It is Germany''s largest universal scientific library and one of the leading ones around the world: the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural ...
01.25.2021 Dw.com and 1 sitesBook Review: Samuel Ryde''s ''Hand Dryers'' Showcases Photography In the appropriately senseless year of 2020, Hand Dryers, by Samuel Ryde, was published. With that, every possible book had at last be...
01.23.2021 Patch.comRestaurantsGulp! The secret economics of food deliveryJan 26th 2021by Jonathan NunnErtugrul Elmas reckoned that a career designing fabrics would be a safe bet. Trends come and go but people always nee...
01.26.2021 Economist.comThe law of imitative representation, aka mimesis, reigned supreme in Western art for so long that its resistors sometimes found battling it hard, even when and where it had lost its grip. Consider, fo...
01.25.2021 Poetryfoundation.orgLate last night, ensconced in the synthetic beige sarcophagus of an MRI tube, it occurred to me that love is like plastic. They were scanning my brain, looking for a tumor, like some foul X in the neon green sea of a space pirate''s map. It had begun on Christmas Eve, when I felt tipsy. Within two days, I was unable to walk without using a cane and the walls of my home for support. The world spun and spun, and it felt like the hand of some invisible god was actively holding me down as I lay in m...
01.25.2021 Middletontimes.comby Shaun Kenney Former Speaker Kirk Cox, R-Colonial Heights, has been assiduous in his criticism of Governor Ralph Northam''s handling of the COVID pandemic — and for good reason. Consider the success...
01.21.2021 Baconsrebellion.comUniversity of Scranton hosts virtual Schemel Forum series on world affairs during spring semester From a press release: During the spring semester, the Schemel Forum''s World Affairs seminars at the U...
01.25.2021 Nepascene.comIn one of the greatest tunes of the 1980s, Kate Bush sang: "Every time it rains, you''re here in my head. " The crows and seagulls of South Seattle''s Genesee Park sang a different tune not too long a...
01.26.2021 Thestranger.comhelp modern readers discover a Mayan creation story When Ilan Stavans first learned about the Popol Vuh as a teenager growing up in Mexico City, he was fascinated by the millennia-old Mayan tale. Deca...
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