With the fall of Afghanistan, I’ve been reflecting on my travel experiences there as a 23-year-old backpacker on the “Hippie Trail” from Istanbul to Kathmandu. Yesterday and today, it’s a poor yet formidable land that foreign powers misunderstand and insist on underestimating. In this final journal entry from 1978, stow away with me as I travel from Kabul over the fabled Khyber Pass to Pakistan. Friday, August 4, 1978: Kabul to Rawalpindi, Pakistan This was the morning I was psyched for. I don’t think I could have woken up feeling bad and I didn’t. Both Gene and I felt good.…
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Scorpio Good Days Calendar for August 2025 Scorpio Opportunity Days This calendar reveals, through icons, the best days for opportunities, love, reputation, and money in August for the year 2025, as well as potential challenge days. See also Scorpio Daily Horoscopes and Scorpio Monthly Horoscopes. Note: With these print and PDF functions, you can remove areas of the page you don’t want printed before finalizing. More Good Days Horoscope Calendars (for Different Signs): Select a SignAriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPiscesAll Signs Legend This Scorpio Calendar reveals days of the month with potential opportunities, challenges, love connections, or reputation boosts. Days are generally best when…
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Clarivate will no longer include citations to and from retracted papers when calculating journal impact factors, the company announced today. The change comes after some have wondered over the years whether citations to retracted papers should count toward a journal’s impact factor, a controversial yet closely watched metric that measures how often others cite papers from that journal. For many institutions, impact factors have become a proxy for the importance of their faculty’s research. Retractions are relatively rare and represent only 0.04% of papers indexed in Clarivate’s Web of Science, according to the announcement. But the overall retraction rate has…
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Drinking highballs and talking about life, creation, and food with Roads & Kingdoms co-founder Matt Goulding. A special revival episode of The Trip Podcast. Roads & Kingdoms co-founders Nathan Thornburgh and Matt Goulding return to the mic for a revival episode of The Trip Podcast to discuss Omnivore, the wantonly gorgeous eight-episode Apple TV+ series Goulding created with Noma founder René Redzepi, on the eve of its world premiere. Each episode focuses on a single ingredient, beginning with chili and bringing readers from Redzepi’s Macedonian childhood to Bangkok, where the great chef Prin Polsuk swims in a field of dried red…
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Saturn will transit Aries, opposing Libra for 2.5 years. Considering Libra’s serious interest in love and relationships, this should be a great transit for the sign. This is particularly true if you’re interested in real love and relationships with integrity. You can expect to meet Saturnian types, over the course of this transit. Capricorn, old men, and others with natural authority. You’ll learn from them. Matter of fact, if your partner has nothing to teach you, chances are the relationship will fail or end. Same consequences of you can’t or won’t learn. You’ll be tasked to mature around how you…
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Imagine trying to cope with a pandemic like COVID-19 in a world where microscopic life was unknown. Prior to the 17th century, people were limited by what they could see with their own two eyes. But then a Dutch cloth merchant changed everything. His name was Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, and he lived from 1632 to 1723. Although untrained in science, Leeuwenhoek became the greatest lens-maker of his day, discovered microscopic life forms and is known today as the “father of microbiology.” Visualizing ‘animalcules’ with a ‘small see-er’ Leeuwenhoek opened the door to a vast, previously unseen world. J. Verolje/Wellcome Collection,…
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Posted by Riley Wilson on Monday, September 24, 2018 · Leave a Comment The flowers are fresh, the coffee is hot and the banter is rolling. At Barrel One Sydney, a coffee-roaster-cum-cafe, that’s about all it takes. Daniel Agapiou had been in the coffee game for a while before he decided to open his own cafe, in September 2017. The space ”“ parked in Brookvale, in the industrial northern beaches pocket of Sydney ”“ functions (and has for three years) as the dispatch centre for the roastery; the scales, bags, and barrels of beans strewn throughout are proof of that. Agapiou didn’t…
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Libra Good Days Calendar for August 2025 The following calendar reveals the better days of the month for romance, personality, career, opportunities, money, reputation, and love for the sign of Libra in August. See also Libra Daily Horoscopes and Libra Monthly Horoscopes. Note: With these print and PDF functions, you can remove areas of the page you don’t want printed before finalizing. More Good Days Horoscope Calendars (for Different Signs): Select a SignAriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPiscesAll Signs Legend The icons in this calendar provide a quick visual approach to a day’s potential opportunities or challenges for love, business, and popularity this month…
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Skip the gas station junk and pack snacks that are tasty, satisfying, and won’t leave you feeling blah halfway through your drive. These healthy-ish road trip snacks will keep you energized and happy, no matter how long the road ahead! Our road trip snacks bin organized and ready to go! After living on the road for over two years and having traveled thousands of miles, we’ve put a lot of thought into what makes good road trip snacks. From hangry meltdowns to energy slumps, we’ve learned that snacks are truly a road trip essential—and we never hit the road without…