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AstraZeneca’s cancer pursuits get a showcase at ESMO
Andrew covers the biopharma industry, scientific research, and public health across the continent. You can reach Andrew confidentially…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #AstraZeneca #Cancer #drugdevelopment #Pharmaceuticals #STAT+
https://www.europesays.com/britain/151206/
NFL Insider Confirms ‘Aggressive’ Bears Have Begun Pursuit of Khalil Mack Trade
As Chicago Bears fans dream of a potential Khalil Mack reunion, it appears the team is has already…
#NFL #LosAngelesChargers #LosAngeles #Chargers #Football
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NFL Insider Confirms ‘Aggressive’ Bears Have Begun Pursuit of Khalil Mack Trade https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/1037568/ #Chargers #Football #LosAngeles #LosAngelesChargers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesChargers #NFL
NFL Insider Confirms ‘Aggressive’ Bears Have Begun Pursuit of Khalil Mack Trade https://www.rawchili.com/5134189/ #NFL
Statement issued as teenage boy dies in horror crash after police pursuit
Perth teen charged after alleged 40-minute high-speed police pursuit across northern suburbs
A teenager is facing a string of serious charges after allegedly leading police on a wild 40-minute pursuit…
#Australia #Perth #crime #news #wanews
https://www.europesays.com/australia/128468/
https://www.europesays.com/ch/149646/ The pursuit of precision in timekeeping #Article #BeatHistory #Multi #ProductionTypeAdaptation #Society #Swiss #Switzerland #Technology(general)
Why would anyone run 170 kilometres? My answer might surprise you
Simon’s pursuit of dopamine led to drug and alcohol addiction. Then he found another extreme way of chasing it.
I used to spend my weekends on cocaine. Now I spend them running ultramarathons
Simon’s pursuit of dopamine led to drug and alcohol addiction. Then he found another extreme way of chasing it.
https://www.europesays.com/britain/151206/ AstraZeneca’s cancer pursuits get a showcase at ESMO #AstraZeneca #Cancer #DrugDevelopment #Pharmaceuticals #STAT+
🏒🥅 🏆 🇨🇦 What I noticed, watching the Habs last year: relentless pursuit of the puck in the O-zone. Result: offensive possession, leading to goals. The series against the Hurricanes underlined how important this to winning.
“Out of necessity, Phillip Danault, Zack Bolduc and Alexandre Texier emerged as a serious possession line, one that controlled play in the offensive zone, created chances, took care of the puck and made responsible decisions. It has become a line that, in many ways, defines how the Canadiens would like to play collectively.”
Autism, Masking, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Complicated Cost of Hiding Who You Are
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/not-that-different/202610/autism-masking-and-the-pursuit-of-happiness
Psychology Today examines masking among autistic individuals - the strategy of suppressing neurodivergent traits in social settings - and the complicated relationship many have with a practice that bo
#wellness #mental-health #autism
Jewish Currents shows how Mike Rogers is trying to use racism to scare Jewish & black voters with one progressive calling this “a strategy of racial arson designed to fuel suspicion and hate within the Democratic coalition.”
https://jewishcurrents.org/in-michigan-mike-rogers-is-stoking-jewish-fear-in-pursuit-of-a-senate-seat?fbclid=Iwb21leAVJne1jbGNrBUmcvGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHBkb2YFc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeaaJCCTPH8PxhoJYGUQ97fKjVjHSsgHZubhmAzwh_kCiqJVCGyn_SNZbfYMA_aem_shfPuiAnGAg33J-SVRZ49Q
Psychology Today examines masking among autistic individuals - the strategy of suppressing neurodivergent traits in social settings - and the complicated relationship many have with a practice that bo #wellness #mental-health #autism
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Chapter 4.3: Artifact
الفصل الرابع: قطعة أثرية
These pendants were created many hundreds of years ago, commissioned by two women who were friends and lived together in the Middle East.
Their inspiration was Hypatia of Alexandria, the famous female philosopher.
Following her example, the two friends devoted their lives to the pursuit of wisdom.
Their home became a gathering place and a refuge for women seeking spiritual purity, who were dissatisfied with ordinary worldly life.
From generation to generation, the pendants were passed on to the most deserving women of this community.
All of them had died long ago, and the jewelry was discovered in an abandoned building and handed over to a London antique dealer.
This gold is pure. By touching it, you will not be defiled, but will gain strength and enlightenment.
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في عالم أي كتاب سيكون العيش فيه أسوأ ما يمكن؟
substance addiction , which is the most common type, and includes dependence on chemical substances that change mood and thinking, such as drugs like hashish, heroin, and cocaine, or drinking and using alcohol.
Addiction in the lives of young people
Addiction is the continuous practice of a certain activity and the psychological and physical inability to stop practicing this activity, which leads to obsession or what is called the compulsive pursuit of the possibility of accessing something specific, such as using a certain substance or drug like illegal drugs or chemical drugs, or through practicing a certain activity or habit on a daily and continuous basis until the person’s life becomes dependent on this habit, and he is unable to leave it despite the fact that it causes many physical, psychological and health problems and damages.
Islam has taken care to preserve the five essentials of man: religion, intellect, honor, wealth, and life. The addict, in any form, destroys these five things through his addiction. He has violated religion when he disobeyed his Lord, destroyed his intellect when he covered it with the vices he drank, and wasted the wealth that God bestowed upon him on things that do not benefit but rather harm. As for honor and life: how much honor has been lost! And how many lives have been taken because of alcohol addiction and other things! God Almighty said regarding the preservation of these necessities: “ O Prophet, when believing women come to you, pledging allegiance to you that they will not associate anything with God, nor steal, nor commit adultery, nor kill their children, nor bring forth false accusations which they fabricate between their hands and feet, nor disobey you in what is right – then accept their pledge and ask forgiveness for them from God. Indeed, God is Forgiving and Merciful .” [Al-Mumtahanah: 12]
In this great verse, the five necessities are mentioned: the preservation of religion, as God Almighty says: “ They shall not associate anything with God ,” the preservation of life, as God Almighty says: “ They shall not kill their children , ” the preservation of lineage, as God Almighty says: “ They shall not commit adultery ,” the preservation of wealth, as God Almighty says: “ They shall not steal ,” and the preservation of intellect, because whoever does this has a sound and correct intellect, and whoever does the opposite has a corrupt and wicked intellect.
Al-Ghazali, may God have mercy on him, said in his book (Al-Mustasfa): “The purpose of the Sharia for creation is five: to preserve for them their religion, their lives, their minds, their offspring, and their wealth. Everything that includes preserving these five principles is a benefit, and everything that deprives these principles is a harm, and repelling it is a benefit.”
Addiction can be broadly divided into two types:
The first: substance addiction , which is the most common type, and includes dependence on chemical substances that change mood and thinking, such as drugs like hashish, heroin, and cocaine, or drinking and using alcohol.
Second: Behavioral addiction; which is dependence on certain behaviors or activities, such as: internet and electronic games addiction, gambling addiction, shopping addiction, or work addiction.
The heritage of ancient civilizations contains many traces that indicate human knowledge of addiction, especially alcohol and narcotics. Traces have been found in the form of inscriptions on temple walls, writings on Egyptian papyrus, or oral legends passed down through generations about the use of alcohol and narcotics.
Islam has forbidden the drinking of alcohol because of the great harm it causes to the individual and society, such as hindering people from remembering God and from prayer, and disrupting people’s interests, and in order to protect society from the harm and crimes that may be committed by an alcoholic. Such as murder, theft, and assaulting people. God Almighty said in Surah Al-Ma’idah: { O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing on] stone altars [to other than God], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful .} [Al-Ma’idah: 90]. And God Almighty said in the same Surah: { Satan only wants to cause between you animosity and hatred through intoxicants and gambling and to avert you from the remembrance of God and from prayer. So will you not be afflicted with sin?} You will be stopped . [Al-Ma’idah: 91]
Swift, agile, and remarkably precise, this compact raptor can burst from cover in an instant to seize unsuspecting prey.
Unlike eagles that soar high overhead, Shikras (Tachyspiza badia) are ambush hunters. They often wait patiently on a concealed perch before launching a rapid, low-level chase through trees and buildings.
Their short, rounded wings and long tail allow them to weave effortlessly through dense vegetation in pursuit of birds, lizards, rodents, and large insects.
Okay, I promised some bashing, but in the end, I think I'm going to have a more nuanced opinion.
Jonah Goldberg — Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy
Disclaimer: I don't know how this book ended up in my reading list, and I didn't know anything about it or the author. It wasn't hard to figure out soon after I've started reading, though. Still, some parts of it were quite interesting, particularly concerning the history of the USA, and for someone like me with near-zero knowledge of US politics, it certainly filled some gaps. But at times it's really tiresome, especially when the author straight insults the reader in case they disagree with him. Also note that I'm obviously biased here, so I may be misrepresenting.
The premise is roughly this: the human nature is inherently tribal. We haven't lived in a civilized society long enough to evolve out of it, and it takes hard work to suppress this nature. The birth of capitalism brought unprecedented progress and wealth to humankind: even the poorest people today have a higher standard of living than the rich of the past. Furthermore, combined with the unique American conditions, it gave birth to a true democracy, based on the principles of (economic) liberty and equality. And the pursuit of profits is key to tolerance. Of course, you may point out that it took quite a while before this "equality" actually lead to abolition of slavery and emancipation of women, but these things take time.
However, people haven't been appreciating this "Miracle". They have been reframing the U.S. past as a "system of oppression, exploitation, and white privilege". The progressives have been diminishing the role of traditional institutions, growing an administrative apparatus that's outside democratic vote and balances, and pursuing "identity politics". All this leads to return of tribal instincts, distrust of democracy, and growth of populism, and eventually the victory of Donald Trump whose goals do not really align with the principles of the Republican party.
So far for my summary. At least some of the points do make sense, even if I don't agree with the conclusions. Certainly the book can help picturing the political situation from the perspective of a conservative. But you can also see a lot of bias and selectivity.
There's a lot of praise of capitalism, but the only negative side briefly mentioned is that its "creative destruction" can unsettle communities. You hear about universities discriminating against "Asians, Jews, and whites" on the principle of diversity. Fortunately, the author decides to spare us from "all of the controversies over transgender bathrooms, bakers being
forced to make cakes for same-sex weddings, forcing the Marines to accept women, and the like". There's quite a list of how the administration grew under Democrats, but the periods of Republican governance are silently skipped.
Is it worth reading? Well, if you can stand it, then I suppose it's got some value. Perhaps I'm becoming more conservative after all.
“Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought… Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.”*…
Jacques-Louis David, The Tennis Court Oath, 1790-4 (source)Stephen Colbert once observed that “reality has a well-known liberal bias.” And indeed, liberalism— the political/moral philosophy rooted in individual liberty, consent of the governed, and equality before the law– has been a major ideology through modern times… and, of course, the major ideology animating the founding of the United States.
But as Easten European states turn to authoritarians, Western European nations wrestle with the rise of nationalist far-right parties, and the U.S. is “steered” by MAGA using Project 2025‘s “map,” there’s a concern that liberalism’s days may be past.
Persuasion is running a series of essays on “Liberal Virtues and Values.”
The series, made possible with the generous support of the John Templeton Foundation, will make the case that liberalism has its own distinctive set of virtues and values that are capable not only of responding to the dissatisfaction that drives authoritarianism, but also of restoring faith in liberalism as an ideology worth believing in—and defending—on its own terms.
The latest installment is from Martin Gurri, who argues that Liberalism needs a new foundation (and that how we handle AI will matter fundamentally)…
That liberal democracy is in a state of terminal decline I take to be beyond dispute. Like Alice in the rabbit hole, those of us who dwell in democratic societies suffer from a nauseating sense of falling without ever landing on solid ground. The usual suspects blamed for this tumble—populism, inequality, the economy—are mere surface symptoms of an internal breakdown. We have arrived at the conclusion of a world-historical cycle. Liberal democracy is the procedural embodiment of Enlightenment ideology—and after two centuries of dominance, that ideology has lost all purchase and stands utterly exhausted.
Radical alternatives confront us. Either we reorient our system to post-Enlightenment principles or we risk staggering into the nihilist’s paradise I have called the Endarkenment.
Enlightenment philosophers placed their faith in reason and science. These are purely critical disciplines: liberal propagandists wielded criticism like a scalpel to dissect conservative laggards and utopian revolutionaries alike. Once triumphant at the “end of history,” liberal democracy turned the knife on itself—a process of self-criticism and self-doubt that has shredded its own ideals to ribbons.
The positive values inherited from the Enlightenment—equality, individualism, compassion—were always parasitic on Christianity. But Christianity, like all religions, has no place in a universe ruled by reason and science. Nietzsche long ago brought us the troubling news: the Christian God is dead. Oblivious to the implications of this calamity, liberal democracy kept marching like a cartoon character over the edge of the abyss, until the laws of moral gravity asserted themselves. So began the Great Fall.
Criticism is a force for progress so long as there are blatant irrationalities, like slavery or Jim Crow discrimination, to overcome. But under the hammer of Enlightenment ideals, modern society has been flattened, centralized, and rationalized. Deprived of obvious superstitions to debunk and totalitarian rivals to defeat, liberal democracy has been revealed in all its internal contradictions.
One such contradiction, I contend, pits the cherished principle of equality against the chosen few who actually practice reason and science: let’s call this the problem of the elites.
A second contradiction finds freedom of the press and of opinion arrayed against the need to protect objective truth: call it the problem of information.
Finally, freedom of worship and the life of the spirit collide head-on with the materialist criticism favored by Enlightenment ideology: the problem of meaning.
Each of these contradictions could prove fatal to the democratic project, but none is insoluble, and the search for solutions offers an opportunity for renewal. While there are no guarantees, we could emerge from the crisis with a better understanding of the reach and limits of equality, a more transparent information sphere, and even, it may be, a rich infusion of the transcendental into everyday life…
[Gurri unpacks each of those contradictions…]
… So what is to be done?
The first, obvious step is to move the question to the center of our shared conversations. The most capacious thinkers of the age should contemplate first principles and ultimate goals with at least as much intensity as they invest in Donald Trump or the latest economic report. There’s nothing artificial about this. Science and reason are necessary for modernity. Meaning and moral aspiration are necessary for humanity. A balance must be struck that preserves the one and gives full weight to the other.
Materialism, we must understand, is a valuable perspective for science but not a realistic appraisal of the human condition. Scientists work as if on a geometric point, abstracted from nature and indifferent to its dispositions. In reality, however, we come from nature, we are of nature, and we are far from indifferent to our place in it. Our intuitions are internal to the system: humanity’s spiritual quest is, in every sense, nature reflecting on itself. One such intuition is agency—the belief that, at the crossroads, I am free to go right or left, and I alone make the choice. Another is faith in causation. These stances are irrational, or rather pre-rational, but without them liberal democracy as well as science itself would be impossible.
In the end, materialism is self-defeating. To say, “I choose to be a materialist” is to fall into an absurd fallacy. Either our bodies, which consist of matter, obey unchanging laws, or the mind, transcending matter, is capable of choice. There can be no middle ground.
Politics, in a metaphysical age, will resume its traditional place as a secondary activity—a means to an end. This will leave liberal democracy vulnerable to false prophets who are willing to trample on individual rights in pursuit of some apocalyptic scheme. The interesting question is whether the post-truth condition will make the peril greater or lesser. On the one hand, the lack of universal firewalls might make it easier for a fanatic to flood the system. Yet post-truth itself, I believe, is the strongest kind of firewall. In our fractured, eternally contested environment, the progress of any totalizing doctrine will be painfully slow. The quest for meaning and the struggle over frames of reference are, in the end, really one and the same.
We have inherited a rich and evocative spiritual vocabulary, but it belongs to a worldview thousands of years old. “King of kings,” to cite just one example, should sound archaic in a democratic age. Can we awaken the scientific world to the spirit? Is it possible to sanctify our largely instrumental relations? This shouldn’t entail a belief in fairies and goblins, or even necessarily in religion. Any good empiricist will admit that the richest human lives are lived symbolically. Can we climb the symbolic ladder to the mountaintop, where meaning and modern humanity come harmoniously together—anchoring, it may be, a loftier understanding of equality and social life, and of the sanctity of truth?
We won’t know until we try. Pessimism, let me suggest, is unwarranted. History moves in mysterious ways. We may be due for a second coming of historian Karl Jaspers’ “Axial Age”: preachers and philosophers who conceived a drastically updated transcendental vision, with the rational and the sacred, truth and meaning, reconciled with political freedom.
For 200 years, we placed society under the sway of universal principles. That’s gone with the wind. We have entered an era of radical contingency, in which even truth is indeterminate. The natural tendency is to retreat to the certainties of the past—but there’s no going back. If we hope to preserve the gains from Enlightenment society, and resolve its many contradictions, we’ll have to do so within a new and wildly unstable conceptual framework.
With the spell of the Enlightenment broken, liberal democracy will have to redefine what “created equal” means. This process could end in a rigid caste system, with the institutions in the hands of self-selected mandarins who wield the power of the state to impose their “solutions.” Preferably, and more likely given the thrust of the new technology, we’ll see a flattening of the institutions and the continued trampling by the public into the sacred spaces of politics and communication.
Equality, however understood, will be forged in the will of the citizenry rather than granted by a benevolent God. That will make it contingent like everything else, and so liable to variation and in constant need of defense. And if perfect equality is an impossible dream, eternal inequality requires impossible discipline. The current elite class, already under enormous pressure, may lose its cohesion and melt into the impermanence of the age, divided among the various schools and sects and frames of reference.
The structure of information will follow the definition of equality. The commanding heights will be control over AI. If AI development and deployment is a closed game, the elites could set themselves up as intermediaries in the oracle of an omniscient divinity. If AI is a competitive product, the public will gain the upper hand. In that case, we can expect a flowering of eccentric applications, the individualization of commerce and industry, and the final overthrow of the expert class. The information sphere will remain the mirror to our passions, divisions, and metaphysical longings. Freedom of speech, no longer “endowed by our Creator,” will become the battleground on which the question of equality is ultimately settled.
Here I finally reveal myself in my true colors. I’m an analyst. My task is to describe reality, and that’s what this essay is about. But I also lead an active life inside the world that I’m describing—and I have preferences. I see equality as a factor of opportunity, law, and human dignity, not of perfect outcomes. I think truth emerges from examining a subject from a large number of perspectives, even those that may seem disturbing or false. I hope that my story—as a person, a father, a grandfather—connects to other stories in the past and will connect to more in the future, in a pattern that is not entirely devoid of meaning. And I believe fervently in liberal democracy, because—born in Cuba—I have tasted the alternative.
The breakdown of Enlightenment ideology is only the latest challenge liberal democracy has faced in my lifetime. I’m not entitled, as an analyst, to downplay the perils ahead, but I’m allowed, as an American, to have faith that they will once again be overcome…
Eminently worth reading in full: “The Search for a Post-Enlightenment Democracy”
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As we renew, we might send free-thinking birthday greetings to Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (or as he’s usually called, Benjamin Constant); he was born on this date in 1767. A French political thinker, activist, and writer on political theory and religion (whose work influenced, among many others, Sir Isaiah Berlin), Constant was a committed republican from 1795, backing the coup d’état of 18 Fructidor in1797, and the following one on 18 Brumaire, in 1799. He became the leader of the Liberal opposition in 1800, during the Consulate. Constant fell out with Napoleon, and had to flee (first to Switzerland, then to Saxony). Nonetheless, after his return to France, Constant sided with the Emperor during the Hundred Days, drafting the Charter of 1815. He became politically active again during the Bourbon Restoration and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1818 (where he remained until his death in 1830). As the head of the Liberal opposition, known as Indépendants, Constant was one of the most notable orators in the Chamber, especially in his role as a proponent of the parliamentary system.
Portrait of Constant by Hercule de Roche, c. 1820 (source) #authoritarianism #BenjaminConstant #culture #democracy #Elites #Enlightenment #FrenchHistory #history #illiberalism #information #liberalism #MartinGurri #meaning #moralPhilosophy #Napoleon #philosophy #politicalPhilosophy #religion
OL #Lyonnes surclasse l'OM et poursuit son sans-faute en Première Ligue
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🔴 BREAKING: Meghan Markle has denied recent allegations concerning her father, calling them unfounded, while Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned against pursuing a “Truss‑style” budget, urging fiscal caution.
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