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5/31/2014

Project Hieroglyph at ASU peers into future with sci fi and cli fi genres

''The work our center pursues is to get people thinking more creatively and ambitiously about the future. For that purpose, science fiction is a valuable tool: a way to...

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5/31/2014

There were never any ‘Knaussgaard-free days’ in Norway

The American, British, Canadian and Australia literary worlds have been taken by the popular novel that first appeared in Norway in 2009, titled “My Struggle” and became so popular that a...

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5/29/2014

Lloyd Jones highly-anticipated “cli-fi” novel ”WATER” is sober, stunning book

Lloyd Jones’s much-acclaimed climate change novel ''Y Dŵr'' was first published in Welsh in 2009 and was published in recent English edition as well. Y Lolfa publishers in Wales released the book,...

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5/27/2014

An Open, Friendly Letter to Climate Activist Bill McKibben Revisiting His 2005 Oped on “Cli Fi”

DEAR BILL, You sat down in 2005 and again in 2009 to write two essays about how art and literature and cinema need to start reflecting on the major climate...

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5/24/2014

What the warming world needs now are ”cli fi” novels, movies

When climate activist Bill McKibben saw down in 2005 and again in 2009 to write two essays about how art and literature and cinema need to start reflecting on...

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5/12/2014

‘Cli fi” rising to new Hollywood heights: a personal story

It's not every day that Time magazine recognizes what a lone wordcoiner in Taiwan has done by coming up with a new literary genre termdubbed "cli fi" by yours...

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5/12/2014

UCLA prof senses ‘sea change’ as ‘cli fi’ goes to Hollywood

Jon Christensen is the editor of Boom: A Journal of California anda professor at UCLA where he teaches a course on "EnvironmentalCommunications in the Anthropocene" and is co-teaching a...

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11/21/2013

Post-Typhoon Haiyan, ‘cli fi’ literary genre finds a niche and it was created by a Jewish PR guy

Danny Bloom grew up in western Masschusetts in the 1950s,studied Jewish ideas under Rabbi Samuel Dresner, was bar-mitvahed in1962 under the cantorial direction of Cantor Morty Shames and thenstarted travelling. France,...

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11/10/2013

This Thanksgivukkah, ‘Bubbie and Zadie’ are at the White House

This Thanksgivukah, ‘Bubbie and Zadie’ are at the White House -- www.teleread.com/holiday-2/this-thanksgivukah-bubbie-and-zadie-are-at-the-white-house/ #thanksgivukah via twitter According to Paul McFedries ”Wordspy” website, there’s a new holiday...

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12/22/2012

An Open Letter to Chris Dodd of the Motion Picture Assocation of America on Taking Gun Scenes Out of Future Movies

An Open Letter to Chris Dodd of the Motion Picture Assocation of America on Taking Gun Scenes Out of Future Movies

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9/25/2012

“Kindertransport’ novel deserves American readers, too

When the British novel titled "The GermanEnglish Girl" was published in London in 2011, the deeply-felt''kindertransport''-themed book received high praise and good reviewsin England. But it was never released...

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5/7/2012

Old Jews Telling Jokes: a preview of a review and I hope I am wrong

''Old Jews Telling Jokes'': a preview of a review of new off Broadway play By ''Leinad Moolb'' - pen name The Old Jews Telling Jokes website ..google it...was and IS...

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5/6/2012

Why I am preparing for ‘polar cities’ in Alaska as global warming threatens to destroy the Lower 48

I'm a Boston boy, but I lived in Alaska for 10 years in the 1980s, and while mostof my time was spent in Juneau working at times as a...

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5/6/2012

Jewish mentor Jerry Kellman gave Barack Obama major step up career ladder in 1985 in Chicago

The road from unknown young college graduate to President of the United States was a long and winding road for President Barack Obama, and one of the men who helped...

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5/6/2012

Introducing the Movable Internet Rabbi (MIR) to Answer Your Questions Worldwide with Humor and Candor

Please, sit down. I am the Movable Internet Rabbi and while I am not ordained in any way known to man, and an more of a lay internet rabbi...

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4/25/2012

How MSNBC’s Ian Johnston Mis-Reported the James Lovelock Non-Story That Went Viral

How the MSNBC Ian Johnston take-down article on James Lovelockhappened and why now? This week, this month. When in fact, there was no news event going on to report....

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4/25/2012

How MSNBC’s Ian Johnston Mis-Reported the James Lovelock Non-Story That Went Viral

How the MSNBC Ian Johnston take-down article on James Lovelockhappened and why now? This week, this month. When in fact, there was no news event going on to report....

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4/25/2012

An Open Letter to Jon Stewart RE: Ricky Gervais’ Slippery Slope of Tasteless, Vulgar Anne Frank “Jokes” on Your TV show

Dear Jon, 1. Why didn't you SAY something?2. Will you SAY something NOW? Or before Hell freezes over?3. WHAT will you SAY?4. Dish! -- here in the comments section below,...

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4/21/2012

JEWISH CLIMATE ACTIVIST PREDICTS END OF ISRAEL BY 2500 C.E. OR SOONER!

Jewish climate activist with Hebrew pen name of EMMET MATRIDAHenvisions end of Israel, America, Europe by 2500 C.E. A Jewish climate activist, who has been deeply involved in climatechange and...

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4/20/2012

A Second ‘Open Letter’ to Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington (and Joan Rivers, too!)

Because, Ricky replied to my first Open Letter today in a UK paper, but he did not go far enough. And because Joan Rivers must also be soundly and...

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4/13/2012

Antisemitic jokes by British “hate-mongers” Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington about Anne Frank family fuel TV boycott campaign

After reading and viewing a wildly antisemitic rant by so-called comedian Ricky Gervais on a recent Jon Stewart TV show, whereGervais thought it was funny to piss on the...

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4/13/2012

ANNE FRANK JOKES ARE NOT FUNNY

ANNE FRANK JOKES ARE NOT FUNNY: -- re -- Jon Stewart interview with antisemitic Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilinkington -- I am calling for a worldwide boycott of any...

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4/12/2012

Mike Wallace faux quote goes viral in unfactchecked universe

As everyone knows, Mike Wallace, son of FriedanWallik, he of the Old Country, was a mensch. He wasalso a tough-talking TV reporter and an investigative sleuth who nevergave up...

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4/5/2012

You’ve been Morano’d when your name or photo appears on front page of Marc Morano’s CLIMATE DEPOT website

You've been Morano'd when your name or photo appears on front page of Marc Morano's CLIMATE DEPOT website site here

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