![]() ![]() ![]() This same team used similar methods to uncover the origin of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A in 2007. They looked at ‘light echoes’ from the event in an effort to learn more about the ancient supernova.Ī ‘light echo’ is light from the original supernova event that bounces off dust particles in surrounding interstellar clouds and reaches Earth many years after the direct light passes by in this case, 436 years ago. Recently, a group of astronomers used the Subaru Telescope to attempt a type of time travel by observing the same light that Brahe saw back in the 16th century. The remains of this event can still be seen today as Tycho’s supernova remnant. What Brahe actually saw was a supernova, a rare event where the violent death of a star sends out an extremely bright outburst of light and energy. A bright object appeared in the constellation Cassiopeia, outshining even Venus, and it stayed there for several months until it faded from view. On NovemDanish astronomer Tycho Brahe and other skywatchers observed what they thought was a new star. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I found it entertaining and challenging on a personal level and am grateful for the life-changing information that was presented within the brief 192 pages. ![]() ![]() It is not reality, although you can express reality there if you wish.” Quote: “The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. The premise of the book is ‘What if a master appeared who could teach us how to have power over the illusions of the physical world as we know it?’ First published in 1977, this book questions ‘reality’ and proposes the idea that what we believe to be real is just made up of illusions that we took part in creating for our soul’s learning and entertainment. I still have my original copy and have read it at least 4 times since purchasing it. ‘Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah’ is a book that captivated me when I first read it many years ago and continues to inspire me to this day. “But once in a while there’s a great dynamite-burst of flying glass and brick and splinters through the front wall and somebody stalks over the rubble, seizes me by the throat and gently says, ‘I will not let you go until you set me, in words, on paper.’ That’s how I met Illusions. ![]() ![]() Their solution: Teach them martial arts and turn them loose on a hundred or so equally nameless medieval dudes. Still, they deserve credit for cracking a premise that half the scribblers in Hollywood have been trying to figure out - namely, how to turn the industry’s most retrograde female stereotypes into 21st-century role models. ![]() When it comes time for characters to open their mouths, screenwriters Ben Lustig and Jake Thornton draw from a seemingly bottomless bag of clichés. Whatever Disney movies may have led you to believe about royals named Ariel (she sings!) and Belle (she reads!), this one learned Krav Maga behind her father’s back, and she can incapacitate a man twice her size with little more than a hairpin. Over the course of the next hour and a half, “The Princess” hardly stops to catch its breath. ![]() She begins the movie locked in the top floor of the castle, wearing a wedding dress and iron shackles, and ends it drenched in more blood than Stephen King’s Carrie, some of it hers, but most belonging to all the men who’ve underestimated her. Played by “The Kissing Booth” star Joey King as an anything-but-passive heroine, the movie’s anonymous eponymous protagonist isn’t a proper character so much as a one-dimensional empowerment symbol: “The Princess” represents the antithesis of every fairy-tale damsel who sat around waiting to be whisked away or married off. Practically everybody in “ The Princess” has a name, except the princess. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “ Fry Bread celebrates the thing itself and much, much more. Fry bread is much more than food, as this book amply demonstrates.” - Kirkus Reviews, starred review Through this topic that includes the diversity of so many Native peoples in a single story, Maillard (Mekusukey Seminole) promotes unity and familiarity among nations. “With buoyant, heartfelt illustrations that show the diversity in Native America, the book tells the story of a post-colonial food, a shared tradition across the North American continent. It is a celebration of old and new, traditional and modern, similarity and difference. It is shared by many, from coast to coast and beyond. It brings families together for meals and new memories. It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate. Told in lively and powerful verse by debut author Kevin Noble Maillard, Fry Bread is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family, vibrantly illustrated by Pura Belpre Award winner Juana Martinez-Neal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Can a cat who can’t even clean up his own apartment manage to find his missing man before it’s too late? In an all-new series based on the wildly-popular tumblr webcomic, classic comic strip layouts and colorful cartoon art make this a fun read. Author of Manfried The Man Caitlin Major - CaitlinMajor Caitlin Major - CaityMaj Brisbane, Queensland Caitlin Major - LearnKitten Caitlin Major - CaitlinMajor Show all results. Read 'Manfried the Man A Graphic Novel' by Caitlin Major available from Rakuten Kobo. But when Steve’s carelessness results in Manfried getting lost, Steve has no choice but to muster his meager resources to bring his best friend home safe. Stuck in a dead-end job and bemoaning a nonexistent love life, Steve depends on his pet man for friendship and support. ![]() Club and Paste Meet Manfried, a stray man taken in by the likable but introverted tomcat Steve Catson. Manfried, a stray man taken in by slacker Steve Catson, becomes the Garfield to his John Arbuckle: lazy, selfish, and sometimes maddening in his weird human. Manfried the Man was named one of the Best Comics of 2018 by A.V. Summary: In this hilarious graphic novel, the roles of cats and humans are reversed, putting humanoid felines in charge of tiny, dimwitted little man-pets. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is committed to finding out what makes people happy and has concluded that hygge is the magic ingredient that makes Danes the happiest nation in the world. Meik Wiking is the CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen. In this beautiful, inspiring book he will help you be more hygge: from picking the right lighting and planning a dinner party through to creating an emergency hygge kit and even how to dress. Who better than Meik Wiking to be your guide to all things hygge? Meik is CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen and has spent years studying the magic of Danish life. ![]() It is those crisp blue mornings when the light through your window is just right. It is when you are cuddled up on a sofa with a loved one, or sharing comfort food with your closest friends. My personal favourite is cocoa by candlelight…’ ![]() ‘Hygge has been translated as everything from the art of creating intimacy to cosiness of the soul to taking pleasure from the presence of soothing things. The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking – Book Reviewĭenmark is often said to be the happiest country in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() There is no significant difference in the films' rendering of the uncanny through narrative. Within the narrative of both films, the uncanny is manifested through extended use of the doppelganger and repetition. Furthermore, I have explored the social, historical, and cultural underpinnings of Suzuki's original novel and its path to Japanese and eventually American theatres. Through a brief exploration of the historical evolution of the idea of the uncanny and the various critical cruxes surrounding it, I have developed six working characteristics of the uncanny as a base for my analysis of Ringu and Ring. This thesis explores a contemporary definition of the uncanny as manifested through two film interpretations (Ringu and Ring) of the same source material, a novel titled Ringu by Koji Suzuki. The uncanny is a ubiquitous presence 21st century American and abroad, and it provides a useful metaphor for understanding the implications of some of the conventions of post-modernism. In the last few decades, interest in the uncanny in the body of literary theory has surged. Show simple item record dc.contributor.advisor ![]() ![]() Then again, in so many ways, walking into that dining room was belly-of-the-beast time. ![]() His brandy-new Ed Hardy kicks middle-fingered that suggestion. Qhuinn closed his eyes and tried to convince his body to step forward. “Ah, yes, thank you, Lilith,” his father said evenly. She’s getting heavy.”Īh, yes, his mother’s perma-diet inflicted on the next generation: Glymera females were supposed to disappear from sight when they turned sideways, each jutting collarbone, sunken cheek, and bony upper arm some kind of fucked-up badge of honor.Īs if resembling like a fire poker would make you a better person.Īnd Scribe Virgin forefend if your daughter looked like she was healthy. “Oh, Lillie, this is lovely, thank you,” his mother said to the server. ![]() Or maybe the ever-popular We’re Just Better Than Everyone Else.ĭistant voices drifted over from the dining room, the vowels round as brilliant-cut diamonds, the consonants drawled out smooth and long as satin ribbons. ![]() If the Glade company ever did an air freshener like this, it would be called something like Meadow of Old Money. Fresh flowers from the garden that the doggen brought in daily. The instant he stepped over the threshold, the smell of the place curled up into his nose. ![]() Qhuinn, son of Lohstrong, entered his family’s home through its grand front door. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of the stories, interviews, and accounts are not from Dawn's own life, but all of them helped to shape who she became because all were part of the rich heritage she and her generation shared. ![]() And she ends with accounts from World War II. She touches on the Great Depression and its effect on farmers. She describes the bombing of the village school in Bath, which happened ten years before her birth. She details the immigration from the Netherlands to the colonies to Michigan, specifically the immigration of settlers in her own genealogy. ![]() The beginning of the book is devoted to snapshots of her rearing on a farm near Bath, Michigan, but then it spirals outward from there. They asked for her stories to be written down, and so she wrote them. Dawn Voorheis Hawks begins the book with a conversation between herself and her grandkids. What shapes a person? A Time and Times: My Memoirs is not a memoir in the traditional sense of telling one's own story from one's own perspective. ![]() ![]() He's a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and former consultant psychiatrist and clinical director at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospital in London. Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher, and literary scholar. In my mind, I like to imagine Iain, sitting by the fire in his home in the Isle of Skye and toiling over his manuscripts.ĭr. Several weeks later, we did the interview. And so after I saw him speak, I rushed up to him and invited him onto the podcast, and he was kind enough to agree. But there was this man, Iain McGilchrist, who delivered this interview about the brain and the nature of reality that just kind of blew my mind. ![]() It may not actually have been a tweed blazer, but I feel like spiritually it might have been. And I was sitting in the audience at this conference, and onstage appeared this man in, I think, a tweed blazer. In the summer of 2021, I was invited to Galway, Ireland to speak at a conference called dotMD: A Festival of Medical Curiosity. You're listening to The Nocturnists: Conversations. ![]() ![]() Thank you for consulting the audio before quoting in print. Our transcripts are produced using both speech recognition software and human copy editors, and may not be 100% accurate. We encourage you to listen to the episode if at all possible. ![]() The audio contains emotion, emphasis, and soundscapes that are not easily transcribed. Note: The Nocturnists is created primarily as a listening experience. ![]() |