Saturday, September 14, 2024

MORAL CLARITY

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by Julie Steiner Photograph: Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters via The Guardian      Asked by CBS News  [on Friday] what he would advise a Cathol...
Friday, September 13, 2024

GOING DEEPER

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by Cecil Morris Yellow No. 5 food dye. (Matthew Christiansen/U.S. National Science Foundation) “ Scientists use food dye found in Doritos to...
Thursday, September 12, 2024

POST MORTEM: THE SIXTH EXTINCTION

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The history of a planet in sixteen lines by Greg McClelland Source: Mail Online It all began when a molten mass, boiling within, battered fr...
Wednesday, September 11, 2024

HAUNTING SEPTEMBER

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by Jerrice J. Baptiste Photo:  Kevin Bubriski, World Trade Center Series, New York City, 2001, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Ar...
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

PRACTICING FOR THE BIGLY DEBATE

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by Wayne Scheer No one ever saw a debate like this. They tell me seven billion people will watch me, maybe more. So I have to prepare bigly....

TRANS FATS

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by Chris Kaiser This is not a real book. Its cover has been A-I generated at Shutterstock by The New Verse News to accompany this poem. Tru...
Monday, September 09, 2024

HOW WILL I SAY I LOVE YOU

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by Rachel Mallalieu My son, a newly minted freshman, regales me with tales of high school. There are pickleball courts and the teachers are ...
Sunday, September 08, 2024

POWER OF THE VOTE

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by Paul Brassard Public Domain Photo by Simone D'andrea altered by the poet using GIMP image manipulation software. Paul Brassard  is a ...
Saturday, September 07, 2024

ONE IN FOUR

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by Deborah Kennedy A  study in the journal PLOS ONE  found that extreme temperatures resulting from climate change could cause one in four s...
Friday, September 06, 2024

PINK ROLLERBLADES

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by Brian Forehand Wounded people, including nine-year-old Tala Abu Ajwan, who died of the injuries she sustained as she skated near a park, ...