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US Department of Education to cut half its staff as part of Trump downsizing
ABC News
The United States Department of Education has revealed its plans to lay off nearly half of its staff, as President Donald Trump continues his mission to slash federal spending. The department said t ...[Continue Reading]
ABC News (AU)
over 1 year ago
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4 of the Most Famous Father-Son Rivalries in History
Tim Brinkhof
Storytelling throughout the ages is full of bitter and often deadly father-son rivalries. Think of Zeus rebelling against Chronos in Greek myth, or Pavel Smerdyakov killing Fyodor Karamazov and frami ...[Continue Reading]
Mental Floss
1 day ago
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Exploring the Process of Spiritual Awakening
Steve Taylor Ph.D.
The term spirituality is tricky to define. If you asked a hundred spiritual teachers and authors, "What is spirituality?" you would probably get a hundred different answers. However, my definition ...[Continue Reading]
Psychology Today
1 day ago
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Show HN: Tiny An interpeted dynamic langauge with inline Go native functions
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Tiny is a concurrent programming language and runtime system. It compiles source files into compact, stack-based bytecode instructions (.tbc) which run on a highly optimized virtual machine using slo ...[Continue Reading]
Github.com
1 day ago
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South Bushwick church stood 173 years until devastating fire. Its leaders aim to rebuild.
Brigid Bergin, Louis C. Hochman
Leaders of the 173-year-old South Bushwick Reformed Church said building officials are expected to determine this weekend whether they will need to level their parish, after a devastating fire Friday ...[Continue Reading]
Gothamist
1 day ago
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On health and child care, Labor might have found Pauline Hanson's kryptonite
Tom Crowley
Thirteen thousand words were spoken during Pauline Hanson's marathon press club appearance this week. Almost nobody, bar a few political obsessives, will have heard them all. Instead, most people wi ...[Continue Reading]
ABC News (AU)
1 day ago