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The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study... Inspiration
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The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study...

Jeanne Villepreux-Power walked more than 300 kilometers to Paris at seventeen after being assaulted and robbed of her papers en route - and kept walking anyway, a seamstress who would eventually become the scientist who solved a mystery that had baffled naturalists since...

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Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life – the Marginalian
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What We Misunderstand About Absent Fathers
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How My Daughter and I Connected Over the Knicks
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How Colorado Hospitals Are Caring for Pregnant Patients with Substance Use Disorders by Overcoming Stigma
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The Meaning of Maturity: Ursula K. Le Guin on What It Really Takes to Grow up – the Marginalian Inspiration
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The Meaning of Maturity: Ursula K. Le Guin on What It Really Takes to Grow up – the Marginalian

Ursula K. Le Guin understood growing up not as a shedding of former selves but as their integration - each prior...

How My Daughter and I Connected Over the Knicks Sports
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How My Daughter and I Connected Over the Knicks

When a father texts back and forth with his twelve-year-old daughter about a basketball comeback neither of them...

'He's Got Family now': Strangers Unite to Honor Navy Veteran's Unaccompanied Burial - Concord Monitor Community
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'He's Got Family now': Strangers Unite to Honor Navy Veteran's Unaccompanied Burial - Concord Monitor

A Navy veteran who might have been buried alone instead found himself surrounded by strangers who chose to show up -...

Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life – the Marginalian Inspiration
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Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life – the Marginalian

Standing in a public square in Saint Petersburg in 1849, twenty-seven-year-old Fyodor Dostoyevsky believed he had...

Why Poland Named a Square After India's 'Good Maharaja' Who Saved Polish Children in Wwii Inspiration
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Why Poland Named a Square After India's 'Good Maharaja' Who Saved Polish Children in Wwii

In 1941, when a ship carrying hundreds of displaced Polish children arrived in Mumbai with nowhere to go, it was an...

How Reflective Roof Paint Is Cooling Homes Across Africa | the Optimist Daily Environment
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How Reflective Roof Paint Is Cooling Homes Across Africa | the Optimist Daily

When researchers set out to evaluate existing heat adaptation programs across Africa, they found none - so they built...