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Movie: Loners (2000)
Ying, a Chinese girl who speaks Czech, invited us to screening of a Czech movie (with English subtitles) in the Department of Visual and Environmenta…
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Wormholes into the past
Last night, Nova Cinema, a Czech TV station, aired Frequency , a 2000 sci-fi thriller. Beware spoilers. It's 1999 and John is still devastated be…
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Czech verses to memorize the periodic table
I wonder whether the English counterparts of the verses below exist. But we have a whole sophisticated system to remember the whole periodic table . …
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Megaupload shut down: SOPA unnecessary
I am sure that most TRF readers have heard of MegaUpload.COM. It was one of the servers where some people uploaded the ClimateGate files, among other…
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Burning Bush: a dark movie about post-1968 events
Scott Armstrong is a climate skeptic and a forecasting expert – who wrote some sensible comments about the journalistic impartiality for Fox and LA T…
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Obama administration wanted Disney to remake Frozen as an AGW agitprop
In 1844, Hans Christian Andersen wrote one of his most famous fairy-tales, The Snow Queen . You may remember it – lots of romantic, touching, superna…
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Top Czech romance novel writer stabbed
Mrs Simona Monyová (44) was the most successful Czech author of romance novels. Nicknamed "Viewegh in the skirts", after a bestselling male…
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Home Alone: With Donald Trump
Home Alone is one of the typical Christmas films on TV – in Czechia but apparently also in Canada. Canada's leading TV channel CBC has censored a…
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Google Earth: Boston Giga
In the past, the resolution of maps wasn't terribly good. For example, you couldn't read the newspapers in a random yellow cab in Boston with…
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Sonified raw Higgs data sound like Beethoven, Wagner
Update: the credibility of all the information below is impaired by the date, April 1st LIGO's gravitational waves sound like music of a sort. Pa…
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An emotional movie on Stephen Hawking: Theory of Everything
In November 2014, a new emotional movie will hit the cinemas. A trailer plus a review. The talkative reviewer thinks that the filmmakers were cheatin…
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Oriana Fallaci: The Force of Reason
Review: 44 of 45 helpful votes; the review was erased from amazon.com by a certain movement Oriana Fallaci, a famous journalist and former antifascis…
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Karel Čapek: 120th birthday
Czechia is arguably the only country in the world where Google is very far from being the #1 search engine. Seznam.cz ("The List"), founde…
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First Czecho-Slovak Superstar
See also: Dominika Stará vs Martin Chodúr See also: Dominika Stará: Je suis Malade After a couple of Czech (CZ) Pop Idols and Slovak (SK) Pop Idols a…
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Sci-fi movie: Sunshine
It's 2057 and the Earth is freezing over. (By the way, back in 2007, after two spring days in Cambridge, the snow is back!) A group of heroes has…
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Joanne Rowling is now OK with caged beds
In 2004, the spiritual mother of Harry Potter (whose 7th part is now #1 at amazon.com) saw a picture from a mental hospital of a small Czech boy lyin…
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Evolution of beauty & physics
"Beauty", the latest blog post on a Western European physics blog, is about beauty and is, much like many others on that website, very thou…
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