In the 1920s the Soviet biochemist Vladimir and the French Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin developed the idea of the noosphere as being the sphere of human reason or thought encapsulating the Earth.
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
27 July 2026
The SiriusXM-Audacy agreement is for sports and news stations around the country, encapsulating 42 in total in 29 markets.
Drivers who failed to dig out while the snow from our late-January storm was still soft are now contending with thick walls of ice cocooning their vehicles.
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Clio Chang,
Curbed,
5 Feb. 2026
Josephson likes to turn down the volume on the outside world, cocooning her readers in the white noise of affirmation.
That gallery feels like the perfect frame for Aitken’s work, at once spacious and enfolding, spare and receptive to all that visual and sonic plushness.
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Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
29 July 2026
Some may find this a bit too fine-grained, overly implicated in language’s self-enfolding folds.
Perhaps Wrexham chief executive Michael Williamson summed things up best shortly before ringing the Nasdaq bell in Times Square to launch both the day’s trading on the world’s second biggest stock exchange and the club’s new home shirt.
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Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
4 Aug. 2026
The alarm bells for the next super El Niño are already ringing.
The structure of the pants helps balance the wide shoulders of her blazer, adding shape without restricting movement.
—
Jacqueline Tempera,
PEOPLE,
5 Aug. 2026
The directive comes after a June letter from Abbott ordering state regulators to shield Texans from the electricity costs related to data centers, and from comments by Abbott about restricting data centers in rural areas.
—
Emily Holshouser
August 4,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 Aug. 2026
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