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Graham Todd
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Secret Cinema in Saudi Arabia
Though cinemas and movie-making were made illegal in the 1970s after religious conservatives declared many cultural activities sinful, it has not stopped Saudi Arabians from making and showing films that undermine SA’s puritanism today. A few renegade film makers in…
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Chicken Soup for the Hungry
Early in 2013, Chicken Soup for the Soul book publisher will be releasing a line of “nutritious, quality comfort foods” to supermarkets and other food retailers across the nation. The first products on the line will be seven soups, naturally,…
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Sympathy for Sale
The Germans have developed a suit that helps medical students understand what it’s like to be old that doesn’t require walking in the snow with only burlap shoes and up hills to and from everywhere. The suit throws off the…
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The Saints Stink
Miranda Popkey of The Morning News on why American football is so attractive and quickly becoming the country’s most watched sport for the wrong reasons. Popkey investigates the realities behind the popular and easy narratives applied to the sport and…
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Guthrie Still Elusive at 100
Leonard Cassuto of the Chronicle of Higher Education discusses the absence of Woody Guthrie in the university because of his political stance, his views on copyright and shying from the spotlight, and the “aw shucks” Oklahoman personality he cultivated. Cassuto…
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No Dinos!?
In really disappointing dinosaur news today, an Australian university found that DNA cannot survive more than 6.8 million years and so dashed the dreams of many a 90’s kid. Sadly, Jurassic Park will never happen. After Michael Crichton’s bestseller and…
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Language is Simpler Than Previously Believed
A new Cornell study indicates that language is made of small sequential structures that string together to make meaning. The study may debunk the 50 year old belief that language is hierarchical — that a sentence is made of small…
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Women Writers on Arabian Nights
Erica Wagner interviews Hanan Al-Shayk, Lebanese author, and Marina Warner, cultural historian, on what the modern world can learn from 1,001 Nights for Guernica Magazine. The three feminist-minded writers champion 1,001 Nights for its giving voice to the oppressed and…
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West Memphis Three’s Damien Echols’ New Book
Deadspin has provided a snippet of Damien Echols’ Life After Death, a chronicle of his experience on death row after being wrongfully convicted of murder in 1994 as a part of the West Memphis Three: “At one point I entertained thoughts…
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Agreement Reached in Google Books Case
Several major publishers, including Penguin Groups and McGraw-Hill, and Google announced this morning that they have reached an agreement in the Google Books copyright infringement case. The private settlement brings a close to the case for publishers, though the claims…
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BookCrossing
If you’re into the extremely rad tradition of sharing books, which we know you are, you’ll probably be thrilled by BookCrossing… BookCrossing is a social media network that facilitates the sharing of books and the establishment of connections between fellow…
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Alice Walker on Censorship
Guernica interviews Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple and one of the most censored contemporary writers, in honor of Banned Books Week. The Color Purple has been voted off school curriculums and out of school libraries many times since…