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Cognitive scientist and philosopher Daniel Dennett is one of America's foremost thinkers. In this extract from his new book, he reveals some of the lessons life has taught him1 USE YOUR MISTAKESWe have all heard the forlorn refrain: "Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time!" This phrase has come to stand for the rueful reflection of an idiot, a sign of stupidity, but in fact we...
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More than 40 million people globally take an SSRI antidepressant, among them many writers and musicians. But do they hamper the creative process, extinguishing the spark that produces great art, or do they enhance artistic endeavour?Twenty-five years after pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly unleashed Prozac on the red-braced 80s, SSRIs are still the world's most popular antidepressants. They are...
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Infernal prose flows again from the bat-thronged belfry of Dan Brown's demented brainI used to think that Dan Brown was merely bad. Now, after reading the latest version of the apocalyptic thriller he rewrites every few years, I suspect he might be mad as well. Inferno begins with the hero suffering from "head trauma", and Brown's head – a boggy hideout for the craziest superstitions...
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Garry Winogrand is seen by many as the father of American street photography. His output was so prolific, he left many images unseen in his lifetime, on contact sheets and thousands of undeveloped rolls of film. The best of this treasure trove is included in a of his photographs
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Baz Luhrmann's hyperactive adaptation tramples over the subtleties of the F Scott Fitzgerald classicF Scott Fitzgerald did more for Hollywood than it has done for him. After his first stint in California he wrote the pitiless story, "Crazy Sunday", about an alcoholic screenwriter. In the late 30s came the series of insightful comic tales about the ageing movie hack Pat Hobby, and...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker has voiced her support for the work of controversial British conspiracy theorist David Icke on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.
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John Crace reduces the bestselling novelist's new historical-conspiracy potboiler to a more manageable 600 words/High above the city upon which the giants once roamed ... Giotto, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Vettriano ... My gift is Inferno ... And with that I, the brilliant billionnaire geneticist Bertand Zobrist, jump …/Robert Langdon's mind was a vale of darkness. His eidetic memory had failed...
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New venture Librii is seeking to set up self-sustaining libraries with internet access in poor and isolated communitiesA decade ago, Brewster Kahle, philanthropist and founder of , created the first digital bookmobile: a complete printing press in the back of a car. With a power source, satellite internet connection, printer and binder, the vehicle and its descendants subsequently printed...
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Culled from thousands of prints and unprocessed films, this collection of Garry Winogrand's photographs confirms him as a giant of American photographyTo say that Garry Winogrand was productive is to dramatically understate the case. When he died in 1984, he left behind a huge archive: over 35,000 prints, 22,000 contact sheets and 45,000 colour transparencies. Perhaps more astounding still were...
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Why do we perceive time differently according to circumstances? Radio 4 presenter Claudia Hammond has some interesting answersThe time we have at our disposal each day is elastic, Proust claimed. It sounds an odd remark. Surely we have precisely 24 hours, no more and no less. Even the occasional leap second – introduced to keep calendars accurate – hardly changes the fixed time we have every...
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