CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH
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Global Organizations & Official Reports
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (AR6 Working Group II)
LIFE IMITATES ART
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Art imitates life" is a concept where creative works reflect real-world experiences, emotions, and observations, with artists drawing inspiration from their surroundings and lived experiences. For example, literature often explores universal human themes like love and loss, and visual arts can depict historical events or real people. The idea that art mirrors reality was supported by ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who saw art as mimesis, or imitation.
Reflection of reality:
NYC NEWS
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Now that Afdams has left the race, without Eric, former Governor Andrew Cuomo likely gets a more favorable rematch against Zohran Mamdani in the November general election.
THE SUPER
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“The Super” is a cynical 1991 variation on a more idealistic 1970 film named “The Landlord,” and the ways in which the two films differ are interesting, and depressing. Both films open in essentially the same way: A rich white man takes over a slum tenement and is completely indifferent to the problems of his black and Hispanic tenants. In the 1970 version, starring Beau Bridges as the landlord, he wants to turn the building into a psychedelic getaway for his wild lifestyle. In the 1991 version, starring Joe Pesci, he wants to collect the rent, spend no money on repairs, and eventually inherit all 27 of his father’s slum buildings. Thus does the Age of Aquarius fade into the Age of Trump.
ROCKY HORROR 50
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The campy cult classic has been the world’s favorite midnight movie for a half-century, and it’s not going anywhere.
PUBLIC MEDIA WAR
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private, nonprofit corporation authorized by Congress in 1967, has lost its funding. NPR challenges CPB’s authority to redirect millions it holds.
The public radio network asked a federal judge to block the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from transferring $57.9 million to a new nonprofit.CP is the steward of the federal government’s investment in public broadcasting. It helps support the operations of more than 1,500 locally managed and operated public television and radio stations across the nation. CPB is also the largest single source of funding for research, technology, and program development for public radio, television, and related online services. https://cpb.org/
EAR AND NOW
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Can you ear me now? ‘Ketchup dripping down the wall’
COFFEE DAY
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Republican and Democratic U.S. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are attempting to pass a bill that would exempt coffee from Trumped-up tariffs, as prices have increased by 21 percent compared to last year. The U.S. obtains most of its coffee from Brazil, and as of last month, the South American country is facing a 50 percent tariff.
MASALA
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Watch the award-winning film produced and directed by Mira Nair, Zohran Mamdani's mother, starring Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury.
Today at Cinema on the Sound, City Island, NYC @4PM 270 City Island Avenue
An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi, and time passes. The now-adult Indian daughter meets and falls in love with a Black man, and the respective families are forced to come to terms with it in the climate of racial hatred.
AMERICAN NIGHTMARE?
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The idea that "the American Dream is dead" is a widespread and growing sentiment, reflected in polls showing a majority of Americans believing the dream is no longer attainable, particularly for younger generations