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Doozers have bubble trouble
When the Pod Squad pushes too many buttons on their new cleaning machine, the machine produces an abundance of hard-to-pop bubbles.
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The World; Soft focus on Japan's economic bender; A new film, `Bubble Fiction,' satirically tackles the still-delicate topic of the country's boom-and-bust era
Japanese audiences can be excused for feeling some nostalgia for the 1980s while watching \"Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust,\" a new movie about those champagne days when a man could drape a Tiffany necklace around the neck of a woman he'd just met and friends would tell her to take it because \"everyone's got too much money anyway.\" There may also be a subconscious factor at play: The collapse of the bubble still haunts Japanese attitudes. The word \"bubble\" still frequently pops up in conversations here. The experience has been seared onto the consciousness of a generation now in its late 30s, 40s and 50s, much the way the Great Depression's misery dictated a lifetime of cautious spending habits for the millions it touched. THOSE WERE THE DAYS: A scene from the movie \"Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust,\" now playing in Japan. In it, a heroine travels back in time to the country's heady days of economic expansion and consumer excess that ended with a thud, a turnabout that still haunts the attitudes of Japanese today. \"It was a weird period of history,\" says [Chihiro Kameyama], the film's producer.; PHOTOGRAPHER: Fuji Television Network
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In the bathroom
After being shrunk by a shrinking machine and ending up on a dog having a bubble bath, Alexander, his cousin Judy, and a tiny robot try to survive encounters with insects, soapy bubbles, and bathtub and toilet drains.
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The Bubble Metropolis: Manhattan Island Crises in Contemporary Science Fiction
As “the island at the center of the world,” Manhattan has inspired countless writers and has served as a spatial archetype in science fiction’s world-building. From the interdisciplinary perspective of literature and economics, this article discusses the crisis imagination of the “bubble metropolis” in five contemporary Manhattan-related science fiction novels including Cities in Flight (1970), The Blister (1975), Terminal World (2010), Zone One (2011), and New York 2140 (2017). The spatial variety of Manhattan Island in these science fiction novels is closely combined with its economic condition. The characters, plots, and spatial imagery of these novels gather to reflect the different stages of the operation of a bubble economy, illustrating a historical cycle of capitalism that can never be escaped. Manhattan Island has long been the symbol of the world’s rush for wealth. The fear of economic recession, environmental degradation, and class conflict have formed the special geographical features of the island in the future. The crisis imagination of the “bubble metropolis” also seeks to stimulate critical thinking on economic ethics, urban design, and high technology, calling for social justice and public welfare.
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Bursting the Bubble: The Fluids Mechanics That Prove Godzilla Would Survive the Plan
Cinematic and pop culture narratives offer powerful tools for engaging with science by contextualizing complex principles within familiar, imaginative stories. This paper investigates the scientific feasibility of a plan depicted in Godzilla Minus One to neutralize the iconic kaiju through buoyancy reduction, exposure to deep-sea pressure, and rapid decompression. Employing principles from fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and biomechanics, the study critically examines the use of freon bubbles and additional weight to counteract buoyant forces, the effects of 1500-m oceanic pressure on Godzilla’s physiology, and the potential for barotrauma during rapid ascent. While theoretically plausible, the proposed strategies face insurmountable challenges, including logistical impracticality and Godzilla’s presumed biological adaptations. This interdisciplinary critique highlights the intersection of film and science, encouraging critical analysis of cinematic representations and fostering a deeper appreciation for the scientific principles they attempt to portray.
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Bubbles, bubbles, and more bubbles!
When Bree gets sick and can't join her class on a trip to see a bubble show, Nancy and her classmates decide to put on a bubble show of their own for Bree.
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Maatschappelijke impact van gepersonaliseerde informatievoorziening: feit of fictie?
Societal impact of personalized information delivery: Fact or fiction? This article is about personalized information delivery in the Netherlands and is based on a review of empirical studies on this topic. The risk of echo chambers and filter bubbles is discussed and put in an international perspective. The focus is on the role government institutions, tech companies and scholars can play in this field. At present, the Dutch journalism landscape would still appear to be sufficiently diverse, delivering information that is accessed by different groups of citizens. But the precise effect of news personalization remains unclear and the growing power of tech companies also shows the need for more insights and better research methods. Without in-depth (data) knowledge, it is difficult to develop solution directions to prevent any problems that the personalization of news could entail.
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Monetary policy and financial imbalances: facts and fiction
Following the financial crisis, many have argued that monetary policy should lean against asset price increases and that deviations of credit and asset prices from trend can be used to capture financial imbalances. We study quarterly data spanning 1986—2008 for a sample of 18 countries and argue that such measures contain little information useful for forecasting the future economic conditions. This casts doubts on the leaning-against-the-wind view. We also argue that tightening monetary policy in response to such imbalances are likely to depress real growth substantially. That finding, however, is sensitive to the Lucas critique.
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“Bankrupt in all but my good wishes”: Speculative Economics in Cleomelia; Or The Generous Mistress
This article explores Eliza Haywood’s Cleomelia; Or The Generous Mistress: Being the Secret History of a Lady Lately Arrived from Bengall (1727), an obscure tale preoccupied with the politics of British investment in exotic foreign trade and speculation. Against the Eastern backdrop of Bengali trading posts and the remote Spice Islands, Haywood examines the sanguine Whig attitude to the economic possibilities of foreign trade. Exploiting the associations between female sexuality and speculative investment that had emerged so powerfully after the South Sea Bubble incident in 1720, Haywood uses Cleomelia’s many marriages to illuminate an abstract notion of value. Cleomelia enters the contemporary socio-political discourse of credit and speculation with ambivalence; while Haywood appears to criticize the self-interest, exploitation and high level of risk involved in Whig overseas trade policy, she also explores these elements more sympathetically through the heroine’s astute manipulation of the marriage market.
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