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  • Chinese astronaut seeks to boost interest in science with space lecture

    A Chinese astronaut will give the first lecture in space on Thursday to students nationwide to promote knowledge of space and boost interest in science. Wang Yaping, China's second female astronaut and the country's first "space teacher," will perform several physics experiments in a zero-gravity environment, which will be broadcast live by China Central Television (CCTV) ...

  • Gaming as a force for good – Cannes Lions 2013 video debate

    2013 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity how gaming can be applied to many areas: from education, to PHD's internal office structure, and the treatment of anxiety and depression without resorting to ...

  • An only child raising an only child Author explores the scientific cultural scrutiny of singletons

    This June 17, 2013 photo released courtesy of Lauren Sandler shows, from left, Justin Lane, Lauren Sandler and Dahlia Lane at their home in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Sandler delves into the myths and misconceptions about singletons in a new book, One and Only, out this month from Simon & Schuster. Sandler says the choice of having one child is often demonized and the pull to have ...

  • Daycare owner accused of drugging children

    (Fotolia) An Ohio daycare operator is facing charges of child endangerment after allegedly feeding children in her care pancakes spiked with medications that cause drowsiness. Tammy Eppley, 37, is accused of crushing up Benadryl and melatonin and mixing it into the food of the six children she looks after at her home daycare, Caterpillar ...

  • Analysis Edward Snowden versus the dragons

    NSA leaker says he will fight extradition One measure of our culture’s disdain for whistle-blowers like Edward Snowden can be culled from the pages of a thesaurus. Beyond "source" and "leaker," few neutral antonyms exist to describe people who divulge alleged wrongdoing by the government or other organizations to the press, while negative synonyms abound - spy, ...


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Grand Illusion (La grande illusion)

Grand Illusion (La grande illusion)

Digitally restored for its 75th anniversary theatrical re-release, Jean Renoirs masterpiece Grand Illusion (Le grand illusion) remains a monumental humanist work that does what all great works do: It transcends the specifics of its time and place and speaks to us in a ... ...

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  • Two guards sanctioned for relations with inmates

    (Shutterstock) MONTREAL - Two woman guards at a sprawling north-end Montreal jail were caught in romantic relationships with inmates, and one quit rather than break up with her bad-boy beau. Earlier this month, a guard at Bordeaux jail was caught in a parking lot, kissing a man who had just been released, QMI Agency has learned. A colleague reported the woman to a supervisor and the guard was ...

  • Russia wants US to pay for astronaut flights to Space Station

    Russia will ask the United States to contribute more toward the costs of flying US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesman for the Russian space agency said Thursday.Roskomos spokesman Vyacheslav Davydenko told AFP that since the US space shuttles stopped supplying the jointly manned station in the wake of the February 2003 Columbia disaster Russia had been shouldering ...

  • Taiwans space programme offers tsunami satellite images to aid relief

    Taiwan's national space programme offered Wednesday its satellite images of the damage caused by powerful tsunamis that ravaged Asia at the weekend to affected countries and aid groups for free.The National Space Programme Office (NSPO) normally charges 3,000 euros (4,080 dollars) for each photograph covering an area of 600 square kilometres (240 square miles), the office said.The images ...

  • Scuppered barges plug dyke to hold back German flood

    Similar "blocking events" have been responsible for many other extreme weather events in the northern hemisphere in recent years - including the European heatwave in 2003, the Russian heatwave and the Indus river flood in Pakistan in 2010, and the 2011 US heatwave. Some climate scientists think the surge of blocking events is linked to the rapid warming in the Arctic. In March, for ...

  • Obama declares war on the patent trolls

    Last week, US president Barack Obama announced a series of measures that he hopes will finally end the scourge of "patent trolls". Identifying these trolls may not be so easy, ...

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