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Casey Jo Graham Welmers | Pangyrus | 31st October 2025 Nursing student muses on the sterile way modern medicine treats dead bodies. It goes against centuries of human tradition. "Where was the ritual and care? I wanted anointing oils and purifying waters, incense and burning sage. Where were the murmured prayers, holy paints, burial shrouds? He should have been leaden down with silver or gold, sent off on a funeral pyre, entombed in marble" (2,500 words) Nomido is the Browser's daily word game. Play today's before it's gone! Irina Dumitrescu | Serious Eats | 18th October 2025 Defence of "picky eating", by someone who refused to eat most foods until the age of twelve. This was especially fraught because her family lived in Ceaușescu-era Romania and food was hard to come by. After a teenage phase of eating only her own peculiar concoctions, she grew out of it. Now her son refuses all but the blandest foods. It's difficult not to pass on the same shame and the judgement (3,000 words) Want more? The full Browser recommends five outstanding articles, a video and a podcast daily, for less than $1 a week. Caroline Crampton, Editor-In-Chief; Robert Cottrell, Founding Editor; Kaamya Sharma, Editor; Sylvia Bishop, Assistant Publisher; Jodi Ettenberg, Associate Editor; Uri Bram, CEO & Publisher; Al Breach, Founding Director Editorial comments and letters to the editor: editor@thebrowser.com | Technical issues and support requests: support@thebrowser.com | Or write at any time to the publisher: uri@thebrowser.com Proudly published with Ghost, the fiercely independent website and newsletter platform
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