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‘The New York Times reports that Bob Wordward’s new book War includes a few stories about donald trump being Putin’s stooge. When the world, including the United States, was suffering a dire shortage of COVID-19 tests, trump was sending tests to his pal Putin for “personal use.” After leaving office, there are stories of donald rushing aides out of his way to take a private call with his good buddy, …

A fun book to draw from when teaching modern Japan is Soeda Azembo and Michael Lewis, A Life Adrift: Soeda Azembo, Popular Song and Modern Mass Culture in Japan ( London: Routledge, 2009). You can’t assign it, since it is not in our databases and costs too much, and maybe would not work that way anyway. You can pull a lot of songs from it though. There is a short …

Reading Time: 3 minutes Does testing actually improve student memory better than studying? Even when tests are given without feedback, retrieval practice enhances later retention more than restudying the material. For definition, research often refers to retrieval practice as the ‘testing effect’, and when the word ‘testing’ is used, people outside education become concerned, and often associate any kind […]

Reviewed by Harriet William Boyd’s latest novel has been almost overwhelmingly greeted with admiration and praise. ‘A Spy Story to rival Restless’ is the Guardian’s headline, harking back to Boyd’s 2007 masterpiece. Like that novel, this one is set in the past – this time, the 1960s. In fact the novel begins in 1960 with Gabriel Dax, the young protagonist, travelling to the Congo to interview the newly elected prime …

Read on to learn how you can help share Amos’s story with Black students at historically Black colleges and universities. With a gorgeous and astute design from lauded creatives Gail Anderson (a 2008 AIGA medalist) and Joe Newton, as well warm and charismatic portraits of Kennedy at work by Aundre Larrow, Citizen Printer also celebrates the printmaking process of one of our most exuberant artists. To Be Young, Gifted, and …

ALTALTALTALTALTALTALTALTALTALTI really enjoy tracking down self-portraits from retro sci-fi artists.

Hard Times of 1975 is a lovely film about the unlovely sport of bare-knuckle boxing. Walter Hill’s first directorial effort, the movie came out in the 1970s nostalgia boom, and its cinematographer, Philip Lathrop, shot it in a dark, dingy glow; its surface seems coated with an old Kodachrome’s antique glaze. Its first scene could have come out of an early-1930s Warner Bros. road film: A lone man stands in …

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Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, …

Some time in the La Sals for Joan's birthday. Read More ... Continue reading Birthday in the La Sals at PMags.com.

'Driving into some pole/because a ditch seems too final,/too obvious, too ironic'

I haven’t done one of these for a while. These two American interurban scenes cry out to be modelled. And this if you had the room. Fremo modular layouts in HO can be enormous! This would be an interesting railway to model. And prototypes for everything. These pictures are dedicated to the ESNG treasurer. (If you know, you know.) And a little humour to round off this post.

Today is World Mental Health Day and the theme this year is 'Prioritising Mental Health in the Workplace'. Clare Gerada reviews a study showing that doctor suicide rates, particularly for females, exceed those of the general population. The post New meta-analysis confirms high suicide rates amongst doctors #WMHD2024 appeared first on National Elf Service.

Many have noticed a key time coincidence. The last few centuries have seen both a rise in many lamentable changes to key social practices and norms, and also a great rise in the influence non-traditional social structures on our lives, including both more capitalism and more government. They suggest: the second trend caused the first, and thus that the first might be reversed by reversing the second. That is, with …

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