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Alice Munro, 1931-2024

By: Kattullus
15 May 2024 at 06:29
Alice Munro, master of short stories, wove intense tales of human drama from small-town life is the Globe and Mail obituary [archive] for the Canadian literary giant who passed away Monday night. She received the Nobel in literature in 2013 among countless other prizes. She also cofounded Munro's Books in Victoria, British Columbia, who posted a remembrance on Instagram. The New Yorker, where many of her stories first appeared, has a section with links to her short fiction, as well as personal essays, appraisals and an interview and an obituary [archive]. The 1978 classic Moons of Jupiter was recently featured on their fiction podcast, and it is also available as text.

"Women in philosophyโ€‹ have always needed a special stroke of luck."

By: Kattullus
13 May 2024 at 15:02
Whenever I read claims about 'forgotten women', I want to ask: 'By whom?' Feminists? Society? The 'culture'? And why 'forgotten'? Forgetting presupposes something once known, but the general 'we' who have 'forgotten' these women are also the 'we' who were not taught them in the first place. Such generalisations risk shifting the focus, and the responsibility, away from the agents of our ignorance: the historians and philosophers who made a world in which certain texts were deemed unworthy of preservation and the history of women's thought was kept to the margins.
โ€“ A Comet that Bodes Mischief by Sophie Smith. She discussed women in philosophy on the LRB Podcast.

"spaghettification is just 12.8 seconds away"

By: Kattullus
8 May 2024 at 06:44
360 Video: NASA Simulation Plunges into a Black Hole answers the question of what it would look like to fall into a black hole. If you'd rather not, NASA also released 360 Video: NASA Simulation Shows a Flight Around a Black Hole. They also released videos explaining what is going on in the visualizations for the dive into the black hole as well as the flight around it. The press release has more information.

The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Martha and the Vandellas and so many more

By: Kattullus
6 May 2024 at 12:05
Motown Junkies is a blog where Steve Devereux is reviewing the entire Motown singles discography in sequential order from the beginning. You can also browse tracks by songwriter, label and artist. He's currently up to 1966, though he's been on hiatus for a few years. He also used to present Discovering Motown on Radio Cardiff, and the archive is on Mixcloud.

"There is an episode of Bluey that Disney does not want you to see"

By: Kattullus
2 May 2024 at 15:08
Dad Baby is an episode from season two of Bluey, the Australian children's cartoon, which Disney has refused to make available for streaming, has been uploaded in full to the official Bluey YouTube channel. If you are unfamiliar with the hijinks of the Heeler family, you can watch a selection of episodes on YouTube, either as one long compilation or individually:

Magic Asparagus Ice Cream The Pool Hotel Bluey Seesaw Movies Faceytalk It's a Baby Race Yoga Ball Christmas Swim Pizza Girls The Sleepover Double Babysitter The Beach Mini Bluey Unicorse Magic
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