![]() Scientists involved in the project say the laboratory was built underground because the Earth’s crust provides protection against radiation. The tunnel complex runs along a 17-mile (27-kilometer) circuit. Straddling the French-Swiss border, the $9 billion CERN collider complex is buried at a depth of up to 575 feet (175 meters). ![]() Today, however, CERN is more famous – or perhaps infamous is the better word - for an upcoming experiment in which scientists will play God in an effort to recreate the conditions immediately following the ‘Big Bang’ event that gave birth to the Universe millions of years ago.įor those who are in the dark about CERN and the controversial objectives it hopes to achieve, here is a quick primer. ![]() ![]() ![]() In September, Europe’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will smash together sub-atomic particles at nearly the speed of light, an unprecedented experiment that has some of the leading voices in the world of science - and religion - sounding the alarm on the risks involved.ĬERN is perhaps most famous for its discovery in 2012 of the elusive Higgs Boson, the so-called ‘God particle,’ which allows other particles to build up mass as they pass through the Higgs field. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Philippa Lowthorpe works hard to create a sense of danger and excitement in the childhood adventure of unaccompanied sailing, and camping on an island, and very nice too. ![]() I couldn't see how a subplot about 'real' 1930s Soviet spies could possibly be introduced into the plot without making the children's pirate adventures and sea battles seem suddenly trivial and, well, childish. This makes perfect sense to children, and it takes adults back to our own childhood when we too found our own fantasy games far more important and meaningful than anything adults did. No adult POV is included to give us a perspective on the children's outlook, their emotions and imaginative world we only see what matters to them and we see it with their eyes. 'Swallows and Amazons' works as a book - and still does, nearly 90 years after it was written - precisely because it is concerned only with the children and their doings. If you think you don't have the ability to convey to an audience what you find exciting about it, find another career. If you think the book isn't exciting, don't use it find some other material. we're adding a whole new plot" That's always a sign that a production is heading for disaster. ![]() ![]() ![]() The trickster, separated from self, society, and family, storied his way to survival. Slaves, denied evidence of their heritage, resorted to counterfeiting tactics to recover a sense of identity and community. To best understand storying one could do worse than turn to Kevin Young’s The Grey Album. What we do know is that Reynolds, who always identified as Southern, and even affected a twang to fit the image, was, with this odd fib, participating in a cultural practice with roots dating back to nineteenth-century plantation culture. Why anyone born in Lansing Michigan would want to be from Waycross Georgia is a baffling question. He said he was born in Waycross, Georgia. ![]() Particularly weird was how Reynolds often lied about where he was born. ![]() When Burt Reynolds died last August, the obits recounted the strange life of an iconic American actor. ![]() ![]() The ending, both realistic and bittersweet, is a culmination of the book’s examination of the costs of gentrification. While Darius’ attraction to Zuri makes sense, Zuri’s doesn’t seem to move beyond his physical attractiveness-odd for a character who’s otherwise thoughtful and complex. When poet Zuri unexpectedly runs into Darius at an open mic, she begins to rethink her assessment of him, and the two, as expected, fall for each other. She opts instead for Warren, the brothers’ classmate and a boy who feels familiar. ![]() The Darcy brothers are handsome, but Zuri thinks Darius Darcy’s a snob. She doesn’t love the gentrification changing her hood, “like my face and body when I was in middle school-familiar but changing right before my eyes.” So when the rich Darcy family moves into the expensive renovated house across the street, she’s skeptical even though they’re also black. Zuri, or ZZ from the Block, loves her big, loud Haitian-Dominican family. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Zuri Benitez deals with gentrification in her Brooklyn neighborhood and her own bias in this Pride and Prejudice remix. ![]() ![]() The witch’s moon peeping slyly through the purple-edged girders of clouds shed little light on the closed shop fronts and wide empty streets. ![]() Not in the sense of street lamps-or beings-missing a few light bulbs, though yes, come to think of it, it was a Stygian sort of night in the Mission District. It was an old part of town, a dark part of town-and Valencia Street ran through one of the darkest of the dark parts. When he did, he was not unduly concerned. Preoccupied with his thoughts, he didn’t notice at first. But with an unseen enemy threatening to expose Cosmo’s true nature, the couple’s blissful future could shatter like a broken charm. As Cosmo hunts for the real killer among the arcane aristocracy, John warns him to leave it to the police. But when all fingers point to Cosmo’s guilt, John struggles to trust what his heart is telling him. Falling head over heels for the elegant antiques dealer is an enchantment he never wants to break. ![]() But when he’s arrested for allegedly killing a longtime rival, he could spend his honeymoon behind bars… Police Commissioner John Joseph Galbraith never believed in Happily Ever After until Cosmo came along. ![]() Thanks to a powerful love spell, uncertainty threatens his nuptial magic. Can a witch avoid a murder rap without revealing the supernatural truth? Cosmo Saville guiltily hides a paranormal secret from his soon-to-be husband. ![]() ![]() Jasper soon learns that the Hat-Dog Killer and his father are connected, as well as the possibility that his Missing Mom may still be alive. The NYPD turns to Jasper after a series of murders committed by the Hat-Dog Killer take place. The book was followed by a sequel, Game, where Billy has escaped from prison. ![]() One day, a new series of murders occur by a Loony Fan of Billy called " The Impressionist." Jasper must go deep into his father's actions if he hopes to solve the murder. To prove everybody wrong, he tries helping out the police force. After Billy gets arrested, Jasper becomes a bit of a pariah, with people fearing the possibility of him following in his father's footsteps. The story is about Jasper Dent, the son of the infamous Serial Killer, Billy Dent. ![]() I Hunt Killers is a murder mystery trilogy by Barry Lyga, the writer of The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is Campbell's account from a recent interview: The tale was "The Church in High Street" and the year was 1962.ĭerleth, a seasoned veteran, who also started the writing game at an early age, had some advice for young Ramsey. Arkham House was the premiere horror publisher in the English-speaking world. At the age of sixteen, he sent a Lovecraftian story to August Derleth, the editor and publisher at Arkham House. Ramsey grew up in post-WWII England, an avid reader of fantasy and horror. Of course, the Ryre tales weren't Campbell's first published stories. I was a confirmed fan of Ryre and Ramsey Campbell from then on. My favorite ended up being "The Sustenance of Hoak", followed by "The Mouths of Light". I would later track down the other volumes in the "Swords Against Darkness" series, all but one of which contained more tales of Ryre. The tale itself made an impression on me because, despite obviously being a story in the Howardian S&S mold, it had the horror track dialed way up, moreso than the other stories in S.A.D. Ryre was a barbarian-ish mercenary in the Conan mold, but with subtle differences, just as Ryre's world of Tond differed from the "standard" Hyborian Age. ![]() ![]() Tierney.and Ramsey Campbell.Ĭampbell's tale, "The Changer of Names", featured his S&S hero, Ryre. Within its pages were gripping tales of adventure by Keith Taylor, Tanith Lee, Manly Wade Wellman, Richard L. When I checked out that battered Zebra Books anthology from my hometown library, I was just starting to explore outwards from Robert E. All the way to Swords Against Darkness II. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Saint-Exupéry often wrote late into the night, a cigarette in his mouth and a cup of coffee or tea on hand. ![]() The Morgan manuscript of The Little Prince is an extraordinary physical record of the author’s creative labor. They reveal the stops and starts, decisions and excisions Saint-Exupéry made as he created what has become one of the world’s favorite books. The bulk of the surviving working manuscript pages and preliminary drawings for The Little Prince are in the Morgan’s collection and presented here. In 1942, at the height of the Second World War, he crafted a tale about an interstellar traveler in search of friendship and understanding. How does a story begin? French author and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) came to New York in 1940, a few months after Germany invaded France. ![]() ![]() ![]() Item should be shipped back to Galleon within seven (7) calendar days upon receipt of the item. He lived in New Hampshire and passed away in January 2023. Although he emigrated to the US from Yugoslavia as a teenager, Simic writes in English, drawing upon his own experiences of war-torn Belgrade to compose poems about the physical and spiritual poverty of modern life. He taught English and creative writing for over 30 years at the University of New Hampshire. His work has won numerous awards, among them the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the appointment as US poet laureate. United States poet laureate & Pulitzer Prize winner, Charles Simic adds a new introduction to the most comprehensive collection of his early poetry from 1963-1983.Ĭharles Simic was widely recognized as one of the most visceral and unique poets writing today. ![]() Selected Early Poems spans the years 1963-1983 and includes works from Simic’s first twelve collections. About Selected Early Poems Of Charles Simic ![]() ![]() 9 VanGennep, Rites o fPassage, pp. 27-31.ġ Between August 1716 and October 1718, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, stellar representative of the Augustan literary milieus 2, journeyed across the European continent towards Asia Minor, accompanying her husband on his British embassy to the Sublime Porte, sojourned in the Levantine space, where she immersed herself in heterot(r)opic 3 rearticulations of selfhood, and was ferried back to England across the Marmaran, Aegean and Mediterranean thalassic expanse. ![]()
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