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The Commercial Corruption Of The Art World

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The business aspect of the art world is a bewildering and a befuddled place. Why do some paintings and objets d’art command millions while others seem to not even warrant attention? Who decides which work is valuable and which is not? These are the questions continuously asked by people outside the close-knit art community.

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Saturn’s Moon Enceladus: Contender For Life?

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An ice encrusted world beyond the rocky planets, nestled in the heart of the gas giants, is perplexing scientists. A relatively small moon, Enceladus is just over 500 kilometres in width (310 miles). Orbiting Saturn at a distance of 237,000 kilometres (147,000 miles), it takes the satellite just under 33 hours to complete one journey

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Alain Robert Quotes: Thoughts From The Human Spider

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‘I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.’

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The Tiger: Camouflaged King Of The Jungle

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The burning midday Sun is trying its utmost to upset the residents of the forest. Its sweltering heat appears to be causing the air to sweat. A faint flicker of light and a massive creature slinks out of the shadows as its claws and eyes lock on its target. The most powerful of all the

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Ann’s Story: Chapter Twelve ‘Curiosity’

Saturday Serial

Yellow Magpie’s Saturday Serial continues with Chapter Twelve. You can read chapter one,  two and three here. And suddenly it was all over and Ann was officially unemployed. On her last day she had cleared out her desk with a feeling of surreality, it hadn’t taken long, mostly just old papers and accumulated notebooks. At lunchtime

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Why Animal Extinction Is Costing Us Dearly

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We are in an age of unprecedented technology. We may be even entering a phase in computer history when Moore’s famous law of computer processing power doubling every 18 months is blown out of the water by a new type of processing substrate. Despite all of these advances we are losing many invaluable animals. Finally,

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The Minor Moons Of Saturn: The Smaller Saturnine Satellites

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Saturn contains more moons than any other planet with over fifty been given official names. Yellow Magpie takes a look at some of these smaller moons. Over the coming weeks we shall be examining some of the larger moons in more detail.

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Senna Film Review: A Life Lived On The Edge

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Director: Asif Kapadia. Cast: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, and Ron Dennis. Senna manages to raise the standards of the sports documentary and trumps the other sporting film of the year, TT3D: Closer To The Edge, in doing so. Full of interesting characters with large egos, the film provides unprecedented access to the intoxicating world of

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