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‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski, a Chicago native, dies in federal prison at 81

Years before the Sept. 11 attacks and the anthrax mailing, the “Unabomber’s” deadly homemade bombs changed the way Americans mailed packages and boarded airplanes, even virtually shutting down air travel on the West Coast in July 1995.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ted Kaczynski, known as the 'Unabomber,' has died in prison at age 81

Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday.

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Stream of knowledge

Book of Books is different from any other I had come across. It is a fascinating treasure trove of literary delights with many illustrations, and a guided tour of rare books, manuscripts and historical artefacts in a single collection.

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'Courage is contagious': Daniel Ellsberg's decision to release the Pentagon Papers didn't happen in a vacuum

In 1971, when Daniel Ellsberg arrived at a federal court in Boston, a journalist asked if he was concerned about the prospect of going to prison for leaking a 7,000-page top-secret history of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg responded with a question of his own: “Wouldn’t you go to prison to…

The Conversation

5 wintry books to read during long nights

Winter solstice brings the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s a great night to spend reading.

The Conversation

Fact-checking Thoreau’s observations

How do scientists know that historical data is appropriate to use?

Salon

By fact-checking Thoreau's observations at Walden Pond, we showed how old diaries and specimens can inform modern research

Henry David Thoreau, the environmental philosopher and author of “Walden”, was a keen observer of seasonal change. In 1862, for example, he wrote in the Atlantic Monthly:

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From Elizabeth Strout to Stephen King, how Maine took over the literary map

Maine is the most isolated state in the continental US. Here, Amanda Whiting writes about how a place so small came to cast such an imposing shadow over American fiction

The Independent UK

A flourishing ecology and a healthy economy? Henry David Thoreau thought you couldn't have one without the other

Australians have just decided another “climate election”. What this meant, basically, was that we had to choose between two difficult futures. The result has yielded a new mandate for meaningful work on climate policy.

The Conversation

‘I yearned for a deeper, slower, more useful existence’: dispatches from the Great Resignation

From the ad executive turned charcoal burner to the woman who built a new life in the woods, a new genre of books about radical reinventions is proving a runaway success

The Guardian - UK

It's not all nomadland: how #vanlife made mobile living a middle-class aspiration

Announce to your friends and family that you’re choosing to live in your vehicle and you’re likely to raise some concern.

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