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‘Restoring humanity’: Paris exhibition showcases 5,000 years of history in Gaza Saved Treasures of Gaza aims to preserve territory’s historical identity against backdrop of war and famine

'While Gaza faces a humanitarian catastrophe of starvation and war, the exhibition, Saved Treasures of Gaza, at Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe brings what curators called a sense of “urgency” to explain the rich history of a place that has been a crossroads of cultures since Neolithic times.'

Rent starts at $455 in new apartments aimed at Kansas City’s affordability gap Fifty units, including 42 for residents with lower incomes, open on Guadalupe Center’s elementary school campus as KC faces a housing gap.

The new Villa View complex created by Guadalupe Centers is a great example of how we can lower housing costs by strengthening public-private partnerships, utilizing federal tax policy and private construction to build more affordable housing.
www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it!
8/8/25

Texas State System dissolves faculty senates, eroding professors' influence on campuses While other universities move to preserve the advisory bodies, Texas State will abolish them under a new state law that curtails faculty’s influence on campuses.

Ummm, this is bad. Very very bad.

www.texastribune.org/2025/08/07/t...

Workers in the Rain, painting by Mossley-born Lloyd George Higgins (1912-80). Inspired by Pennine textile communities, Lowry was his mentor. #NorthernArt

My next read…..

“Mum, dad, what did you do when scientists told us atmospheric CO2 levels were at their highest in around 12-14 MILLION years?”

Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I. Brian Merchant’s new book, “Blood in the Machine,” argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.

Today, the word “Luddite” is used as an insult to anyone resistant to technological innovation. But a recent book argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.

Just read a newspaper article that referred to tariffs as "federal import taxes" which seems like a good way to bypass the widespread confusion among readers over who pays for tariffs.

Smearing feces on the walls to mark his territory

In BUG VAUDEVILLE, Winsor McCay creates the illusion of a spider attacking a member of the theater audience.

This gag would later show up in multiple Looney Tunes cartoons with the characters shooting a silhouette audience member.

one of the, "hey, grad school was *wild*," stories I like to tell people I know is about how, a week or two into my masters degree, Michael Daugherty spent two hours telling us about his flute concerto called 'The Trail Of Tears' and everyone acted like it was totally normal

This is just a weird post, guys. I saw the screen capture / video, but when I checked it out with my lying eyes I noticed —

1. The video is from the wayback machine on archive.org not congress.gov.
2. constitution.congress.gov/constitution still shows articles 9 and 10.

???

How a Soggy Spring and Hot Summer Nights Made 2025 an ‘Exceptional’ Year for Fireflies

The lightning bugs have been great this year. Sigh

Free article. Enjoy:)

we're livin' in the upside down...

YouTube video by Sam Moss Author Tutorial: Finding a Link to a Story that is No Longer Available

Have you ever published a story, poem or essay online, only to have the venue fold and your work disappear?

It's not fun, but there is a good technique that can help you out.

I put together a quick video that shows how to find a saved copy of your work: youtu.be/v_Pym4yd528

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.

#pediatriccancer #cancermom

love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics.

IG nytimes

Teen Hannah Cairo's Mathematical Discovery Sends Ripples through Harmonic Analysis When she was just 17 years old, Hannah Cairo disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, breaking a four-decade-old mathematical assumption

How Teen Mathematician Hannah Cairo Disproved a Major Conjecture in Harmonic Analysis www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

Where are the demands for town halls? Did the Democratic Party just forget?

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.

The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

50 Jobs in the Middle Ages - Medievalists.net Explore 50 real jobs from the Middle Ages—illustrated in a rare 15th-century manuscript from Nuremberg, showing medieval workers at their trades.

50 Jobs in the Middle Ages, illustrated in a rare 15th-century manuscript from Nuremberg, showing medieval workers at their trades. www.medievalists.net/2025/08/50-j...

Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.

As a community college professor with 25 years of experience I’m always interested in seeing how community colleges are portrayed by the press.

Overall, good article, but it does feel written by someone who doesn’t quite understand our role in our communities.

Missouri’s oldest Black bookstore just closed. The Kansas City Defender plans to reopen it as a newsroom and public archive. “The thought of losing that history, particularly in this political moment, was devastating.”

well this absolutely rules www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/miss...

Typografia • Czechoslovak printers’ journal published by Práce (c. 1950s–1980s), with covers by Vladislav Najbrt – Its clean, functional design was rooted in the print process, 1964...1966.