Utopia
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« We are the winners of Eurovision »
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Lithuania has lost the Eurovision Song Contest thirty times.
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Tragedy & farce in climate commentary
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« We are fucked » vs. « It’s not too late ». The Club of Rome’s Earth for All offers a burst of stubborn optimism. But when does stubborn optimism become cruel optimism?
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Glossomania-mania
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On language invention. To desire some other perfect language is at once to acknowledge and to overlook the miraculousness of what we have.
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Unclaimed, claimed, unclaimable
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On unrecognized states, micronations and curious border zones.
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Firsts in space
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A friend of mine likes to say that the moon landing was real, but dumb. On astronautical tokenism.
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A kayak in Zierikzee
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Was a Dutch town founded by Inuits in the 9th century? On American discoveries of Europe.