okt20022

  

“Blondes aren’t going away”

"In response to recent media reports citing an alleged World Health Organization (WHO) study predicting the extinction of the naturally blond hair gene, WHO wishes to clarify that it has never conducted research on this subject," the advisory said.[...]So how ...

[telt 144 wurden]

okt20023

  illústraasjes

Hjerst



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okt20023

  illústraasjes

More scenes from the Labour party conference

The conference begins at sparrow fart...

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okt20023

  illústraasjes

Hjerst ii



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okt20023

  illústraasjes

tsrejH



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okt20023

  illústraasjes

tsrejH



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okt20023

  frysk

Noarmen en wearden

It aparte is dat wy nea op wearden as sadanich wiisd wurde, wy wurde konfrontearre mei foarskriften en wy moatte leauwe dat dy ta doel ha in wearde te befêstigjen sûnder te begripen om hokker wearde it giet. Dat is ...

[telt 202 wurden]

okt20024

  

This year’s Ig Nobel prizes

Interdisciplinary Research: Karl Kruszelnicki, of the University of Sydney, for performing a comprehensive survey of human belly button lint - who gets it, when, what colour, and how much. Mathematics: Two Indian scientists came up with a new method for estimating ...

[telt 120 wurden]

okt20025

  

The making of a prime-minister

" Een erg kleurrijk politicus was hij niet. In Amstelveen herinneren zijn CDA-collega's zich Balkenendes scherpe debatteerstijl en boven de gemeentepolitiek uit stijgende analyses. Maar markante successen zijn moeilijk te vinden. Roem vergaarde hij met de krokettenmotie. Tijdens een lange ...

[telt 68 wurden]

okt20026

  

Be Prepared, Just In Case

Our computers recorded the date and time that each person from the UK rated the jokes in LaughLab. Careful analysis of the data revealed that people found the jokes funniest on the 7th October at 6.03 in the evening. Perhaps ...

[telt 53 wurden]

okt20026

  

Writing the Hurricane’s Biography

Towards the end of their encounter at the Post House Hotel in August 2001, Borrows asked him, 'Have you enjoyed your life?' Higgins looked at Borrows, then adjusted his cravat. 'I haven't really had much to do with my life,' he ...

[telt 54 wurden]

okt20027

  

Hell, a sudden change of habits

Farewell, Arts & Letters Daily. Welcome, Philosophy & Literature, Human Nature Review, and ArtsJournal.com.

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okt20027

  

Gesprek met Gerrit Krol op 10 juni 1999

" Ik zou ook niet goed weten wat ik daarmee bedoel, maar ik vind dat het er goed staat " Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren.

[telt 26 wurden]

okt20028

  

Finally

" Postmodernism is dead, finally killed off after years of sickness as a result of mortal injuries sustained on 11th September 2001. "Death of an Idea.

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okt20029

  skiednis/history

The Decline of Redemptive Truth

Nevertheless, the question 'Do you believe in truth or are you one of those frivolous postmodernists?' is often the first one that journalists ask intellectuals whom they are assigned to interview. That question now plays the role previously played by ...

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okt20029

  illústraasjes

The Decline of Western Magazine Design

>A Magazine Cover Design Face-off.

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okt200210

  

Langs de dood

Benieuwd wanneer de eerste vergelijkingen gemaakt worden tussen de bezoekersaantallen bij de dode Prins Claus en de opgebaarde Pim Fortuyn.

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okt200211

  media

Hoe lees ik de krant? [v]

" NRC ligt namelijk totaal aan de ketting van het Amsterdamse advocatenkantoor Stibbe dat de krant altijd zo ruimhartig adviseert. Noch over zijn klanten (zowat alle grote bedrijven van Nederland behalve de retailers) noch over Stibbe zelf mag negatief worden ...

[telt 113 wurden]

okt200212

  boeken/books

An attack on the growing pretentiousness of prose

People who can't draw often fake it by thickening or smudging their lines. Art teachers flunk students who do this, but the well-meaning viewer will look at the blur and unconsciously create in it the line that makes sense. What ...

[telt 160 wurden]

okt200213

  

Where do creative people get their inspiration?

" Reverie is crucial to the creative mind. And although this predominantly comes down to nurture over nature, creativity is lost without an instinctive ability to access free-floating mental states. "What's the Big Idea

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okt200215

  

‘I feel like saying: Stop, that’s enough…’

" What I'm trying to bring home is the total absence of intellectual rigour. Students have no idea what it is to think. And what they are taught is absurd. " In general, the problem boils down to the way English ...

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okt200216

  illústraasjes

the problems of flight

The Rocket Engine Test Laboratory completed in 1957.

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okt200216

  illústraasjes

Ödipale Komplikationen?

Bernh. Joh. Blume[via Marcel van Eeden / Cioran]

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okt200217

  

ché-cli

Hoorde ik éen van de geachte volksvertegenwoordigers gisteren op televisie toch zeggen dat het onvermijdelijk was geworden de "ring in de handdoek te werpen".

[telt 25 wurden]

okt200218

  

Stemoefeningen

De gelijkenis van den verlorenen zoon in den tongval van de stad Groningen. Medegedeeld door den heer Mr. S. Reynders, oud notaris te Groningen. November 1870. 11. D'r was 'rais 'n man dei twei zeuns had. 12. En de jongste ...

[telt 294 wurden]

okt200219

  

All the right questions about animal rights

" Thus when I read of the possible annihilation of the elephant or the whale, or the pouring of oven cleaner or cosmetics into the eyes of live kittens, or the close confinement of pigs and calves in lightless pens, ...

[telt 133 wurden]

okt200220

  

Marrying a Mitford

" Andrew Cavendish, the 11th Duke of Devonshire, was once asked by his estate workers when he planned to retire. He answered: 'I've never worked a day in my life, so how can I retire?' He is now 82 ...

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okt200220

  media

What’s the big idea?

" I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you. The environment is so full of television, party political broadcasts and advertising campaigns, you hardly need to do anything. ...

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okt200221

  poezy|poetry

Ein

Noch in boek mei wat sangen; wat witnisspul Ut âlde brief beskreaun? Mear kin ik net wachtsje; de oere giet, De dream is hast ferdreaun.Obe Postma [Fragmint]

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okt200222

  frysk

Tûkelteam

Wêrom hjit in nije ronde yn in spultsje oer taal op 'e Fryske taal in "nije omloop"? Om't "omloop" ek yn it keatsen brûkt wurdt, en sa ta geef Frysk wurden is? Skuldich, troch allinne mar yn 'e buert te ...

[telt 42 wurden]

okt200223

  français

Il n’y a rien à prendre

"Un peu avant le coucher du soleil, l'heure où il ne me vient que des pensées fines, si fines que mon cerveau est comme un arbre dépouillé de feuilles. "Jules Renard, 23 octobre 1905.

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okt200225

  

Rejecting a winner

" Yann Martel's Life Of Pi, that rare gem: a feelgood, marketable Booker winner, was turned down by at least five London publishing houses, his agent revealed last night. "The Guardian

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okt200226

  

Dorothy Parker Audio Clips

It's always strange to connect well known words to pictures or voices. Even more, Dorothy Parker was already 71 here, and talks too close to the microphone.

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okt200227

  Deutsch
poezy|poetry

Herbsttag

Herr, es ist Zeit. Der Sommer war sehr groß. Leg deinen Schatten auf die Sonnenuhren, und auf den Fluren laß die Winde los. Befiehl den letzten Früchten, voll zu sein; gib ihnen noch zwei südlichere Tage, dränge sie zur Vollendung hin, und jage die letzte ...

[telt 81 wurden]

okt200227

  poezy|poetry

Wind

This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and ...

[telt 188 wurden]

okt200228

  boeken/books
media

Project Gutenberg

" Hart mourns the rapidly dwindling public domain. "By the way, do you realize that Ted Turner made millions, probably hundreds of millions, from the copyright extension of just "Gone With The Wind", not counting the hundreds of other movies he ...

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okt200229

  illústraasjes

Krantenstrip

Toch heeft het iets armoedigs om 's avonds in Het Parool dezelfde aflevering van de strip S1ngle te zien, die het AD 's ochtends al op z'n website zette. Overigens blijf ik van mening dat Zusje in Trouw op dit moment ...

[telt 45 wurden]

okt200230

  

Have I got News for You

Angus Deayton sacked by Aunty.

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okt200231

  illústraasjes

Ian Pollock

Miracles and Parables.

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