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And Nancy Pelosi tries to get paid leave back in the reconciliation bill.

Minimum Viable Planet is a weeklyish newsletter about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we listen to what nature has to offer in the conversation around climate solutions.

Sheetal Agarwal is the founder of Clownselors - a medical clowning group in which volunteers dress up as clowns to visit hospitals with the aim of providing emotional relief to patients

Actor and impressionist Jamie Costa has gone viral for his impression of the late comedian and actor Robin Williams.

From the blog of Yehonatan Ben Israel at The Times of Israel

On October 8th, the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced.  Peaceniks and hippies should take note, because one of our own, Patch Adams, has been nominated.  You’ve probably heard of the Robin Williams movie about Patch, but there’s a lot more to the story, and quite a lot of it is in the podcast “The Best Day of My Life:  Patch Adams’ Journey to the Nobel Peace Prize Nomination.”  (Available on Apple; a Pantheon Podcast produced by Rainbow Valentine).

Don Oldenburg Special to USA TODAY When journalist Stephen Kurczy began traveling from New York City into the West Virginia backcountry in 2017, he was convinced he had found a modern-day Walden – an oasis unspoiled by the clamor of the digital era. Wary of the tyranny of today’s non-stop connectivity, he hadn’t owned a cell phone for a decade and had high hopes Green Bank, W.Va., would live up to its billing as “The Quietest Town in America.” In this intriguing book “The Quiet Z...

From Popeye to Aladdin to his last movies in Night at the Museum franchise, Robin Williams is remembered through his loveable movie characters and in life.

Fear Factor. America has a fully functioning First Amendment, much to Prince Harry’s astonishment, so Rogan is perfectly free to stay stupid stuff for profit. The problem is that his 200 million listeners take him seriously, and politicians of all stripes are eager to capitalize on his platform. Rogan started out as a typical frat boy stand-up comic in the late 1980s before acting in the mid-to-late 1990s on sitcoms like Hardball and   NewsRadio. He was also a color commentator for the Ult...

Disney brings audiences Neverland to Disney+ in 2022! Heres what we know about Peter Pan and Wendy so far.