Michael Jackson's Will
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An interview with the Library of Congress Rare Books Chief Mark Dimunation - Fine Books and Collections
It is the largest rare book collection in North America, housed in the largest library in the world, a “huge theme park of materials,” as he describes it. The division contains some 850,000 items—including Charles Dickens’ walking stick, the contents of Abraham Lincoln’s pockets on the night he was assassinated, and The Bay Psalm Book, published in 1640, the first book printed in what became the United States.
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BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Shownar: reflecting online buzz around BBC programmes
Today sees the launch of Shownar; a new prototype from BBC Vision which aims to track online buzz around BBC TV and radio programmes and reflect it back in useful and interesting ways, aiding programme discovery and providing onward journeys to discussion about those programmes on the wider web.
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BBC World Service - Special Reports - Save Our Sounds
We want you to help us build an interactive map of the world. So get involved and send in recordings of sounds from where you live. Listen to the sounds of the world - and then send us your audio.
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Michael Jackson Is Gone, but the Sad Facts Remain: Maureen Orth | Vanity Fair
Here, in order of their appearance in Vanity Fair, are Maureen Orth’s closely reported articles about the Jackson cases:
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The Mayfair Set
The Mayfair Set (Adam Curtis, 1999) is a documentary series on how City of London bankers systematically dismantled British industry from the 1960s-90s and removed the power of the state to protect people from the greed of the market.
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Barbican - Radical Nature
The beauty and wonder of nature have provided inspiration for artists and architects for centuries. Since the 1960s, the increasingly evident degradation of the natural world and the effects of climate change have brought a new urgency to their responses. Radical Nature is the first exhibition to bring together key figures across different generations who have created utopian works and inspiring solutions for our ever-changing planet.
Radical Nature draws on ideas that have emerged out of Land Art, environmental activism, experimental architecture and utopianism. The exhibition is designed as one fantastical landscape, with each piece introducing into the gallery space a dramatic portion of nature. Work by pioneering figures such as the architectural collective Ant Farm and visionary architect Richard Buckminster Fuller, artists Joseph Beuys, Agnes Denes, Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson are shown alongside pieces by a younger generation of practitioners including Heather and Ivan Morison, R&Sie(n), Philippe Rahm architects and Simon Starling. Radical Nature also features specially commissioned and restaged historical installations, some of which are located in the outdoor spaces around the Barbican while a satellite project by the architectural collective EXYZT is situated off site.
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The Execution Tapes: Radio Documentary by Sound Portraits
The Execution Tapes is an hour-long public radio special hosted by Ray Suarez featuring excerpts of recordings made in Georgia's death house during state electrocutions. This broadcast is the first time a national audience is able to hear what takes place during a state-sponsored execution.
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Lefsetz Letter
There are indelible television moments. When there’s only before and after. Michael Jackson’s "Motown 25" moonwalk was one of those events. Akin to the landing of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon over a decade before.
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The evolutionary origin of depression: Mild and bitter | The Economist
CLINICAL depression is a serious ailment, but almost everyone gets mildly depressed from time to time. Randolph Nesse, a psychologist and researcher in evolutionary medicine at the University of Michigan, likens the relationship between mild and clinical depression to the one between normal and chronic pain. He sees both pain and low mood as warning mechanisms and thinks that, just as understanding chronic pain means first understanding normal pain, so understanding clinical depression means understanding mild depression.
Dr Nesse’s hypothesis is that, as pain stops you doing damaging physical things, so low mood stops you doing damaging mental ones—in particular, pursuing unreachable goals. Pursuing such goals is a waste of energy and resources. Therefore, he argues, there is likely to be an evolved mechanism that identifies certain goals as unattainable and inhibits their pursuit—and he believes that low mood is at least part of that mechanism.
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Welcome to the Shoreditch Festival
Shoreditch Festival, produced by Shoreditch Trust, is an annual highlight of the East London cultural calendar. The Festival has an impressive record in delivering high quality performances and imaginative initiatives which are bold, creative and engaging.
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Outdoor film screenings in London 2009 with Time Out Film - Time Out London
Our guide to the best places to see films outside in London this summer.
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About | The Turning Gate
The Turning Gate offers do-it-yourself website options for Adobe Lightroom users
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Family Rights Group :: Welcome
Welcome to Family Rights Group. We are the charity in England and Wales that advises parents and other family members whose children are involved with or require social care services. We run a confidential telephone advice service for families.
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Are your MPs and Peers working for you in the UK's Parliament? (TheyWorkForYou.com)
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