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Month: May 2016
The Slideshow that Saved the World: An Oral History of “An Inconvenient Truth”
Al Gore got stuck on a scissor lift. Studio execs fell asleep at a screening. And everybody hated the title. The amazing true story of the most improbable — and important — film of our time.
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Is Exclusion Still the Norm? Saudi Arabia and Women in the Olympic Games
After considerable international pressure, Saudi Arabia agreed to send two female athletes to the London 2012 Games–the first time in history the nation sent female athletes to the games. Qatar and Brunei’s female athletes at the London Games were also the first female members in the history of their Olympic participation, but in both of those countries, the policies restricting women in sports are significantly less harsh.
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Exploring the Secrets of Soothing Spaceship Sound
Find out what it takes to make your favorite spaceships tick, hum, and drone.
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David Mitchell buries latest manuscript for a hundred years
Mitchell is the second contributor to the Scottish artist Katie Paterson’s Future Library project, for which 1,000 trees were planted two years ago in Oslo’s Nordmarka forest. Starting with Margaret Atwood, who last year handed over the manuscript of a text called Scribbler Moon, each year for the next 100 years an author will deliver a piece of writing which will only be read in 2114, when the trees are chopped down to make paper on which the 100 texts will be printed.
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T.S. Eliot, Poet for a Fallen Culture
“Reduced to its barest elements, modernity is the substitution of science for theology, history for philosophy, and the self for the soul. Eliot had little patience with the pretensions of science, but even he was not fully able to escape the other two….” By Joseph Bottum.
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Ozzy Osbourne – “Mama, I’m Coming Home”
Made it home after a great weekend with friends!
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Why do we talk to ourselves? A new book investigates the voices in our heads
"The Voices Within" by Charles Fernyhough is an ear-opening book – and an important corrective to myths about schizophrenia, the brain and even our self of sense.
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