Catching up and I got to kill loads of tabs, therefore I will just post the links and headlines...
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The banana is dying. The race is on to reinvent it before it’s too late
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/cavendish-banana-extinction-gene-editing
Some fairy tales may be 6000 years old
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/some-fairy-tales-may-be-6000-years-old
British Army starts recruiting for revived Monuments Men unit to protect art and archaeology in war
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/11/british-army-starts-recruiting-revived-monuments-men-unit-protect
Dr. Gabor Maté – Trauma, Addiction, & The Use Of Psychedelics
http://ultimatehealthpodcast.com/dr-gabor-mate/
Capitalism Makes us Crazy: Dr Gabor Maté on Illness & Addiction
https://www.radioproject.org/2013/05/capitalism-makes-us-crazy-gabor-mate-on-illness-addiction/
Reality Is Just a Bunch of Hallucinations We Collectively Agree On
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xjbn3/consciousness-is-just-a-bunch-of-hallucinations-we-collectively-agree-on
Naomi Klein: We’ve Entered a Frightening New Era of Capitalism
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/naomi-klein-weve-entered-a-frightening-new-era-of-capitalism/
Why European Islam’s current problems might reflect a 100-year-old mistake
https://www.economist.com/erasmus/2016/07/26/why-european-islams-current-problems-might-reflect-a-100-year-old-mistake
My Great-Grandfather the Bundist
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/10/06/my-great-grandfather-the-bundist/
‘I spent seven years fighting to survive’: Chelsea Manning on whistleblowing and WikiLeaks
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/07/chelsea-manning-wikileaks-whistleblowing-interview-carole-cadwalladr
The Myth of the Lazy Nonvoter
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/05/opinion/midterm-election-voter-turnout-photo-id.html
Erik Prince, in Kabul, pushes privatization of the Afghan war
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/erik-prince-in-kabul-pushes-privatization-of-the-afghan-war/2018/10/04/72a76d36-c7e5-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html
Caring for Gaza’s stray cats ‘with all the money we had left’
https://www.middleeasteye.net/in-depth/features/palestinians-gaza-start-projects-rescue-stray-cats-316949850
The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/redemption-court/566963
What would cities look like if they were designed by mothers?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/27/architects-diversity-cities-designed-mothers
Flawed reporting on antisemitism claims against the Labour party
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/30/flawed-reporting-on-antisemitism-claims-against-the-labour-party
Neil deGrasse Tyson: A Celebrity Salesman for the Military-Industrial-Complex
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/14/neil-degrasse-tyson-a-celebrity-salesman-for-the-military-industrial-complex/
U.S.-led forces appear to be using white phosphorus in populated areas in Iraq and Syria
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/06/09/u-s-led-forces-appear-to-be-using-white-phosphorous-in-populated-areas-in-iraq-and-syria
Why Was Monty Python Anti-Zionist Scene Cut From The Life Of Brian?
https://rebelvoice.blog/2017/08/18/why-was-monty-python-anti-zionist-scene-cut-from-the-life-of-brian/
Walmart Patented a Cart That Reads Your Pulse and Temperature
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xjeg4/walmart-patented-a-cart-that-reads-your-pulse-and-temperature
Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals
– Martin Lukacs
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/true-north/2017/jul/17/neoliberalism-has-conned-us-into-fighting-climate-change-as-individuals
The New York Times Bombshell That Bombed
And what the Grey Lady can still do to find an audience for its Trump tax story.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/09/new-york-times-trump-taxes-221144
The truths that won’t be heard
A never-shown Al Jazeera documentary on the pro-Israel lobby in the United States reveals possibly illegal Israeli spying on American citizens, and the lobby’s fear of a changing political mood.
https://mondediplo.com/2018/09/02israel-lobby
Sex with Neanderthals helped modern humans survive, says study
https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/sex-with-neanderthals-helped-modern-humans-survive-says-study
FAMILY TREE: DNA study confirms Native Americans descended from a single ancestral group
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/family-tree-dna-study-confirms-native-americans-descended-single-ancestral-group/
Silicon Valley’s Keystone Problem: ‘A Monoculture of Thought’
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/technology/silicon-valleys-keystone-problem-a-monoculture-of-thought.html
Myth-busting the self-shredding Banksy painting
https://boingboing.net/2018/10/09/myth-busting-the-self-shreddin.html