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2024 was another busy year for the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. As a way of reflecting on this past year and looking forward to the next, we are here sharing some new resources as well as past memories. Happy 2025!
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A recent article presented one possibility if humans were to go extinct: the eight-legged octopus might somehow evolve to take our place as earth’s next “big species.”
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Nazi symbols were spray-painted on the wall of a synagogue in Sydney’s inner west overnight, the second to be vandalised in as many days.
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The UN Human Rights Committee has asked Australia to provide compensation to the victims and to ensure similar violations do not recur.
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It’s a grey November day in Florida, and it’s raining softly on the roof of a car. In it, an overweight man has been sitting in the driver’s seat weeping intermittently. He is about to eat the viral spicy chicken sandwich from Popeyes, which he has spent some time brandishing at the camera through his tears. After a minute or so of hysterical, choppily edited monologing, an outside distraction proves a further breaking point. “I’m just so upset… AND THERE’S A LADY BEHIND ME FEEDING CATS. SHE’S FEEDING THE STRAY CATS… STOP FEEDING THE CATS. STOP FEEDING THE CAAAATS!”
So goes the abridged version of the beginning of “meltdown in my car”, one of the most iconic videos from one of YouTuber Nikocado Avocado’s many, many monetized low points. From a meme standpoint, he could be defined as the most famous YouTube “Mukbanger”—a video genre originating in South Korea where a person films themselves consuming large amounts of food for an online audience.
It’s important to get out of your comfort zone every now and again. If you never did, you would never grow as a person. You certainly don’t have to go skydiving, but little things here and there can create the same effect. You might never discover your burgeoning poetic prowess if you never attended that poetry open mic you were apprehensive about. Sometimes we get nervous about things because we know they will matter to us, and we don’t want to mess it up. If you had never shown up to that pick-up pickleball game, even though you’re insecure about your swing, you would never have met your wife (who graciously gave you some tips). We would miss out on all kinds of life stuff if we only went places where we were 100% comfortable.
But it’s up to you where you draw the line on how far you will push yourself. For example, I would go to a silent dinner party if a friend invited me, but I wouldn’t go bungee jumping by myself.
SACRAMENTO, CA — Governor Gavin Newsom neatly addressed California’s wildfire problem earlier today by announcing that fire will finally be outlawed in California.
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LONDON — Public outrage over the scandal related to allegations of ongoing abuse of children intensified in the United Kingdom this week as a nationwide grooming gang voted not to investigate itself.
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I only have one life and one chance to use it for something…I am free to choose what that something is, and that something I have chosen is my faith. Now my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands—and this is not optional—that I do all I […]
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Read MoreThe colorful, spiky stars
are in the foreground of this image taken with a small telescope
on planet Earth
Saint Angela of Foligno was a wife and mother who had little interest in the spiritual life until about age 40. After her husband and children died, Angela entered the Secular Franciscans, spending the rest of her life in prayer and service.
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Humoristic cartoon from Puck on the establishment of diplomatic relations between Greece and Persia. In 499 BC, the Persian Achaemenid Empire tried unsuccessfully to conquer various ancient Greek city-states. Finally in 449 BC a de facto peace was concluded and the Greco-Persian Wars effectively ended, but the two sides refused to have any relations. In 1902, Mozaffar ad-Din Shah of Persia and George I of Greece agreed to de jure recognition and after 2393 years established diplomatic relations.
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Avalanche network activity flashes mixed signals as transaction growth remains strong, but network liquidity takes a hit.
Nakdu Yadav, a former gangster, successfully evaded the law by assuming a new identity and working as a home guard for 35 years in UP. At age 57, his secret was exposed by his nephew, leading to his arrest and subsequent investigation into how he avoided detection for so long.
Read MoreThe 23-year-old is recovering in hospital after being lost in the Australian Alps for 13 days.
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Stronger U.S. job openings data and the year’s largest liquidation event drive a crypto market downturn. Investors brace for more volatility ahead.
“As a young college student, it was the first time I ever faced [this situation], and it buckled me. It set me back until I realized that I could do it and that my worth wasn’t based on what someone else thought of me or my abilities…If I had pulled myself out of that STEM major, I would never have been managing a technology demonstration program for NASA that launched ten technologies into space.”
– Tawnya Plummer Laughinghouse, Director of the Materials and Processes Laboratory, Engineering Directorate, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
[RFI] M23 rebels are establishing control over key mineral-rich territories in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), United Nations experts have warned.
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[VOA] Juba — South Sudan announced early this week its plan to produce at least 90,000 barrels of crude oil per day as the country resumes normal production. This comes after oil supply to international markets were cut off last February because of the ongoing conflict in Sudan.
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ROME – Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was briefly wrongfooted by a surprise question about ants on Thursday when she faced a grilling by Italian and foreign reporters lasting more than two hours.
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Russia has launched more than 51,000 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine since the start of its full-blown invasion nearly three years ago, the Ukrainian air force said on Thursday.
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The sky is our window to the Universe. Looking up allows us to get informed about our cosmic roots. A lot has happened over the past 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang. At the beginning, there was a nearly uniform soup of elementary particles. But it is sometimes the unimpressive kid in the back of the class that dominates the future. For the cosmos, this unimpressive ingredient was the slight density nonuniformities in the primordial soup. These ended up seeding the gravitational collapse of galaxies, inside of which gas fragmented into stars like the Sun with planets like the…
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Read MoreOperating profit rose 7% to ¥157.6 billion for the three months ended November from a year earlier, with sales increasing to ¥895.2 billion.
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A delegation from the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito is set to visit China from Monday through Wednesday
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Arvind Kejriwal denied BJP claims that he would contest from multiple constituencies in the Delhi assembly elections, stating he will contest from only one. BJP leader Parvesh Verma accused Kejriwal of seeking alliances due to diminishing support. Kejriwal announced TMC’s support for AAP as Verma dismissed the INDIA alliance, labeling its members corrupt.
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