The Story of Joseph Weber, the Tragic Hero of Science Who Followed Einstein’s Vision and Pioneered the Sound of Space-time

…and a remarkable letter from Freeman Dyson on the difficult, necessary art of changing one’s mind.
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A rare interview with Don DeLillo, one of the titans of American fiction

If you want to reach Don DeLillo, don't try to email him; he doesn't email. His preferred method of business communication is via fax. He still writes his novels on a typewriter. That technological reticence notwithstanding, DeLillo is one of the titans of American fiction. The 79-year-old DeLillo is the author of 18 novels, including the National Book Award-winning "White Noise" and the acclaimed bestsellers "Underworld" and "Libra."
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The Wheel of Time turns... into a “cutting-edge TV series”

"Look for the official announcement coming soon from a major studio."
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On Stalin’s Team by Sheila Fitzpatrick – Soviet bunglers and sadists

A superbly researched book details the incompetents and priapic murderers whom Stalin selected to carry out his atrocities. Reviewed by Donald Rayfield.
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The Best Climbing Along Ireland's Craggy Coast

Outside profiled County Donegal in the April 2016 issue and called it the 'end of the rainbow' for adventure seekers.
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Jay Beagle gets Kris Letang's stick stuck in his helmet

Watch Jay Beagle gets Kris Letang's stick stuck in his helmet GIF on Gfycat. Hilarious!
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The Cable Industry Threatens To Sue If FCC Tries To Bring Competition To Cable Set Top Boxes

Back in February the FCC voted on a new plan to open up the traditional cable box to competition. According to a fact sheet being circulated by the agency (pdf), under the FCC's plan you'd still pay your cable company for the exact same content, cable operators would simply have to design systems -- using standards and copy protection of their choice -- that delivered this content to third-party hardware. The FCC's goal is cheaper, better hardware and a shift away...
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'Marvel's The Punisher' spin-off ordered by Netflix, Jon Bernthal to star

It’s official: The Punisher is getting his own TV series. EW has learned that Marvel has ordered a spin-off starring vigilante character introduced in Daredevil season 2. Jon Bernthal will reprise his role as vengeful military veteran Frank Castle, who brings his own lethal form of justice to Hell’s Kitchen. Writer and executive producer Steve Lightfoot (Hanniba, Casualty) will serve as showrunner.
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Original 'Ghostbusters' Heads Back to Theaters

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'Marvel's The Punisher' spin-off ordered by Netflix, Jon Bernthal to star

It’s official: The Punisher is getting his own TV series. EW has learned that Marvel has ordered a spin-off starring vigilante character introduced...
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Andrei Tarkovsky - Poetic Harmony

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Comcast's NBCUniversal buys DreamWorks Animation in $3.8-billion deal

NBCUniversal on Thursday said it has reached an agreement to acquire DreamWorks Animation in a deal valued at $3.8 billion. Under terms of the agreement, NBCUniversal's parent company, Comcast Corp., pledged to pay DreamWorks Animation shareholders $41 in cash for each share of their DreamWorks stock. The transaction is expected to close later this year, subject to an antitrust review by government regulators.
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Camouflaged Anti-Nazi Pamphlets found inside a Dusty Box at the Library

The label attached to the box said "Do not open until war is over". It was the early 1980s and John Rathe, the librarian in the NYPL's Rare Book room, had no idea what he was about to uncover when he opened the dusty box he had found in a remote corner of the library.
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The Secrets of Medieval Fonts

One of the fundamental things in a medieval book is letters. Each one of us human beings writes differently, and considering that medieval books were made before the invention of print, it follows that the scripts they carry show a great variety in execution styles. This is perhaps the most amazing experience of spending a day going through a pile of medieval books in the library: the immense variation in the manner in which the text is written on the parchment pages.
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Everything Wrong With Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Sins of last year's second-best film costarring Oscar Isaac and Domhnall Gleeson.
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Hooked on Swing

Remixed by Larry Elgart and His Manhattan Swing Orchestra (1982)
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Mother's Day - "This Is" Trailer

“Mother’s Day” is the latest star-studded ensemble comedy from director Garry Marshall (“Pretty Woman,” “Valentine’s Day”). Bringing together Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Julia Roberts along with Jason Sudeikis, it's a celebration of mothers everywhere.
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The Fascinating Local Color from Illegal NBA Playoff Streams

It's not legal, advisable or convenient, but you can learn alot about a place from its halftime shows.
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Inside stories from a prison book group

The the crucial roles that libraries play in a community seem especially clear here in the library at HMP Thameside. Prison rules – to which all UK prisons must adhere – state that every prisoner is entitled to 30 minutes of library browsing time at least once a fortnight. Browsing, however, seems to be the least of it: this library isn’t so much a place of silent, solitary shelf-scanning as a place where books bring people together.
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The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement

It’s impossible to revisit the history of America’s quest for racial purity without sometimes being reminded of the current public discourse. Andrea DenHoed on Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck,” by Adam Cohen.
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BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE Official Trailer (2016) Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill Superhero Movie HD

http://www.joblo.com - BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE Official Trailer (2016) Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill Superhero Movie HD As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness. Stars: Kevin Conroy, Ray Wise, Mark Hamill, Tara Strong ►Subscribe to JoBlo Movie Trailers: http://bit.ly/JoBloTrailers
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Rio 2016 Olympics: 100 days to go

If Olympic opening ceremonies should capture the atmosphere in a host nation, then Rio 2016's curtain-raiser should be interesting. With 100 days until the Games begin, Brazil is unraveling fast -- largely overshadowing the impending arrival of sport's greatest showpiece. Who needs the staple pre-Olympic media diet of venue delays and security fears when you have a leader facing impeachment, a gigantic corruption scandal and a global public health emergency?
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This sustainable ‘leather’ comes from kombucha tea

A sustainable film made from a byproduct of kombucha tea could be a new material for clothing, shoes, or handbags.The gel-like film, grown by a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast, feeds on a mixture of vinegar and sugar. Young-A Lee, an associate professor of apparel, merchandising, and design at Iowa State, says the properties of this SCOBY film are similar to leather once it’s harvested and dried, and can be used to make clothing, shoes, or handbags.
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SNOWDEN - Official Trailer

Academy Award®-winning director Oliver Stone, who brought Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street and JFK to the big screen, tackles the most important and fascinating true story of the 21st century. Snowden, the politically-charged, pulse-pounding thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley, reveals the incredible untold personal story of Edward Snowden...
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The Cover of George Orwell’s 1984 Becomes Less Censored with Wear and Tear

In 2013, Penguin released in the UK a series of new covers for five works by George Orwell, including a particularly bold cover design for Orwell's best-known work, 1984.
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Copyright chaos: Why isn’t Anne Frank’s diary free now?

Anne Frank was a teenager who is now known the world over for her diary of life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. She died in February or March 1945, at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where was she held, shortly before it was liberated. Since the applicable term of copyright in the EU is 70 years after the death of a writer, this means that her famous diary should now be in the public domain.
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The Last Word On Nothing | Shakespeare Was a Journalist

This past Saturday, the world celebrated the birthday of a guy named William Shakespeare. He was born in Stratford-on-Avon in England on April 23, 1564, and died on or about the same date in 1616. Pretty much every reputable Shakespeare scholar and literary historian argues—based on historical evidence—that this William Shakespeare was the author, alone or in collaboration, of the plays we know today. But since at least the mid-1800s, a few of those who love Shakespeare’s plays have...
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Physicists Dream of a Theory of Everything

A conversation with Hirosi Ooguri, theoretical physicist and scientific advisor for the 3D movie, The Man from the 9 Dimensions
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Why So Many Smart People Aren’t Happy

It’s a paradox: Shouldn’t the most accomplished be well equipped to make choices that maximize life satisfaction?
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Terra

No-one trusts humanity. No-one can quite understand why we're intent on destroying the only place we have to live in the Universe. No-one thinks we're worth a...
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Scientology Leader David Miscavige Threatens to Sue Over Father's Tell-All

A letter warns of a defamation suit should the book, 'Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me,' get a release in the U.K. next week as planned, while the publisher responds: "My plans for the book haven't changed at all." Lawyers for David Miscavige are mounting an eleventh-hour attempt at preventing the publication of a new tell-all about the Church of Scientology leader. The author is Miscavige's own father, Ron Miscavige.
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'Silicon Valley' made a lot of changes to its opening for the new season

"Game of Thrones" wasn't the only show to return to HBO Sunday night. "Silicon Valley" had its season three premiere afterward. If you paid close attention, the show made a lot of subtle changes to its opening animation sequence to reflect the ever-changing look of companies in Silicon Valley. Here's how the show's animation looked during the final episode of season two...
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How non-white writers are shunned by the books industry

Bidisha reports on the under-representation of writers of colour in UK publishing.
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The Founder Official Trailer #1 (2016) - Michael Keaton Movie HD

The story of McDonald's founder, Ray Kroc.
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Becoming Conscious: A Neurosurgeon Discusses His Transformational Experience

In 2008, neurosurgeon Eben Alexander, MD, woke up in excruciating pain. Within hours, he was in full grand mal seizure and was rushed to the hospital. The diagnosis was a rare and usually fatal form of E. coli bacterial meningitis, and his prognosis was grim. For seven days he lay in a deep coma. Despite the overwhelming odds against his survival, he not only woke up, but...
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100 years of film shots captured

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Weeding the Worst Library Books

Last summer, in Berkeley, California, librarians pulled roughly forty thousand books off the shelves of the public library and carted them away. The library’s director, Jeff Scott, announced that his staff had “deaccessioned” texts that weren’t regularly checked out. But the protesters who gathered on the library’s front steps to decry what became known as “Librarygate” preferred a different term: “purged.”
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Manziel Indicted By Dallas County Grand Jury

Sources in the Dallas County District Attorney’s office tell L.P. Phillips of KRLD-AM, Johnny Manziel has been indicted by a Dallas County Grand Jury on a misdemeanor assault with bodily injury charge. The grand jury reviewed evidence in the assault case against former NFL quarterback Manziel, Thursday, April 21. The 23-year-old quarterback is accused of hitting his ex-girlfriend Colleen Crowley several times while driving from...
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How the hunt for black holes causes a rift in physics

The story of the search for gravitational waves is ostensibly a grandiose tale, involving billions of light-years of space, decades of preparation, and multimillion-dollar instruments. The backstory to that detection, brought to us by the theoretical physicist Janna Levin in "Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space," is even more extraordinary.
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The Bangles - Manic Monday

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What Enid Blyton’s school stories taught me about ethics

The unfashionable world of Blyton’s school stories still has much to say about what it means to live an ethical life
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Watch a Japanese Man Play 'Amazing Grace' on a Cabbage

Junji Koyama makes musical instruments out of vegetables.
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Rod Stewart - "Sailing" 1975

I am sailing, I am sailing, home again 'cross the sea. I am sailing, stormy waters, to be near you, to be free.
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X-Men: Apocalypse - Final Trailer

Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshipped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender), to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign.
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For What It’s Worth

A Review of the Wu-Tang Clan’s “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.” By Dan Cohen.
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Mars-and-Stars

Mars and Stars by danosongs chill lounge
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The Genius of Birds

All birds vocalize. They hoot, yodel, caw, wail, rattle, chit, seet, and sing like angels. They call to warn of predators and to identify family, friends, and foes. They sing to defend their territory—to stake it out or fence it in—and to woo a mate. But singing is something special. An excerpt from Jennifer Ackerman’s book, "Genius of Birds."
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14 Brilliant Pieces of Literature You Can Read in the Time it Takes to Eat Lunch

It's mighty easy to feel like you don't have time to read — especially quality literature. Life is hectic, jobs are busy and it's much easier to scroll through a photo feed than it is to sink your brain into some juicy reading matter. But with these incredibly short and incredibly beautiful stories, all you need is a few minutes (a lunch break, say) to read great work from the best writers around. These stories are poignant revelations about...
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A brief history of marathons

On Sunday 24 April some 38,000 runners will line up for the 36th London Marathon. It is one of hundreds of marathons that take place every year throughout the world. For much of its existence, though, the marathon was limited to elite runners and thus held a certain mystique for the public. How did its status and perception change? Here, Dr Neil Carter investigates…
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Blue Jays Power Their Way to Series Win Over Athletics

Ezequiel Carrera and Jose Bautista homered Sunday as the Toronto Blue Jays continued to swing a hot bat in a 6-3 victory over the Oakland Athletics.
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