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Obama and the Palin Effect - a Mirror on the US Psyche
"Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week. On the surface, she outdoes... Graphic Novels, Let's Just Call Them Comics, Do Science
I didn't write the squib below, but I would have, if I had found all these good cartoons. I am currently recommending Howard Zinn's " A People's History of American Empire" done as a comic by Mike Konopacki (Author) and Paul Buhle (Author) but here are a sheft of science...Unseen Beatrix Potter watercolour fetches £289,500 at auction
A watercolour by the famous Beatirx Potter was sold at Sotheby's in London to a private collector for five times its upper estimate.The picture shows rabbits putting on their coats and kissing their rabbit host...The Invention Conceit - a contagious disease among title and headline writers
"In our modern Scots-invented world of bloviation, headlines and titles can't stand the heat of a literalist's kitchen."More and more book titles and magazine headlines try to shock readers into reading by claiming...Heidi Klum in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
"Heidi Klum and Will Ferrell are both goofballs in these swinging 70's pictures for the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue."Selfless cop's story made into children's book
"The story of a police officer hit and killed by a train last year in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, while trying to rescue a woman on the train tracks has been turned into an illustrated book. The commemorative publication will be offered at a memorial service in Tokyo on Saturday to...George Tenet Sings Toby Keith by Jed Babbin
"From what he's said about it, former CIA director George Tenet’s memoir sounds like a country song minus the good music. His "Sixty Minutes" interview made me think of that sorrowful line in one of Toby Keith’s songs: “Yeah, I wish somehow I didn’t know now what I...An army popping at the seams by David Isenberg
"WASHINGTON - Two events of the past week illustrated the increasing stresses and strains on the US military as it tries to sustain both its "surge" in Iraq and its overall military presence in Iraq. "Iraq returns to its Persian heritage: Its newly ascendant Shiites no longer h...
"NAJAF, IRAQ — Persian script laces and flows across the walls of Najaf's seminaries. Shiite Muslim religious scholars in the ancient city's turquoise-tiled edifices bury their noses in Koranic texts illustrated with Persian calligraphy, in scenes that evoke Mesopotamia's...Propaganda and the Politics of Perception by Michael Carmichael
"A version of this text was presented to the Kuala Lumpur Conference on War Crimes, Perdana Global Peace Organization, 5-7 February 2007. War propaganda glorifies military indoctrination as the highest form of patriotism while simultaneously demonizing the enemies of the...A Brief History Of Time - Stephen Hawking (Open Access Book)
Open access online edition (with illustrations) of Professor Stephen William Hawking's "A Brief History Of Time" (Amazon UK | US):Book Contents:Chapter 1 - Our Picture of the Universe Chapter 2 - Space and Time Chapter 3 - The Expanding Universe Chapter 4 - The Uncertainty...
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