What I saw on the web on 2026.3.13

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1. Terminology, Clarity, and the Question of What Is the Left?
   by Rebecca Solnit
   https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/on-my-never-ending-quest-for-clarity/
   several good things here, but especially "Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war."
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2. In Praise of Stupid Questions
   by James Propp
   https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/in-praise-of-stupid-questions/
   what a delightful method for calculating π!
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3. Why the bones of a blue whale are being reconstructed in Alberta's Badlands
   by Jenny Howe
   https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7124924
   the question doesn't really get answered, but it still looks like a cool project
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4. Father, 99, and son, 80, feast on free oysters after cashing in on decades-old restaurant promise
   by Kalya McLean
   https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/alabama-oyster-house-free-oysters-9.7127648
   not the easiest offer to take advantage of
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5. Time to survey Manitobans on changing clocks, Kinew says
   by Brittany Hobson
   https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/daylight-time-kinew-survey-9.7127857
   Kinew might get them to stay on standard time? yes plz!
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