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Hello everyone! It’s Sunday, my new favorite day because I get to check in with all of you and read a brand new batch of your letters! (And they said it couldn’t be done — that social media is by default a toxic place.) I marvel at how we are all strangers to one another and yet dive right into the big questions of the human experience here, with such tenderness and care.

Letters to Lauren provides insight, support, compassion, and education to transform the experience of infidelity. Here, readers know they aren't alone. Letters can be submitted at www.theaffairconsultant.com/letter By Lauren LaRusso · Over 3,000 subscribersNo thanksncG1vNJzZmikkaq%2FprrLmqmuq6Oke7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY4%3D

Do you enjoy Terms of endearment? Are these essays valuable to you? Paid subscribers make this work sustainable. Support art, support meaningful change. Upgrade to paid I am currently working on a New York Times Book Review essay about achievement culture as manifested in divorce memoirs. I am very invested in it. It is thorny and tricky and tender and might get me absolutely excoriated by The Culture or might be something that makes you stand up and shout “YES!

The Clash standing before the Apocalypse Hotel, Freston Road, London W.11, 1982 (photo: Pennie Smith)Sharif don’t like it! Rock the Casbah! Rock the Casbah! You COULD NOT escape that fucking song all summer! Just the year before, C101 had no room for The Clash on their playlist, preferring cueing up “Stairway To Heaven” on Turntable One and “Freebird” on Turntable Two for the 1000 millionth time. Suddenly they got the message that it was 1982, managing to shoehorn “Rock The Casbah” into their Two Song All Zeppelin and Skynyrd Playlist.

Welcome to The Gameful Scientist! This newsletter explores the intersection of science and gaming. Enjoy! As you wander through the desolate wastelands of Borderlands 3, you come across a minigame called "Borderlands Science". By solving puzzles, you not only advance in the game but also help scientists. The puzzles use colored blocks representing microbial sequences collected from human stool samples, arranged on a grid. Rearranging them helps to reveal similarities among microbes in the gut, potentially leading to the development of new treatments for health and wellness.

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Morning all, Way too much Jhon Duran noise for my liking yesterday. I’ll have a big sourced update on new striker names out this morning 👀 I’ve got three sourced stories today first though! We can crack right on with those in a second but as always, I would head to the live blog from yesterday here first to get all your latest Chelsea rumours, stories, quotes, and anything else going on across the last 24 hours in the same place.

Liana’s Newsletter By Liana Finck A weekly selection of drawings by New Yorker cartoonist and matador Liana Finck, sent out on Wednesdays. Paid subscribers will also get a Sunday email of autobiographical comics, process drawings, and other behind-the-scenes things. ncG1vNJzZmirpZfAta3CpGWcp51kja21wKeYn6GemLg%3D

To those of us who moved to Austin in the ‘80s and had to hear about how we missed the Armadillo World Headquarters: think of how much worse that would have been if we didn’t have our own ‘Dillo in Liberty Lunch! This city-owned venue was bulldozed in 1999 to make room for Computer Sciences Corp. headquarters. The rent in this prime downtown location was only $600 a month, so the Lunch’s days were numbered.