Category: Reviews
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Passionately Curious – An Interstaller Investigation
Read more: Passionately Curious – An Interstaller InvestigationAs you may well know by now, I’m a huge fan of the natural sciences. Usually, I use the space allotted to me here to try and explain some interesting bit of science in more simple terms, so that those of us who aren’t as big on the giant formulas and heavy textbooks can…
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A Smokey Haze: A Review of Inherent Vice
Read more: A Smokey Haze: A Review of Inherent ViceIn 1970, Doc Sportello, a private investigator with a soft spot for pot smoking, receives a visit from his former girlfriend Shasta Fay Hepworth. As it turns out she wants him to help her out with a plot to kidnap her current boyfriend, real estate magnate Mickey Wolfmann, which Wolfmann’s wife and her boyfriend have…
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Philosophers Review Our Most Popular Romantic Films
Read more: Philosophers Review Our Most Popular Romantic FilmsFor the Family: “The Sound of Music” Plato: Why is there so much singing? I hate singing. Just look at the text: “When the dog bites, when the bee stings / When I’m feeling sad / I simply remember my favourite things”. How deceitful Maria is with these lines! Generalising her fear for dogs is…
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Ode to the mixtape: a review of Eleanor & Park
Read more: Ode to the mixtape: a review of Eleanor & ParkIt starts with a bus ride and a begrudgingly shared seat. Eleanor is the new kid, slightly overweight with unruly red curls who wears hand-me-down clothes, and who is therefore an easy target for bullying. She comes from a family of poverty and a home with an abusive stepfather. Park is the complete opposite. He…
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Books between the bicycles – Special bookstores of Amsterdam
Read more: Books between the bicycles – Special bookstores of AmsterdamInspired by Tessel’s article on Ghent’s best bookstores, I planned on writing a similar guide on Berlin’s most scrumptious book deli’s after a recent weekend trip to the German capital. Turns out all the bookstores I wanted to visit were located exactly on the other side of Berlin than the neighbourhood I was staying in…
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