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Interstellar and the Genius of Christopher Nolan

Take a moment and close your eyes and picture outer space that is, the space of travel…

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Culture and Vancouver

A short talk sponsored by FUEL…

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A TED talk by Amanda Palmer…

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In the first few minutes of Moulin Rouge, the film by director Baz Luhrmann, two major references are made…

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It was an overcast day in 1977 when the great writer and Quebec nationalist, Hubert Aquin, committed suicide

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Aquin wanted a total ‘national revolution’. He wanted to rebuild Quebec society from the bottom up…

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Aquin develops a stringent critique of the Patriote rebellion. He analyses…

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So what is the Truth? Is it possible that True Blood is an extended…

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When the HBO show, True Blood began its now multi-season run, most of the stories and themes centered on…

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To grasp with the ear and the eye is an embodied act…

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China sits somewhere in between the pre-modern and the postmodern world, or perhaps it might be better to say…