Ann’s Story: Chapter Twelve ‘Curiosity’

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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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Senna Film Review Senna Film Review Enjoy Yellow Magpie’s Senna Film Review. 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

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Ayrton Senna Quotes: The Straight-Talking Racer

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Ayrton Senna Quotes Here is the pick of Ayrton Senna quotes. ‘And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.’

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Ann’s Story: Chapter Eleven ‘Money In The Bank’

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Yellow Magpie’s Saturday Serial continues with Chapter Eleven. You can read chapter one,  two and three here. On Thursday morning Ann found herself once again sitting opposite William Johnson. She was both nervous and excited about what he was about to say. She was hoping she wouldn’t have to fight to get a decent redundancy package

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How Hollywood’s Sexism Is Killing The Movies

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There is an invasive problem in Hollywood which has become almost intrinsic in western cinema. This is the unforgiveable focus on youth in women’s roles to the detriment of talent and acting ability. While employing such tactics may result in having superficially attractive, aesthetically pleasing talent – cinema and the movie-going audience are suffering as

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Bridesmaids Film Review: A Movie That Justifies Its Hype

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Director: Paul Feig. Cast: Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Chris O’Dowd and Melissa McCarthy. Bridesmaids is a highly entertaining film that is peppered with comical incidents, providing a very enjoyable cinematic experience. The movie centres on Annie, a thirty-something year old former cake shop owner, who is undergoing a difficult period in her life. Her best

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