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4 February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 Birthday Letter: Episodes 3-4 (Final) by LollyPip It took me a while to get back to finish this wonderful drama special, so I’m excited that I was finally able to find the time. Our young lovers have found each other in a foreign land…

Science's civil rebel dies aged 96 Video Freeman Dyson, the eminent British-American physicist and mathematician best known for his theoretical work in quantum electrodynamics, died today. He was 96. His death was announced by his daughter Mia Dyson via Maine public television and the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) –…

Berlin: The Oscar-nominated filmmaker's unconventional death montage offers an effective defense against historical forgetting. “Evil will hunt us if we don’t throw it out from us with open palms,” a disembodied voice declares to us in French at the start of “Irradiated,” Rithy Panh’s mesmerizingly bleak montage of war in…

Emmet GowinOverview of Frenchman Flat, Looking West, Nevada Test Site, 1997In 1962, the poet George Oppen published a poem called “Time of the Missile.” “My love, my love,” he wrote, “We are endangered / Totally at last.” It was the right year to come to that conclusion—the year of the…

Iran has blasted Washington for deploying submarines with low-yield nuclear warheads, arguing that the move increases the likelihood of unconventional war. "Such provocative actions must be condemned," Mohsen Baharvand, Iran's deputy foreign minister for international and legal affairs, told the Conference on Disarmament in the UN building in Geneva. He…

Key Point: Sanders may otherwise be somewhat of a dove, but he knows that the F-35 brings jobs and money to his voters in Vermont. That's why Sanders will do what he can to keep the federal tax dollars flowing. In a farewell ceremony on April 7, 2019, the Green Mountain…

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The B-29 Superfortress heavy bomber achieved fame — and infamy — for its role in the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Developing the huge bombers, which could lug heavy bomb loads over long distances at high altitudes and speeds, amounted to the most expensive weapons…

This Sunday marks the 75th anniversary of what is arguably the most famous news photo of all time. The shot of U.S. Marines raising an American flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, captured by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, has become a timeless symbol of valor and unity.…

Iran Parliament introduces motion to leave nuclear proliferation treaty (Mint) Mains Paper 2: International Prelims level: Nuclear proliferation treaty Mains level: Various agreements and their mandate Context: A motion for Iran to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was introduced in Iran’s parliament. So far it…