Daily bread 12/20/2025

• Six centuries of secularity began with the first ‘how-to’ books | Aeon Essays

  • to reorient alchemy’s goals away from grand, deluded schemes and toward everyday concerns.
    • Love this sentence...reminds me of "100 years of solitude" by Gabo Garcia Marquez

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Daily bread 12/06/2025

• Science needs disagreement. What makes some disagreement useless? | Aeon Essays

  • pernicious

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Daily bread 12/02/2025

• Bridging pedagogy and technology: a generative AI and IoT approach to transformative English language education | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

  • Spoken English proficiency is not only a critical measure of language competency but also a key determinant of success in academic, professional, and social contexts.

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Daily bread 10/14/2025

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Daily bread 07/28/2025

• Nosy coworkers can spike your stress levels - Futurity

  • a common office menace
  • the nosy coworker
  • loiter
  • chitchat
  • to duck for cover
  • prying and obtrusive
  • blurry lines
  • the 9-to-5 crowd
  • a thorny problem
  • workplace nosiness
  • has come up with
  • they spotted it
  • sparked my interest in
  • eroding boundaries between professional and personal lives
  • burnout and stress
  • gossip/drama
  • to weasel out details about
  • hostile biases
  • in and of themselves
  • pulling down the shutters
  • rife with prying colleagues
  • vying for an advantage over
  • is something he’d like to do more of.
  • being overly curious about

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Daily bread 07/15/2025

• How Nazism ended centuries of Catholic-Protestant enmity | Aeon Essays

  • the enmity between Catholics and Protestants
  • the two confessions
  • hegemony
  • ecumenical
  • invectives
  • Eugenics

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Daily bread 07/04/2025

• What’s so awkward about an awkward silence? | Aeon Essays

  • the sort of silences that leave most people writhing
  • the unnerving habit of thinking before he spoke
  • someone who made such an ‘unnerving’ use of silence
  • Chinese negotiators are trained to draw out silences in order to provoke their writhing Western counterparts into making concessions.
  • Chinese negotiators are trained to draw out silences in order to provoke their writhing Western counterparts into making concessions.
  • Silence, as the saying goes, speaks volumes.
  • In many (or even most) cases, we would rather quietly endure the norm-violating behaviour than create awkwardness by challenging it.

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