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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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Women Who Lost Their Husbands to Tigers Are Restoring the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest
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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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Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: the Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity – the Marginalian Inspiration
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Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: the Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity – the Marginalian

Beneath every longing for love and every flinching away from it, the body is keeping its own account. Maria Popova's...

Locals Succeed in Tripling Protected Seascapes Along 300 Miles of Turkiye's Breathtaking Coastline Environment
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Locals Succeed in Tripling Protected Seascapes Along 300 Miles of Turkiye's Breathtaking Coastline

Along 310 miles of Turkey's Mediterranean coastline, a coalition of local fishermen, trained marine rangers, and...

How Walk Wearable Is Helping Parkinson’s Patients Regain Confidence While Walking Inspiration
The Better India 14 hours ago

How Walk Wearable Is Helping Parkinson’s Patients Regain Confidence While Walking

When Amey Desai's grandfather was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, a question the young engineer had long been...

‘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...