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Systematic exploration of the underwater caves in Quintana Roo, Mexico began in Tulum in the mid-1980s. Various diving teams started exploring the region’s cenotes and discovered extensive passages that expanded as they connected their records.

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sites.northwestern.edu/monroyrios/2...

Journal of Global Ethics Volume 21, Issue 2 of Journal of Global Ethics

the latest issue of the Journal of Global Ethics includes a book symposium on my work on Limitarianism, with comments from Julieta Elgarte (Argentinia), Benedict Chan (Hong Kong), and Jean Drèze (India), - edited by Jay Drydyk (Canada).

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjge20/2...

Everybody Knew His Name: ‘Norm!’

"Man walks into a bar. It's the starting point for a million jokes," James Poniewozik writes in a Critic's Notebook. "And for season after season on 'Cheers,' some of the best of those were delivered by George Wendt, who died on Tuesday at age 76, as the long-suffering Norm Peterson."

YouTube video by The Booker Prizes Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi win the International Booker Prize 2025 for 'Heart Lamp'

Watch the moment Heart Lamp was announced as the winner of the #InternationalBooker2025, and hear what Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi said in their speeches.

youtu.be/uVH0blFhSFc

Alice Notley "I've meant to tell you many things about my life" I've meant to tell you many things about my life, & every time the moment has conquered me. I'm strangely unhappy because the pattern of my life is complicated, because my nature is hopelessly complicated; & out of this, to my sorrow, pain to you must grow. The centre of me is always & eternally a terrible pain— a curious wild pain—a searching beyond what the world contains, something transfigured & infinite-I don't find it, I don't think it is to be found. It's like passionate love for a ghost. At times it fills me with rage, at times with wild despair, It's the source of gentleness & cruelty & work.

A favourite poem by Alice Notley.

An Interview with Alice Notley Conversations with poets, editors, and artists.

Groundbreaking poet Alice Notley, winner of the Poetry Society‘s 2018 Shelley Memorial Award, has passed away. Rest in Poetry.

Black and white photograph of Alice Notley in Bolinas, California, early 1972.

Alice Notley passed away yesterday evening in Paris. She said a few years ago, “What can we learn from the fact that we don’t die?” I’m heartbroken, & heartbroken for everyone who knew & loved her, her work.

On the other hand fine whatever let’s explode the universe

Guys I’m starting to think maybe we shouldn’t have thrown away all those chain letters back in the day idk

You should not build wealth just to build wealth. This is folly. You should build wealth to afford an old mansion big enough that all your relatives want it, but also haunted enough that it’ll be fun to watch them all try to live there long enough to win the deed to it after you’ve faked your death

Cover of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century

New Year, new cover reveal! Here's what our @oxunipress.bsky.social Handbook of American and British Women #Philosophers in the #19thCentury will look like, and we're thrilled! Women philosophizing about metaphysics, #ethics, #gender, #aesthetics, politics, #logic, race, religion, education...

Jonathan Birch, Why Is Animal Consciousness Controversial? A Trialogue - PhilPapers A conversation between three characters: Credulus, who thinks conscious mental states can and should be attributed to other animals without any need for scientific inquiry; Skepticus, a critic with be...

I love philosophical dialogues, so I wrote one. It stars Credulus, who thinks consciousness can be attributed to other animals without scientific evidence; Skepticus, a critic with behaviourist leanings; and Moderus, who sees a middle path in the science of animal minds. philpapers.org/rec/BIRWIA-3

Addendum: I actually think you can see this most acutely with Mexican food, in that its ubiquity makes it easier to see how things have changed. Mexican has gone from meaning Taco Bell to most Americans to enchiladas and fajitas to "street" tacos and now to moles and birra and chilaquiles.

Really good post and also generally, a day job can be an amazing thing for creative people. Starving and/or chronic pain are not conducive to art. Nearly every creative person you know has a day job, or, rather more rarely, had one until it made no more economic sense to keep it anymore.

Yendo un weekend a lo de Damián

I bet on losing dogs

This *hilarious* thread reminded me that when I first saw Scavenger's Reign I was convinced I'd seen this concept before. I was right. This is the 8 minute short by the same creator.
Enjoy one small piece of *beautiful* content.

On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"

The Main Problem With Pedestrian Deaths Isn’t the Pedestrians. “Our transportation infrastructure exists to tell drivers that they have pride of place on our roads and streets and that their convenience is more important than any other consideration.” [nytimes.com]

A wonderful scat duet by Ella Fitzgerald & Mel Tormé performed at the 1976 Grammys after Tormé asked Fitzgerald how to explain what jazz is. Absolutely incredible voices, those two! [kottke.org]

Louise Glück Stories, poems, essays, and interviews from The Paris Review by Louise Glück

RIP Louise Gluck. Her work explored deep themes of trauma and grief. Her archive is available to read on The Paris Review.

www.theparisreview.org/authors/2618...

The Untrustworthy Speaker by Louise Glück | Poetry Foundation Don’t listen to me; my heart’s been broken.

RIP Louise Gluck. How fitting she leaves on this cruel October.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49610/...

4K video of Norway's stunningly beautiful fjords. "If you need a small window of peaceful beauty today, here you are." [kottke.org]

Jon Fosse’s Search for Peace The Norwegian author has spent decades producing a strange, revered body of work. But he still doesn’t know where the writing comes from.

Merve Emre profiled Jon Fosse a year ago for the New Yorker.

Actor Michael Gambon has died at the age of 82. He had a long career on stage and screen and gained international fame as Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films. [bbc.com]

Working Remotely Can More Than Halve an Office Employee’s Carbon Footprint By not going into the office, an at-home worker can cut greenhouse emissions in excess of 50 percent if they take energy-conservation steps

Working remotely can cut someone's climate change footprint in half 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/work...