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• Bring Me My Stick, O Snakes Unfold: Paul Grist, Superhero Comics, and Britain - The Gutter Review

  RT @TheGutterReview: "People can be a bit off-kilter [..] but they’re still people – even if they’re a bunch of snakes in a trenchcoat" Charles EP Murphy (@cepmurphy) tells us about the superhero comics of Paul Grist and what they reveal about the British national character!

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• the way things go | the m john harrison blog

  RT @mjohnharrison: post's here

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• (400) https://twitter.com/drjonathanrosa/status/1569824265842851840

  ‘Academic language’ is an ideological concept which is normalised in England’s schools, often presented as a checklist of definable, concrete linguistic features. But this framing legitimises language policing, targeting people perceived to be displaying ‘non-academic’ features.

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• (400) https://twitter.com/TheNuminous1/status/1569696181126578181/photo/1

  I just got admonished by another assistant for handing a senior exec manila file folders when it apparently wasn't my place to do so because that's her job, not mine. I've wasted my life on day jobs and will have nothing to show for it when I die. That's it, that's the tweet.

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• (400) https://twitter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1569576866071068673/video/1

  Barrister Paul Powesland is a fantastic model for making your point powerfully and persuasively. He tells GMB that after the last week he is a republican. Really worth watching.

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• (400) https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1368956539902566409/video/1

  that time Piers Morgan had on someone he thought would be an easy target to berate live on air, but instead he got utterly destroyed and humiliated by him. "You look like honey-glazed gammon." lmao

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• (400) https://twitter.com/MrBenSellers/status/1568515841922138112/photo/1

  [thread] Cultural hegemony is a concept developed by Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. It describes how the state and ruling capitalist class use cultural institutions (soft power) to maintain their grip in capitalist societies. (1/3)

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• Peter Straub |

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• (400) https://twitter.com/LairdBarron/status/1567510403533373440/photo/1

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• (400) https://twitter.com/Weird_Friction/status/1567091077856763905/photo/1

  My new lunch break at work book. I actually haven't read this one yet.

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• (400) https://twitter.com/scottygb/status/1566748685341425664/video/1

  #ThisMorning has turned completely dystopian and Black Mirror by offering to pay energy bills as a competition prize.

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• (400) https://twitter.com/coldwarsteve/status/1566754836124688387/photo/1

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• Untitled (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZwZK8W4mrD0ofTiRYd59V8IRgORQIXgz)

  If you're teching or studying Macbeth next year, I'll be adding videos regularly to this playlist with detailed analysis of key extracts for GCSE! Check out my first two on @YouTube #edutwitter #teamenglish #gcseenglish #GCSE #education #teacher

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• Don’t Pay

  🚨 BREAKING | Ofgem lifts Britain's energy price cap to £3,549, an increase of 80%! It's time to rise up and fight in our millions to take direct action - strike! #dontpayuk

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• (400) https://twitter.com/dontpayuk/status/1563135651230674945/photo/1

  🚨 LONDON. 6PM. DEMONSTRATION AT OFGEM HQ. No one should go cold or hungry, but Ofgem just condemned millions of us to starve or freeze this winter. Get down to Ofgem HQ at 6pm: 10 South Colonnade Canary Wharf London E14 4PU. #EnergyPriceCap

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• (400) https://twitter.com/Comicsandlit/status/1562910475431473153/photo/1

  Here's a snippet of the Light Brigade drawing from my upcoming illustrated #GCSE poetry reading of Alfred Tennyson's poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade. So many horses! #art #illustration #illustrationart #Artist #English #teamenglish #edutwitter #educhat #englishteacher

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• (400) https://twitter.com/katehandheld/status/1562728589132722176

  Dolgov did some amazing illustrations for Weird Tales and other pulps but almost nothing seems to be known about him these days. @Weird_Friction / @arkhamlibrarian - any leads?

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• (400) https://twitter.com/pietersender/status/1562734404237430785/photo/1

  Dolgov did some amazing illustrations for Weird Tales and other pulps but almost nothing seems to be known about him these days. @Weird_Friction / @arkhamlibrarian - any leads?

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• (400) https://twitter.com/Weird_Friction/status/1560690178318123009/photo/1

  S.T. Joshi is releasing a Six-Volume Algernon Blackwood collected fiction set from @Hippocampus__ starting next year! I'm very excited about this. #BookTwitter #WeirdFiction #AlgernonBlackwood #BookWorm

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• (400) https://twitter.com/Rich_JHutchings/status/1560509873774891009/photo/1

  Recieved a HUGE envelope of these from @dontpayuk. Soon to be seen adorning my local area. #EnoughlsEnough @eiecampaign #CostOfGreedCrisis

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• (400) https://twitter.com/JedWKeith/status/1544413030447972359/photo/1

  #SDCCis in 2 weeks. I’ve never been & I don’t know if I’ll ever get to go. However, I’ve kinda been there, at least in spirit. 4 years ago, I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to interview #Hellboy creator Mike Mignola about the character for Hellboy’s 25th anniversary. 1/

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• (400) https://twitter.com/DoWise/status/1538579322079956999/photo/1

  Examples of ‘Do Now’ tasks for Macbeth that I’ve used over the past weeks... 1⃣ Fill-in the gaps

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• (400) https://twitter.com/LairdBarron/status/1538193604660838400/photo/1

  My first book, 15 years ago this month. I wrote it at the rate of about 1 story per year, but I wrote it.

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• Untitled (https://researchschool.org.uk/bradford/news/research-says)

  Be careful before using the phrase 'Research says...'. Our blog explores the challenges in presenting information from a credible source.

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• (400) https://twitter.com/lauralolder/status/1533491251496071170

  CALLED IT. 👑

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• Dropbox - AQA Alternative P+C Poetry Anthology - @SPryke2 - Simplify your life

  Here’s an alternative anthology for the AQA P+C cluster. Includes 2 copies of each poem, prompts for analysis & QR codes for academic reading. Format and prompts by @__codexterous & review pages by @FunkyPedagogy. Both have kindly allowed me to share 😊

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• (400) https://twitter.com/SPryke2/status/1532794542029774855/photo/1

  Here’s an alternative anthology for the AQA P+C cluster. Includes 2 copies of each poem, prompts for analysis & QR codes for academic reading. Format and prompts by @__codexterous & review pages by @FunkyPedagogy. Both have kindly allowed me to share 😊

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• (400) https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1532697834012680196/photo/1

  Every dot on this map is a food bank. Every dot represents amazing people doing their best to help others who have been ripped off by the economic system and abandoned by the government. Real patriotism means looking out for everyone in society.

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• (400) https://twitter.com/teacherhead/status/1531292621691404288/photo/1

  And then there were three.. @MrGoodwin23 on a roll... Five Ways To.....

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• (400) https://twitter.com/jjvincent/status/1530906227605217280/photo/1

  And here comes the inevitable plug. If you enjoyed this thread and want to know more about the fascinating history of measurement, my book on the subject is out June 2nd and I’d love it if you wanted a copy. Pre-orders are here: . Thank you for reading!!

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• Beyond Measure | Linktree

  And here comes the inevitable plug. If you enjoyed this thread and want to know more about the fascinating history of measurement, my book on the subject is out June 2nd and I’d love it if you wanted a copy. Pre-orders are here: . Thank you for reading!!

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• Dropbox - Paper 2 Intro Unit - Simplify your life

  A couple of weeks worth of Non Fiction Freedom of Speech themed work for English Lang Paper 2 skills. Reading and Writing, if useful @Team_English1

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• (400) https://twitter.com/SusanSEnglish/status/1525421485501911040/photo/1

  A couple of weeks worth of Non Fiction Freedom of Speech themed work for English Lang Paper 2 skills. Reading and Writing, if useful @Team_English1

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• (400) https://twitter.com/EngMediaCentre/status/1522576775804502016

  With a real focus on contemporary poetry - so there should be lots of unfamiliar material for students + teachers

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• (400) https://twitter.com/KKNTeachLearn/status/1521914547803721728/photo/1

  My advice for Year 10 and 11: Is your revision F LA T ?

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• (400) https://twitter.com/litfanatic/status/1520813754937659396/photo/1

  📚✒️ Language Resource ✒️📚 A 24 page Language Paper 1 revision booklet. 3 extracts and 3 opportunities to complete each question. It could be good for an 'I do, We do, You do' approach. This is tailored to my Y10s but the link is below if it's helpful ⬇️

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• (400) https://twitter.com/eenalol/status/1520750505907081220/photo/1

  I’ve been busy making some SPAG mini tests for my kids… give them 10 mins to do this daily and it’s really working! Will upload onto my blog in a sec! Might be helpful in the last minute prep for SATs!

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• (400) https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1515041987551924224

  yes, the complex vascular system of SOMETHING THAT IS NOT A TREE

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• Dropbox - JEKYLL AND HYDE SUMMARY AND RECALL - Simplify your life

  JEKYLL AND HYDE Students in need of last minute revision, chapter summaries and test cards. All 10 chapters and cards And a cheeky little quote at the bottom @AQAEnglish @Team_English1 @DoWise @neilbowen3 @matthewmoor3

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• (400) https://twitter.com/TeachEnglishLit/status/1514895705139298306/photo/1

  JEKYLL AND HYDE Students in need of last minute revision, chapter summaries and test cards. All 10 chapters and cards And a cheeky little quote at the bottom @AQAEnglish @Team_English1 @DoWise @neilbowen3 @matthewmoor3

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• (400) https://twitter.com/DanielPeak16/status/1514658544938758144/photo/1

  Microaggressions in the education system still continues to be a challenge. As educators we need 1 "Empathy in Action" Recognize our position of privilege. 2 "Self Education" Self reflect and connect with others 3 "Allyship" Face discomfort show up for each other

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• (400) https://twitter.com/m_chiles/status/1514524875641298945/photo/1

  ***QUESTIONING*** How can we create a culture of powerful questioning 👇☺️ Created by @XpatEducator for my upcoming book 📖 with @CrownHousePub 👏

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• (400) https://twitter.com/compandalt/status/1514125507545206788

  I’m often struck by the similarity between homeopathy and other ecosystems of quack-belief, like inspirational edutwitter. Lots of outlandish, unevidenced claims wrapped in blankets of comforting lies that tickle our affinity.

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• (400) https://twitter.com/litfanatic/status/1513951780127887365/photo/1

  📖 Literature Ladder 📖 🌟 Totally inspired by @duckworth_ms and thank you to @FunkyPedagogy for checking and improving 🌟 Step by step guide to analysing literature successfully. Link below ⬇️

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• Daniel Peak- Instructional Designer

  @MereSophistry We need more humanity infused into our education system. Humanism encourages students to think critically and act according to the values of humanity. Indeed, Freire, Dewey and Montessori's approach to education encourages us all to discuss global issues.

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• In Review: Be Pure! Be Vigilant! Behave! 2000AD & Judge Dredd: The Secret History – downthetubes.net

  The Book: Pat Mills is the creator of 2000AD and one of the comic’s top writers.

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• All The Fully Lettered Pages Of The Doomsday Clock Ashcan, Right Here, Right Now - Bleeding Cool News And Rumors

  “I wouldn’t tell this story if I didn’t believe that Superman and Dr Manhattan couldn’t appear in the same panel” – Geoff Johns.   The reason that Geoff Johns is telling this story because it’s the response of the DC Universe to the message that Watchmen gave to DC….

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• Dark Days, Dark Nights and Taking DC Continuity to the Nth Degree | Sequart Organization

  Thirty two years ago DC attempted to bring order to their continuity through the process of subtraction. Thus was born Crisis On Infinite Earths. Ever since then however DC has constantly attempted to bring back the Multiverse. Be it limited or limitless.

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• Timely-Atlas-Comics: Jerry Robinson (1922-2011) - The Timely Years

  This post was planned way back in December of 2011 in response to Jerry Robinson's death on December 7 of that year.

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• The pursuit of pleasure is a modern-day addiction | Opinion | The Guardian

  Here’s a story that is not about Trump or Brexit. But this could be worse, with even direr consequences. Addiction is up. Depression is up. Death is up. In America, we have seen a decline in our life expectancy for the first time since 1993.

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• Comics Script Format Part-1

  This week, I'm starting a new muliti-part series that discusses script formatting in some detail... so read this thru for an introduction and follow up in the coming weeks as I delve into the nitty gritty of comics script format.

  from: forum.webcomicscommunity.com

• Comics Script Format Part-2

  Last week this series on script formatting was explained to be for those who want to write pro-level scripts and seek work via the submissions and pitch process with pro-level publishers. Pro-level formatting is at least equally important as a compelling story.

  from: forum.webcomicscommunity.com

• Comic World, 1969 | Dan Gearino

  The photo above has many stories in it, and I want to tell a few. The smiling young man is Dick Swan, 15, who was standing outside the comic shop he co-owned. This was Comic World in San Jose, opened in 1969.

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• Robert Bell’s comic shop: ‘The most amazing thing we’d ever seen’ | Dan Gearino

  One of the moments that pointed Jim Hanley toward a life in comics was a trip to Woodside, Queens in 1968 where he saw something unbelievable: a comic book shop. “It was the most amazing thing we’d ever seen,” he told me.

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• Trojan horse: the real story behind the fake 'Islamic plot' to take over schools | World news | The Guardian

  In November 2013, Birmingham city council received a strange document in the post. It was a photocopy of a letter, which seemed to be part of a correspondence between Muslims conspiring to take over local schools and run them according to strict Islamic principles.

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• That time Marc Bolan interviewed Stan Lee, ‘nuff said? | Dangerous Minds

  Marc Bolan loved comic-books. The Beano, The Dandy, The Topper, he read ‘em all and enjoyed the hilarious hijinks of the cheeky school kids contained therein. But he had a particular love for Marvel Comics and their far out superheroes like Silver Surfer and Doctor Strange.

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• AuthorMagazine.org - an on-line magazine for writers and readers...

  bank.” Stephen King works on his new novel in the mornings. “Afternoons are for naps and letters. Evenings are for reading, family, Red Sox games on TV, and any revisions that just cannot wait. Basically, mornings are my prime writing time.”

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• How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out - The New York Times

  Emma Seppala was working as an intern at The International Herald Tribune (the past iteration of The International New York Times) one summer in college in Paris, shuttling between the newsroom writers and editors on the second floor and the workers at printing presses in the basement. Ms.

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• SpareMin Audiogram

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• Borrowing The Mindset Of The Most Successful Podcasters | Ascetic Productions

  Two weeks ago I had the privilege of traveling down the coast to Anaheim for my first ever Podcast Movement.

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• How the aristocracy preserved their power | News | The Guardian

  On 11 January this year, Charlie, the genial 3rd Baron Lyell, died aged 77 in Dundee after a short illness. He had inherited his title and the 10,000-acre Kinnordy estate, in Angus, when he was just four years old.

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• The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad

  Long, long ago in the province of Tango there lived on the shore of Japan in the little fishing village of Mizu-no-ye a young fisherman named Urashima Taro.

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• S.C. Fredericks- Lucian's True History as SF

  After crossing the river, we found something wonderful in the grapevines. The part which came out of the ground, the trunk itself, was stout and well-grown, but the upper part was in each case a woman, entirely perfect from the waist up.

  from: depauw.edu

• Early Marvel Westerns-Comic Book Cowboys, by Boyd Magers

  As superhero comics began to fade from favor in the late ‘40s, new comic genres took hold—crime, romance, teenage, horror and—westerns.

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• Six Questions the Twin Peaks finale left unanswered.

  On Sunday night, David Lynch and Mark Frost brought one of the greatest television shows in history to its chilling conclusion, jumping freely across decades and between dimensions to suggest that evil lingers, the past is a foreign country, and all our rational Encyclopedia Brown–style expl

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• ‘Twin Peaks’ Ending Explained: Part 18 | IndieWire

  The final hour of “Twin Peaks: The Return” ended David Lynch’s series on a baffling, brilliant high by returning to the show’s most important figure: Laura Palmer.

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• “Having a home is a right, not an investment opportunity”

  In 1974, my 22-year-old mam walked into a three-bedroom house in a new town in Scotland. She was a hairdresser, newly married and had no children at this point. She was over the moon at the space, the garden, the playground out the front that she could envisage her future children playing in.

  from: newstatesman.com

• Jack Kirby at 100: How fans can celebrate the man on the ‘Mount Rushmore’ of comics today - The Washington Post

  THERE ARE many royal figures in the court of comics history, but there is only one Jack “King” Kirby. And today, on what would have been his 100th birthday, comic-book fans the globe over will celebrate memories of the man and the legacy of his regal gifts.

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• The Early Superman | Sequart Organization

  Though I was never a regular reader of Superman comics, his presence was felt. In the Justice League comics and on cartoon shows of the era, Superman was always featured, his powers looming large over other characters. His early days as Superboy set up the Legion of Superheroes, which I did read.

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• How to be a minimalist teacher | Teacher Network | The Guardian

  The new school year arrives with a flurry of activity: resources to prepare, PowerPoints to write, new classroom displays to create. By the time students arrive we are slumped in the corner, already exhausted.

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• 5 total participation techniques to make every student an active learner

  Persida and William Himelle are a husband and wife teacher team who have conducted over 500 presentations around the world and coauthored the book Total Participation Techniques: Making Every Student an Active Learner.

  from: thecornerstoneforteachers.com

• The numbers still don’t add up for less able GCSE pupils | Laura McInerney | Opinion | The Guardian

  Here’s an unlikely sentence: in 2012, Michael Gove was right about something. I say this as a former teacher who, at the time, was dealing with his terrible ideas on a daily basis. But, if he’d managed to pull it off, the faff over GCSE results this week would have been very different.

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• COMICS IN CONVERSATION: MIKE MIGNOLA - YouTube

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• The Quietus | Features | Things I Have Learned | Magick and Me: Blondie's Gary "Valentine" Lachman on the Occult

  Former Blondie bassist and world expert on the occult Gary Lachman talks to David Moats about participating in rituals, Mick Jagger's flirtations with magick, the Freemasons, and why there's more to the occult than being a drug fiend like Aleister Crowley After a distinguished music career pla

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• Neoliberalism: the idea that changed the world | News | The Guardian

  Last summer, researchers at the International Monetary Fund settled a long and bitter debate over “neoliberalism”: they admitted it exists. Three senior economists at the IMF, an organisation not known for its incaution, published a paper questioning the benefits of neoliberalism.

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• Eliminating the Human - MIT Technology Review

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• Is the World Slouching Toward a Grave Systemic Crisis? - The Atlantic

  History is punctuated by catalytic episodes—events that can become guideposts toward a more open and civilized world. On August 5, Philip Zelikow delivered the following keynote address at the annual meeting of the Aspen Strategy Group, a discussion forum for experts and government practitioners.

  from: theatlantic.com

• What are the ethical consequences of immortality technology? | Aeon Ideas

  Immortality has gone secular. Unhooked from the realm of gods and angels, it’s now the subject of serious investment – both intellectual and financial – by philosophers, scientists and the Silicon Valley set.

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• The idiot's guide to setting up audio recording equipment? : podcasting

  The idiot's guide to setting up audio recording equipment? (self.podcasting) I'm wanting to start a podcast. I had done quite a bit of research online and was feeling pretty confident about most of my purchases. A week ago I submitted a question in another subreddit and got some tips about a mixer.

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• Setting Microphone Levels on a Mixer - Gain Staging with no PFL/Solo Buttons - YouTube

  More info on this setup at http://ift.tt/2vPBPwg are many factors that go into getting great audio. At the top of the list is making sure you have setup your mixer to perform its best.Gain staging is the process of setting up your gain inside your audio mixer to properly driv

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• Let’s hear it for the four-hour working day | Life and style | The Guardian

  Are you working your brain too hard? Take it easy – like Charles Darwin, Alice Munro or Thomas Jefferson

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• Radio Atlantic: Kurt Andersen on How America Lost Its Mind - The Atlantic

  Magical thinking and "alternative facts" have a long, proud history in these United States.

  from: theatlantic.com

• Brexit caused by low levels of education, study finds | The Independent

  Britain would likely have voted to remain in the European Union were its population educated to a slightly higher level, a new study has found.

  from: independent.co.uk

• Understanding FANTASTIC FOUR's Legacy & Possible Future

  With "Marvel Legacy" under two months away and neither hide nor hair of the Richards family cropping up, it is starting to seem as though the one returning title fans most expected as part of the (un)relaunch may not happen after all.

  from: newsarama.com

• LEGO Carbon freezing chamber - Album on Imgur

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• Secret Teacher: working in the holidays devalues our profession | Teacher Network | The Guardian

  I understand why teachers go into school in the holidays. I used to, too. It would be the end of term, with everyone giddy from the sheer exhaustion of school life. “I can’t wait for a break,” I’d say, yet I would still go back in.

  from: theguardian.com

• Study: Poor Kids Who Believe in Meritocracy Suffer - The Atlantic

  Brighton Park is a predominantly Latino community on the southwest side of Chicago. It’s a neighborhood threatened by poverty, gang violence, ICE raids, and isolation—in a city where income, race, and zip code can determine access to jobs, schools, healthy food, and essential services.

  from: theatlantic.com

• How to start a lesson | David Didau: The Learning Spy

  Starters are, as the name suggests, meant to start off your lesson and engage students in some sort of learning related activity the moment they shuffle though your classroom door.

  from: learningspy.co.uk

• Timely-Atlas-Comics: "Fabulous" Flo Steinberg (1939-2017)

  This one is tough. I was out west this year once again at the San Diego con with a large family contingent. The trip went as one might imagine ... incredible crowd sizes, frenetic, hectic craziness ... but a lot of fun.

  from: timely-atlas-comics.blogspot.com

• Julian Assange: Reporters ‘Erecting A Demon’ By Protecting Hillary Clinton (or: The Secret Holy War of the Elites) | John Grayson @ Protonmail . Com

  That demon’s name? Moloch, the Caananite god-demon of child sacrifice.

  from: johngraysonblog.wordpress.com

• Dear Justine Greening: your primary school reading reforms aren’t making the grade | Michael Rosen | Education | The Guardian

  When 29% of pupils leave primary school without achieving the expected level, isn’t it time to think again? A trick I used to play with my children when they were much younger was to take a 50p piece out of my right trouser pocket, show it to them, then slip it into my left pocket and s

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• The Kubrick Site: Introducing Sociology by Tim Kreider

  The backlash against the film is now generally blamed on its cynical, miscalculated ad campaign. But why anyone who'd seen Kubrick's previous films believed the hype and actually expected it to be what Entertainment Weekly breathlessly anticipated as "the sexiest movie ever," is still not clear.

  from: visual-memory.co.uk

• The Kubrick Site: Comments by Kubrick on Film

  "With his anti-militarist "Paths of Glory", Stanley Kubrick established himself as one of the most alert and trenchant young directors in Hollywood.

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• EYES WIDE SHUT What the critics failed to see in Kubrick's last film

  Genuine art makes you stake your credulity on the patently counterfeit. It takes you by surprise. And for art to take you by surprise, you have

  from: indelibleinc.com

• When Will Climate Change Make the Earth Too Hot For Humans?

  We published “The Uninhabitable Earth” on Sunday night, and the response since has been extraordinary — both in volume (it is already the most-read article in New York Magazine’s history) and in kind.

  from: nymag.com

• RSA ANIMATE: Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us - YouTube

  This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace. Follow the RSA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RSAEventsLike the RSA on Facebook: http://ift.tt/2cdP51Z to RSA podcas

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• Marvel Mysteries and Comics Minutiae: Appreciating Don Heck

  Sol Brodsky was a long time artist, inker and production man at Marvel comics. Writer/Editor Stan Lee relied on his right hand man to make ...

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• Marvel Mysteries and Comics Minutiae: Gunsmoke Western:An Overview

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• 'Junk play': urban adventure playgrounds hit by austerity | Cities | The Guardian

  The oldest adventure playground in Britain is under threat after losing council funding. As public services across the country are cut, is this a sign that cities are becoming increasingly hostile to children?

  from: theguardian.com

• Poltergeist cameraman confirms long-standing rumor about the film’s real director · Newswire · The A.V. Club

  The Poltergeist franchise is famously cursed, supposedly due to the due to the real human skeletons that were used as props in the original film.

  from: avclub.com

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