Today in History
1942 – Program of moving Japanese-Americans from their homes on U.S. West Coast to inland detention centers during World War II begins. 1956 – Pakistan becomes an independent … 2010 – In a major triumph for his presidency, a jubilant Barack Obama …
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Abrupt Climate Change: No Bioperturbation
Pollution levels (nutrients from wastewater treatment plants, urban stormwater runoff agriculture, etc.) accumulate over time to a sufficiently high level that finally, an algae population explosion occurs. Then a really devastating thing sometimes …
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The Psychomagical Realism of Alejandro Jodorowsky
As the rapper Kanye West, whose “Yeezus” tour was inspired by “The Holy Mountain,” put it last November to a packed (and very likely perplexed) house at Brooklyn's Barclays Center: “I don't know if . . . y'all ever heard about Jodorowsky, the director …
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