* I love Google, and here’s why… A translation that approaches fine verse, the drunken Beat Poet kind, you know, cigarette dangling from lips, stubble on chin, leaning closer for more profundity as you cringe — fearing a torrent of semi-digested whiskey on your shoes… + This year again, the…
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While Eddie Redmayne, 33, is the bookies’ favourite to take home the best actor Oscar (he has already bagged a Bafta, a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild gong) for his portrayal of a young Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, he is also hotly tipped to win…
On Oscar night – this year 22 February – the usually car-clogged streets of Hollywood fall silent because everyone is at a viewing party or, if they’re very lucky, sliding into a dress by Dior or slipping on a tuxedo en route to the big show. The streets aren’t entirely…
I have been increasingly conscious, for the last 10 years or so, of deaths among my contemporaries. My generation is on the way out, and each death I have felt as an abruption, a tearing away of part of myself. There will be no one like us when we are…
One forecast group expects the coldest third week of February on record in the eastern United States. Why is this happening? Partly, it goes back to last fall. In Siberia. “There was a big ramp-up of something we call the snowfall advance index during the month of October in Siberia,”…
It is not just scientists who have come to depend on an unabridged Internet for their work. Cheng Qingsong, a prominent film critic, complained that it was more and more difficult to stream foreign movies. Andrew Wang, a professor of translation at Beijing Language and Culture University, worried that his…