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...Homer Simpson famously proposed a toast: “To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.” Homers everywhere may soon feel similarly about ChatGPT....
...Harvard professor Steven Pinker is not convinced. He agreed to be on UATX’s advisory board, but stood down a week after the announcement, having been mislabelled as a founding faculty member....
...Since a list was made in 1958, Stevens told me, about 75 per cent of the older plants have died out....
...A distressed woman being interviewed says, “I don’t know Homer Simpson, I — I never met Homer Simpson or had any contact with him, but . . . ” She starts to cry uncontrollably, whimpering “I’m sorry, I can...
...He says the trilogy will follow the pattern of Homer’s Odyssey. “I found myself on my own and starting again,” he says of the first album. “I had to find myself.”...
...Enlightenment Now: A Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism, and Progress, by Steven Pinker, Allen Lane, RRP£14.99/Viking, RRP$35 The author of The Language Instinct and The Better Angels of Our Nature...
...In places the drama even feels like a folk ballad — a fact underscored by the constant presence of musician Steven Bargonetti....
...Three-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome came up with a bronze in the men’s cycling time trial, as did Steven Scott in the double trap shooting and Sally Conway in the women’s 70kg judo....
...However, as if to palliate Morrissey’s dismay at parting company with the likes of Homer, it has been designed to look like a vintage Penguin novel, the kind of orange paperback that the young Steven Patrick...
...With a profound sense of place, it traces the lives of three generations through change — the arrival of electricity, and later, second homers — and continuity....
...To very young children I have given an illustrated edition of Homer’s The Odyssey, CS Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia and L Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz....
...Penguin Classics, the publishing imprint of Homer, Dante and Dickens, has a new author: Steven Patrick Morrissey, former frontman of The Smiths, whose Autobiography arrived in bookshops last week to take...
...Lin Homer, the chief executive who joined at the start of the year, told MPs last week that the tax authority was “losing some really significant experience from the top of the organisation”....
...The soundtrack combines eerie, eternal-sounding music (Parsifal, Arvo Pärt) with textual recitations from Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Eliot and many, many more....
...Homer’s eponymous hero – the guy we’re all rooting for – is a man of many wiles: a sailor, traveller, warrior, lover, and adventurer....
...with capital letters – is as a grand, defiantly self-important rock record built on epic, gracefully potty progressive rock scale, perhaps to compete with Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Berlioz, as well as Homer...
...Cheaper than its glamorous neighbour Provence, a recent survey showed that there are about 1m first homes in Languedoc-Roussillon, with roughly another 315,000 owned by second homers....
...Its producer Steven S DeKnight has said that he wants to use the series “to explore the vanishing middle class” in modern America. ‘Spartacus: Blood and Sand’ begins on May 25 on Bravo...
...played with a gauche, vivid likeability by the German actor David Kross) makes love, makes chat and betweenwhiles makes Hanna’s day, amid the coital sheets, by reading aloud from his school-text stories (Homer...
...How much did Homer weigh when he wrote the first line of the Iliad? Is there a piece of silver to be found on the other side of the moon, three inches long and shaped like a fish?...
...Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate) and The Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian by Robin Lane Fox (Allen Lane). How do you like to get there? By car....
...A prominent example is Turbulence House, a New Mexico residence designed by Steven Holl, one of the world’s most celebrated architects and a prime target in Silber’s book....
...Instead, he reread Homer’s Odyssey and used that as inspiration. What was the novel? 23....
...The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization By Thomas Homer-Dixon Souvenir £15, 448 pages FT bookshop price: £12 The Canadian political scientist Thomas Homer-Dixon takes...
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