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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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David Bornstein — on Our Lives with the News | the on Being Project
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Dr G Hemalatha’s Ananta Mothers’ Milk Bank Gives Free Breast Milk to 4000+ Babies Across Anantapur
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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
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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...

Savitribai Phule & Fatima Sheikh: the Women Who Started India’s First Girls’ School Inspiration
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Savitribai Phule & Fatima Sheikh: the Women Who Started India’s First Girls’ School

In 1848 Pune, two women walked to school each morning through volleys of stones, mud, and dung - and kept walking....

Ear Hustle Podcast: Corny-Ass Episode Inspiration
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Ear Hustle Podcast: Corny-Ass Episode

Inside a prison classroom, a journalism lesson about noticing small details opens into something no one planned: a...