burning
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Your burning questions, answered: In the special segment Decoder Rings Back, host Willa Paskin answers listeners’ queries about cultural mysteries.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
Brown fat is a specialized form of body fat that helps generate heat by burning energy, whereas white fat primarily stores excess energy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Its chief tourist attraction is the Darvaza gas crater, in the Karakum desert: a smelly, burning hole in the ground also known as the Gate to Hell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Mayor Grégory Doucet said the burning of the office, housed in a 19th-Century building, was "a tragedy".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
My face is burning as I stand there, feeling stupid.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
Weirich must have known about the book burnings and anti-Jewish laws, but he was at first largely silent about them in his diary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
In August 2023, Sweden's intelligence service Sapo raised its threat level to four on a scale of one to five, saying the Koran burnings had made the country a "prioritised target".
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
On Friday, she urged people to get copies of The Handmaid's tale before "they have public book burnings of it".
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025
The American Library Association has a Bill of Rights, adopted on June 19, 1939, as a response to book burnings in Nazi Germany.
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2025
No burnings today, and none tomorrow... but if the snows continue, how long before the king s resolve begins to weaken?
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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