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Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back by Oliver Bullough

Join the investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a journey into Moneyland - the secret country of the lawless, stateless superrich.
Learn how the institutions of Europe and the United States have become money-laundering operations, undermining the foundations of Western stability.

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Proactive policing

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-17/nsw-police-shot-western-sydney-man-bradley-balzan-inquest/103592578

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Asperger Syndrome and Psychotherapy: Understanding Asperger Perspectives by Paula Jacobsen

People with Asperger Syndrome (AS) understand and respond to the world in a very different way from people without this condition. The challenge for psychotherapists working with Asperger clients lies in setting aside their own preconceptions and learning to understand their client's perspective.

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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA’s next flagship astrophysics mission, set to launch by May 2027.

Once #Roman launches, it will allow astronomers to observe the universe like never before. In celebration of Black History Month, let’s get to know some Black scientists and engineers, past and present, whose contributions will allow Roman to make history.

https://www.tumblr.com/nasa/743419658577821696/black-scientists-and-engineers-past-and-present

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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Named after NASA’s first chief astronomer, the ‘mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,’ the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will have a field of view at least 100 times greater than Hubble, potentially measuring light from a billion galaxies in its lifetime.

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/

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In this map of a celestial hemisphere — compiled from data from the #eROSITA telescope — the colours reflect the wavelengths of X-rays. Hot gas haloes surrounding galaxy clusters have broad-band emissions (white), as do black holes (white dots); diffuse emissions have long wavelengths (red); and in the central regions of the Milky Way, dust blocks longer-wavelength emissions, so that only short-wavelength X-rays are visible (blue or black).

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00489-8

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Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations

Extinction Studies focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. The volume opens up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world.

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Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World

This book explores the theme of violence, repression and atrocity in imperial and colonial empires, as well as its representations and memories, from the late eighteenth through to the twentieth century. It examines the wide variety of violent means by which colonies and empire were maintained in the modern era, the politics of repression and the violent structures inherent in empire.

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The Good Man of Nanking is a crucial document for understanding one of World War II's most horrific incidents of genocide, one which the Japanese have steadfastly refused to acknowledge. It is also the moving and awe-inspiring record of one man's conscience, courage, and generosity in the face of appalling human brutality.

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Good news stories of 2023 in Australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-31/2023-good-news-wrap-up/103269772

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Kawadji Wimpa dance team at the Laura Quinkan dance festival in far north Queensland.

Photograph: Wayne Quillam/The Guardian

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Matt Bruce, who was in dispute with Byron Shire council over his tiny home near Lismore, NSW.

Photograph: Tajette O’Halloran/The Guardian

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