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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: the Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” – the Marginalian Arts
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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: the Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” – the Marginalian

Beethoven composed the "Ode to Joy" almost entirely deaf, arrested once as a tramp, estranged from loved ones, bludgeoned by war and grief - and yet he never abandoned the dream he had carried since adolescence, when Schiller's poem first convinced him that freedom and human...

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‘They Were Told Bikes Were for men’: How Latin America’s City of Cycling Is Breaking Gender Barriers | Cycling |... Environment
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‘They Were Told Bikes Were for men’: How Latin America’s City of Cycling Is Breaking Gender Barriers | Cycling |...

In Bogotá - a city of nearly 900,000 daily bicycle trips - officials are working to close a stubborn gender gap,...

The 'Transplant Games' Are About More Than Medals Sports
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The 'Transplant Games' Are About More Than Medals

At the European Transplant Games, 600 athletes gathered in Arnhem - not to escape their medical histories, but to...

The Robots Kids Build to Preserve Native American Languages | the Optimist Daily Youth
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The Robots Kids Build to Preserve Native American Languages | the Optimist Daily

What a government once tried to silence through punishment and forced separation, a 25-year-old woman is now reviving...

What Happens When We Stop Trying to Win a Difficult… Inspiration
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What Happens When We Stop Trying to Win a Difficult…

Willow Paul lost her father before the political distance between them could be repaired, and that grief became the...

Dr G Hemalatha’s Ananta Mothers’ Milk Bank Gives Free Breast Milk to 4000+ Babies Across Anantapur Everyday Heroes
The Better India 13 hours ago

Dr G Hemalatha’s Ananta Mothers’ Milk Bank Gives Free Breast Milk to 4000+ Babies Across Anantapur

A tragedy that could have faded into private grief instead became a question Dr. G. Hemalatha refused to stop asking...

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David Bornstein — on Our Lives with the News | the on Being Project

Journalist David Bornstein has spent decades watching his own profession do something quietly destructive: treating...