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justforbooks · 1 year ago

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In her Reith lecture of 2017, recently published for the first time in a posthumous collection of nonfiction, A Memoir of My Former Self, Hilary Mantel recalled the beginnings of her career as a novelist. It was the 1970s. “In those days historical fiction wasn’t respectable or respected,” she recalled. “It meant historical romance. If you read a brilliant novel like I, Claudius, you didn’t taint it with the genre label, you just thought of it as literature. So, I was shy about naming what I was doing. All the same, I began. I wanted to find a novel I liked, about the French Revolution. I couldn’t, so I started making one.”

She made A Place of Greater Safety, an exceptional ensemble portrayal of the revolutionaries Danton, Robespierre and Desmoulins, but although the novel was completed in 1979, it wasn’t published until 1992 – widely rejected, as she later explained, because although she thought the French Revolution was the most interesting thing in the world, the reading public didn’t agree, or publishers had concluded they didn’t. She decided to write a contemporary novel – Every Day Is Mother’s Day – purely to get published; A Place of Greater Safety emerged only when she contributed to a Guardian piece about writers’ unpublished first novels.

Genre is a confining madness; it says nothing about how writers write or readers read, and everything about how publishers, retailers and commentators would like them to. This is not to criticise the many talented personnel in those areas, who valiantly swim against the labels their industry has alighted on to shift units as quickly and smoothly as possible.

Consider the worst offender: not crime, horror, thriller, science fiction, espionage or romance, but “literary fiction”. It can and does contain many of the elements of the others, but is ultimately meaningless except as a confused shorthand: for what is thought clever or ambitious or beyond the comprehension of readers more suited to “mass market” or “commercial” fiction. What would happen if we dispensed with this non-category category altogether? Very little, except that we might meet a book on its own terms.

Is last year’s Booker prize winner, Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, a ghost story because its central character is dead, or a thriller because he has to work out who has murdered him? A historical novel because it is set during the Sri Lankan civil war, or speculative fiction because it contains scenes of the afterlife? And where do we place previous winners such as Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders or A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James?

Finding ways to describe narratives is not itself the problem, and nor is genre in the wider sense. An understanding of literary traditions that have formed over centuries and across cultures is not essential to the enjoyment of an individual book, but helpful to a broader appreciation of how texts interact with one another through recurring styles and motifs. The urge to categorise has had a deadening effect, reinforcing hierarchies that rely on an idea of what is “serious” and what is not, and by the genuinely liberating understanding of literature, in all its forms, as a playful, thoughtful, experimental tussle with words and ideas.

None of that means one mightn’t enjoy wandering down the forking paths of the literary woods. During the lockdowns, I found great comfort in psychological thrillers of a particular cast: a form of domestic noir in which the usually female protagonist’s apparently enviable life was undermined by a combination of unresolved dissatisfactions (a distant or otherwise problematic husband, a house renovation gone wrong, bills piling up, recalcitrant or troubled children) and an interloper, often in the form of a glamorous new neighbour. I was fascinated by the way these novels articulated a set of contemporary bourgeois anxieties – property values, long-term monogamy, school places, stalled careers – and then imagined how they might be alleviated by the arrival of a disruptor, only to discover that the status quo isn’t all that bad. Often set in smartish London suburbs, these books occasionally packed their casts off on holiday to a rented villa that not every participant could comfortably afford, and in which a body would quickly turn up amid the abandoned plates of tzatziki and glasses of retsina. I began to imagine that if I had the wit and skill to write a parodic mashup, I might call it Kitchen Island. But I don’t, because these efficient entertainments were also, at their most successful, impressively executed feats of plotting and atmosphere.

That I might feel these novels were, in that grimly joyless phrase, “guilty pleasures” because I read them more quickly than I might read the work of Jon Fosse or James Baldwin or Isabel Waidner is to misunderstand the potential of variousness. They were simply another facet of my reading life, speaking to a different impulse, yielding a different reward. I might eat a boiled egg for lunch and immerse myself in a complicated recipe of unfamiliar ingredients at dinner time; finish a cheerful romcom and then turn to a painstakingly detailed documentary. These are not perceived as contradictions, but as perfectly reasonable options available to those of us lucky enough to have them.

I’m returning now to a new novel, Orbital by Samantha Harvey, one of my favourite contemporary novelists. It is set in space, on board a craft circling the Earth, filled with astronauts from different countries and cultures, undergoing physical, mental and emotional changes. Her last novel, The Western Wind, was set in 1491, and she has also written about Alzheimer’s disease, Socrates, infidelity and insomnia. Categorise that.

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clevelandstate · 7 years ago

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Vikings at the Olympics

Stan Bohonek (pictured above) graduated from Cleveland State University in 1982 with a master’s in biology. Just six years earlier, the Canadian had the distinct honor of representing his country at the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

At the time, Bohonek was an accomplished figure skater who had also studied classical ballet. He had been named to Canada’s 1976 Winter Olympics team after winning bronze at the Canadian Championships.

Bohonek placed 14th in the men’s single skating event in Innsbruck. Today he owns a dental practice in Westlake, Ohio, and is one of a handful of CSU alums who have participated in the Olympics.

Here are eight other Vikings who’ve been part of the Summer or Winter Games.

Fenn College graduate and Viking All-American Robert Busboy served as the assistant coach of the 1964 U.S. Olympic Swimming Team in Tokyo.

Viking swimmer Rui Abreu (second from left) competed for Portugal in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. He just missed a medal, finishing 4th in the 200-meter freestyle in Russia.

Fenn College grad Bill Reith was assistant coach for the 1984 U.S. Olympic Fencing Team. He also coached three Olympians: Steve Trevor (1984 and 1988), John Normile (1992) and Jason Pryor (2016).

A Viking volleyball player and talented cyclist, Bunki Bankaitis-Davis placed 14th in the women’s road race at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Four years later, she won a gold medal in the team time trial at the UCI Road World Championships.

Wrestler Matt Ghaffari is one of the most decorated Greco-Roman wrestlers in the country. The Viking Hall of Famer holds three American records and is the only U.S. Greco-Roman wrestler with a total of four World and Olympic medals. He competed in both the 1992 and 1996 Olympics and celebrated his biggest achievement when he won the silver medal in the heavyweight division in Atlanta in 1996.

Speed skater Adam Riedy (center) was considered a strong candidate for the 2002 U.S. Olympic Team. When he didn’t make the cut for men’s short-track team due to his battle with multiple sclerosis, the 2010 CSU grad was selected to go to Salt Lake City to help the team as an assistant coach.

Nedim Nišić (right) was an outstanding swimmer for the Vikings and one of the best swimmers in his home country of Bosnia between 2004 and 2008. He was a member of the Bosnian Olympic team at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in the 100-meter butterfly.

Swimmer Ian Murray (center) was a four-year letterwinner at CSU from 1997 to 2000. Two years ago, he made it to the Olympics in Rio as coach for Seychelles swimmer Lexi Laird, who finished 27th in the 100-meter backstroke.

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duggardata · 3 years ago

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Has any of the fundie families you track have had more than 19 children? Any you predict will have more than that?

No, they have not. Only the Duggars and Bateses have reached #19. I'm unaware of any quiverfull (QF) family that has 20+ Children. The only family I'm aware of that has that many children is the Radfords, in Britain, but they aren't QF. They have 21 [Living] Children.

Here's how many children are in each Predictor Family, from most to least—

19 Children Gil + Kelly Jo Bates, J.B. + Michelle Duggar

13 Children David + Jill Rodrigues

11 Children Courtney + Christopher Rogers (+1 On The Way)

10 Children Marlin + Becky Bontrager

9 Children Paul + Christina Caldwell

8 Children Mike + Suzette Keller, Steve + Terry Maxwell

... and, here's how many are in various adjacent families, such as In–Laws, from most to least—

14 Children George + Lisa Keyes

13 Children Loren + Gloria Wissmann

11 Children George + Laura Craig (2 Adopted), Kevin + Marie Helferich

10 Children Ron + Jillene Keilen, Charles + Tammy Paine, Dwain + Lana Swanson, Brian + Susan Waller

9 Children Curtis + Lauren Bowers

8 Children Johnny + Cheryl Burnett

7 Children Garrett + Ethel Ruark (Michelle’s Parent), Richard + Angela Kahle, Tim + Ana Maria Salyer (3 Adopted), Michael + Guinn Seewald

6 Children Betty Jo Smith (Kelly’s Mom) w/ 2 Husbands (4 Biological, Including Kelly Jo, w/ Ken Callaham; 2 Adopted w/ Bill Miller), Greg + Analucia Jackson, Robert + Hilary Spivey, Paul + Denese Stewart, Daniel + Sandra Webster

5 Children Michael + Kristy Balka

4 Children Rick + Sharon Reith

3 Children Bill + Jane Bates (Gil’s Parents), Michael + Carla Clark, Robert + Sherri Smith, Chuck + Diana Vuolo

2 Children Rick + Cathy Dillard, Jimmy + Mary Duggar (Jim Bob’s Parents), Terry + Roxanne Forsyth, Kory + Kimberly Nakatsu, LaCount + Maria Reber

1 Child J.C. + Lynn Perkins

One final note... I've also done genealogy on the Predictor Families, and found no instances of 20+ Children, even fairly far back. The Keilen Family is notable for having several big families in its tree—they’re Catholic—but none with 19 Children.

#extended family

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reading-writing-revolution · 4 years ago

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"The following set of principles, which lay out in the clearest and most succinct terms the philosophy of policing by consent, appeared as an appendix to A New Study of Police History by Charles Reith (London: Oliver and Boyd, 1956). Reith was a lifelong historian of the police force in Britain, and this book covers the early years of Metropolitan Police following the passage of Sir Robert Peel’s ‘Bill for Improving the Police in and near the Metropolis’ on 19 June 1829. Reith notes that there are particular problems involved in writing police history, owing to the loss or destruction of much early archive material, and, probably for this reason, the principles appear without details of author or date."

"2. To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect."

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an-ordinary-roach · 7 years ago

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NAME: Nathaniel Costa ALIAS/NICKNAME(S): Nat, lil-Costa (by his mobs higher ups and dad too) GENDER: Masc non-binary? ( AFAB ) AGE: 27 DATE OF BIRTH: May 31, 1982 OCCUPATION: mortician, Happy Buddy ™ | APPEARANCE ;; EYE COLOUR: hazel (the other was brown but it’s gone tho) HAIR COLOUR: black HEIGHT: 5′9″ SCARS: missing eye and bite marks from the middle of their cheek on up BURNS: Both on missing pinkies, had to cauterize their missing pinkies OVERWEIGHT: nah UNDERWEIGHT: nope | FAVOURITE ;; COLOUR: tan, orange, purple, black, burble, red HAIR COLOUR: eh EYE COLOUR: hm SONG: Old school - B. Reith MOVIE: it’s hard to choose, but they’re mostly scary ones TV SHOW: goosebumps, bill nye, among other things FOOD: sweets, junk foof, tiramisu (don’t give them this as a demon cuz they’ll probably revert back to Nat, it’s their favorite and they always ask for this for their birthday), fruit, honey. DRINK: Pepsi, Cokecola (they mixed the two) BOOK: Lovecraft books PASSED UNIVERSITY: it took a few tries HAD SEX: :333c si HAD SEX IN PUBLIC: yeh GOTTEN PREGNANT: NO GOTTEN TATTOOS: none GOTTEN PIERCINGS: plugged earlobes and eyebrow piercings (on the ear rims too) KISSED A BOY: yes!~ KISSED A GIRL: yeh! HAD A BROKEN HEART: few times, but they like to end it mutually as much as possible BEEN IN LOVE: Yerp STAYED UP FOR MORE THAN 24 HOURS: occasionally when they're hyperfocused on something

| ARE THEY , , , A VIRGIN: (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) mi amigo... A KISSER: they kissed SCARED EASILY: only if you cheat and bring a doll in JEALOUS EASILY: not that much TRUSTWORTHY: anybody’s secrets are sealed with them DOMINANT: depends SUBMISSIVE: if only IN LOVE: Yeah! with his BF~ SINGLE: nop | RANDOM QUESTIONS HAVE THEY HARMED THEMSELVES: if eating things they shouldn’t yeah THOUGHT OF SUICIDE / ATTEMPTED SUICIDE: thought of it while workig with Dr. money WANTED TO KILL SOMEONE: their brothers and dad usually had their back if there was someone they wanted to kill, and visa versa DROVE A CAR: Yeh yeh HAVE/HAD A JOB: 2 | FAMILY SIBLINGS: two brothers and a sister (dead after joining Dr. Money) PARENTS: both dead same bc of sibs CHILDREN: none PETS: Had a pet Boxer and tabby named Bubbsy and vinny Stolen from: @nattjeger Tagging: *does a shrug*

#[[ THIS IS PAST STUFF!! I keep making canons about bor but I wanna explore their past self a bit so yeh~ ]]#abt nat #bugheadcanons #[[ plus its something for me to go back to ]]

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parkerbombshell · 4 years ago

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edisonashley · 5 years ago

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Richard Ekins: Constitutional Lessons from America

This is part of a series of posts in which Richard Ekins reflects upon Lord Sumption’s Reith Lectures. You can find the first posts here and here.

In his fourth Reith lecture, broadcast yesterday morning and entitled “Rights and the Ideal Constitution”, Jonathan Sumption turns to the American experience of struggling to reconcile democracy with rights adjudication. It is a cautionary tale, illustrating some of the damaging political consequences of relying on courts in an attempt to ward off majoritarian tyranny.

The lecture opens by noting and quoting Alexis de Tocqueville’s observation, in the 1830s, that American lawyers had become the new aristocracy, united in contempt for public opinion and serving as “the most powerful, if not the only counterpoise to the democratic element of the constitution”. For Sumption, this is not necessarily a criticism. He recalls his argument, articulated especially in his second lecture, “that democracies depend for their survival on their ability to mitigate the power and the impulses of electoral majorities”, arguing that representative politics is a more effective technique to this end than is judicial enforcement of legal restrictions on legislatures. Here, as throughout this lecture series, an old-fashioned liberal sensibility is on display, in which democracy (or at least the unruly temper of the people) is a problem to be managed.

In arguing about “the proper limits of democratic choice”, the British routinely look to the experience of the United States, whether for “inspiration” or “as a warning”. Sumption notes that “a mounting tide of hostility to representative politics over the past three decades… has naturally been accompanied by a growing interest in the legal constitutional model, especially among the judiciary”. The Constitution of the United States is the exemplar of this model, he says, just as the UK exemplifies the political constitution. It has certainly been immensely influential, not only in British constitutional discourse but also in informing constitutional design in Australia and Canada and many other jurisdictions. Most importantly of all, as Sumption says “the United States has had a longer and more varied experience than any other country”, which is invaluable in evaluating rights adjudication as a constitutional device.

Sumption notes that in its original 1787 form, the Constitution simply provided a framework for making collective decisions. The framers, Sumption says, initially looked to representative politics to restrain the people, but those who came after have not shared this confidence and have entrenched constitutional rights to ward off majoritarian tyranny. After the adoption of the Bill of Rights and the assertion by the Supreme Court in Marbury v Madison of authority to quash Acts of Congress, Sumption concludes that the US Constitution displayed “the three basic features which have come to be regarded as the hallmarks of every legal constitution”: (1) a bill of rights which is higher law, (2) subject only to amendment by some extraordinary procedure, (3) which judges may enforce by quashing any act, including legislation (cf. the Australian Constitution which lacks (1)).

The appeal of the American model, Sumption argues, is that it seems to prioritise principle over passion or prejudice, placing some matters “beyond the reach of popular choice” because elective institutions cannot be trusted to act “with the necessary restraint, intelligence or moral sensibility”. Hence, it reserves authority “to the sort of people, namely judges, whose superior qualities and independence of public opinion are thought to produce more enlightened decisions”. I agree entirely that enthusiasm for judicial review of legislation is often simply enthusiasm for the rule of judges. However, in the American context, the legal model is also often understood to be a means by which “We the People” may exercise self-government over time, with commitments made by way of extraordinary lawmaking processes upheld by the courts. Thus, neither President nor Congress exclusively represents the people and the Supreme Court does the will of the people when it enforces the terms of the Constitution against other institutions. This frame of analysis is obviously open to serious objection, especially in view of how difficult it is for the people to change the terms, but it exercises a powerful hold on the constitutional imagination.

The lecture does not closely discuss the idea that in constitutional rights adjudication the Supreme Court might be doing its legal duty and upholding the people’s past choices. Sumption notes that when judges identify a constitutional right they assert “that it derives from a higher law than the ordinary decision-making processes of the state [and thus] that it its existence and extent are not to be determined by political choice.” The problem, Sumption goes on to say, is that “many judicial decisions about fundamental rights are themselves political choices, only made by a smaller and unrepresentative body of people.” Thus, his concern, rightly, is that in practice rights adjudication invites or licenses judges to make their own authoritative political choices.

Sumption illustrates the problem by way of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which the Supreme Court has used as a ground on which to introduce a novel right to privacy, to quash economic and social reforms throughout the Lochner era, and to legislate about abortion and same-sex marriage. He draws two lessons from this review: first, judicial decisions in such cases “always involve a large element of political value judgment” and second, they “are not necessarily wiser or superior to the judgments of the legislature”. This is a strong critique, which echoes and supplements his third lecture’s discussion of the Strasbourg Court’s Article 8 jurisprudence.

The legal model “marginalises the political process”, taking some matters out of the hands of legislators and voters, and privileging instead the (all too fallible) views of some judges. Sumption does not have a romantic view about voters or legislators, who of course act for a mix of good and bad reasons. His case for democracy is twofold. First, political stability requires legitimacy. In the UK as much as in the US, “‘We the people’ is the emotional foundation of democracy”, by which Sumption means, I think, that it is vital that we recognise public decisions as in some sense our acts, which is unlikely unless we have an opportunity fairly to participate in their making. Second, and relatedly, “counting votes… reflects our sense of social and political equality”. Entrenching a controversial scheme of values within the constitution unfairly privileges citizens who share those values, disabling free choice by political equals. The point of a democratic political system, Sumption concludes, is to enable participation, to accommodate disagreements between citizens as they are, not as they would be if they were somehow detached from their prejudices or interests. The American model, as it has developed in practice, disables citizens from settling their disagreements by way of the political process, forcing them instead to turn to the courts.

When a political controversy is taken up, or taken over, by the courts, Sumption argues, compromise and political settlement becomes much more difficult. He speculates that abortion has remained so much more controversial in America than in Britain (and Europe) for this reason. This is plausible, I say, for abortion law in the US is much more permissive than in many European countries, despite public opinion, precisely because it has been constitutionalised. Further, as Sumption makes clear, politics does not disappear just because a question is taken up by the courts. This is clear not only in the politicised reasoning of the courts, but also in the, inevitable and justified, political competition for control of appointments to the courts and in the, unseemly but unsurprising, spectacle of the appointments process. Sumption here understates his case. The judicial usurpation of the abortion question has profoundly distorted American politics, turning each presidential (and senatorial) election into a contest for power to appoint the swing justice. It is very unlikely that Donald Trump would have been elected President if millions of conservative Americans, otherwise reluctant to vote for him, had not reasoned that he would appoint better (more congenial) judges than Hilary Clinton.

The lecture confronts directly the familiar argument that judicial review is necessary to prevent majoritarian tyranny. Sumption notes, drily, that “what constitutes majoritarian tyranny very much depends on how you define your minority and what you regard as tyranny”. This is certainly true and the risk of majoritarian tyranny does not make minority rule unobjectionable. There is also no reason, as Sumption’s review of the Due Process Clause jurisprudence confirms, to think that courts will typically make better decisions than legislatures. However, the fear of majoritarian tyranny has obvious grounds in the experience of slavery, the original sin of the US Constitution, and Jim Crow laws. But this experience does not establish that judicial review has somehow proved its worth in a tragic context. The Constitution was obviously no guarantee against slavery; on the contrary, it secured the rights of slave-holders. The Supreme Court’s contribution, by way of Dred Scott, was baleful. And its record since then, notwithstanding Brown v Board of Education, has been mixed at best. As Cass Sunstein put it, writing fifty years after Brown, “Most of the time, the judiciary has been an obstacle to racial equality”. By contrast, our sovereign Parliament abolished the slave trade and then slavery decades before the US, without a civil war, and the political constitution, in New Zealand and the UK, has over time made provision for decent treatment of minority groups, including fair participation in politics.

Sumption’s conclusion is that it is a mistake to look to law to restrain majorities. The only real constraints are political, by which he means not only representative institutions but also a political culture which encourages active political engagement and shared bonds between citizens. He concludes that “courts cannot parry the broader threat that legislative majorities may act oppressively, unless they assume general legislative powers for themselves.” I would say that his lecture helps make clear that courts are not competent to exercise these powers, that assuming such powers might well lawlessly depart from the Constitution itself, that the exercise (and especially the assumption) of such powers would violate democratic principle, establishing unjust rule by (five of nine) judges. It would also invite, quite rightly, political pushback, in which citizens struggle to appoint judges who will hew more closely to settled law and/or will not interfere so readily with representative institutions. For the time being, it seems as if the pushback will take the form simply of attempting to wrest control of the Supreme Court from the other side. One may hope in due course for a wider, less partisan attempt to limit judicial review more generally. Either way, Sumption’s lecture makes very clear that the US Constitution is not a model to follow.

Richard Ekins is Associate Professor, University of Oxford, Head of Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project, and editor (with N. W. Barber and P. Yowell) of Lord Sumption and the Limits of the Law (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2016).

(Suggested citation: R. Ekins, ‘Constitutional Lessons from America’, U.K. Const. L. Blog (12th Jun. 2019) (available at https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/))

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kira-study · 6 years ago

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http://www.samharris.org/podcast

The Tim Ferriss Show: Podcast hàng đầu Itunes. Tác giả của cuốn Tuần làm việc 4 giờ.

http://fourhourworkweek.com/

Harvard Business Review IdeaCast: Ai thích kinh doanh, quản trị, lãnh đạo thì nên nghe để bắt kịp với thế giới.

http://feeds.harvardbusiness.org/harvardbusiness/ideacast…

In our time: BBC radio, thập cẩm lịch sử, triết học, tôn giáo….

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl

BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures: Kinh điển, các bài giảng hàng năm bởi các học giả hàng đầu thế giới, có từ năm 1948 trên đài BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d9

Philosophy bites: Phỏng vấn các giáo sư, chuyên gia hàng đầu trong triết học. Vô cùng hay, thường 30’ 1 bài phỏng vấn

http://www.philosophybites.com/

Philosophize This!: Điểm lại các triết gia hàng đầu trong lịch sử, nhưng nói theo phong cách dân dã, dễ hiểu.

http://www.philosophizethis.org/

Philosophy Talk: Từ hai giáo sư trường từ Stanford

http://www.philosophytalk.org/

Very Bad Wizards: Triết học + Tâm lí học. Hay, hài, nhiều dinh dưỡng, nhưng hơi tục do 1 giáo sư triết học và 1 tâm lý học dựng

http://verybadwizards.com/

EconTalk: Phỏng vấn nhiều chuyên gia nổi tiếng thế giới, liên quan nhiều đến kinh tế học

http://www.econtalk.org/

Revisionist History: Podcast mới của Malcolm Gladwell, nhìn lại lịch sử về 1 sự kiện, con người hay ý tưởng.

http://revisionisthistory.com/

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Ted-ed: Bài học nhỏ, từ 5-10’, nhiều chủ đề, có phần câu hỏi và đào sâu

http://ed.ted.com/

Aspen Ideas Festival: Giống TED, tổ chức hàng năm

http://www.aspenideas.org/

Zuric Minds: Giống TED, nhưng bên Đức

http://zurichminds.com/

Politics and Prose: Quay lại buổi giới thiệu sách mới ra của các tác giả

https://www.youtube.com/user/politicsprose…

Talks at Google: Phải cảm ơn Google vì nguồn tài nguyên tuyệt vời này. Các Video đều có Sub Anh, giới thiệu các cuốn sách mới ra.

https://www.youtube.com/user/AtGoogleTalks

ZeitgeistMinds: 1 chương trình khác của Google, nhiều bài Talks rất hay.

https://www.zeitgeistminds.com/

The School of Life: Giới thiệu các tác giả, tác phẩm lớn của nhân loại

https://www.youtube.com/user/schooloflifechannel

Fight Mediocrity: Các video tóm tắt sách khoảng 15'. Rất hay.

https://www.youtube.com/user/phuckmediocrity

PragerU: Video hoạt hình về những ý tưởng lớn

https://www.youtube.com/user/PragerUniversity/videos

Wisecrack: Phân tích phim

https://www.youtube.com/user/thugnotes/

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Brain Pickings: Nhiều bài về sách và văn hóa đọc

https://www.brainpickings.org/

Big Think: Video, Bài báo từ các chuyên gia hàng đầu

http://bigthink.com/

Nautilus Magazine: Thập cẩm khoa học, mỗi số nói về 1 chủ đề dưới nhiều góc độ khác nhau, vô cùng hay, thiết kế đẹp

http://nautil.us/

Aeon: Rất nhiều bài hay từ các giáo sư, chuyên gia trong ngành viết.

https://aeon.co/

Edge: Trang Web thông minh nhất thế giới, nơi tụ họp của trí thức hàng đầu thế giới

http://edge.org/

The School of life: Đại học bôn ba

http://www.theschooloflife.com/

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Dành cho những quan tâm đến giáo dục đại học

http://chronicle.com/

Pacific Standard: Thập cẩm

http://www.psmag.com/

Học về mọi thứ: Kênh do Discovery phát triển

https://curiosity.com/

Harvard Business Review: Dành cho ai thích kinh doanh

https://hbr.org/

Closer to Truth: Ai thích thiên văn, vật lý, khoa học, tôn giáo. Do PBS sản xuất

https://www.closertotruth.com/

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Alkire, Jessie. Construct it! : architecture you can build, break, and build again. 2018. Grades 4-6. Makerspaces are places designed to inspire creativity and collaboration. In Construct It! Architecture You Can Build, Break, and Build Again, kids will build a working wrecking ball, pulley elevator, bridge, and more! Colorful step-by-step photos bring each project to life.

Arbogast, Joan Marie. Buildings in Disguise. 2004. Grades K-2. A fun look at architecture that looks like “animals, food and other things!”

Bill Nye the Science Guy. Architecture. 2005. Bill Nye explains how architects design buildings and then travels to Japan to learn how pagodas are built to withstand earthquakes.

Brooks, Philip. Superstructures. 2002. Grades 4 & Up. Text and detailed illustrations explore and explain the architectural styles, building methods, materials, and technologies used throughout history to build structures such as the pyramids of Egypt, the Roman baths, the Statue of Liberty, and modern skyscrapers.

Burns, Kylie. A Bridge Goes Over. 2017. Grades 2-5. Find out how engineers design bridges and other structures.

Dillon, Patrick & Stephen Biesty. The Story of Buildings. 2014. Grades 4-7. A beautifully illustrated and comprehensive book about the design and creation of the most remarkable buildings and structures from around the world! Includes clear explanations of basic building terms, such as cantilevers, arches, domes and more.

Graham, Ian. Great Building Designs: 1900—Today. 2016. Grades 4-6. Highlights some of the most exciting design breakthroughs in modern history, and introduces the amazing designers and architects behind them.

Johmann, Carol A. & Elizabeth J. Reith. Bridges! Amazing Structures to Design, Build & Test. 1999. Grades 2-6. Gives excellent, simple to follow instructions for building and testing various types of bridges from easily found materials.

Mason, Adrienne. Build It! Structures, Systems and You. 2006. Grades 1-2. Learn about architectural concepts through fun projects and activities, using everyday materials.

Meister, Carl. Totally amazing facts about stuff we've built. 2017. Grades 1-3. Bridges, towers, castles, and all sorts of iconic and bizarre structures are jam-packed into Totally Amazing Facts About Stuff We've Built. Eye-catching photos and more than 100 facts will send trivia fans and reluctant readers on a wild architecture tour around the world.

Simon, Seymour & Nicole Fauteux. Let’s Try It Out with Towers and Bridges. 2003. Grades 1-2. Basic concepts behind the construction of sturdy buildings and bridges are explained through easy activities and experiments.

Tavernier, Sarah. The illustrated atlas of architecture and marvelous monuments. 2016. Grades 3-7. The Illustrated Atlas of Architecture andMarvelous Monuments presents a world of breathtaking buildings and their incredible stories through illustrated maps and engaging factsheets.

Kulling, Monica. Going up! : Elisha Otis's trip to the top. 2012. Grades K-3. Recounts the story of the invention of the elevator and of its creator, tracing Otis's route from a farm boy watching ropes break on the hay hoist to his contributions to high-rise innovations and other feats of modern architecture.

Labrecque, Ellen. Who was Frank Lloyd Wright? 2015. Grades 3-7. Frank Lloyd Wright was a man ahead of his time who could barely keep up with his own ideas! He grew up to become the father of organic architecture and the greatest American architect of all time, having designed more than 1,100 buildings during his lifetime.

Winter, Jeanette. The world is not a rectangle : a portrait of architect Zaha Hadid. 2017. Grades K-5. A biography of architect Zaha Hadid, who grew up in Baghdad and went on to design buildings all over the world.

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1920s, What was happening in the world?

1920

More Urban Than Rural.

The United States Census reports for the first time that more Americans live in urban areas than in rural areas. However, "urban" is defined as any town with more than 2,500 people.

July 1921

In the UK Unemployment reaches a post-war high of 2.5 million

December 1921

Anglo-Irish Peace Treaty is signed, resulting in partition of the island

October 1926

Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa are recognised as autonomous.

In 1923, a dominion's right to make a treaty with a foreign power had been accepted. The Imperial Conference in London went further towards legally defining a dominion by recognising that the dominions (Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa) were autonomous and equal in status, a decision that was later affirmed by the 1931 Statute of Westminster.

January 1927

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is created

A group of radio manufacturers, including radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi, set up the British Broadcasting Company in 1922. In 1927 the company was granted a Royal Charter, becoming the British Broadcasting Corporation under John Reith. Reith's mission was improved Britain through broadcasting, and he famously instructed the corporation to 'inform, educate and entertain'.

May 1928

All women over the age of 21 get the vote

The fifth Reform Act brought in by the Conservative government altered the 1918 Representation of the People Act, which had only allowed women over 30 who owned property to be enfranchised. The new act gave women the vote on the same terms as men.

September 1928

The first 'talkie' (film with dialogue) is shown in Britain

British audiences were introduced to talking pictures when the 'The Jazz Singer', opened in London. Cinema-going was immensely popular during the 1920s and 1930s and virtually every town, suburb and major housing development had at least one cinema. There was often a double bill of a main and 'B' feature, supported by a newsreel.

September 1928

Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

While working at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, Alexander Fleming noticed that a mould growing on a dish had stopped bacteria developing. Howard Florey and Ernst Chain developed penicillin further so it could be used as a drug, but it was not until World War Two that it began to be mass produced.

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By Charlene Baldridge

Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas” originally began as a novella published in 1843, and then, almost immediately, it was adapted for the theater. The uplifting story recounts the redemption of the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge through the Christmas Eve visitations of his decidedly dead partner, Jacob Marley, and three Ghosts of Christmas — Past, Present and Yet to Come.

Cygnet Theatre Artistic Director Sean Murray goes back a long way with “A Christmas Carol,” initially through his youthful association with San Diego Repertory Theatre as an actor. For many years the Rep presented the play annually, and indeed Murray directed it there when he returned from college at North Carolina School of the arts (BFA, 2000).

Murray and his life and business partner Bill Schmidt founded Cygnet Theatre in 2002 and moved it to Old Town, where Murray created his own adaptation of “Carol” in 2012.

David McBean (left) as the Ghost of Christmas Past and Tom Stephenson as Ebenezer Scrooge in Cygnet Theatre’s “A Christmas Carol” now playing at Old Town Theatre (Photo by Ken Jaques)

Coming in at a sleek two hours, the play is now seen with music by Billy Thompson, choreography by Katie Whalley Banville, set design by Andrew Hull, costume design by Jeanne Reith (based on original designs by Shirley Pierson), lighting design by Kyle Montgomery (based on original design by R. Craig Wolf), wig and makeup design by Peter Herman, and sound design by Matt Lescault-Wood.

Music director Patrick Marion accompanies a versatile company of actors and three breath-taking, lifelike puppets created by Michael McKeon, Lynne Jennings and Rachel Hengst.

The current cadre of singer/actors — who sing carols of the season as well as original music by Thompson — are Maggie Carney, Charles Evans, Jr., Melissa Fernandes, Melinda Gilb, David McBean, and Patrick McBride, all of whom play multiple roles. Tom Stephenson portrays Scrooge brilliantly, never out of touch with what made Scrooge Scrooge. The work is set in Elizabethan London on Christmas Eve.

Physically and vocally imposing, McBean presents the series of ghosts, not so gently leading Scrooge through a life increasingly devoted to amassing wealth. One of the play’s most poignant moments takes Scrooge back to the day when his fiancée broke off their engagement, accusing him of having replaced her with an all-consuming new mistress named money.

The grown-up Scrooge’s cry to his youthful self, “Call her back! Call her back, you idiot!” says it all.

Now way beyond love and meaningful engagement with others, Scrooge is forced by the ghosts to look upon his present, unsustainable existence, devoid of humanity and generosity.

“I cannot afford to make idle people merry” he says to women soliciting funds for the poor. Equally ugly are his relationships with his employee, Bob Cratchit, father of the crippled Tiny Tim, and with his own nephew, Fred.

The company achieves harmonic blend despite the complexity of Thompson’s score. In an especially joyous pre-show warm up, all but Stephenson sing favorite carols culminating with audience participation in “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” preparing the audience for what is to come. What arrives is indeed a warm-hearted gem of the season.

— Charlene Baldridge has been writing about the arts since 1979. You can follow her blog at charlenecriticism.blogspot.com or reach her at [email protected].

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