have-papers-one-history-s-most-famous-physicists-been-retracted?utm_campaign=News After clicking, Gingras froze. “That’s impossible,” he recalls thinking. The fourth name on the list, with two retracted papers, was Max Planck—a legendary pioneer of quantum mechanics and the 1918 Nobel laureate in physics. Gingras had never heard a whiff of scandal about Planck, who was almost as widely revered for his character as his physics. In 1933, for example, he bravely confronted Adolf Hitler over Nazi Germany’s discriminatory laws against Jews.
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Cover of Oswald Spengler's "Prussianism and Socialism"
It was the end of the semester, and we were juggling apartment viewings with wrapping up term papers and final exams, so we bit. But over the two years we lived there, I saw how condo living changed the way I interacted with New Haven. I felt increasingly disconnected from the city, moving between my apartment complex, with its sparkling lobby, security guards, and smiling front desk personnel, and the university, another fortress filled with campus police and doors that required student IDs to swipe open.
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/18/g-s1-23667/vance-haiti-migrants-tps-parole-immigration-pets-springfield Asked what the Trump administration would do about migrants that are already in the country legally after a speech in Raleigh Wednesday, Vance suggested that those migrants were granted protection unlawfully and attacked Vice President Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, over the current administration’s use of mass parole and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for people that arrive from specific countries. Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) speaks to reporters before he departs Pitt-Greenville Airport following a campaign event in Greenville, N.C. on Saturday. Politics Vance defends spreading claims that Haitian migrants are eating pets “What is fundamentally illegal is for Kamala Harris to say we're going to grant parole, not on a case by case basis, but to millions of illegal aliens who are coming to this country,” Vance said. “That does not magically make them legal because Kamala Harris waved the amnesty wand. That makes her border policy a disgrace, and I'm still going to call people illegal aliens.” The Biden administration recently extended the temporary legal protected status for unauthorized migrants from Haiti living in the U.S. through Feb. 3, 2026, a designation that protects against deportation but does not confer permanent legal status. While Vance speaks about Haiti specifically, nationals from more than a dozen other countries including Venezuela, Syria, Ukraine and Afghanistan can also be awarded TPS.
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2024/02/hochul-apologizes-genocide-joke/394276/#main Gov. Kathy Hochul apologized on Friday night after making a tasteless joke about Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza while speaking to the UJA-Federation of New York. “If Canada someday ever attacked Buffalo, I'm sorry my friends, there would be no Canada the next day,” Hochul said during an address to the UJA on Thursday. “That’s a natural reaction. You have a right to defend yourself and to make sure it never happens again.” The governor’s comments were first reported Friday evening by The Forward. Hochul’s joke about Buffalo drew a few laughs, but it had troubling implications about the governor’s position on collective punishment, which is a war crime. In a post on X, the journalist Mehdi Hasan, who has frequently reported on Palestine, described Hochul’s comments as “insane and yes, by definition, *genocidal* language from the governor of New York.” The joke also drew criticism from progressives and pro-Palestine activists. “Governor Hochul is justifying genocide, while laughing. This is disgusting,” Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani told City & State. The Buffalo chapter of the anti-war group Jewish Voice for Peace similarly called Hochul's words “disgusting” in a tweet, adding that her “Jewish constituents in Buffalo are appalled.” In a statement provided to City & State, Hochul apologized for her “poor choice of words,” adding that she never intended to cause harm. “I regret using an inappropriate analogy that I now realize could be hurtful to members of our community,” Hochul said. She reiterated her belief in Israel’s right to self-defense, but said she has “also repeatedly said and continues to believe that Palestinian civilian casualties should be avoided and that more humanitarian aid must go to the people of Gaza.”
Congressional Research Service SUMMARY U.S. Sanctions on Russia: Legal Authorities andRelated Actions Sanctions are a central element of U.S. policy to deter, alter, and counter malign Russian activities. The United States maintains sanctions on Russia in part to reverse Russian aggression in Ukraine and to deter Russian aggression against other countries. Many Members of Congress support a robust use of sanctions amid concerns about Russia’s international intentions and actions. Since the onset of Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine, the United States has coordinated many of its sanctions-related decisions with the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (UK), and other allies and partners.
The problem of cat versus bird is as old as time. If we attempt to resolve it by legislation, who knows but that we may be called upon to take sides as well in the age old problems of dog versus cat, bird versus bird, or even bird versus worm. The state of Illinois and its local governing bodies already have enough to do without trying to control feline delinquents.
Isaac Chotiner interviews Shimon Riklin, "one of the anchors of Israel’s Channel 14, which is famous for its right-wing slant and strong pro-Netanyahu line." https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-israeli-ultra-hawks-who-feel-betrayed-by-trumps-iran-deal It’s hard to fathom. I don’t have a lot of moments like this. I don’t remember someone in modern history who would go with you and do wonderful things, and then suddenly disappear and go against you. So now I am the bad guy? I supported you! I was the good guy! How did I become the bad guy, and the Ayatollah is the good guy? This is why I was wondering whether you had ever observed Donald Trump. I don’t know what motivated him. You know he is a Gemini? Geminis are not really ones to say the same things a lot. They change their minds. You know Geminis?
Profit: A Name You Can't Trust (The complete series)
Between the sixth and fourth centuries в.c., the originally extensive mountain forest of Greece itself dwindled, leaving forest in only remote and inaccessible areas (Semple, 1931; Winters, 1974). In Attica, the woodlands were rented out under a system of perpetual licence (Fernow, 1913). After the utilizable trees were felled, unless there was manageable coppice, the scrub remaining was sub-let for pasture. Twenty-five centuries ago, Plato discussed these fellings of seven hundred years earlier with a clear appreciation of the consequences: Contemporary Attica may accurately be described as a mere relic of the original country. There has been a constant movement of soil away from the high ground and what remains is like the skeleton of a body emaciated by disease. All the rich soil has melted away, leaving a country of skin and bone. Originally the mountains of Attica were heavily forested. Fine trees produced timber suitable for roofing the largest buildings; the roofs hewn from this timber are still in existence. The country produced boundless feed for cattle, there are some mountains which had trees not so very long ago, that now have nothing but bee pastures. The annual rainfall was not lost as it is now through being allowed to run over the denuded surface to the sea, it was absorbed by the ground and stored . . . the drainage from the high ground was collected in this way and discharged into the hollows as springs and rivers with abundant flow and a wide territorial distribution. Shrines remain at the sources of dried up water sources as witness to this.
Timber supply was inseparably related to sea power. The navy—the wooden walls of the Delphian oracle—saved western civilization in the decisive Battle of Salamis (450 в.c.) It has been suggested that one of the reasons for the downfall of the Minoan civilization (3000–1100 в.c.) was the deforestation of Crete, since the Minoans were unable to maintain the ships necessary for commerce and protection. In the Laws, Plato writes of an Athenian and a Minoan discussing the lack of Cretan timber and its impact. Three thousand years ago, Homer wrote of various Greek Islands then wooded, Samothrace and Zacynthos among others, and of the "tall pines and oaks" of Sicily. He has Odysseus say "My home is Ithaca, . . . with Mt. Meriton rising clear out of the quivering forest". His metaphors illustrate a familiarity with felling for ship timber, when describing, for example, the death of Sarpedon, "as falls an oak or silver poplar, or a slim pine that on the hills the shipwrights fell with whetted axes, to be timber for ship-building," while over his body the noise of battle was "as the din of woodcutters in the glades of the mountains." However, organized maritime shipments from the Lebanon to Egypt were recorded as early as two thousand years prior to Homeric times (Oedekoven, 1962). The dense settlement of the littorals resulted in the depletion of the hinterlands. This occurred particularly early in the case of the major cities of eastern Greece and somewhat later in the more humid Aegean.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Revolution#Volksgemeinschaft_and_dictatorship Thomas Mann believed that if German military resistance to the West during World War I was stronger than its spiritual resistance, it was primarily because the ethos ("character") of the German Volksgemeinschaft ("national community") cannot quickly express itself in words, and as a result is not able to counter effectively the solid rhetoric of the West.[71] Since German culture was "of the soul, something which could not be grasped by the intellect",[72] the authoritarian state was the natural order desired by the German people. Politics, Mann argued, was inevitably a commitment to democracy and therefore alien to the German spirit:[71] There is no such thing as a democratic or a conservative politician. Either you are a politician or you are not, and if you are, you are a democrat. — Thomas Mann, 1915[72] While scholars have debated whether these formulations should be considered artistic and idealistic, or rather a serious attempt to draw a political analysis of that period, young Mann's writings have been influential on many Conservative Revolutionaries.[73] Mann was accused by the right of watering down his undemocratic views in 1922 after he removed some paragraphs from the republication of Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen ("Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man"), originally released in 1918.[74] In a speech delivered the same year ("On the German Republic" [Von deutscher Republik]), Mann publicly became a staunch defender of the Weimar Republic and attacked many of the figures associated with the Conservative Revolution such as Oswald Spengler, whom he depicted as intellectually dishonest and irresponsibly immoral.[70] In 1933, he described National Socialism as the politische Wirklichkeit jener konservativen Revolution, that is to say the "political reality of that Conservative Revolution".[75]
Israel continues to prevent foreign journalists from having access to Gaza. They take approved journalists on limited tours of the areas they want them to see, but they will not allow the free movement of media through Gaza, even months after a ceasefire has come into force. This means the real story of the Gaza war cannot be told by outside media. Palestinian journalists continue to try to tell the story but at great danger. They have been killed at a faster rate than in any other conflict, according to press freedom advocates. But Americans have also received information about Gaza from prominent aid and humanitarian workers. For example, UNICEF's executive director Catherine Russell last July briefed the UN Security Council in New York, saying that during the first 21 months of war more than 17,000 children were reportedly been killed and 33,000 injured in Gaza.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_(play) In the first act of the play, the characters spend much time debating whether the rhinoceroses that have mysteriously appeared in France are African or Asian rhinoceroses, and which of the two types were superior to the other – a debate that Ionesco meant to be a satire on racism. Regardless of whether the rhinoceros are African or Asian, the French characters comfortably assume their superiority to the rhinoceros; ironically the same people all become rhinoceroses themselves. Bérenger's friend Jean judges the superiority of African vs. Asian rhinoceroses by their number of horns (making him a caricature of those people who judge other people by the color of their skin) and at one point shouts at Bérenger: "If anybody's got horns, it is you! You are an Asiatic Mongol!" A recurring theme in Nazi propaganda was that the Jews were an "Asiatic" people who were unfortunately living in Europe, a message that many of the French became familiar with during the German occupation of 1940–1944. Ionesco alludes to the atmosphere of that period in his depiction of Jean taunting Bérenger over his supposed horns, and being "Asiatic". Ionesco intended the character of Jean, an ambitious functionary whose careerism robs him of the ability to think critically, to be a satirical portrayal of the French civil servants who served the Vichy government.