Bright Lights Film Journal
Pop reviews and in-depth analyses of current and classic films from around the world.
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Updated 5 days ago
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: …
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.
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Updated 17 hours ago
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 …
Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
a personal view of the theory of computation.
By Kenneth W. Regan, Richard Lipton.
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Updated a month ago
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 …
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.
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Updated 7 months ago
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 …
Goethe Etc.
Mostly about Goethe and the 18th century.
By Goethe Girl.
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Updated a month ago
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
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.
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Updated a month ago
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
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.
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Updated 6 hours ago
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' …
Big Data, Plainly Spoken (aka Numbers Rule Your World)
Comments on how data science, algorithms, software shape current events.
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Updated 3 hours ago
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 …
Mountain Beltway - AGU Blogosphere
By Callan Bentley.
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Updated 10 months ago
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
Georneys – Geological Musings, Wanderings, and Adventures
Geological musings, wanderings, and adventures.
By Evelyn Mervine.
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Updated 9 months ago
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!
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Miriam Eric Suzanne
writing & speaking & music & theater & cetera.
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Updated a month ago
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, …
Manuel Matuzovic
I'm a frontend developer from Vienna, specialized in HTML, accessibility, and CSS layout and architecture.
By Manuel Matuzović.
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Updated a month ago
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 …
Stephen Knight Photography
Articles and Tutorials on Light Painting Techniques. Reviews and Buying Guides for Flashlights, Torches, and Light Painting Tools.
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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
Tim McMahon
Software Developer in Melbourne, Australia.
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Updated 6 days ago
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 …
shadowsandsatin
where the worlds of film noir and pre-code collide.
By Karen Burroughs Hannsberry.
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Updated 13 hours ago
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