The company's Diaghilev/Ballets Russes centennial program was
transmitted live to 30 cinemas in Britain. Who went? A dance
audience, small but devoted and knowledgeable. And they were clearly
delighted with the screening, which turned out to be not a substitute
for performance but a different
[...] the question remains: Which movie is the best of the decade? Is
there any consensus among the accumulating lists? To find out, we
collected all of the rankings we could find and synthesized the
results using a simple scoring system: Movies got 50 points for being
the No. 1 pick on a
Videogames are no longer the preserve of adolescent males in dark
bedrooms. Their emergence as a social medium is changing the way we
work, learn and fight wars.
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2009/12/all-the-world-is-play/Link
PS: But never forget: http://www.monochrom.at/pongBrave New
As Congress wrestles over the parameters of a health care bill,
amidst maddened catcalls of 'death panels' and 'socialism!', I am
reminded of the experience of John Black, an old trade unionist,
revolutionary activist and journalist.
Black, a fervent supporter of the Cuban Revolution,
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have made a major discovery in how the
brain encodes memories. The finding, published in the December 24
issue of the journal Neuron, could eventually lead to the development
of new drugs to aid memory.
The team of scientists is the first to uncover a central
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cCC8a6HMz4NR=1Link
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