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Ploum | Why there's no European Google?

While the US focuses on proprietary monopolies like Google or Gopher, Europe has historically pioneered the foundational, open-source infrastructure of the digital worldโ€”such as the Web (HTML/HTTP) and Linuxโ€”which are treated as common goods that benefit all of humanity.

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aeon | Wind keepers

A breezy ode to wind ponders its power, beauty and utility.

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Loudwire | The Best Rock Song of Each Year Since 1970

What's the the best rock song of each year since 1970? That's over 50 years of great rock music and the Loudwire Staff has gone through year by year and picked out the rock songs that exemplified the best that rock had to offer, year by year.

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Ars Technica | These 60,000-year-old poison arrows are oldest yet found

Archaeologists have discovered chemical traces of plant-based poison on 60,000-year-old quartz arrowheads from the Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter in South Africa, making them the oldest direct evidence of poisoned projectiles ever found and pushing back the use of toxic weaponry deep into the Pleistocene.

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FSF | Free Software Foundation receives historic private donations

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced it received two major contributions totaling around $900,000 USD.

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BBC | We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years

Christmas is often regarded as a time for goodwill, but one young UK couple's act of kindness 50 years ago changed their lives forever.

On 23 December 1975, Rob Parsons and his wife Dianne were preparing for Christmas at their Cardiff home when they heard a knock at the door.

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The Guardian | The 20 best podcasts of 2025

Can Bill Nighy solve your life problems? Why are comedians moonlighting as detectives? And what happens when an AI steals your heart? This year's most addictive podcasts โ€ฆ

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LA Review of Books | Isengard in Oxford

For Tolkien, the paragon of paradise seems to have been a rural village around the time of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.

But he also knows that mankind's impulse to develop is something we cannot help. And the inevitable blowback we get from our hubris is something we cannot avoid.

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YouTube Blog | Hollywood's biggest night is coming to YouTube

Beginning in 2029, the Oscarsยฎ will broadcast exclusively on YouTube for free globally and on YouTube TV in the U.S., plus feature red carpet coverage, behind-the-scenes content, and Governors Ball access.

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Wes Cecil | The Germans: Schopenhauer

An exploration of the life, philosophy and influence of Schopenhauer. This lecture, the third in my series covering German thinkers, was presented by Wesley Cecil PhD at Peninsula College.

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neal.fun | Size of Life

From DNA to Neuron to Ladybug to Woolly Mammoth to Blue Whale.


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