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The Sorrows of Young Werther at 250: Goethe’s dangerous romantic hero influenced fashion, fiction – and Napoleon

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

The Conversation

Revealing the long-lost secrets of the real First World War – more than 3,000 years ago

How archaeologists are investigating a major European battle fought over 32 centuries ago

The Independent UK

Is Nostr an Antidote to Social Media Censorship?

What if there was a social media platform owned not by Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, or the Chinese Communist Party, but by everybody and nobody all at once?

Reason

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Typography glossary – an A-Z of type terms

Discover all the type terms you need to know with this ultimate type glossary.

Creative Bloq

Back in the USSR? Malcolm Knox’s dark comedy leans into the ridiculous

Fans of Soviet history and/or the 2017 comedy film, The Death of Stalin, will remember Levrentiy Pavlovich Beria as the ruthless would-be successor to a certain General Secretary left lying on the floor in a puddle of his own urine following a stroke because, as historian Simon Sebag Montefiore puts…

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Tasmanian tiger: Facts about the extinct thylacine

Discover interesting facts about where the Tasmanian tiger lived, what it ate, why and when it went extinct, and whether we could ever bring one back.

LiveScience

5.5 million years ago the Mediterranean dried out, with sobering lessons for humanity today – new research

What would happen if humans dried out the Mediterranean sea, turning it into a giant salt lake? Would its wildlife survive, and if so, how long would it take to recover?

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The Nuremberg Code isn’t just for prosecuting Nazis − its principles have shaped medical ethics to this day

After World War II, Nuremberg, Germany, was the site of trials of Nazi officials charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Nuremberg trials were landmarks in the development of international law. But one of them has also been applied in peacetime: the “Medical Trial,” which has helped to…

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France has a long history of using islands as prisons – and not just in distant colonial outposts

France is surrounded by over 100 islands. These days, many of the islands are popular tourist destinations, providing the opportunity for sun-soaked holidays on sandy beaches or an escape from the bustle of the mainland.

The Conversation

What is mental imagery? Brain researchers explain the pictures in your mind and why they’re useful

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

The Conversation

France remembers heroic liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation, 80 years ago

France commemorates on Sunday the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Paris from German Nazi occupation, nine months before the end of World War II. RFI looks at what's being remembered and how.

Radio France Internationale

The mystic and the mathematician: What the towering 20th-century thinkers Simone and André Weil can teach today’s math educators

Like most mathematicians, I hear confessions from complete strangers: the inevitable “I was always bad at math.” I suppress the response, “You are forgiven, my child.”

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Gail’s comes under fire after customers told to pay £1 extra for day-old croissants

‘The day-old croissants are sturdier than fresh ones, making them the perfect bake’

The Independent UK

A post-pandemic novel with a fairy tale twist, Julia Phillips’ Bear is a harrowing story of economic hardship

With her second novel Bear, Julia Phillips consolidates her position as a leading novelist of the cartographic margins.

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The greatest poet who never lived – Ern Malley at 80

Eighty years ago, an exciting new poet was published in the modernist literary journal Angry Penguins. Of course, we all know now that Ern Malley was a hoax, so it can be easy to overlook just how blindsided Max Harris, Angry Penguins’ precocious young editor, must have been.

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What makes a book a bestseller? It’s tricky

It is a truth generally acknowledged that authors and publishers want their books to become bestsellers. Bestseller lists, especially those published in prestigious media outlets, such the New York Times, or publishing industry magazines are important marketing tools for publishers, and useful selection tools for booksellers, librarians and readers.

The Conversation

Why is an ultimate goal called a ‘Holy Grail?’

For decades, winning an Olympic medal has been described as the Holy Grail of sports.

The Conversation

Remembering the longest journey to Auschwitz – the deportation of Rhodes’ Jews decimated a small but vibrant community with centuries of Mediterranean history

In the Old Town of Rhodes, a picturesque tourist destination in the Aegean Sea, stands a monument to a dark period in the island’s past. In the former “Djuderia,” the Jewish quarter, a marble obelisk commemorates the deportation of the island’s small but vibrant Sephardic Jewish community to Auschwitz-Birkenau on…

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Climate change: why is there still a gap between public opinion and scientific consensus, and how can we close it?

As children, many of us played the “telephone” game – a message is whispered from one person to the next, invariably getting distorted as it passes along the line. In this game, people’s perception and understanding matters more than the original message, but as the US Secretary of Defence James…

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How do you read a poem? Embrace the sound, the strangeness and the ambiguity

A word is dead When it is said, Some say, I say it just Begins to live That day. – Emily Dickinson If someone asked you how you felt and you said you had “a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling was the light of setting…

Reason

The Real Economic Catastrophe Will Be Caused by the U.S. Debt

Should we blame Biden and the politicians applauding him for their unwillingness to address our looming fiscal disaster?

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Menstrual cycle is a vital sign and important indicator of overall health − 2 reproductive health experts explain

“When was your last period?”

LiveScience

32 important scientists you've probably never heard of

These scientists may be lesser known than Einstein and Newton, but they made giant contributions to science, including astronomy, physics, chemistry and medicine.

Radio France Internationale

German president seeks forgiveness in Poland on 80th anniversary of Warsaw uprising

During the 80th anniversary observance of the Warsaw Uprising on Wednesday, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier sought forgiveness from the Polish people. He emphasized that Germans must always remember the immense suffering inflicted on Poland by their nation.

The Conversation

Jewish summer camps have been evolving for a century − but 2024 is a summer like no other

In 1902, 10-year-old Isidore Itzkowitz accepted a scholarship to attend an overnight camp in upstate New York. “Izzy,” an orphan raised by his grandmother in a dingy tenement-house basement, fit the profile of children the Educational Alliance, a settlement house, was looking to help. The animating idea of its camp…

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