November 30, 2020
Good Morning Britain - Duran Duran's John Taylor Has a Huge Announcement
Posted by the Flea at 05:44 PM
November 29, 2020
November 25, 2020
November 24, 2020
Connel Guides - Helena Bonham Carter on poetry and her favourite poems
Posted by the Flea at 08:48 PM
November 22, 2020
Slavoj Žižek & Stephen Kotkin - Stalin: Paradoxes of Power (March 2015)
Posted by the Flea at 03:28 PM
November 21, 2020
‘A Roman ruin wrapped around a modern concrete house’ – step inside Adam Richards' Nithurst Farm
Posted by the Flea at 09:34 PM
November 20, 2020
A Star Trek actor tries to one-up his co-star in his return to Hollywood. | Brentwood
"Brent Spiner made his name as iconic android Data on "Star Trek," but he's retreated from public life in Hollywood. He's been teaching acting at Cal State Fullerton, but when he's up for an award for his work on the show that made him famous, he mulls over a comeback, though he's reluctant to dive back in."
Posted by the Flea at 06:49 PM
November 19, 2020
Odeuropa
An online encyclopedia of European smells.
In this three-year project, the researchers will be using data mining, heritage science, and sensory history techniques to identify, document, and share Europe's olfactory heritage. An AI will go through historical texts for intricate descriptions of smells in seven languages and spot images and paintings associated with odors, examine and organize them for experts to study later, France 24 reports.
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Dr. William Tullett of Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, a member of the Odeuropa team and the author of Smell in Eighteenth-Century England, says that this "... could take us into all kinds of different scents, whether that is the use of herbs like rosemary to protect against plague, [or] the use of smelling salts in the 18th and 19th centuries as an antidote to fits and fainting."
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Dr. William Tullett of Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, a member of the Odeuropa team and the author of Smell in Eighteenth-Century England, says that this "... could take us into all kinds of different scents, whether that is the use of herbs like rosemary to protect against plague, [or] the use of smelling salts in the 18th and 19th centuries as an antidote to fits and fainting."
Posted by the Flea at 03:04 PM
November 18, 2020
Spencer Klavan: The Symposium by Plato
"Love is an innate desire of every human being, but how do you define it and what is its purpose in relationships? Michael Knowles and Spencer Klavan take you through one of the most collective philosophical texts on love in Western literature: Plato’s The Symposium."
Posted by the Flea at 03:47 PM
November 14, 2020
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November 09, 2020
The Modern House - At home in the Isokon Building penthouse with Cubitts founder Tom Broughton
Posted by the Flea at 09:39 PM