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At the close of the COP26 climate summit, commitments to end the use of coal and other fuels are falling apart as countries race to reach a deal. / BBC News
The Pacific island nation Tuvalu is looking at legal ways to be a state if it is submerged. / Reuters
Unrelated/related: How 12th-century Genoese merchants "invented the idea of risk." / Psyche
Scottish engineers say "marine energy"—wind turbines dunked into the sea—could work within a decade. / The Washington Post
A new comics anthology launches in response to the climate crisis. / Ten Years to Save the World
France is investing $290 million to make the city of Paris completely cyclable by 2026. / World Economic Forum
The first pleasure railway ever built may have been a miniature train constructed for the family of Louis XIV, pushed by servants. / Futility Closet
The Biden economy is being defined by two numbers: monthly inflation and job-creation figures. / The Washington Post
How are children handling the pandemic? "They report being a lot more all right than we were expecting." / FiveThirtyEight
See also: The rise and rise of the post-lockdown buzz cut. / i-D
A poll shows no significant difference between people with college degrees and those without them on the question of whether the US is becoming too politically correct. / The Atlantic
Photographer Phyllis Christopher remembers 1990s lesbian San Francisco. "It was a really special critical mass of queers." / studio international
Disdain for women increases the pay gap. Some hypotheses as to why—and why men in certain states search for rape videos. / Twitter
Remembering what happened to Janet Jackson at the 2004 Super Bowl and what happened to her career after. / Vox
Teju Cole explores how some authors attempt a kind of epiphanic writing. / Lit Hub
A painting for the season by Atlanta-based portraitist Ariel Dannielle: "Cheers to you, Friendsgiving." / Booooooom
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