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A bike-sharing programs and cycling infrastructure continue to slowly gain traction in cities, it often becomes a matter of making physical room for the two-wheel lifestyle and reclaiming urban space […]
In this guest post on Colorado’s Amendment 62, a ballot initiative that, if passed, would grant full legal rights to fertilized human eggs by classifying embryos as 'persons' under the […]
Alfred Hitchcock once said, “A woman who spends all day washing and cooking and ironing doesn’t want to go to the movies to watch a film about a woman who […]
A study found that lap dancers make $90 more per shift when they are ovulating than when they are in their luteal stage, and $170 more than when they are in their menstrual phase.
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More and more people are being born, and the Earth isn’t getting any bigger. We’re on a serious disaster course. The only thing a filmmaker can do is try to […]
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The filmmaker is known for his idiosyncratic creative process in which he and his actors create the film together through workshopping and improvisation.
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The filmmaker is concerned with getting to the truth about people, not about passing judgment. "Everybody is interesting, and everybody is the potential central character in a story, so judging […]
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I am unashamedly in the entertainment business," says Leigh. "If a film is not entertaining, forget it, it's a failure.
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The filmmaker was more influenced by the realism of the "Nouvelle Vague" of 1960s France than by the "British New Wave" or the tradition of Dickensian social realism.
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The British master of suspense once said that women who spent all day doing chores wouldn’t want to watch a film about a woman doing chores. Mike Leigh begs to […]
There is no communist or socialist ideology that is as poisonous as the one held by radical Republicans these days. No fascism as insidious as the warped political creed that […]
Eruptions Word of the Day: Harmonic Tremor and Tornillos. There are few methods that get as much attention in the world of volcanic monitoring than measuring the release of seismic […]
"Can we envision a world without God? Would this world be good?" Dutch primatologist and ethologist Frans de Waal says we are no different from apes when it comes to altruism.
"Organized religion's increasing identification with conservative politics is a turnoff to more and more young adults. Evangelical Protestantism has been hit hard by this development."
"All anybody is asking is that the rich pay more in taxes—in effect, that they reinvest in society by a little more than they do now." Jonathan Cohn urges a fair tax code.
The controversial American charity organization Project Prevention offers cash payments to drug addicts and alcoholics who are willing to forgo having children.
"Religious chauvinism flourishes along with bigotry when ignorance reigns: The less you know about other people's religions, the more blithely you may assert the superiority of your own."
There is a 50 per cent chance that time will end within the next 3.7 billion years, according to a new model of the universe put forward by physicists at U.C. Berkeley.
"Closing the loophole that encourages foreigners to come to the United States to make their future children U.S. citizens would not address the larger question of birthright citizenship."