Dec 142020
 

Over more than 50 years, Lillian Michelson built one of Hollywood’s most famous libraries for film research. Need to know what an Igloo really looks like? How about a Siberian hut? Or the inside of a 15th Century jail?  For 50 years in Hollywood, generations of filmmakers would beat a path to the Michelson Cinema Research Library, where renowned film researcher Lillian Michelson could hunt down the answer to just about any question. She was…

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Dec 142020
 

Massive planets at far out distances from their stars are possible after all The Hubble Space Telescope has spied a previously unknown exoplanet with similar properties as our Solar System’s hypothetical object Planet Nine. This newly spotted body is living on the outskirts of another solar system 336 light-years away.…

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Dec 142020
 

The Austrian socialist architect Josef Frank resisted modernists who wanted to make homes look like workplaces — an idea with new resonance in an age when so many of us are working from home and feel like we can’t escape from our work. Josef Frank design, 1932. (Photograph by Martin Gerlach / courtesy of Wien Museum) In 2020, millions of people have unexpectedly been forced to turn their homes into their workplaces. Not only have…

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Dec 142020
 

Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning. I am not the only one who thinks Bookshop.org is a false savior. It’s not just book publishing – the pandemic is also accelerating the death of print news media. Amazon may finally sell their ebooks to libraries.  The bad sex in fiction award will not be given out this year. Apparently the judges decided that bad sex is better than no sex. Google Play…

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Dec 142020
 

The Congressional Budget Office studied the costs of Medicare for All and determined that it could cover everyone and cost $650 billion less annually than the existing US medical system.

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