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7 Apps for Cataloguing Your Home Library. Emily VanBuren is a PhD student in history at Northwestern University.

7 Apps for Cataloguing Your Home Library

Climate crisis pushes albatross ‘divorce’ rates higher – study. Albatrosses, some of the world’s most loyally monogamous creatures, are “divorcing” more often – and researchers say global heating may be to blame.

Climate crisis pushes albatross ‘divorce’ rates higher – study

In a new Royal Society study, researchers say climate change and warming waters are pushing black-browed albatross break-up rates higher. Typically after choosing a partner, only 1-3% would separate in search of greener romantic pastures. But in the years with unusually warm water temperatures, that average consistently rose, with up to 8% of couples splitting up. The study looked at a wild population of 15,500 breeding pairs in the Falkland Islands over 15 years. For seabirds, warmer waters mean less fish, less food and a harsher environment. Street performers: Imogen Stone and Zane and Degge Jarvie - Regional News. Can you tell me about your backgrounds in circus and performance art?

Street performers: Imogen Stone and Zane and Degge Jarvie - Regional News

Zane: Degge [my brother] and my journeys are pretty much the same. We grew up going to juggling festivals and we made our way onto renegade stages from a young age. I think we knew really early on that juggling and comedy were our jam. We both did the university thing and have degrees, me in architecture, Degge in industrial design… but realised pretty quickly that we’d rather make people smile. Imogen: I grew up as a gymnastics and ballet kid, finding my way into the circus when I was about 11 years old – The Circus Hub in Newtown became my whole world. You started working together as a trio in 2014. Tikorangi The Jury Garden. Highlights: Settling The Score 2021 - Your Choice.

RNZ Concert is broadcasting the classical music that listeners said they would most love to share with the rest of New Zealand all day on Labour Day Monday.

Highlights: Settling The Score 2021 - Your Choice

We received hundreds of Settling The Score: Your Choice suggestions which the RNZ Concert team has lovingly crafted into a wonderful day of music listening and stories about the relationships people have with that music, all day Monday 25 October. Here's how to listen to RNZ Concert radio Look at the music programmed for broadcast in Settling The Score on RNZ Concert Earlier this month we asked people what made this piece of music special to them, and why they wanted others to hear it. Wellington's Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts 2022 releases first events. The Aotearoa​ New Zealand​ Festival of the Arts​ is back and ready to take audiences on voyages to the future while connecting them to their histories, the whenua and spiritual realms.

Wellington's Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts 2022 releases first events

The biennial Wellington-based festival is the country’s biggest celebration of cutting-edge arts experiences, offering free and ticketed events across creative disciplines including theatre, dance, visual arts, literature, music, opera and more. “Our aim was to create an extraordinary festival for extraordinary times,” festival executive director Meg Williams said.

That included having extended seasons of some experiences running across the summer months, more large-scale Kiwi-made experiences than ever before, and the appointment of artist-in-focus Lisa Reihana​, who is bringing a major series of free works to the festival. NZB Improver 10 Student Notes. 10 virtual tours of spectacular buildings around the world. While our lives have mostly shrunk to our own four walls – besides the sneak peek of others’ homes glimpsed via Zoom – we can still step into other worlds virtually.

10 virtual tours of spectacular buildings around the world

The 10 Best Books of 2020. In Millet’s latest novel, a bevy of kids and their middle-aged parents convene for the summer at a country house in America’s Northeast.

The 10 Best Books of 2020

25 Great Book Reviews From the Past 125 Years. On Oct. 10, 1896, after years of robust literary coverage at The New York Times, the paper published the first issue of the Book Review.

25 Great Book Reviews From the Past 125 Years

In the 125 years since, that coverage has broadened and deepened. The Book Review has become a lens through which to view not just literature but the world at large, with scholars and thinkers weighing in on all of the people and issues and subjects covered in books on philosophy, art, science, economics, history and more. In many ways, the Book Review’s history is that of American letters, and we’ll be using our 125th anniversary this year to celebrate and examine that history over the coming months. We're Bringing Sundance to Your Living Room. The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor.

We're Bringing Sundance to Your Living Room

We’d like to hear what you think about this or any of our articles. Here are some tips. The green cleaner: 15 natural ways to spruce up your home – from nettles to rainwater. It was a filthy washing machine that prompted Nancy Birtwhistle to embrace the power of eco-friendly cleaning.

The green cleaner: 15 natural ways to spruce up your home – from nettles to rainwater

“I was nearly at the point where I thought I needed a new washing machine, because it was a disgrace,” she says. “And that’s the sort of culture we’ve become: ‘I’ll replace it.’” Instead, she gave it a thorough clean and switched to homemade detergent. Loved Bridgerton? The best historical novels to escape into another world. Along with the rest of “the Ton” I am enjoying the Netflix adaptation of Julia Quinn’s series of Bridgerton novels. What makes it so good is not a strict adherence to historical facts (guys, it’s not and never will be “Your Dukeship”) but producer Shonda Rhimes and her team’s understanding of storytelling.

I could never read something that big! Discover Tahiti on a budget - Flights to Tahiti - Flights to the Islands - Where we fly - Plan. 52 Places to Love in 2021. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love the Flute. In the past, we’ve chosen the five minutes or so we would play to make our friends fall in love with classical music, the piano, opera, the cello, Mozart, 21st-century composers, the violin, Baroque music, sopranos and Beethoven. Now we want to convince those curious friends to love the flute. We hope you find lots here to discover and enjoy; leave your choices in the comments. Play These Games Digitally. At their best, good video calls are a mediocre substitute for real interaction. And when they’re bad? They can be really bad. Best Books of 2020: Anna Wiener, Brit Bennett, Charles Yu. Read: Who you’re reading when you read Haruki Murakami Beowulf: A New Translation, by Maria Dahvana Headley I’ll admit to a moment—more than one, actually—of fogey-ish recoil as I stepped into the jabbingly familiar/unfamiliar world of Maria Dahvana Headley’s Beowulf.

“Blinged-out”? “Hashtag: blessed”? “Beowulf gave zero shits”? The 50 Best Podcasts of 2020. The best series and shows on Netflix in 2020. Our Favorite Books of 2020. ’s holiday book list: 68 reads that will inspire you. 2018favbook. Xtra Mail Inbox. Catch Up on These 12 Great 2020 Series This Thanksgiving Weekend. Covid-19 has crippled television production in 2020. Vegetarians rejoice: 10 nut roast recipes that won’t let you down. If you don’t eat meat, then Christmas (or Thanksgiving, or even just a Sunday lunch) can be upsettingly hit and miss. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sopranos. In the past, we’ve asked some of our favorite artists to choose the five minutes or so they would play to make their friends fall in love with classical music, the piano, opera, the cello, Mozart, 21st-century composers, the violin and Baroque music.

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Your Reading List for the Summer: The Books Briefing. The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877. 15 best virtual museum tours to experience from home. 10 of the best long-distance walking routes in Italy. Missing the taste of home: Indian mum's journey from student to teacher. National Theatre of Scotland. Readers recommend: podcasts to binge on while you're cooped up in self-isolation.

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