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I think that his greatness lies in his imagination. An imagination with which he reveals things to the world that appear to be improbable, but people like them. It’s the way he puts them. A metallic grasshopper, for example, that leaps from town to town along the banks of the Magdalena River. Connecting technology with…
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What was it like to be a female Star Trek fan in the 1960s?
rhube: phene-thyla-mine: I found these reddit posts that I thought gave great insight into what it was like for women in the 1960s who enjoyed Star Trek. Very eye-opening, in my opinion. I hadn’t realized the extent to which women enjoying science fiction was frowned upon. Source: X [–]Aynielle 6 points 11 months ago: I often wonder if…
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todaysdocument: “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place.” Opinion, 5/17/1954 Case File for Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al., ca. 1950 – ca. 1955. Records of the Supreme Court of the United States. National Archives Identifier: 1656510 Sixty years ago on May 17,…
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In fairy tales, monsters exist to be a manifestation of something that we need to understand, not only a problem we need to overcome, but also they need to represent, much like angels represent the beautiful, pure, eternal side of the human spirit, monsters need to represent a more tangible, more mortal side of being…