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Should We Colonize Venus Instead of Mars?
Mars One. The Mars Rover. Bruno Mars. Mars Bars. It's pretty clear we're OBSESSED with the idea of Mars, especially in regard to it being a potential colony for earthlings. But is that really the best option? Is there a better place for...
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Ray Bradbury
Awarded a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, recognizing a lifetime of influential literary works, Ray Bradbury wrote from a desire to “live forever”. Through sci fi, fantasy, horror and mystery to themes of death, loneliness and the dark...
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Powering Through Prose: Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 - Theme of Literature and Writing
Imagine living in a world where simply reading a good book could get you killed! This lesson explores the theme of Literature and Writing in Ray Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451. Watch how Guy Montag’s awakening to the joy of literature...
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The Golden Age of Sci_Fi Literature
Coinciding with the Machine Age, the Golden Age of Sci-Fi Literature saw American authors combine factual science with fantastical fiction to take readers into the farthest reaches of the imagination.
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Powering Through Prose: Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 - Plot Summary
Enter a world of television screens, robotic dogs and burning books! Join us for an amazing animated journey into the scary futuristic society of Fahrenheit 451. Freedom of thought is censored and all books are destroyed in the world of...
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Powering Through Prose: Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 - Part 3 Summary
Guy has just completed his final job and the time has come to be brave. After an epic battle with his boss, Guy knows he must escape this crazy city. But will the police, media and Mechanical Hounds let him? And even if he makes it, how...
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Powering Through Prose: Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 - Part 2 Summary
Guy Montag is beginning to see that escape is the only answer to a society that has banned thinking! While his wife lives to watch television, Guy finds a fellow book-lover and learns what lies beyond his media-mad world. When he’s...
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Powering Through Prose: Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 - Part 1 Summary
Guy Montag is a fireman with a mission: to burn all books. But one day he starts to wonder: what’s inside all these books? His wife is too busy watching television to care. Guy begins to sense that all is not well in his media-obsessed...
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Powering Through Prose: Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 - Theme of Censorship
Don’t speak your mind! Don’t write about the truth! That’s what it’s like in the world of Fahrenheit 451. The mass media is a joke and independent thought is dangerous. As for books, they’re burned… sometimes with their owners! Watch...
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Powering Through Prose: Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 - Context
Join us for an overview of Ray Bradbury’s world. We’ll show you how key issues and events in the real world shaped his ideas in Fahrenheit 451. Find out how the novel critiques key moments in history, including McCarthyism, 1950s...
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The Evolution of Science Fiction (Feat. Lindsay Ellis)
Correction: At 1:49, we accidentally said that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was published in 1918, when it was published in 1818. We regret the error -- thanks to Stephen Pershing for catching this! Stories, tales, and myths from all...
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Hollywood II event
Ray Bradbury at the Hollywood II event at Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on April 26, 1986. (Footage by WireImage Video/Getty Images)
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Felicity Huffman, Timothy Hutton, Juliette Lewis, John Cho on their new ABC shows
From the writer of "12 Years a Slave" comes a new ABC drama called "American Crime."
At a carpet event in Manhattan Tuesday night John Ridley talked about the new series about a murder with racial undertones as ABC announced its new...
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Former New Jersey Poet Laureate Amiri Baraka is among several poets who used the election of Barack Obama as inspiration to write
Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in American culture, has died. He was 79.
His booking agent,...
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Mars rover Curiosity begins exploration of red planet
22 August 2012
1. Wide of NASA discussion panel featuring (left to right) NASA programme scientist for Curiosity Michael Meyer, Curiosity Project Manager Pete Theisinger of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the mission's lead rover...
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Renowned graphic artist keeps busy with love of drawing
Renowned Ukrainian graphic artist Volodymir Pinigin may be in his 70s, but the famous illustrator has no plans to retire any time soon.
He's busy creating new works and is also inspiring younger generations in unexpected ways.
Volodymir...
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Aretha Franklin makes history with posthumous Pulitzer win
ARETHA FRANKLIN GIVEN AN HONORARY PULITZER PRIZE