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Rani and Clyde are back! Sarah Jane’s proteges reunite to take on the world in three new adventures from Big Finish next year Big Finish have announced details of the three full-cast audio dramas from the worlds of Doctor Who featuring the return of The Sarah Jane Adventures’ Rani (Anjli Mohindra). Now an award-winning journalist, […]

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If nothing else, the enormous success of (South) Korean culture abroad is an example of how industrial policy and culture are by no means mutually exclusive. Those brilliant, brutal films about class war, those ultra-cute, ultra-glossy TV dramas, those androgynous boy and girl bands, can all be traced in some way to the enormous state […]

First things first — Kuhle Wampe is one of the greatest socialist films ever made, up there in the pantheon with Battleship Potemkin, I Am Cuba, Land and Freedom, or Sorry to Bother You. An early sound film, made in 1932 by a collective including the Bulgarian director Slatan Dudow, the playwright and poet Bertolt […]

What is to be done with Russian books? Which of them, if any, should we read now? Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, calls to cancel Russian literature have been heard from various quarters. That is nothing new, particularly when it comes to the classics. In 1908, in ‘Leo Tolstoy as the Mirror of the […]

By the brink of autumn in 1853, the Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle was nearing the end of his tether. ‘All summer I have been more or less annoyed with noises’, he wrote to his sister that August. There were next door’s chickens — those ‘demon fowls’ squawking at all hours. There was the neighbour on the […]

The Los Angeles-based modern architect Gregory Ain (1908–88) was a pioneer in low-cost housing in the 1930s and ’40s. During this period, Ain collaborated closely with the era’s design luminaries, including Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra, and Charles and Ray Eames. He developed a series of innovative housing projects that today remain compelling models for high-quality, […]

How Tangled Bank Studios learned to make science documentaries that feel like feature films.

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Lorenzo's Music talking at the Ubuntu Summit in Prague about being open-source, creative commons musicians

Ad Hoc https://dailynous.com/2022/12/20/ad-hoc-46/ Created Wed, 21/12/2022 - 04:00 Ad Hoc by Rachel Katler Other Daily Nous Comics / More Info about DN Comics Rachel Katler on Twitter new issue of RWER https://rwer.wordpress.com/2022/12/20/new-issue-of-rwer/ Created Wed, 21/12/2022 - 03:47   real-world economics review  Please click here to support this journal and the WEA  Issue no. 10218 December 2022 download whole issue Ecological Economics in Four ParablesHerman Daly          2 The Paradigm in the Iron Mask: Toward an Institutional Ecology of Ecological EconomicsGregory A. Daneke         16  The Towering Problem […] River deep https://larspsyll.wordpress.com/2022/12/20/river-deep-3/ Created Wed, 21/12/2022 - 03:43 . REVIEW: Doctor Who: Connections – Fun, Emotion, and Scares in Three Thrillingly Different Tales https://www.blogtorwho.com/review-doctor-who-connections-fun-emotion-and-scares… Created Wed, 21/12/2022 - 03:00 Three very different adventures for the Eighth Doctor, Liv and Helen feature fiendishly clever plot twists alongside beautiful character work in three thrilling different, but equally brilliant, tales The Eighth Doctor returns for more adventures alongside his best friends Liv Chenka and Helen Sinclair in Doctor Who: Connections. The three one hour stories in this […] The post REVIEW: Doctor Who: Connections – Fun, Emotion, and Scares in Three Thrillingly Different Tales appeared first on Blogtor Who. Thoma from LSE to Bayreuth https://dailynous.com/2022/12/20/thoma-from-lse-to-bayreuth/ Created Wed, 21/12/2022 - 02:56 Johanna Thoma, currently associate professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Bayreuth. Professor Thoma works on practical rationality and decision theory, ethics and public policy, and economic methodology. You can learn more about her work here and here. At Bayreuth she will be full professor of philosophy. She will also be an external member of the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy. She takes up her new position on March 1st, 2023. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bandwidth https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bandwidth Created Wed, 21/12/2022 - 02:07 Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I wonder if the Micro Machines guy ever tried this. Today's News: Daft Punk Live Set from 1997 https://kottke.org/22/12/daft-punk-live-set-from-1997 Created Wed, 21/12/2022 - 02:03 Journalist Targeted By Ukraine Speaks Out: Wyatt Reed with Lee Camp https://www.mintpressnews.com/journalist-targeted-ukraine-speaks-wyatt-reed-lee… Created Wed, 21/12/2022 - 02:00 Wyatt Reed was put on a dystopian kill list run by the Ukrainian Interior Ministry bearing the name Myrotvorets less than two weeks before his hotel was bombed by the Ukrainian military. The post Journalist Targeted By Ukraine Speaks Out: Wyatt Reed with Lee Camp appeared first on MintPress News. Consequences Of The End of Zero Covid In China https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/niyBMplQItCbbJi5Xiv8Dwm0QkxGtqLL Created Wed, 21/12/2022 - 01:55 Back in November I wrote that China’s Zero Covid policy was the right thing done the wrong way. Briefly after, consequent to some protests against Zero-Covid, China basically abandoned the policy. The main problem is the same that exists in almost every country: even the most competent elites in the world today are, when not graded on a scale, incompetent buffoons incapable of running anything properly. Zero-Covid should have been about making necessary infrastructure changes to clean air so that over time restrictions could be eased. CEPR Spotlight: Unions https://cepr.net/cepr-spotlight-unions/ Created Wed, 21/12/2022 - 01:45 CEPR’s researchers continue to lead the charge on tracking unionization in the US and outlining the many benefits it has, particularly for marginalized workers. Research Associate Hayley Brown has analyzed the importance of unionization in improving working conditions and increasing pay for disabled workers and young workers. Her report last month showed how Hispanic workers […] The post CEPR Spotlight: Unions appeared first on Center for Economic and Policy Research. Smirnoff Peppermint Martini (1972) https://dinnerisserved1972.com/2022/12/20/smirnoff-peppermint-martini-1972/ Created Wed, 21/12/2022 - 01:34 The Peppermint Martini (an interim idea). Somebody once said, “if the perfect martini is ever created, it won’t be a martini.” Until now, two things stood between the martini and perfection: Gin and Vermouth. Substitute Smirnoff for gin and you’re halfway home. But what can you substitute for vermouth? We haven’t found it yet, butContinue reading Smirnoff Peppermint Martini (1972) → Quick Indicator Comments — Brian Romanchuk http://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com/2022/12/quick-indicator-comments-brian-… Created Wed, 21/12/2022 - 01:20 I just wanted to make two quick comments about data in the United States. The first is about a new rent series from researchers at the Cleveland Fed, the second is about labour data. Bond Economics Quick Indicator Comments Brian Romanchuk WE PREFER NOT TO KNOW https://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/2022/12/we-prefer-not-to-know.html Created Wed, 21/12/2022 - 01:18 What Horses' Anuses And Ginger Have To Do With The Origins Of "Cocktails" (Thanks to pharmaross)