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  1. Bright Lights Film Journal
    Pop reviews and in-depth analyses of current and classic films from around the world. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Borders Without Doctors: Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border
    Green Border soars and stumbles because it overreaches in its gravitas and humanity, lingering a little too long and stretching a moment out of shape like all great neorealist films[...] The post Borders Without Doctors: …
    By Jason Alley, 53 words
  2. Brandon's movie memory – Deeper Into Movies
    This is not film criticism, just my thoughts on what I’ve watched, how I felt about it, and what other interesting information and opinion I found elsewhere. More info

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    The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper)
    Two siblings and three of their buddies take a lil roadtrip to see if their slaughterhouse grandpa got dug up in the reported wave of grave robbings. This is something I’d completely forgotten: they’re not …
    By Brandon, 209 words
  3. Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
    a personal view of the theory of computation. By Kenneth W. Regan, Richard Lipton. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Women In Theory
    My dear wife, Kathryn Farley, just woke me this Friday the 20th from a nap with something that she said was amazing. She told me it was the top most viewed video of the entire …
    By rjlipton, 166 words
  4. A Common Reader
    A way to sort through my thoughts about what I read and organize my notes. I hope it can provide readers a resource for classics, hard-to-find books, and non-fiction works. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Fool by Peter K. Andersson
    Fool: In Search of Henry VIII’s Closest Manby Peter K. AnderssonPrinceton University Press, 2023 The posthumous image of him has been entangled with the real individual, and no one has really fully tried to disentangle …
    By Dwight, 1,355 words
  5. Goethe Etc.
    Mostly about Goethe and the 18th century. By Goethe Girl. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Goethe and Refugees, 2
    This is the concluding part of the previous post on the subject of refugees and émigrés during the French Revolution in Goethe's works. As with Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten, discussed in the earlier post, I am …
    By Goethe Girl, 992 words
  6. Sharon Lohr — Blog
    Sharon Lohr researches and writes about statistics: where they come from, how to interpret them, and how to tell the good statistics from the bad. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Reviewing the 2023 National Violent Crime Statistics
    It’s time for my annual update on crime statistics, following the September release of 2023 numbers by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). We …
    By Sharon Lohr, 2,818 words
  7. West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
    Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology. By Mark Palko, Joseph. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Waiting for Goffman -- to understand how the New York Times' election coverage got so bad, you have to look beyond their election coverage.
    [written before the election, but it still seems valid] This pair of posts from almost nine years ago superficially would seem to have nothing to do with our ongoing discussion of the New York Times' …
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  8. Big Data, Plainly Spoken (aka Numbers Rule Your World)
    Comments on how data science, algorithms, software shape current events. By Kaiser Fung. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Contaminated science
    In one sense, the E.coli outbreak attributed to McDonald's has ended, as reported cases have dwindled to a drip. In another sense, it hasn't ended, because the number of cases is still growing. This is …
    By junkcharts, 749 words
  9. Mountain Beltway - AGU Blogosphere
    By Callan Bentley. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Swan song
    Trumpeter Swan observed last week at Ragged Mountain Reservoir, near Charlottesville, Virginia Well, this is it: The last post at Mountain Beltway here at the AGU Blogosphere. AGU has been so accommodating, hosting my blog …
    By Callan Bentley, 284 words
  10. Georneys – Geological Musings, Wanderings, and Adventures
    Geological musings, wanderings, and adventures. By Evelyn Mervine. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Coming Soon!
    This will be the new home of my blog Georneys. I’ll be moving all of my posts here from the AGU blogosphere – and starting some new blogging in 2024. Stay tuned!
    By Evelyn Mervine, 34 words
  11. Miriam Eric Suzanne
    writing & speaking & music & theater & cetera. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Aggregating my distributed self
    Where does all this content belong? Most of the content on this site is an aggregate view of my work in other venues. How do I want to manage that process going forward? It’s 2024, …
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  12. Manuel Matuzovic
    I'm a frontend developer from Vienna, specialized in HTML, accessibility, and CSS layout and architecture. By Manuel Matuzović. 🇦🇹 More info

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    Website accessibility reaction videos (in German)
    Recently, I started a new project. I react to the accessibility of more or less randomly picked websites.Before you get too excited, It's in German. I feel more comfortable recording live reactions to websites I …
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  13. Stephen Knight Photography
    Articles and Tutorials on Light Painting Techniques. Reviews and Buying Guides for Flashlights, Torches, and Light Painting Tools. 🇦🇺 More info

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    Exploring Yongma Land - an abandoned amusement park in Seoul
    Introduction Yongma Land is an "abandoned" amusement park in Seoul, South Korea. This small amusement park which was called "Magic Land" during operation, opened in 1983, and closed in 2011. After it closed for riding, …
    By Stephen Knight, 678 words
  14. Tim McMahon
    Software Developer in Melbourne, Australia. 🇦🇺 More info

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    Vastlite Sima EDC Torch Review
    Vastlite Sima Specifications Introduction Torch in use Build quality LED, bezel, lens, reflector and beam Size and comparison User interface Batteries and charging Performance Beamshots Conclusion Price Product page Specifications Brand/model Vastlite Sima LED 2*Osram …
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  15. shadowsandsatin
    where the worlds of film noir and pre-code collide. By Karen Burroughs Hannsberry. 🇺🇸 More info

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    Noirvember Day 18: Trivial OOTP Tidbits
    The film’s screenwriter and producer wanted Bogart to play the role of Jeff. What time is it? Time for some Out of the Past trivia! Enjoy . . . Humphrey Bogart, Dick Powell, and John …
    By shadowsandsatin, 516 words