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Top video interviews from The Menopause Society 2026 Annual Meeting | Contemporary OB/GYN

A recap of the top video interviews from Contemporary OB/GYN's coverage of The Menopause Society 2026 Annual Meeting in San Diego.

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STC honor society launches book drive to promote literacy across the RGV

STC's PTK Honor Society, Beta Epsilon Mu chapter, is collecting book donations to support “Jags Read,” an initiative led by PTK, aimed at expanding access to reading materials and promoting literacy throughout the RGV.

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Outdoors

The Natural History Society of Maryland offers guided foraging field trips for wild foods

OutdoorHub Staff 07.25.26 It’s taking a moment to find the bait. More people want to know how to find wild food outdoors. mushroom. Jamun. Nuts. Greens. If you camp, hike, or hunt, you’ve probably passed by dozens of edible plants without even realizing it. Natural History Society of Maryland Campaign is being run for field

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Books

Why do free speech debates make us so angry? | Society

IIn January 2015, two al-Qaeda members shot dead cartoonists at the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo in retaliation for the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Over the following weeks, my Facebook page split into two. Many of my childhood friends (I grew up in France and went to school near Paris) expressed their

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Paul Rudnick on his favorite books and his new ‘Tuxedo Society’

In an email interview, the novelist, playwright and screenwriter expressed surprise at the persistence of comedic works decades later. Scott Heller What books are on your nightstand? Maria Semple’s “Go Gentle,” because she’s hilariously sharp and ultimately kind; Steven Rowley’s “Take Me With You”, because his books are instantly adorable; “John of John,” because come

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Beauty editor, novelist and society fixture Shirley Lord dies at 93

Shirley Lord, an English-born journalist whose early success on Fleet Street in London led to major jobs at Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and Helena Rubinstein as well as being sidelined as a best-selling author of steamy novels, and whose high-dose liveliness and marriage in 1987 to AM Rosenthal, former executive editor of The New York Times,

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Disability by David Turner Review – A Revelatory New History | society books

YYou can take two seemingly contradictory lessons from historian David Turner’s new book on disability in the UK. First, worryingly little has changed for disabled people since the beginning of the modern era (the book’s first few stories, about 17th-century men and women trying to prove they were disabled enough to receive parish support to

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