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It is like what we imagine knowledge to be:
dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free,
drawn from the cold hard mouth
of the world...
Grazie Manu #strategismosentimentale
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What is the most hidden yet effective way to mark inequality inheritance? For sociologist Xu Lingling, the answer is time.
In her new book, “The Time Inheritors,” released this year, Xu unpacks the way people use — and “misuse” — their time based on their class and family backgrounds. After nearly a decade of observing and interviewing over 100 students, administrators, and parents across the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong SAR, and the UK, she found a stark contrast between what she calls “inherited time wealth” and “debt.”
“Whether through the direct transfer of estates or the indirect transfer of social and cultural advantage at birth, time figures as a crucial and constant force of inequality,” Xu tells Sixth Tone.
sixthtone.com/news/1017810
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A hundred years ago, Virginia Woolf published her second most famous essay, “On Being Ill.” Written during a prolonged bout of illness the previous fall, Woolf asked why sickness—an unavoidable feature of human experience—is represented so rarely and inadequately in literature. “It becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love, battle, and jealousy among the prime themes of literature,” she wrote. Now Hermione Hoby writes, “The intervening century has qualified, if hardly refuted, the claim that sickness is neglected in fiction.” Hoby assesses how writers such as D. H. Lawrence, Albert Camus, Lena Dunham, and more have portrayed sickness in literature—and why we’re still struggling to put physical suffering into words: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/td…
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“There is a big picture that brings it all into relief and my hope is that we can increase empathy and understanding,” says 2026 medicine laureate Karl Deisseroth.
As a medical student, Deisseroth completed part of his training at a psychiatric clinic. He was struck by the patients’ suffering and their need for help. At the same time, he began to wonder how the brain could function so differently from one person to another.
Deisseroth was awarded this year's medicine prize, together with Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, for discoveries leading to optogenetics – a biological technique making it possible to switch the activity of individual nerve cells in a living brain on or off.
Optogenetics is now helping us understand more about how nerve cells shape memories, emotions and behaviour in the living brain.
Learn more about the 2026 medicine prize: bit.ly/4ru82ml
ALT Karl Deisseroth in a white shirt sits at a table, thoughtfully holding a model of a brain in one hand. Photo by Christopher Michel.
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Elizabeth Bishop died on this day in 1979, having given us one of the greatest poems ever written. The true love story behind it: themarginalian.org/2026/07/0…
This is utterly disgraceful.
An entitled & over-paid senior management team destroyed a University with property mismanagement
Modern Languages, Music and American & Canadian Studies are closed down at Nottingham
Very sad for all the staff losing their jobs
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmly…
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Nottingham was 6th for modern languages in the 2021 REF and is the only university in East Midlands providing language courses. The closure of an objectively brilliant department by a Russell Group university raises questions about the 2015 decision to uncap student numbers and leave UK HE provision entirely to market forces timeshighereducation.com/new…
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The greatest danger facing economics is not ideology masquerading as science, writes @cacrisalves. It is the belief that science can progress by focusing only on observable facts, while failing to examine the structures that shape them. project-syndicate.org/commen…
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Research Practice Seminars are back ✍🏼
In the seminars we explore the creative, critical, ethical, political or methodological aspects of research as a practice
Thurs 12-2pm incl 🥪
Check our website or join the seminar mailing list to receive readings bit.ly/3LYjCFL
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me, pretending to follow the nobel committee's explanation of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin
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Check out our free access article of the week, ‘From romance to rocket science: speed dating in higher education’... bit.ly/tJwoaE