Tag: history
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Question Culture: A Tribute To Carl Sagan
During the most recent episode of Question Culture (a bi-weekly socio-political podcast), Lornett and Brian discussed one of their favorite scientific minds, Carl Sagan. They talked about his early contributions to space exploration, his amazing documentary Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, and his activism for causes like nuclear disarmament and climate change. Check out the episode. As you…
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Question Culture: Propaganda
During the most recent episode of Question Culture (a bi-weekly socio-political podcast), Lornett and Brian discussed the “father of modern propaganda” Edward Bernays, the utilization of propaganda by Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi party, and American wartime propaganda. Check out the episode. As you know, at Waking Writer we don’t focus on writing and literature in a…
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Rewriting History, Robot Writers, and more…
A Horrorshow Find: ‘Clockwork Orange’ Follow-Up Surfaces After Decades Unseen (NPR) So, according to Burgess scholar Andrew Biswell, the novelist got to work on a brief piece, which soon became a big piece, which eventually ballooned to 200 pages. Written under the name The Clockwork Condition, the work was to be a philosophical meditation on…
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