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• Robert De Niro Says 'Lowlife-in-Chief' Trump Is a Total 'Mad Man'

  19-04-2018 23:20
  The actor laid into the president in no uncertain terms.Robert De Niro Slams ‘Mad Man’ TrumpRobert De Niro continued to slam President Donald Trump. This time, it was during a press luncheon to celebrate the start of 2018’s Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday. The actor, who helped start the festival 16 years ago, praised journalists the crowd of journalists at the event and took shots at the commander-in-chief. “America is being…
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• The Feynman Lectures on Physics, The Most Popular Physics Book Ever Written, Is Now Completely Online

  19-04-2018 21:00
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  In years past, we let you know that Caltech and The Feynman Lectures Website joined forces to create an online edition of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. They started with Volume 1. And they've since followed up with Volume 2 and Volume 3, making the collection complete.
  First presented in the early 1960s at Caltech by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, the lectures were eventually turned into a book by
  
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• Has Donald Trump Made the World Less Safe for Jews?

  19-04-2018 19:05
  The virus of white nationalism is spreading, warns "(((Semitism)))" author Jonathan Weisman. Earlier this month, a lifetime ago in the Trump administration, an art dealer named Todd Brassner burned to death in a fire at Trump Tower. (The building did not have a sprinkler system on its residential floors because its eponymous owner refused to install one, citing its prohibitive cost). According to the New York Daily News, real estate mogul Trump was less than enamored of Brassner, reportedly refe
  
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• Cornell Creates a Database of Fugitive Slave Ads, Telling the Story of Those Who Resisted Slavery in 18th & 19th Century America

  19-04-2018 16:00
  While the value of slaves in the U.S. from the colonial period to the Civil War rose and fell like other market goods, for the most part, enslaved people constituted the most valuable kind of property, typically worth even more than land and other highly valued resources. In one study, three University of Kansas historians estimate that during most of the 18th century in South Carolina, slaves “made up close to half of the personal wealth recorded in probate inventory in most decades.&rdq
  
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• Martin Scorsese Teaches His First Online Course on Filmmaking: Features 30 Video Lessons

  19-04-2018 10:00
  Last September, online education company Masterclass announced that they'd soon launch Martin Scorsese's very first online course, "Martin Scorsese Teaches Filmmaking." Now it has opened for enrollment, at the usual Masterclass cost of $90 for the individual course or $180 for an all-access pass to all the courses on the site, a list that also includes Spike Lee and Werner Herzog's takes on the same subject. For a company that has quickly made its name by enlisting famous instructors, they could
  
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