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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

AL GORE NOBEL NEWS

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Hot on the heeels of the Nobel Peace Prize, the call is on for Gore to run for President in 2008. Naturally he has categorically denied that...
Monday, October 15, 2007

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: GERARD PIEL'S HISTORY

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Scientific American has always been one of my favourite magazines so was delighted to discover in the Generalist Archives - currently und...

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS

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Above: X-ray portrait of a healthy young woman wearing a necklace. The 'density slicing' is not electronic in this case. The colours...
Friday, September 21, 2007

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: OBESITY & HUNGER

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This is what I learnt today from the September 2007 issue of Scientific American. GLOBAL OBESITY Worldwide, more than 1.3 billion people ar...

PLANET NEWS

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(Left): Young coal miner in Linfen, China. The State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) of China has branded Linfen as having the worst ...
Thursday, September 20, 2007

A NEW WASTE LAND: Mike Horowitz

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Wed 20th: The Generalist attended Fine Art auction at the East West Gallery in Blenheim Crescent, Ladbroke Grove, London for the Benefit of ...

'ON THE ROAD' IS 50: The Scroll

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Left: The British edition of 'On The Road: The Original Scroll' by Jack Kerouac. Edited by Howard Cunnell. [Penguin Classics. £25.00...
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ON THE ROAD IS 50: Critics, Movie, Lost Play, Estate

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( Left): Read the very first review of 'On The Road' in the New York Times (Sept 5th, 1957) by Gilbert Millstein. It's a crac...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

'ON THE ROAD' IS 50: A Digital Moment

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I thought wouldn't it be good to reread 'On The Road' and draw a detailed pencil map of the journey as I went along and use this...
Friday, September 14, 2007

A LIFE MEASURED OUT IN BOOKS

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(Left): 'A Pound of Paper' by John Baxter [Ted Smart. London. 2002]. Jacket illustration by Jackie Parson. Best known for his string...
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MANGUEL AND BORGES

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Alberto Manguel's 'A Reading Diary' [Canongate Books. Edinburgh. 2004] has rapidly and recently become one of my favourite books...

LARSEN, MISHIMA & ČAPEK

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Everyone loves a pirate tale, witness the massive global boffo box office recption for Johnny Depp's 'Pirate of the Caribbean' s...