James Baldwin was the most important person in the world
Love is the key to liberation: the work of Baldwin on the loss of a loved one and the redemption of the world: a biography of Baldwin
All of his writing — no matter how pointed, critical or angry — is imbued with love. He understood that love is the key to liberation and was determined to convince the rest of us. In the short film, Baldwin states that love has never been a popular movement and no one has ever wanted to be free. The world is held together — really it is held together — by the love and the passion of a very few people.”
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There are restrictions on Lock downs in separate schools after the Georgia shooting
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The nuclear clock breakthrough paved the way for super-precise timekeeping
Researchers have measured the frequency of light that causes nuclei of rare isotope thorium-229 to shift to a higher energy state, thetick of the nuclear clock, with an accuracy that’s 1,00,000 times greater than the previous best effort. They did this by synchronising the energy transition with the tick of the world’s most accurate clock.
Live music is not a good thing but could be a catalyst for change
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