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Ride - A Memoir to My Father, by Craig Fry

Title: Ride – A Memoir to My Father
Author: Craig Fry
Publisher: Craig Fry
Year: 2016
Pages: 36
Order: Craig Fry
What it is: An Australian cycling writer’s attempts to come to terms with the sudden death of his father
Strengths: We’ll all know at some stage what it feels like to lose a parent
Weaknesses: It’s really more about the son than the father

We look back at some of the shows that really excited us in 2019.

Philosopher Hedda Hassel Mørch defends the idea that consciousness pervades the cosmos

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Even though the Knicks aren’t

Standing in the porch doorway carefully holding a plastic bag, Cecelia Thurman asked: “Do you like tamales?”

Sebastien Roblin

Technology, Europe

Let's stack them up.

Key point: All of these submarines are top-of-the-line but it is unclear who would win.

The German Navy was a pioneer in large-scale submarine warfare, its U-boats able to contest the United Kingdom’s superior navy in ways that German surface warships could not. While modern-day Germany no longer has the ocean-spanning naval ambitions of its predecessors, it has become a global leader in designing small, stealthy... Читать дальше...

1. U.K.’s Tortuous EU Exit Is a Lesson to Bloc’s Members: Don’t Try This at Home  The Wall Street Journal
2. General election 2019: Labour leadership takes blame over result  BBC News
3. Boris Johnson celebrates election win in the former Labour strongholds of northern England  The Sun
4. What Are the Real Lessons of the U.K. Election for 2020?  The New Yorker
5. The Observer view on where Britain goes after the general election result  The Guardian
6. View full coverage... Читать дальше...

Alberta's Wheat and Barley Commissions say the CN strike cost farmers their reputations in an international market. And the groups are turning to the government for a permanent fix.

Promoter Lou DiBella doesn’t think there’s going to be any time where Teofimo Lopez is easier for Vasiliy Lomachenko.

Henry Cavill looks picture perfect in the role, writes Raju Mudhar. Here’s hoping he has better luck with this character than Superman.

Why You Can’t Have a Decent Conversation With Your Voice Assistant Yet  The Wall Street Journal

Boots and shoes are proving good sellers at a recently-opened country boutique.

Welcome to another edition of Grooming Gods. This week: All the curls in the world. And a few good beards.

Who's playing and the best ways to watch the games.

The best, boldest, and most budget-friendly 4K and 8K TVs WIRED has seen, including LG, Samsung, Vizio, and TCL.

Coal country fears uncertainty -- not green energies. But it needs help from forward-thinking leaders on how to acclimate to a changing economy. Greta Thunberg could inspire that movement.

WWE TLC 2019 could feature Charlotte Flair turning heel on Becky Lynch as one of many huge surprises on the pay-per-view.

• One of President Donald Trump's most commonly discussed topics is the strength of the American economy.
• Not every industry has thrived in the age of Trump, however.
• Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we found the 15 industries with the largest percent decline in the number of people employed between January 2017 and October 2019.
• Insurance claims adjusters, toy stores, and newspaper publishers have all seen large drops in employment in the last two and a half years. Читать дальше...

A series of mistakes by correction officers and other staff members at Rikers suggest lapses in the supervision of people with mental health issues at the city’s jail.

Cities get the okay to speed up buses, while Seattle tries to slow traffic.

It marks an important moment of recognition for a lot of people.

Here’s what stands out among the changes in the new legal aid bill the province introduced this week.

Jennifer Weiner (left) on the red carpet for Glamour’s 2013 Women of the Year awards; Jonathan Franzen (right) at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in 2015. | Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images; David Levenson/Getty Images

The surprisingly long ripple effect of the Jennifer Weiner-Jonathan Franzen feud.