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Quirks and Quarks17:24How documenting the disappearance of the great auk led to the discovery of extinctionWhen species cease to exist, we often say they went "the way of the dodo." But it might be more fitting to say they went "the way of the great auk" because it was the Icelandic bird's disappearance that led to the discovery that humans activities could make a species go extinct.In his book The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction, Gísli Pálsson retraces a 1858 trip two…

Long before he wrote Booker-winning novels and Oscar-nominated screenplays, the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro wrote bad songs. In his own words, these unheard lyrics were “mostly ghastly” but they enabled him to find his voice. He worked through the gauche and the pretentious before alighting on the simpler first-person style that would define his fiction: “understated, almost mundane lyrics, with emotions placed between the lines, only occasionally pushing to the surface”.In 2002, Ishiguro chose a track by the American…

What inspired you to select this particular literature to translate? Ranjana Kaul has translated The Stepmother and Other Stories by Laxmibai Abhyankar (Courtesy the subject) When I was still in school in 1967, I went to Abhayankar house in Sangli, where my grandparents had their principal home. In the course of those four or five days in Sangli, I found, in my bedroom, a section filled with books. Most were my grandfather’s fat law books as he was a lawyer, and I was sort of running my finger along the spines…

From food and film to art, music and nature, here’s an epic sampling of ways to have some Bay Area fun this spring and beyond. Cirque du Soleil presents ‘KOOZA’: Now through March 10, 24 Willie Mays Plaza, San Francisco. This cirque show combines acrobatic performance with the art of clowning while exploring fear, identity, recognition and power. Sit back and watch as The Innocent’s journey brings him into contact with comic characters from an electrifying world full of surprises. Tickets starting at $72.…

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) has referred itself to the Charity Commission after an open letter urging it to do so was signed by leading authors including Ian McEwan and Alan Hollinghurst.The RSL, a charity which elects fellows based on literary merit, has been subject to criticism over recent months, including questions over changes to the way that fellows are elected, and the recent postponement of its annual magazine Review. Former editor Maggie Fergusson told the Times that the issue was pulled from print due…

Years ago, as a black woman from a working-class background, I quickly became aware of how literary happenings were dominated by one particular group: the Oxbridge elite, who not only controlled our country’s politics but also its culture.Sometimes I’d sneak into events as if I were an intruder, do a quick lap around the room, and sneak back out again. It was the same when I became a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) in 2004. It’s not that some people weren’t welcoming, but I felt I didn’t really belong…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In light of recent cases of plagiarism and academic fraud at institutions across the country, a Virginia Commonwealth University professor's new study provides a timely review of the current state of research findings in academia, especially fields related to psychology and management. "If a scientific discipline's…

This combination of photos shows "The Glass Constellation" by Arthur Sze, left, "The Bathysphere Book" by Brad Fox, center, and "Digging Stars" by Novuyo Rosa Tshuma. Credit: Copper Canyon Press/Astra House/W. W. Norton & Co. via AP A poetry collection, a coming-of-age novel and a history of deep sea exploration are unlikely to be found in the same section of your favorite bookstore. But they all have enough in common to be…

Some of the classic lines from literature that talk to a world reeling from coronavirus outbreak. Take a look... Some of the classic lines from literature that talk to a world reeling from coronavirus outbreak. Take a look... FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their…

The writer Terry Pratchett once declared in an interview and also in numerous biographical notes appended to his books that he was not writing literature. This was possibly tongue-in-cheek, for elsewhere he said fantasy writing was literature, and the oldest genre at that. The question, as millions of readers have discovered for themselves, is largely forgotten when they are laughing their heads off at his vivid, imaginative, hilarious writing. Rarely do you see such writing thunderbolted with imagination and…