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5 days ago · The annual Wheeler Lecture looked at the history of microprocessors, how we got to where we are now, and what constraints there are on the future. As predicted, there were laws, graphs and references to Star Wars... The ninth annual Wheeler Lecture was given by Dr Sophie Wilson.
4 days ago · The Myth of Sisyphus, philosophical essay by Albert Camus, published in French in 1942 as Le Mythe de Sisyphe. Published in the same year as Camus’s similar novel L’Etranger (The Stranger), The Myth of Sisyphus contains a sympathetic analysis of contemporary nihilism and touches on the nature of the absurd.
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2 days ago · Pirates of the Caribbean is an American fantasy supernatural swashbuckler film series produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and based on Walt Disney 's theme park attraction of the same name. The film series serves as a major component of the titular media franchise.
2 days ago · July 7, 2024. In a new interview with Barbara Caserta of Italy's Linea Rock, THE CULT frontman Ian Astbury spoke about the tour celebrating the band's 40th anniversary. The trek will see the long ...
1 day ago · Picasso showed a passion and a skill for drawing from an early age. According to his mother, his first words were "piz, piz", a shortening of lápiz, the Spanish word for "pencil". From the age of seven, Picasso received formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil painting.
4 days ago · Prospero and Miranda, by William Maw Egley, c. 1850. Prospero enacts a sophisticated plan to take revenge on his usurpers and regain his dukedom. Using magic, he separates the shipwreck survivors into groups on the island: Ferdinand, who is rescued by Prospero and Miranda and given shelter.
3 days ago · There, Julien co-directed Sankofa’s highest-profile production, The Passion of Remembrance. By interweaving two narrative threads – the life of a man and woman living in the U.K. and the lives of the Baptiste family three decades ago – the film ambitiously explores themes of racism, homophobia, sexism, and generational tensions ...
