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Month: October 2018
CIA chief (or is she?): how spies use disguises
Wired has an amazing video by the chief of disguises at the CIA – yes, that really is a job. There’s a lot of good spy tradecraft in the film if that’s the type of fiction you write, and the … Continue reading
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Mars blog: bits of mars have landed on earth
https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/pieces-of-mars-have-landed-on-earth-97f0227f4078 … but then you already knew that…
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David Thomson: watch it again
David Thomson’s utterly brilliant How to Watch a Movie: For most of the medium’s history, movies were made to be seen once, or as many times as you could cram into a brief run… By 1955 I had been told … Continue reading
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