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This latest album from our own PJ Harvey has come in at number 47 on Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2011 list, and I think it's fair to say it deserves its place there. ...

One of the main themes in Christopher Marlowe’s ‘The Tragical History of Doctor Faust’ is sin. Doctor Faustus’ first sin is greed. Though well known for his accomplishments, the Doctor seeks to surpass the limitations on human knowledge which leads to his interest in magic. After exchanging his soul for 24 years of servitude from the demon Mephistophilis, Faustus embarks upon an extremely sinful life. Faustus’ need for power, praise, and trickery leads him to feed sin. Faustus becomes obsessed with how people look at him. At the end of the 24 years, Faust realizes his mistake in believing that ...

What is your idea of heaven? Is it sitting on a caribbean island with a beach full of beautiful women? Is it skiing down the slopes of Aspen without a care in the world (except for whether you have time for another slalom before lunch)? Is it flying around the world, getting paid obscene amounts of money to drive the fastest, most powerful cars in the world? Or what bout an all-expenses paid shopping trip to New York for two months? The possibilities of what we would do with our lives if money was unlimited are almost scary. We live ...

Some friends of my parents are packing up and moving across the world to a tiny place called Tokelau, a territory of New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean....

Before the invention of the telephone as we now know it, there existed mechanical devices that were capable of transmitting spoken words. The earliest, still present on ships, were speaking tubes in which sound was transmitted along pipes. The ‘lover’s phone’, or tin can telephone, was another device capable of transmitting spoken words over a greater distance than would be possible during normal speech. The tin can telephone involved two diaphragms connected by a wire or taut string which transmitted mechanical vibrations. ...