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Forest Voices & Forget-me-not

In an age of sirens and scrolling, the forest still tells stories. They are quieter now, half drowned by traffic and timelines, yet in the old tales of whispering trees and talking flowers there is a way of seeing the world that feels strangely urgent again. The nineteenth century legends collected under the title “Forest Voices” ask readers to imagine a living woodland, where every stone remembers, every stream feels, and every blossom has something to say about humankind.

The Comfort Of A Cozy Myth

In the autumn of 1989, a boy steps onto Alexanderplatz in East Berlin and walks into history without knowing it. The air is tense, the square watched by men in trench coats with party badges, yet the chants that rise are disarmingly simple, almost modest. “No violence.” “We are the people.” Within a year, the country whose leaders still believe themselves unshakable will be gone.

From hippie dreams to platform power: When the nerds became a ruling class

In the popular imagination, the tech elite still wear hoodies and sneakers and talk about changing the world. Yet behind the folksy TED-talk gloss, a harder story is playing out, one in which a small, highly educated caste quietly rewrites the rules of society in its own image.