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When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s, by John Ganz, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 432 pages, $30 When the Clock Broke, by the progressive essayist John Ganz, is a solidly educational and entertaining work of political history. While Ganz winningly doesn't bash you over the head page by page with the larger point he's trying to make, the stories he chooses to tell about the early 1990s are meant to hit home how elements of American political, cultural, economic, and ideological life back then laid the groundwork for Donald Trump's "Make Americ...
Reason
Lin Wei-Yun Górecka (林蔚昀), photo used with permission Taiwan and Poland are distant not just geographically but also culturally, yet they share a long history of bilateral cultural relations that is little known outside of the circle of researchers and experts on the subject. One of them is Lin Wei-Yun Górecka (林蔚昀), a Taiwanese literary translator of Polish literature, who is also a researcher, poet, and writer and is the first Taiwanese to have been awarded the Polish Cultural Merit Medal by the Polish Ministry of Culture. She recently released a new non-fiction book “世界之鑰” (“The Keys of the...
Global Voices
Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of the death of five people in a Titanic shipwreck-bound submersible after their disappearance triggered a high-profile search party and had the world on edge for five days. The rescue operation was called off after authorities and experts found debris from the privately owned submarine on the ocean floor. They concluded that it had imploded just a few hours after initiating the dive. David Concannon, a former adviser to OceanGate, the company that owned the Titan submersible, said he would mark the anniversary privately with a group of people who were in...
Euronews (English)
The image is a screenshot of Russia Post. Taken with permission Kirill Shamiev and Ksenia Luchenko, both Visiting Fellows at the European Council on Foreign Relations, wrote for the Russia Post about the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in Putin’s regime and the full-scale Invasion of Ukraine. Global Voices republished the article, edited for clarity, with the permission from Russia Post. Recently, Metropolitan Kirill Pokrovsky, who heads up the Synodal Department for Cooperation with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies, said on the air of Russia's main state-run TV channel Rossiy...
Global Voices
In a groundbreaking discovery that has the potential to delay a significant infrastructure project, Greek archaeologists have unearthed a 4,000-year-old stone building on a hilltop in Crete, earmarked for a new airport. Knewz.com has learned that the site, which has been undergoing meticulous excavation, offers a rare glimpse into Crete's Minoan civilization, renowned for its grandiose palaces and enigmatic writing system. This puzzling find is stirring excitement and controversy. According to Greece’s Culture Ministry, the building is a "unique and extremely interesting find" and is believed ...
Knewz
In a groundbreaking discovery that has the potential to delay a significant infrastructure project, Greek archaeologists have unearthed a 4,000-year-old stone building on a hilltop in Crete, earmarked for a new airport. Knewz.com has learned that the site, which has been undergoing meticulous excavation, offers a rare glimpse into Crete's Minoan civilization, renowned for its grandiose palaces and enigmatic writing system. This puzzling find is stirring excitement and controversy. According to Greece’s Culture Ministry, the building is a "unique and extremely interesting find" and is believed ...
Knewz (CA)
In a groundbreaking discovery that has the potential to delay a significant infrastructure project, Greek archaeologists have unearthed a 4,000-year-old stone building on a hilltop in Crete, earmarked for a new airport. Knewz.com has learned that the site, which has been undergoing meticulous excavation, offers a rare glimpse into Crete's Minoan civilization, renowned for its grandiose palaces and enigmatic writing system. This puzzling find is stirring excitement and controversy. According to Greece’s Culture Ministry, the building is a "unique and extremely interesting find" and is believed ...
Knewz (UK)
An amateur palaeontologist-cum-avocado farmer discovered a collection of fossilized bones in Western Queensland, Australia, which have recently been identified as a new species of Pterosaur. Knewz.com has learned that the recently discovered species of Pterosaurs would have been a "fearsome" predator some 100 million years ago. Kevin Petersen, who is both an avocado farmer and the curator of the Kronosaurus Korner Fossil Museum in Queensland, discovered the bones back in 2021. A team from Curtin University in Perth studied the bones and noticed that the structure of the teeth is significantly ...
Knewz (CA)
An amateur paleontologist-cum-avocado farmer discovered a collection of fossilized bones in Western Queensland, Australia, which have recently been identified as a new species of Pterosaur. Knewz.com has learned that the recently discovered species of Pterosaurs would have been a "fearsome" predator some 100 million years ago. Kevin Petersen, who is both an avocado farmer and the curator of the Kronosaurus Korner Fossil Museum in Queensland, discovered the bones back in 2021. A team from Curtin University in Perth studied the bones and noticed that the structure of the teeth is significantly d...
Knewz
An amateur paleontologist-cum-avocado farmer discovered a collection of fossilized bones in Western Queensland, Australia, which have recently been identified as a new species of Pterosaur. Knewz.com has learned that the recently discovered species of Pterosaurs would have been a "fearsome" predator some 100 million years ago. Kevin Petersen, who is both an avocado farmer and the curator of the Kronosaurus Korner Fossil Museum in Queensland, discovered the bones back in 2021. A team from Curtin University in Perth studied the bones and noticed that the structure of the teeth is significantly d...
Knewz (UK)
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