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GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: Big History For better or for worse, we’re in a period of history when technology, innovation and industry are roaring ahead as if there’s no tomorrow. It’s easy for me to forget how different the world in which I now live is, compared to the one in which I was born. 1942: Stalingrad, El Alamein, Midway; computers and the digital age were in the future; the turbojet plane was three years old; the first mobile phone four years away; the Manhattan atomic bomb project was just getting underway; and for every living person then, three are alive now. In the 78 years...

Israel Antiquities Authority excavations at the Byzantine church. (Yoli Schwartz/ Israel Antiquities Authority) Beit Harel pre-military program students washing finds at the Beit Nattif archaeological excavation. (Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority) High school pupils at the Israel Antiquities Authority excavation of the earliest soap factory in Israel, in Rahat, a Beduin city in the Negev Desert. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority) IAA archaeologist Dr. Lior Weisbrod with tiny fossils of rodents from the excavation. (Yoli Schwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority) Since most arc...

For the Conservative Reader: The Federalist’s Notable Books For 2020 Posted on Well, they say hindsight is 2020 — and thank God for that. Suffice to say, none of us are going to be wistfully blaring Ol’ Blue Eyes’ “It Was a Very Good Year” on New Year’s Eve. (Side note: Have you ever listened to the lyrics of that song? “It was a very good year / for blue-blooded girls of independent means.” Is Frank Sinatra being feminist or classist? I’m so confused.) Anyway, if we’re going to go digging for some roast beef in this year’s crap sandwich, most of us had a little more ...

592 pages When an old house outside London is renovated, a treasure trove of Jewish documents from the 17th century is discovered in a secret cubbyhole, setting up a mysterious tale about life in a Jewish family that skips between the 1990s and the 1660s. British university historian Helen Watt joins forces with an intrepid graduate student to prove the identity of the person they believe is a female scribe who wrote the forgotten papers for a blind rabbi, a forbidden role for women during a time when the plague was rampant. The story delves into the hardships, successes and intimate l...

toward cumberland as well. over the next few hours, we will fill in more. we expect to see more steady snow continuing through early in the morning. and because of that, we center advisories in effect. east and north of us, it's a winter storm warning for heavier amounts of precipitation. and those areas, mainly in the form of snow. bernadette joins me back with some temperatures and how much snow we expect across the entire region. bernadette? >> that snow is falling out here now. and it's starting to lay on some of the picnic tables out here. this is why. because temperatures are b...