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In 2007 China had about 1,700 museums attracting some 250m visits per year. Since then the number has more than quadrupled to 7,000, while annual visits are up nearly six-fold to 1.5bn. economist.com/china/2025/12/…

Il mais è povero di due amminoacidi essenziali, la licina e il triptofano, e se non mangiato in compagnia di altri cibi (i legumi, appunto) causava la pellagra, la famosa malattia delle tre D, demenza, diarrea, dermatite. NOCI D’INGANNO tinyurl.com/2c3h2qgn

Penso che le archeostazioni siano l’esatto opposto di ciò che una metropolitana dovrebbe essere – cioè un mezzo per spostarsi da un punto A a un punto B nel minor tempo possibile. UN METRÒ IMPERIALE tinyurl.com/2asesyf3

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Trump signs executive order to promote "beautiful federal civic architecture" dezeen.com/2025/01/21/trump-… via @dezeen

The president has many supporters in that effort, who see crime in Washington and other urban areas as a dire problem that requires federal intervention because, cities have not done enough to address it, even though violent crime rates in many of them have been on the decline.

They are simply a return to an older, more relational model of higher education. The University’s Best Weapon Against A.I.: The 14th Century nytimes.com/2025/08/26/opini… via @NYTOpinion

Eliminating federal funding for the humanities it will cost the American people something precious: one of the few federal institutions whose purpose is to foster community and thoughtful discussion across the polarities that divide us. nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opini… via @NYTOpinion

The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces | Media Matters for America mediamatters.org/google/righ…

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Professors aren’t in classrooms to entice students to share their ideology; they are there to challenge students to grapple with how much more there is to learn about any issue that really matters. nytimes.com/2024/09/02/opini… via @NYTOpinion

we will miss his steady leadership, deep empathy and fighting spirit. nytimes.com/2024/07/23/opini…

Joe Biden should be proud of his accomplishments. But without diminishing those achievements, historians in their assessments of Biden’s presidency and paraphrase what Shakespeare wrote in Macbeth: Nothing became his presidency like the leaving of it. nytimes.com/live/2024/07/09/…

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It’s strange to dream of writing when it’s one thing, then come of age when it’s something totally different nytimes.com/2024/06/27/books…

One of the tragedies of the human condition is that we use our big brains not to make rational decisions, but rather to rationalize the decisions we’ve already made. nytimes.com/2024/07/03/opini…