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Thursday, April 21, 2022

Book Review: Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (2018). Anand Giridharadas.

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This is a brilliant and thorough investigation of the ways in which the super-rich have appropriated the world of charitable giving as a mea...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Movie Review: One Night in Miami (2020). Amazon Prime.

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This movie apparently is based on a true event, but with extensive dramatic license, since none of the participants have apparently shared t...

Book Review: Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships (2010). Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jetha.

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An interesting and controversial survey of the modern research and literature of human sexuality, that challenges the widely held belief tha...
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Book Review: This Is Your Mind on Plants (2021). Michael Pollan.

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Michael Pollan has built a career and following as a writer by specializing in telling stories about food, and our relationship to it.   In ...
Monday, April 18, 2022

Movie Review: Bombshell (2017). Kanopy.

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This is an unusual and revelatory documentary about Hedy LaMarr, the beautiful movie star from Europe who became a Hollywood legend in the 1...
Sunday, April 17, 2022

TV Review: All Things Great and Small (2022). PBS, Seasons 1-2.

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This series has been described as the "most soothing TV entertainment" out there.   It's not all that exciting, but it's a...

Movie Review: Finding You (2021). Amazon Prime.

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A young woman goes to Ireland for a "study abroad" break before retrying her violin audition for a music conservatory in New York...

Book Review: The Gathering Wind: Hurricane Sandy, the Sailing Ship Bounty, and a Courageous Rescue at Sea (2013). Gregory Freeman.

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An in-depth account of how the famous tall ship "HMS Bounty", which was built in the 1960s for the "Mutiny on the Bounty...