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+24Oh Canada Movie - Our Bought And Sold Out Land
This 2009 entertaining documentary film explores the history of banking, the selling out of the prosperity of Canada, the clearance sale of Canadian businesses and the political liquidation of public infrastructures to the multi-national corporate oligarchy. How has this led to the biggest economic crash / recession / depression in Canadian history? Could it have something to do with our politicians listening to international bankers and corporations instead of the people Canada? How does the Canadian banking system really work? How does the central Bank of Canada compare with the American Federal Reserve?
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+39Types of Genres: A Literary Guide
Whether you’re picking another book off the shelf or plotting out your new novel, learning more about genre can help you decide what comes next.
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+47Robots Are People, Too: On the Ways Writers Use Non-Human Characters to Tell Human Stories
Sapient machines have appeared in stories for over a hundred years, but they’re just one example in our long tradition of using non-human characters to tell stories about ourselves.
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+44The Secret Meeting That Broke Our Food System
Did you know you can patent a living thing? Decades of lobbying made that possible. Now just four companies control the intellectual property behind nearly ALL of the food we eat. We call them the "Life Cartel" and we broke down their plot to privatize everything.
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+31How Hiking 310 Miles Helped Build a Novel—and Taught Me a Few Things About Writing Along the Way
A few years ago, I set off on an adventure that would eventually leave me both alone and alone in the woods…for days on end.
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+41Texas Board of Education urged to reject climate-accurate textbooks
Republican state official pans scientific consensus as a “woke environmental agenda.”
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+25Author has advice for writers: Attenberg’s book aims to keep you motivated to write
You need someone like Jami Attenberg, of Buffalo Grove, Ill., in your head. She has this new book, “1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused and Productive All Year Round,” which is sort of the advice book equivalent of that friend who cheers beside a marathon route, tossing out enthusiasm and Gatorade.
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+42Is Ghostwriting Ruining Literature?
Ghostwriting is a tradition that has been around since the 5th century, and has carried into the present day. But does it delegitimize a work?
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+36The very worst sports decisions of 2023
From Aaron Rodgers choosing the Jets to Ja Morant choosing chaos to optimistic Mets fans choosing to believe, these were some of 2023’s decisions to regret.
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+27Carter Wilson Interviewed Hundreds of Writers — Here’s What He Learned From Them\
I launched my podcast Making It Up nearly three years ago with the goal of interviewing writers not for any particular work of theirs, but to talk to them about their lives.
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+41TV Actors Getting Back To Work After SAG-AFTRA Strike As Series Start Setting Return To Production Dates
Film and TV cameras are finally set to roll again as SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP have reached a tentative agreement. The strike is officially over at 12:01 AM tonight, ending a six-month production pause d…
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+53Pink Floyd Song Reconstructed From People's Brain Activity
Neuroscientists were able to recreate “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1″ using AI to decipher the brain’s electrical activity
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+24Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton
Poet crossed out one racy passage, deeming it "an unbecom[ing] tale for a hist[ory]"
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+35The Making of NHL 94: 30th Anniversary Documentary
"NHL 94 is largely considered one of the best sports games ever made. 30 years after its release we talk to the developers about that era of sports game design and the magic that went into the development of NHL 94."
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+24Studio: Takedown notice for 15-year-old fan-made Hunt for Gollum was a mistake
The Hunt for Gollum fan film racked up more than 13 million views on YouTube.
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+31How to watch Super Bowl 2024: All the best streaming options
The best way for most of us to view the big game will be in 4K via a streaming service. We've also found the cheapest way to watch, and how a VPN can help.
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+46John Grisham, George R.R. Martin Among 17 Authors Suing OpenAI
Authors Jodi Picoult and Jonathan Franzen are also part of the suit, which accuses OpenAI of copyright infringement and “systematic theft on a mass scale."
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+44Porn addicts, vicars, madmen and murderers: Sarah Ogilvie on the Oxford English Dictionary’s unlikely writers
In a 70-year crowdsourcing project, a motley global public sent in the words and definitions that would form the first OED. Ogilvie reveals the shocking stories behind the book’s birth
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+39Why the Age of Marvel Is Not Quite Over
After bombing with ‘The Marvels’ and releasing a glut of projects in recent years, there is still hope for the studio to push through the wreckage.
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+43Demolition Man's Writer Explains How the Three Seashells Came To Be
Over the decades, few film debates have endured as much as Demolition Man’s three seashells, and now we can at least put one aspect of that debate to bed: where, exactly, they came from.




















