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Hublot Unveils Limited-Edition Spirit Of Big Bang Sang Bleu Watches

Ablogtowatch.com 

Avant-garde Swiss brand Hublot is no stranger to partnerships in the world of modern art, collaborating with some of the most famous artists on earth including sculptor Richard Orlinski, multimedia artist Takashi Murakami, and graphic artist Shepard Fairey. Of all its ongoing art partnerships, however, perhaps the most consistently striking is the collection built in […]

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Opinion: The stakes for solving oilsands tailing ponds could not be higher

Calgary Herald 

The numbers that describe oilsands tailings are so big that they almost lose meaning. Right now, tailings ponds cover roughly 300 square kilometres of boreal forest in northern Alberta — nearly half the size of Edmonton and one-third the size of Calgary. They hold roughly 1.6 trillion litres of liquid waste, enough to fill 640,000 Olympic […]

Dennis Lehane on his new novel 'Small Mercies'

NPR (npr.org) 

NPR Scott Simon talks with author Dennis Lehane about his new novel, "Small Mercies." It's set in 1974 Boston, during the protests over court-mandated desegregation of public schools there.

Ramona Ausubel on her novel 'The Last Animal'

NPR (npr.org) 

NPR's Scott Simon interviews author Ramona Ausubel about her novel, "The Last Animal," about a family finding solace, after tragedy, in a scientific expedition to the Arctic.



Words Can Build Worlds

Calgary Herald 

As a boy, I was deathly afraid of reading aloud in class. I made mistakes — all the time. I couldn’t keep the words in order. I’d jump to the next sentence too soon. My eyes would skip to the end of the sentence, or the next paragraph, or the next page. I’d start to […]

Opinion: Even on Earth Day, we’re opposed to making sacrifices

Calgary Herald 

Today is Earth Day, an increasingly meaningless 24 hours set aside more than half a century ago to accord the Earth the respect and care it needs and deserves. It’s probably fair to say that things haven’t worked out quite the way the day’s founders had envisaged. In fact, with climate change now wreaking havoc, […]

Letters, April 22: There is no art to AI-produced works

Calgary Herald 

Is a photo worth a thousand words if they are all lies? The photo by Boris Eldagsen that won the Sony World Photography Award is a beautiful, haunting photo, but it’s a fake done by AI. Although it appears that AI can produce beauty, can it produce original works? By its own nature, it is […]

Utility M&A’s: Just Taking A Breather

Forbes.com 

On October 26, 2021, Algonquin Power & Utilities announced it would buy American Electric Power’s Kentucky Power and Kentucky Transco units. 14 months later, FERC formally rejected the deal, on the grounds the parties couldn’t guarantee there wouldn’t be an impact on transmission rates.

Report: Spurs keen on English centre-back but would need big bid to sign him

TheSpursWeb 

The Daily Mail have revealed that Tottenham Hotspur would have to make a substantial bid in order to convince AC Milan to cash in on Fikayo Tomori this summer. According to recent reports, strengthening at centre-back is one of Tottenham’s priorities when the transfer market opens in the summer (Football.London). CalcioMercatoWeb.it reported back in February that […]

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