quote [ There is a ?Computer says no!? quality to Swedish society, a sense that for anything to work at all, it must fit within the categories and fields of bureaucratic forms. What is striking to me, as an incomer, is how natural this seems to everyone else. It?s a testament to how well the system mostly works that it is not treated as a joke, in the way bureaucracies very often are. Instead, Sweden is exceptional for the level of trust that people have in institutions. ]

quote [ While nowadays he might be best known for the cut of meat that bears his name, François-René de Chateaubriand was once one of the most famous men in France ? a giant of the literary scene and idolised by such future greats as Alphonse de Lamartine and Victor Hugo. Alex Andriesse explores Chateaubriand's celebrity and the glimpse behind the public mask we are given in his epic autobiography Memoirs From Beyond the Grave. ]

quote [ No kings. No priests. No aristocracies. Only a society whose residents believed they should ?grow together ? not by competition, but by united action.? It may sound like a Bob Dylan lyric, but it?s a 104-yr-old excerpt from Herland, the science fiction novel by suffragist Charlotte Perkins Gillman in which a money free, farming heavy, all-female utopia thrives in South America. And as wild as it must?ve been for a petticoated society to read about naked, self-sufficient women swinging from the vines, the book wasn?t that far fetched in terms of what was actually happening in turn-of-the-century America. Communes were everywhere. ]

quote [ Fowler & Wells created a "Phrenological Cabinet" on the racist belief that skulls held secrets about human nature. ]

quote [ Anti-immigrant ideology has been part and parcel of the whole of American conservationism since the first national park was founded, in part to protect wild yet white-owned nature from Mexicans and Native Americans. National purity and natural purity were inextricably linked. ]

quote [ In Mendocino County, these ?guerilla gatherers? risk fines and jail time to keep food culture alive. ]

quote [ At 5100 meters above sea level, one in four residents suffers from chronic mountain sickness ]

quote [ Milo Yiannopoulos announced that he has adopted a ?fursona? as a snow leopard and that he purchased tickets to a furry convention; in response, organizers rescinded his event registration.
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Yiannopoulos also claimed on Telegram that he had submitted a form to suggest he host a panel called ?The Politics of Fur.? ]

quote [ William Moldt went missing in mysterious circumstances 22 years ago after a night out in Florida. ]

quote [ As Eugene Bullard fought for freedom for all Americans, his older brother disappeared in the Jim Crow South. ]