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Guest post by Abacus Reveals
Back in the day when T...
As a child, I was a weedy little sneak and didn't get on too well with
my classmates who were always calling me names and bullying me, I was
glad when I left school and made f...
Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary feature takes his earlier The Act
of Killing one step further. An indonesian optometrist dares to
interview death squad leaders that half a ...
There is a disturbing thing which can occur when we’re faced with
death on such a large scale as that which occurs in war or disasters.
A group of individuals can be reduced...
North Korea announced the successful testing of a hydrogen bomb
earlier this week, ringing in the New Year with an ominous blast. The
conciliatory New Year's Address delivered...
Many obstacles stand in the way of a two-state solution to the
conflict in Israel and Palestine.
At the moment, negotiations are a nonstarter for all parties.
Israeli Prime ...
[http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/23522/turkey-media-roundup-(2015-year-end-review)]
[this is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on
Turkey and re...
Nearly 2,500 days ago, expectations ran high as the Obama presidency
began. Hailed as an epochal event, the nation's first black commander
in chief launched his "fundamental t...
The Greater L.A. Skeptics Meetup Group
NASA's history is a familiar story, culminating with the agency
successfully landing men on the moon in 1969, but its prehistory is an...
Each year Dispatches From The Edge
[https://dispatchesfromtheedgeblog.wordpress.com/] gives awards to
individuals, companies, and governments that make following the news a
da...
It’s a new year—and with it comes 12 months’ worth of upcoming
movies to get excited about. Rather than doing a conventional rundown
of all the big potential blockbuster...
this is the seventeenth in Critical Mass's new Second Thoughts series
[http://bookcritics.org/blog/category/second-thoughts], curated by
Daniel Akst. More about this series, ...
