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The delightful history behind serendipity suggests it’s not mere luck – NPR
Special Series, Word of the week The delightful history behind serendipity suggests it’s not mere luck January 7, 20265:00 AM ET, Heard on All Things Considered By Juliana Kim, 2-Minute Listen Transcript In the new year, we can all use some serendipity, right? Since the word was coined in the 18th century, “serendipity” has been…
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Isaac Asimov’s Thoughts On 2001: A Space Odyssey Will Change How You See The Sci-Fi Movie – Slashfilm.com
Isaac Asimov’s Thoughts On 2001: A Space Odyssey Will Change How You See The Sci-Fi Movie – By Jaron Pak Jan. 18, 2026 2:00 pm EST.An astronaut walks through a tunnel in 2001: A Space OdysseyMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer Isaac Asimov is, in many ways, the father of modern science fiction. He popularized concepts like “the robot” and…
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The September 11, 2001 Web Archive: Twenty Years Later | Library of Congress | The Signal
Published September 22, 2021, by Carlyn Osborn Today’s guest post is from Tracee Haupt, a Digital Collection Specialist in the Digital Content Management section at the Library of Congress. On the twentieth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, I asked four individuals who were part of the creation of the September 11, 2001 Web…
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On TV, 9/11 was last huge story for ‘Big 3’ network anchors
By DAVID BAUDER, September 7, 2021 https://anchor.fm/drweb/embed/episodes/On-TV–911-was-last-huge-story-for-Big-3-network-anchors-e17584s NEW YORK (AP) — “Turn on your television.” Those words were repeated in millions of homes on Sept. 11, 2001. Friends and relatives took to the telephone: Something awful was happening. You have to see. Before social media and with online news in its infancy, the story of…
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3 Books — And 3 Lessons — 20 Years After 9/11 | BPR
By Greg Myre, Sep 8, 2021 So what have we learned in the 20 years since 9/11? The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan encapsulated much of the past two decades. A war that began remarkably well for the U.S. had long since turned messy, frustrating and complicated, expanding to include a sprawling mix of goals and…
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What Structural Engineers Learned from 9/11 – Scientific American
By Donald Dusenberry, on September 8, 2021 Members of the profession study such tragic events to try and ensure that something similar won’t happen again https://anchor.fm/drweb/embed/episodes/What-Structural-Engineers-Learned-from-911–Scientific-American-e17579v The events of 9/11 shook the world. Before that day, we could not imagine that someone would be bold and cruel enough to enact such violence. We could not…
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17 new 9/11 documentaries to commemorate 20th anniversary | EW.com
What to watch, when, and how you can watch them. By Jolie Lash, September 06, 2021 at 10:00 AM EDT This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It was a day that changed America, and this year, more than any other, there are a host of documentaries and specials reexamining September…
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Television Networks Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 – Variety
By Selome Hailu, https://variety.com/author/smhailu1/ Sep 3, 2021 4:41pm PT https://anchor.fm/drweb/embed/episodes/Television-Networks-Commemorate-the-20th-Anniversary-of-911–Variety-e170a73/a-a1ptln 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The nation has continued to process the terrorist event over the past two decades in many ways, including through television specials, documentaries and dramatized retellings. On and before the anniversary, networks will air content unpacking…
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‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Creation and Legacy Probed in 50th-Anniversary Book
In his new book “Space Odyssey” (Simon & Schuster, 2018), author Michael Benson digs deep into the making of the film, profiling the writer Arthur C. Clarke, the director Stanley Kubrick and the nuances of their partnership. Editor’s Note: Read an excerpt here… Source: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Creation and Legacy Probed in 50th-Anniversary Book
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Seeing the Sixties and Seventies Through 2001 and Alien
It was April 1968 and my father was sitting in a theater in Times Square watching 2001: A Space Odyssey, certain that what he was seeing wasn’t just a movie but the future. When it ended, he got up and walked out into Times Square, with its peep-show glitz and sleazy, flashing advertisements; he found…
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Seeing the Sixties and Seventies Through 2001 and Alien
It was April 1968 and my father was sitting in a theater in Times Square watching 2001: A Space Odyssey, certain that what he was seeing wasn’t just a movie but the future. When it ended, he got up and walked out into Times Square, with its peep-show glitz and sleazy, flashing advertisements; he found…
