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Nick Rhodes And Wendy Bevan Release Astronomia III: Heaven And Hell In The Serpent's Tail [OrcaSound] Astronomia is a 52-song, 4-volume project being released as 4 albums. Astronomia III: Heaven And Hell In The Serpent's Tail [YT Audio playlist] came out on September 23, 2021. It can be heard (or purchased) on these online services. (Previously: Astronomia I, Astronomia II) [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 9:58 AM PST - 6 comments

Frank Oz: “Disney Doesn’t Want Me” To Do The Muppets Anymore As a former Henson employee I can attest that during Jim’s funeral more than one fellow employee said to me, “It was the Disney deal that killed Jim.” George Lucas was at the reception and he saw what I saw: 4 Disney suits hovering over Jim’s children, telling them in overly familiar tones, “You’re family now. Let’s close our deal.” This was minutes after the funeral. It was stomach turning.
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Later, as a professor, he noticed a pattern. Ardila’s Black, Latino, and women students who went on to Ph.D. programs also told stories of isolation and exclusion…so Ardila…set out to create, in his own classroom, a new kind of math environment.

Federico Ardila-Mantilla, SFSU professor, has strived to create a new culture in math. One that is more inclusive from the first day of class (excerpt from “The End of Bias: A Beginning”).
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The Journey to Define Dimension - "The concept of dimension seems simple enough, but mathematicians struggled for centuries to precisely define and understand it." [more inside]
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The deal allowing Meng Wanzhou to return home to China (The Guardian) nearly three years after her arrest will come as a relief to all the participants in a saga that rapidly turned from a narrow legal dispute into an escalating geopolitical battle. [more inside]
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A two hour DJ set by Four Tet, recorded at the Lost Village Festival on August 28th, 2021. (Rough set list at MixesDB)
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Netflix releases the opening credits (Tank!) for the new adaptation, which comes out in November. Original here, for comparison [more inside]
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Rob Sheridan: Many of you sent me this viral photo of a skull toilet - a “Skoilet,” if you will - and I am very grateful, because this is of course Extremely My Shit. I had to know more, and I ended up down a rabbit hole into the fascinating world of luxury European designer skoilets. THREAD / Threadreader
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