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From the Books to the Social Justice Warriors: The Muggles of Dumbledore’s Army
Read more: From the Books to the Social Justice Warriors: The Muggles of Dumbledore’s ArmyWe all know that there is something about books that changes you – perhaps only for a little while, when you are reading the book. In other cases the influence of a book, or several books, stretches much farther than “just” the appreciation for a story. Sometimes, books activate people to do great things –…
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Recent Ouija: Lamenting Between Artifice and Reality
Read more: Recent Ouija: Lamenting Between Artifice and RealityAlthough the majestic works of Henri Matisse have been luring numerous visitors to the Stedelijk Museum, it is its basement that confirms the experimental and contemporary course that the museum has set out to follow when Beatrix Ruf took up position as director last November. Titled Recent Ouija, the exhibition of the works of Ed…
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It’s Not the End of the World – The Sublime On a Small Scale
Read more: It’s Not the End of the World – The Sublime On a Small ScaleHow does one track down the sublime? It is not moldy lemons that I am referring to here (haha do you get it??) (sorry), but that feeling of your organs permeating through your skin, of your stomach turning into an abyss and swallowing the rest of you up whole. I remember a few years ago…
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Revolution in the Bed: In Defence of Sleep
Read more: Revolution in the Bed: In Defence of SleepMeet the white-crowned sparrow. Although it might look like any regular North American bird (albeit very cute and fluffy), the zonotrichia leucophrys has a distinguishing factor that sets it apart from our Dutch mus: its ability to stay awake for seven days during its migration. Over the past few years, various American universities and research…
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Highlander – There Is Only One
Read more: Highlander – There Is Only OneEveryone has fond memories of a lot of films from their childhood that raise those films above and beyond everything they see afterwards. For many, those films are products from the masterminds at Disney, or the work of directors like Spielberg. Then there are the more obscure titles that just happened to be in the…
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