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Arts & Humanities > Theater & Drama Reflections on the lasting attraction of traditional theater

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Having spent a fair portion of recent years making a living in the theater, I can offer the tandem perspectives of one who has experienced the attraction of theater both on the stage and in the audience. In addition to being a theatre-goer, I have been employed as an actor (and director, and stage manager, and stage hand, etc... More..

Sciences > Ecology & Environment How can we reduce our electricity consumption at home and offices

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The first step is to increase your awareness of how you consume energy in your daily life. Many people have very little understanding of how much energy they use, where it comes from, nor how to conserve it. A little investigation in this area can prove very enlightening.Do you know, for example, what sources of energy your h... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Trash & Recycling Freecycle: The ultimate recycling tool

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Freecycle is an online community network for the free exchange of discards. In less than five years, it's grown from humble beginnings in Tucson, Arizona, in 2003, to a worldwide community of over 4.8 million members. Every day, thousands, if not millions, of items change hands among its membership, keeping those discards out... More..

Sports & Recreation > Camping How to choose the right sleeping bag for your camping needs

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Camping, anyone?With all the technological innovations appearing in so many areas of our daily lives, you might predict that the formerly simple act of selecting a sleeping bag would be fraught with difficulty. You might, for example, worriedly anticipate having to learn all manner of arcane technical details in order even to... More..

Sciences > Ecology & Environment How the dinosaurs became extinct

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Much has been made of the so-called "catastrophic" theory of dinosauroid species extinction. It sounds good on paper, but there's no substitute for the truth:I have it on good authority (my sources have insisted on absolute anonymity, but you can find them online if you enter search terms "astrolarians", "planet-seeders", and... More..

Sciences > Sciences (Other) Top ten greatest inventions of all time

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My Top Ten Inventions of All Time list:1. LanguageI'm going to class this as a human invention, since we're all surely arrogant enough to agree that we invented it. What a great invention! The furtherance of communication has not seen the like since.... well, it may well be the best thing to happen to communication ever. Not ... More..

Jobs & Careers > Arts & Entertainment Jobs What does a graphic designer do?

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A graphic designer is a visual communicator.This description implies that the graphic designer's primary goal is effective communication, and so indeed it should be. All too often in this age of push-button styles and broadband content inundation, it's easy to be seduced by the myriad pre-fab "design" tools widely available a... More..

Computers & Technology > Computers & Technology (Other) Assessing the place of television in our lives

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Here is the place of television in MY life:That's right, it has no place. Now entering middle age, I do not now own, nor have I ever owned, a TV. Yes, I'll come clean: I was raised with TV, have seen more of it than I can possibly calculate, and I have lived in households where there was a TV available and I did watch it.But ... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Environmental Awareness Little everyday things that can help the environment

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The Thousand-Step Journey to Change(An article series offering specific actions you can take in your own life to reduce your negative impact on Earth's natural systems. The growing global consumer culture tends to draw our focus from the regional, ecosystemic, and community levels down to the level of the individual's daily s... More..

Local Guides > San Francisco Things to do in spring in San Francisco

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Ah, San Francisco......Some years ago, I had the great good fortune to live in "the city" for about six years. Having led a moderately mobile life thus far, I have sojourned, for varying periods of time, in a wide range of cities- from hamlets of about 700 people to megalopolises of umpteen millions. My experience may not be ... More..

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