top of the heap to third world status in one generation

[Gry]

My father was famous as John le Carré. My mother was his crucial, covert collaborator





Nick Cornwell was one of few people who got to witness the collaboration between his mother Jane and father David, who wrote as le Carré


https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...-covert-collaborator?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

American Special Ops Forces Are Everywhere

They’ve become a major military player—and maybe a substitute for strategic thinking.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...o-everything/618080/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

Scientists may have solved ancient mystery of 'first computer'

Researchers claim breakthrough in study of 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism, an astronomical calculator found in sea

https://www.theguardian.com/science...ntikythera-mechanism?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

How Ida Holdgreve’s Stitches Helped the Wright Brothers Get Off the Ground

In 1910, Orville and Wilbur Wright hired an Ohio seamstress, who is only now being recognized as the first female worker in the American aviation industry
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

Growing an Ounce of Pot Indoors Can Emit as Much Carbon as Burning a Full Tank of Gas

In some parts of the United States, the growing cannabis industry is responsible for significant greenhouse gas emissions

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...-much-carbon-burning-full-tank-gas-180977240/

 

[Gry]

Dozens of Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Found in Israeli Cave

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...croll-fragments-decades-found-cave-180977251/

 

[Gry]

How narco traffic changed the country

The Cocaine Kings of the Pittsburgh Pirates


https://getpocket.com/explore/item/t...=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

Find myself thinking a great deal about the difference between social security and insurance, and who reaps the benefits

 

[Gry]

What Coffee-Brewing Method Makes the Best-Tasting Cup?


I thought I knew everything. Then I went to Italy.


https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...clear-and-surprising?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

How Do They Dye the Chicago River Green for St. Patrick’s Day?

Neat process

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/h...=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

Israel’s Dangerous Precedent in Syria


https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-israel-s-dangerous-precedent-in-syria-1.9621721

 

[Gry]

How Humble Moss Healed the Wounds of Thousands in World War I

The same extraordinary properties that make this plant an “ecosystem engineer” also helped save human lives


https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scie...s-helped-heal-wounds-thousands-WWI-180963081/

 

[Gry]

The World Is Stuck With Decades of New Plastic It Can't Recycle

We've been hoodwinked into thinking recycling is a solution.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...tic-it-can-t-recycle?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

The Common Genius of Lincoln and Einstein

The president and the physicist teach us a lesson about moral genius.


https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...lincoln-and-einstein?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

Growing Up With Steve Miller <---- A heart melting story

In 2007, the man who topped the charts with ‘The Joker’ and ‘Rock’n Me’ took a thirteen-year-old guitarist and would-be songwriter under his wing. More than a decade later, he’s still teaching me lessons on how to be an adult.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/growing-up-with-steve-miller?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

Misplaced loyalty

'the child, it should be remembered, always defends the bad parent more ferociously than the good'.

 

[mowood3479]

The Common Genius of Lincoln and Einstein

The president and the physicist teach us a lesson about moral genius.


https://getpocket.com/explore/item/t...=pocket-newtab

The moral genius to conscript (enslave) an entire army army for a war of aggression getting 360,000 enslaved soldiers killed.. I dOnT tHiNk iT gEtS mOrE mOrAl tHaN tHaT
lincoln was a tyrant.

 

[Gry]

This can be the most beautiful and wonderful life. Lost a dear friend last night.
I watched her struggle magnificently to improve the quality of life for others.

 

[Gry]

The Crow Whisperer

https://harpers.org/archive/2021/04...nimal-communicators/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

Mud Morganfield Howling Wolf
Oldest son of Muddy Waters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTurW-r7a6Q

Bless Pacifica Radio