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Beyond the Blue Horizon: A Journey Through Family Addiction and Recovery
My feet sink into the wet sand as the tide comes in, covering everything with warm ocean crystals that fade away. I’m running, I think, and the spray sticks to my ankles, hiding my legs from view.
By Rosalina Jane24 days ago in Poets
Stanislav Kondrashov Oligarch Series: Oligarchy and Global Supergrids in the Next Phase of the Energy Transition
Large technological shifts often depend on infrastructure that takes decades to design and build. The next phase of the energy transition is no exception. Around the world, the idea of global supergrids—vast electricity networks connecting distant regions—has moved from theoretical discussion to long-term planning.
By Stanislav Kondrashov24 days ago in Futurism
How Astronomers Study the Sun Safely: Methods, Tools, and Technologies
Why Studying the Sun Is Important The Sun is the closest star to Earth, making it an ideal laboratory for studying stellar physics. By observing the Sun, astronomers learn about processes that occur in other stars across the universe.
By shahkar jalal24 days ago in Education
Julius Evola. Content Warning.
The Enigmatic Mind of Julius Evola Twentieth century intellectual history contains a number of figures whose writings continue to provoke debate long after the surrounding political and cultural conditions have faded into the past. Among the most unusual and controversial of these figures stands Julius Evola, an Italian thinker whose work moves across an extraordinary range of intellectual territory. Philosophical reflection, esoteric speculation, cultural criticism, political theory, and comparative religion appear side by side throughout a body of work that resists easy classification.
By Marcus Hedare24 days ago in BookClub
At Will
Section 1 Pollen and the bright sun anesthetized color - muting almost every color to its equivalent shade in pastels. James stood by the window of his apartment at Bayside Village, adjusting his tie and checking the time - it was 8:30 AM. On his phone, a message from the Recruiting Agency, Eastridge. Cassie assured him that the partners at Sidley Austin, a corporate law firm, had asked for him by name - which never happened so he should be excited. It was a request that had never occurred in his ten years as a paralegal, a sudden, specific gravity pulling him into their orbit.
By James L. Royer24 days ago in Proof
Book Review: "Rock, Paper, Scissors" by Maxim Osipov
As you can probably tell, I've found somewhere to buy New York Review of Books Classics for cheap and though they are, yes, used books, they are still readable so I don't care. Rock, Paper, Scissors to my understanding was written by a doctor and he is, to this day, considered a great writer in modern Russian literature. Drawing on his experiences regarding medicine and illness, he writes in the style described on the back of the book as being that of William Carlos Williams, or even Anton Chekhov. College stories, political landscapes and deep and philosophical character portraits are part of this anthology. It has been wonderous to read something so 'out there' that I wouldn't have picked up unless it was going cheaply on the internet.
By Annie Kapur24 days ago in Geeks
Private Lives by Noel Coward
Background and Context: I first read Private Lives in my late teens whilst I was doing work experience at an independent theatre somewhere in my hometown. All I can say is that it smelt like burning wood inside, I ended up getting sick from what I can only describe as a damp atmosphere and the words 'the show must go on' were carved on a beam above your head as you walked backstage. Until a fractured my wrist, I actually really enjoyed myself.
By Annie Kapur24 days ago in Geeks
