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@tiffanikyong I’m devoted to all of J.S. Bach, Heinrich Schütz, the organ works of Johan Pachelbel and Dietrich Buxtehude. Then there’s these: https://t.co/GuOfHLMbli https://t.co/puH9oRx7x1

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“Good health and absence of disease will of course prolong life. Running has not made me immune to aging, although it has increased my quality of life.” -Noted biologist and ultrarunner, Dr. Bernd Heinrich Racing the Clock. Running Across a Lifetime.https://t.co/RwEHFKSkCq

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Nobelist Paul Krugman on this year’s Economics award: “a well-deserved Nobel that unfortunately remains relevant.” In Krugman’s telling, the laureate’s achievement was this valuable insight: “So banks need to be regulated as well as backstopped.”https://t.co/6NB5tD4G1H

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177 years ago today, Edgar Allen Poe publishes “The Raven” in the New York Evening Mirror. As a kid, I remember being sprawled on the floor, enthralled by the Edgar Allen Poe section of “The Harvard Classics.”https://t.co/C9PAyJI5fg https://t.co/HSV0QwKhoR

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“@SenBooker (D-NJ) and Congresswoman @RepAdams (D-NC) have introduced the #JusticeForBlackFarmers Act. The key purpose of the bill is to ensure that Black farmers receive the benefits and services that white farmers have historically taken for granted.”https://t.co/qZ0GbvEEcj

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Wot?! “In 1964 Paul rocked up unannounced at the door of Bertrand Russell.” Looked it up: “He just clued me in that Vietnam was an imperialist war and American vested interests were really all it was all about. It was a bad war and we should be against it”https://t.co/wJnIf08DhG

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‘Fictional expectations are “a fundamental force fueling the dynamism of modern capitalist economies,” wrote Jens Beckett in his 2016 book, “Imagined Futures.” So, yeah, I guess you could say economics is science fiction.’https://t.co/qzjDJ0Qszh

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Wherein @tomphilpott (fresh from prescribing how to improve a “disaster-prone” ag system in his book “Perilous Bounty”), does us a solid by translating the dog whistles embedded in “ag speak,” to better understand the stakes in the pick for @USDA Secretary.https://www.motherjones.com/food/2020/12/will-biden-pick-a-usda-secretary-who-sees-our-food-crises-clearly/

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Meeting my heroes at 1st Annual Paul Johnson Forum for Land Stewardship Policy in Iowa. Pat Johnson & their granddaughter. Legendary farmer Ron Rosmann, co-founder of @practicalfarmer. Dave Osterberg and Ralph Rosenberg, who established the Leopold Center with Paul. What honor.🙌🏽 https://t.co/iolfkraYGH

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“Seventy-five years ago, Mohandas K. Gandhi was shot dead by an assassin while on his way to deliver a regular evening prayer. By then largely known as the mahatma, or “great soul,” he helped lead India into its independent future less than a year before.”https://t.co/aWGRmC3654