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‘Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind,’ - Bertrand Russell

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Roman, the commander of a fire support platoon, with his dog Marcel at a rest house near the front line in the Donetsk region in April. Roman adopted the dog after finding him in a demolished village where he is stationed. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

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Life on Ukraine’s front line: ‘Worse than hell’ as Russia advances

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-war-frontline/

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No indication that Rafah crossing could open soon

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"Rafah is a city of children.

Hundreds of thousands of them are at risk. They are sick, living with disabilities, malnourished & traumatized.
The children in Gaza need a ceasefire now to prevent further suffering."

Carla Haddad Mardini, UNICEF

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The Reader's Brain: How Neuroscience Can Make You a Better Writer by Yellowlees Douglas, 2015

The Reader's Brain is the first science-based guide to writing, employing cutting-edge research on how our minds process written language, to ensure your writing can be read quickly, assimilated easily, and recalled precisely - exactly what we need to transform anyone into a highly effective writer.

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We have accepted the unacceptable

"Monsters exist, but they are far too few in number to be truly dangerous; the most dangerous monsters are ordinary men, functionaries ready to believe and obey without discussion.
Primo Levi

‘The problem is not disobedience, it is obedience.’
Howard Zinn

‘The real question is not to know why people rebel, but why they don’t rebel.’
Wilhelm Reich

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Disobey The Philosophy of Resistance by Frédéric Gros

In this provocative essay, Frédéric Gros explores the roots of political obedience. Social conformity, economic subjection, respect for authorities, constitutional consensus? Examining the various styles of obedience provides tools to study, invent and induce new forms of civic disobedience and protest.

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Men ride on a motorbike as they cover their heads with a wet cloth to cool off and to avoid sunlight, during a hot summer day, as the heatwave continues in Jacobabad, Pakistan May 26. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

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A boy cools off under a water pipe from a canal during a hot summer day on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, May 28, 2024. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz

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Palestinians travel in a donkey-drawn cart loaded with their belongings as they flee Rafah due to an Israeli military operation, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 28. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled

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A man carries a child, as Palestinians travel on foot along with their belongings as they flee Rafah due to an Israeli military operation, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 28. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled

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Evacuation

A Palestinian rides a bicycle with children along with their belongings as they flee Rafah due to an Israeli military operation, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 28. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled

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#Gaza
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#children

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Mind Design III: Philosophy, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence by John Haugeland, 2023

The essential reader on the philosophical foundations and implications of artificial intelligence, now comprehensively updated for the twenty-first century.

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Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle, 2024

Acclaimed journalist Rebecca Boyle takes readers on a dazzling tour to reveal the intimate role that our 4.51-billion-year-old companion has played in our biological and cultural evolution.

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Sima Bahous, the executive director of UN Women, said more than 10,000 Palestinian women have been killed in the seven months of Israel’s war on Gaza – including scores of women and children horrifically killed by an Israeli air strike while sleeping in tents in what was supposed to be a safe zone in Rafah.

“This war must stop because women and girls are bearing the brunt of it,” Bahous told a UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday.

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A Papuan activist applies soils on her face as a symbol of grief during a protest against deforestation by palm oil companies on their indigenous land in Papua, outside the country's Supreme Court in Jakarta, Indonesia. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

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Aamir Khan, 24, an auto-rickshaw driver covers his face with a scarf to avoid warm air during a hot summer day, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department, the temperature rose above 52 degrees Celsius (125.6 degrees Fahrenheit), as the heatwave continues in Mohenjo Daro, Pakistan. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro

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Displaced Palestinians inspect their tents destroyed by Israel’s bombardment west of Rafah city on Tuesday [Jehad Alshrafi/AP]

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Australia’s federal parliament has voted against recognising Palestine as an independent state.

Here’s how the House of Representatives voted on the motion put forward by the Greens:

Yes: 5. The Australian Greens and Independent Andrew Wilkie.

No: 80. Representatives from the Labor government, as well as the Liberal and National parties.

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Australia was one of 143 countries that voted in support of Palestine’s becoming a full UN member in the UN General Assembly earlier this month.

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Desperate Gazans flee as Israeli tanks advance into Rafah's center

https://www.reuters.com/pictures/desperate-gazans-flee-israeli-tanks-advance-into-rafahs-center-2024-05-28/

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Dabke dance troupe brings relief to Gaza’s war-weary children

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZBSBoJl0Oc

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#children
#dancing
#Dabke
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Palestinians flee Rafah as Israeli tanks reach city centre

[Hatem Khaled/Reuters]

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The Art of the Bird: The History of Ornithological Art through Forty Artists by Roger J. Lederer, 2019

In The Art of the Bird, devout birder and ornithologist Roger J. Lederer celebrates the heyday of avian illustration in the last four hundred years in forty artists’ profiles, beginning with the work of Flemish painter Frans Snyders in the early 1600s and continuing through to contemporary artists like Elizabeth Butterworth, famed for her portraits of macaws.

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Third Millennium Thinking Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense by Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell, Robert MacCoun, 2024

Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, how to use scientists’ tricks of the trade to make the best decisions and solve the hardest problems in age of uncertainty and overwhelming information.

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