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3I ATLAS: ALONG COMES A BLACK SWAN
Phil Hall
F I L M

THE BOOKSHOP
Amal Chatterjee

PERFORMANCE POETRY
DUMAH
Yogesh Patel

COMMENT
UNQUESTIONING SCIENTISTS & SERVILE INTELLECTUALS
Richard Steinhardt
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Would you like a Bushbaby?
By Phil Hall Someone from the countryside was selling a young bush-baby in a corner of Dar-es-Salaam market. Mom was smitten. She bought it. Let’s see this creature sweet enough to melt Mom’s resolve. Look, boys. she said, coming in through the door. She was with with Josiah and his bodyguard. Mom showed us. In her…
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Dear Phil, Sorry for not writing…Trump got in the way
Will Biden get in? By Stephanie Urdang Dear Phil, I haven’t forgotten about your request to write something for Ars Notoria. Your faith in me and my ability to produce something worthwhile is gratifying. But at the moment Trump and his lies and his sheer evil are messing with my head. If it was…
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U.S. Wildfires—a national emergency in the midst of a pandemic
‘we have meandered through grief, loss, and trauma at the complete loss of our home‘ – Libby Patterson By Karen Phillips When I began writing this article on the wildfires raging in the United States, horrific events were happening simultaneously in several states. As my research progressed, instead of having less to write about…
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Wake up in Uruapan
By Felipe Elvira Imagine waking up in Uruapan. Many thousands of Uruapenses who have crossed the border over into the USA dream of doing just that. They make films about it. Uruapan, with its orchards and breathtakingly beautiful national park built along river banks. Uruapan’s park has hundreds of fountains all carved out of…
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Travels in an Oxcart in South Africa at the Turn of the 19th Century
By Connie Hall Arthur Lewis Hall was a fellow of the Royal Society, a winner of the Murchison Medal and credited by the makers of Earth Story, a BBC documentary, with being one of the first geologists to guess the real age of the earth. Auntie Connie, his eldest, was the first female lawyer in…
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Tony Hall’s Interview with Nelson Mandela in Hiding
It was 1961, I was a reporter on the main SA daily newspaper The Star. The African National Congress had been banned by the white Apartheid government, and its leaders house arrested and not allowed to meet or speak publicly. Nelson Mandela, a Johannesburg lawyer, and one of the top leadership, had gone underground, slipped out of the country.…




















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