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Mary Weinrib, born Manya Rubenstein in 1925, survived a forced labour camp in Starachowice, then Auschwitz, and then Bergen-Belsen. She passed away on July 2, 2021. She tells her story in this oral history interview available via the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her son, Geddy Lee of Rush, tells his parents' Holocaust survival story in this 2019 radio interview.
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Bloom County update: Opus is thrilled that masking has ended, but walks right into something. [more inside]
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. Cecil B. DeMille really chews up his own scenery in this archival film via Periscope Video.
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City Creatures. A blog from the Center for Humans and Nature about the other species who live among us, to name just a few: mallard ducks, spiders, crabs, waxwings, rats, and the aforementioned turkeys. [more inside]
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Financially Hobbled for Life (Free link to WSJ article.) Columbia and other top universities push master’s programs that fail to generate enough income for graduates to keep up with six-figure federal loans. [more inside]
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The bears are back at Brooks Falls! Just in time to get ready for the big salmon buffet coming over the next several weeks, the brown bears have returned to Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park. [more inside]
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"Finally made myself a little personal portfolio/speaker website, with a nostalgic twist... Which Internet era are you nostalgic for?" Moriel Schottlender's new website is available in several flavors: 1989, plus 1992, 1997, 2000, 2012, today, and future. Check out the future-style credits in particular. (Disclaimer: I know Moriel and worked with her years ago.)
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"Why a Mentally Ill Millennial from Missouri is Running for US Senate," Ron Deets in his own words as to why he's running for senate. More Ron Deets on Twitter.
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“I wanted to tell my story,” she says, “because I had been written about. Paul had written about the marriage, in separate books. And Louis has written about his parents. As a woman, as someone who isn’t a famous person, I just thought, I want to have my say. I thought, this picture of me as a character in someone else’s books, that’s not me.” Anne Theroux interviewed in the Guardian about her new memoir, The Year of the End
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Kristen Roupenian’s viral story draws specific details from my own life. I’ve spent the years since it published wondering: How did she know? Previously, previously, and the original, viral story.
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Caitlin Reilly's latest short skit is a satirical take of how women are portrayed in scifi movies as one-dimensional workaholics who can't have a personality outside of being a scientist, or her scientist dad's daughter. [more inside]
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Robert Downey Senior, actor, filmmaker, and father of Robert Downey Jr., has died. He was 85. [Variety/Deadline/The Guardian] [more inside]
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Ah, Scotland, so much sightseeing, so much work for tour guides... Would you like a tour of a Scottish distillery? Or perhaps you prefer the thrills of a Scottish stone circle tour? Or maybe an Edinburgh ghost tour? Or perhaps you’d like to visit the Scottish Parliament? An ancient castle? A museum? And how about Loch Ness? [more inside]
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