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Full Transcript of Kamala Harris’s DNC Speech https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/read-kamala-harriss-speech-at-the-dnc-in-chicago.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=social_acct&utm_campaign=feed-part Good evening. To my husband, Doug, thank you for being an incredible partner to me and father to Cole and Ella. And happy anniversary. I love you so very much. To Joe Biden — Mr. President. When I think about the path we have traveled together, I am filled with gratitude. Your record is extraordinary, as history will show. And your character is inspiring. Doug and I love you and Jill. And I am forever thankful to you both. And to Coach Tim Walz, you are going to be an incredible vice-president. And to the delegates and everyone who has put your faith in our campaign — your support is humbling. America, the path that led me here in recent weeks, was no doubt … unexpected. But I’m no stranger to unlikely journeys. My mother, Shyamala Harris, had one of her own. I miss h

The Monumental Discovery That Changed How Humans See Themselves The unearthing of dinosaur bones transformed Victorian society—and long-held notions about our place in the world. The Atlantic by Brenda Wineapple / Aug 14, 2024 at 8:19 AM https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/08/discovery-fossils-dinosaurs-evolution-book-review/679454/ In his beguiling poem “Connoisseur of Chaos,” Wallace Stevens recalls a past era when religion was meant to explain everything, “when bishops’ books / Resolved the world.” But, as he reminds us, “we cannot go back to that.” There’s a kind of grace in the dynamic and even provisional nature of the world, he suggests. And in science, too, which seemed, particularly in the first half of the 19th century, to be on the brink of something wonderful—or terrifying, depending on your point of view. Two new books, Michael Taylor’s Impossible Monsters and Edward Dolnick’s Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, mark the end of the era that Stevens identified. The