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- We Need More Novels about Real Scientists [Scientific American Magazine] (Scientific American)
In novels and films, the most common scientist by far is the mad one. From H. G. Wells’s Dr. MoÂÂreau to Ian Fleming’s Dr. No to Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, scientists are portrayed as evil geniuses unrestrained by ethics and usually bent on world domination. Over the past two years, as I struggled to write my own novel about physicists and their quest for the Theory of Everything, I ...
- A pure thrush word - guardian.co.uk
A pure thrush wordguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoThis interest in naming, which recurs throughout Thomas's poetry, is picked up here by UA Fanthorpe in a poem of Gloucestershire placenames. ...
- Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction: the shortlist - Guardian Blogs
The big man himself ... but which book is a winner worthy of his name? Photograph: National Portrait Gallery/PA There are almost as many ways to read a book as there are books to read - in the bath, on the loo, or slumped in your favourite armchair ...
- Saved from the brink of extinction - Xinhua News Agency
BEIJING, April 28 -- More than 1,000 years ago, when the great scholar Su Shi (1037-1101) visited the Red Cliff at the lower reaches of the Yangtze River with a friend, they marveled at the great changes that had taken place since Cao Cao waged a ...
- Taoiseach joins leading theatre companies as Irish take Manhattan - Irish Times
Taoiseach joins leading theatre companies as Irish take ManhattanIrish Times, Ireland - 7 hours agoThe Abbey is in New York staging its production of American writer Sam Shepherd's Kicking a Dead Horse. Mr Cowen was uncharacteristically diffident in such ...
- Goldberg Brings 'For Colored Girls' To Bway 9/8, India.Arie Will Star - Broadway World
Whoopi Goldberg and DreamTeam Entertainment Group are pleased to announce that two-time Grammy Award winner India.Arie will make her Broadway stage debut this fall in a new, re-envisioned production of Ntozake Shange's acclaimed play, FOR COLORED ...
- Portsmouth High School names top 10 students (Portsmouth Herald)
PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth High School has announced its highest ranked students for the Class of 2008. They are:
- Simplicity and repetition may explain staying power of songs (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
It only takes a single exposure, and in an instant, your whole day can change. The infection is rapid and feels potentially unending. One minute you're minding your own business and the next you find that you can't stop thinking, humming, or singing "Dancing Queen."
- A cutting wit on the page and onstage - Windsor Star
A cutting wit on the page and onstageWindsor Star, Canada - 46 minutes agoIn any case, I heard nothing, until I opened up a book of his poetry maybe a year or two later. It came in the mail, and the first thing I noticed was the ...
- Teens Publish Literary Newspaper - Duxbury Clipper
Teens Publish Literary NewspaperDuxbury Clipper, MA - 31 minutes agoBurnt Toast features book and movie reviews, poetry, prose, commentary and news articles, said Ellen Snoeyenbos, the group’s advisor and young adult ...
- A Cabinet of Soviet Curiosities (The New York Sun)
Sometimes the smallest of things can illuminate the largest. A fossil tells the story of massive planetary change, a line or two of poetry does more to explain trench warfare than a dozen history books, and the miniatures of Nicholas Hilliard bring Gloriana's long vanished England back to iridescent, dangerous life. In writing "Lenin's Brain" (Hoover Institution Press, 163 pages, $15), Houston ...
- Millions mark World Refugee Day with theme of "Protection" (AlertNet)
Source: UNHCR As millions marked World Refugee Day, UNHCR's chief says he is concerned about the rise in refugee numbers in 2007 and the suffering in Somalia.
- Brundidge library bringing 'Wild West' to town - Troy Messenger
Brundidge library bringing 'Wild West' to townTroy Messenger, AL - 4 hours agoHe also writes cowboy poetry and tell stories." Cowboy Bruce will take the kids -and grownup kids - on a trip back in time to the early years of America's ...
- City spins its support for the arts as local artists suffer - Durham News
City spins its support for the arts as local artists sufferDurham News, NC - 19 hours agoYoung, gifted, socially conscious African-American artists are taking center stage. They have a creative edge that helps redefine what it means to be black. ...
- Writer leads group into love affair with words (San Diego Union-Tribune)
RANCHO SAN DIEGO – Rita Ryan Micklish has always relished the written word. When she was 10, she wrote letters to everyone she knew and soon started creating poems. She published her first short story in 1962, and her work has appeared in numerous publications since.
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