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Twilight Sparkle's science fair sparks
When Canterlot High and Crystal Prep Academy hold a joint science fair, Twilight Sparkle is teamed up with Rising Star, who has something sinister planned.
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A Symbolic Project
Defined by its double hyperbolic arches, the building looks like an alien spaceship and brings to mind similarly shaped structures in sci-fi flicks or at equally iconic contemporary sites, such as the Gateway Arch in St. Louis (1963), the Trans World Airlines (twa) terminal in New York (1962), or the Sydney Opera House (1959). A professor of veterinary medicine who became the director of the state fair in 1937 (soon after the fair's move to its current location in west Raleigh in 1927), Dorton called on his colleague Henry L. Kamphoefner, the recently appointed dean of the new School ofDesign at North Carolina State College, to help him select the right architect to design a visionary arena and modern fairgrounds that would showcase North Carolina's agricultural and industrial products on a year-round basis. Following World War II, state fairs across the country quickly followed suit to light the beacon ofmodernization, progress, and technology in every citizen and state in the Union.2 Fittingly, this symbolic project came at the very beginning of Kamphoefner's twenty-five-year career as the dean of the College of Design-a test for him and the school. Among these were the new NC State Student Union, the Chavis Heights and Halifax Court low-income housing developments, the clubhouse of the Raleigh Country Club, and the master plan for the new capital city, Chandigarh, India.
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The goo disaster!
Unless Maggie and her partner can do well on their science fair project, she will not be allowed to perform with the Major Eights at the banquet.
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Animating the Technocratic Utopia
[...]it soon became apparent that those promises came at some consequence. [...]Segal describes how, due to what many perceived as \"fanatical and fascist\" tendencies that seemed to be fundamentally embedded in its programs-perhaps too much of the element of \"control\" that Eisenstein admired-and to various challenges to many of its statistical arguments, Technocracy as a serious political and social movement would be \"widely dismissed\" by the late 1930s (Future 129). Scott's theory that \"energy valuation\" (4) might prove a new and more rational sort of currency also offered a different approach to what seemed to many to be the arcane science of economics.1 As a result, Technocracy lingered in the popular consciousness, and continued to be publicized and debated in a wide variety of texts: in dedicated journals such as The Technocrat and Technocracy Review (the latter founded by famed science fiction pulp editor Hugo Gernsback), but also in films like Just Imagine and Transatlantic Tunnel (1935), in numerous science fiction stories that were widely circulated in such pulp magazines as Amaying Stories, Astounding Stories, and Wonder Stories (their very titles suggesting the almost magical or amaying appeal of the ideas contained therein), and even, as we began by suggesting, in many popular cartoons. Yet almost from its 1910s start-and certainly throughout the 1930s-the animated cartoon was presented as an integral part of the \"full bill\" of any theatrical presentation, and thus as something that generally addressed the wide range of those in attendance, most of whom were adults. [...]the subject matter of cartoons in the pre-World War II period ran the gamut of popular culture, commonly incorporating topical issues that were part of the ongoing cultural discussion.
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Science fair disaster!
When his project malfunctions during the Intergalactic Science Fair, will Zack, a boy from Earth living on the planet Nebulon, be able get things under control before disaster erupts?
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Dystopias of Family Planning in the Novels Corpus Delicti (2009) by Juli Zeh and Das weiße Schloss (2018) by Christian Dittloff
My contribution examines two recent German dystopian novels, Corpus Delicti (2009) by Juli Zeh and Das weiße Schloss (2018) by Christian Dittloff. I show how both take a careful, even warning stance with regard to possibilities offered by recent discoveries and developments in reproductive medicine and genetics. Zeh imagines a society that strictly controls who may reproduce by matching couples based on genetic compatibility, thus ensuring optimal health of the next generation. In Dittloff’s novel, couples select the ideal birth and surrogate mother in order to optimize their own life experiences and careers as well as the prospects of their child. The article argues that both novels feature extrapolations of issues seen in today’s societies in Germany and other high-income countries, namely consequences of hormonal contraceptives on mate selection, attempts to control the genetics of one’s child, and pregnancy by gestational carrier.
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Dr. Snow has got to go!
Ella Mentary School is having a science fair! Guest scientist Dr. Snow has arrived to help A.J. and his friends conduct their own cool experiments. But what is \"the snowman\" really planning? And what does STEM even stand for anyway?
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Using Social Norms to Regulate Fan Fiction and Remix Culture
Hetcher first develops a positive account, which will make clear the important role that social norms have played in the de facto regulation of fan-fiction and remix works up to this point. He uses the term \"de facto\" as a term of art to embrace regulation both by formal legal means and by informal social norms. Understanding this story is as important as it is instructive in terms of demonstrating possible alternatives to regulation. This account, of course, says nothing about the normative desirability of the current role played by social norms. Since social norms have sometimes served as regulators in the absence or ineflectiveness of formal law, only to be replaced at some later time by more formal forms of regulation, it is especially pertinent to ask whether such informal regulatory means may be better formalized.
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Never insult a killer zucchini
At a science fair competition, Zucchini is angered by Mr. Farnsworth's referring to him as lunch, and plots revenge. Includes a section explaining the scientific terms used in the book.
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Crossing the Channel: Publishing Translated German Fiction in the UK
In a review of Hans Fallada’s novel
Alone in Berlin
—finally translated into English after 62 years—Sam Jordison stated, “[I]t’s an important book that no English writer could have written—and so another resounding argument for the importance of taking in translations. It makes me wonder what else we’ve been missing.” Translated fiction plays a minimal role in the UK. Scholars are increasingly directing their attention towards this deficit. This paper will consider the culture of translation in the UK and Ireland, with a particular focus on translated German fiction.
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