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This month’s best paperbacks: Anne Tyler, Jason Allen-Paisant and more | Anne Tyler

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Anne Tyler,Edmund White,Rutger Bregman 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Memoir A Jamaican childhood The Possibility of Tenderness Jason Allen-Paisant The Possibility of Tenderness Jason Allen-Paisant A Jamaican childhood Go these days to any independent bookshop or art gallery or zine fair, and you may find yourself asking: where are the humans? Title after title is devoted to clay and stone, trees and flowers, the riverine and the botanical, gardens and allotments. They share a vocabulary: care, tending, grounding, rootedness, nourishment, regeneration. Nature, however battered, is held up…

Masters Snooker Championship 2026: John Higgins defeats Judd Trump in thrilling match to reach the final

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: World number one John Higgins stunned Judd Trump as he came back from 3-0 and 5-3 down to win 6-5 and reach his first Masters final since 2021.The Scot had lost his previous seven matches to the Englishman and appeared to be struggling as he made a series of errors in the first three frames. However, Trump, whose highest break up to that point was just 60, failed to convert two good opportunities to take the fourth frame that offered Higgins a route back…

The Trump administration’s legal setbacks are good news for offshore wind and the grid

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💥 Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Climate,Government & Policy,lawsuits,Wind power,Trump Administration,offshore wind 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The Trump administration suffered a series of legal setbacks this week after judges allowed work to resume at several offshore wind farms under construction on the East Coast. The Interior Ministry ordered the halt of five projects totaling 6 gigawatts of generating capacity in December, due to national security concerns. The injunctions will allow three projects to resume construction: Revolution Wind off Rhode Island, Empire Wind off New York, and Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind off — you guessed it —…

Manchester United 2-0 Manchester City: Pep Guardiola refuses to blame officials after the loss

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✨ Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: United scored two goals in the second half through Brian Mbeumo and Patrick Dorgo, and they also scored three goals that were disallowed for offside, and they hit the woodwork twice and forced the visiting team's goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma into a series of saves.The hosts should have been down to 10 men within the first 10 minutes when full-back Dalot caught Jeremy Doku in a knee challenge with his spikes.Referee Anthony Taylor issued a yellow card to the Portuguese, and the decision was supported…

An Elizabethan mansion’s secrets for staying warm

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: "The incredible thing about Hardwick [new Hall] is… when you set it on the compass, it's almost exactly north-south," says Ranald Lawrence, a lecturer in architecture at the University of Liverpool in the UK. He's also published papers on Hardwick's design and thermal comfort. "And," he adds, "the whole internal planning of the [new] house is then based around that geometry."Bess moved around the rooms, following the Sun's path. Her mornings were spent walking the 63m (200ft) east-facing Long Gallery, where the bright morning…

You and December launch the Hangout Podcast | Ant and Dec

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Ant and Dec,Podcasts,Digital media,Television & radio,Media,Culture,UK news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Ant and Dec have announced they will be presenting their first podcast series together from next week.The series, titled Hanging Out With Ant and Dec, will feature the old friends as they reconnect and reminisce, and listeners will get the chance to ask the pair for advice, relive TV moments and share anecdotes.Episodes will be released every two weeks starting January 22, with an additional episode every Monday.The hosts of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me…

2025 Africa Cup of Nations Final: Senegal has “concerns” about treatment in Morocco

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💥 Check out this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe said the Confederation of African Football has a “duty” to Senegal to ensure its federation receives “all the support and encouragement it needs.”Meanwhile, Thiaw said he hopes Sunday's final, which kicks off at 19:00 GMT, will not be Sadio Mane's last ever match in the tournament.After Wednesday's semi-final victory over Egypt, Mane, who scored the winning goal, told reporters that he would not play in the Africa Cup of Nations again.Mane is Senegal's all-time top scorer…

Junpun wins back-to-back Clarence House Chase

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💥 Explore this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Gunpone's coach, Nicky Henderson, admitted he did not expect the 10-year-old to take victory heading into the Grade 1 final stage, but believes his stamina helped him.Speaking to ITV, he said: "I came here thinking his record of not getting out of the top two was under significant threat. I was really fearful of that.""He was amazing. He was such an all-around enemy. He seemed to test them all. I thought he was beaten three times, but he kept going.""He was a very fast horse.…

Apples, Trees, and Quasimodes – System Stack

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🔥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A while back, Ars Technica published a thoughtful piece about Jef Raskin, tracing his long pursuit of the “humane computer” and the cul-de-sacs where that pursuit ended. It’s a generous, well-told account of the designer who wanted to make machines simpler, kinder, and more aligned with the way people actually think. But part of what makes Raskin interesting is that his story isn’t just Apple’s story. He came out of the same cultural current John Markoff chronicled in What the Dormouse Said—the Bay Area tradition…

‘She Had a Hidden Identity’: New Film Reveals World War II Mother’s Secrets | Documentaries

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🚀 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Documentary films,Second world war,Holocaust,Film,Culture,Nazism 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen journalist Marissa Fox was a young girl, her mother regaled her with stories of her youth, all of which were full of drama and consequences. When she was a 13-year-old girl living in Poland in the late 1930s, on the brink of Nazi occupation, her mother told her that she had been pulled away from her mother and put on a boat to Palestine where she spent the rest of World War II. As a teenager in that…