Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains – and souls – need but that it’s easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and recommend just three links every week that you absolutely must see.
No fluff, no fuss, just three exceptional reads.
Here are this week’s recommendations:
Georgia’s stolen children: Twins sold at birth reunited by TikTok video (Fay Nurse, Woody Morris / BBC)
Amy and Ano are identical twins, but just after they were born they were taken from their mother and sold to separate families. Years later, they discovered each other by chance thanks to a TV talent show and a TikTok video. As they delved into their past, they realised they were among thousands of babies in Georgia stolen from hospitals and sold, some as recently as 2005. Now they want answers
Who Was the Mysterious Woman Buried Alone at the Pet Cemetery? (Andrew Keh / New York Times)
Ed Martin III was 14 years old when he began working at his father’s pet cemetery, and in the decades since he has tended to the graves of innumerable dogs, many cats, flocks of birds, a few monkeys, a lion cub, a Bengal tiger and countless other creatures from every corner of the animal kingdom.
In all that time, after all those burials, there was only ever one request, a few years ago, that gave him pause.
Hubble Deep Field Image (Brian Cox)
@jeschneiderx Brian Cox on Hubble Deep Field Image #briancox #hubble #jameswebb #galaxy #universe #observableuniverse #astronomy #physicist #cosmology #bigbang #stars #milkyway #earth #atheist #atheism #evolution ♬ original sound – jeschneider
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