Month: June 2019

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Chernobyl

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On June 7, 2019
Writing in the New Yorker, Masha Gessen takes HBO’s recently-concluded, and for the most part universally-lauded, miniseries about the Chernobyl disaster to task for failing to grasp Soviet power structures. Herein lies one of the series’ biggest flaws: its failure to accurately portray Soviet relationships of power. There are exceptions, flashes of brilliance that shed […]
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This is the grave of Mark White. Born in 1940 in Henderson, Texas, White grew up in Houston and attended Baylor University in Waco. He then received his law degree from Baylor in 1965. He started a law practice in Houston, but very ambitious, was named the state’s assistant attorney general in 1966. He stayed […]

Dr. John

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On June 6, 2019

Malcolm John Rebennack, aka Dr. John, has died at the age of 77. Here’s a performance from Martin Scorsese’s concert film The Last Waltz: RIP Night Tripper.

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Male Privilege Kills

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On June 6, 2019
This is…wow. An advertising agency has created the first-ever attachment designed to convert a standard CPR dummy into a female version. The product, which has been produced by New York-based creative agency JOAN, was designed following a recent study by Dr Audrey Blewer which found that women suffering from a cardiac arrest in public are 27 per cent […]
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