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Saw it many years ago but the favorable impression remains: 7.5 to 10, worth your time. It's a psychological drama directed by Ni...

In most of Western Europe, farmers have taken to the streets in an unprecedented way, ostensibly - or principally - to protest high fuel pri...

Thin Lizzy with Wild One . Album Fighting (1975). Hard to believe TL first broke up more than 40 years ago already - in 1983, that w...

Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies . I got to know her (well... not personally)...

Prefab Sprout with Bonny . From the 1985 album Steve McQueen ... ...with the iconic album cover. Only now did I find out the band is ...

Since 13 December Poland has a new government in the form of a center-left coalition of which the main party is Donald Tusk's PO ( Platf...

The hunt is on…. https://t.co/jNJQcsWw4a — DUNE Science (@DUNEScience) December 26, 2023 "The neutrino is perhaps the most fascina...

Here's another sci-fi flick you probably never heard of, Europa Report , about a space mission in search of extraterrestrial life to Eur...

In Europe anyway. Hameln, Germany: „Silvester weitgehend friedlich“ (ZDF) Hameln pic.twitter.com/lNJ68fP0UZ — Anabel Schunke (@ainyrock...

If we can forget for a moment the terrible turmoil in the world, what with the biggest war since WW2 going on in Ukraine; Gaza; Darfur; dang...

To all our readers, we wish you a heartfelt Happy New Year and may the Farce be with you! It's hard to believe, but 2023 marked D...

DowneastBlog wished all its readers of good will a Merry Christmas!!! The Nativity by Jacob Jordaens. In this fateful year however...

DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment) in Illinois (the particle accelerator) and South Dakota (the detector) is one of the two current...

MIT is offering totally free online courses. No payment required! Here are the Top 7 Courses: pic.twitter.com/QvJ57HqYft — Saransh Kaushik (...

Devotion tells the story of the first US Navy black pilot, Jesse Leroy Brown , and his wingman and pal Thomas Hudner . I first learned abou...

I have always had a soft spot for the B-58: B-58 appearances in movies are rare. Here's a short vid from Fail Safe (1964), starri...

Polish Krab mobile 155mm howitzers have apparently been a welcome addition to the Ukrainian battle order: Ukrainian Advent Calendar: Day ...

This image shows the destructive results of a powerful supernova explosion in X-ray light captured by NASA's Chandra and ESA's XMM-N...

Hat tip Kuruki. Handle on X/twitter: @Kuruki23882260 And if you haven't already bought Murray's 'The Strange Death of Eur...

It's low key, it's modest, but it's good. How could it not be good when it was written, produced and directed by Francis For...