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Watching really, really good pingpong at the 2012 U.S. Olympic trialsnew
Slams are said to approach 80 miles an hour. As impressive as these shots can be, even more impressive is how often they're returned. It's hard to do justice to the freakish reflexes that were on display at Bond Park.
Tags: Pingpong
Duke Professor Cathy Davidson's Powerful Now You See Itnew
By looking at the historical and philosophical underpinnings of the modern school and workplace, Davidson makes a persuasive case for her book's subtitle: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn.
INDY Week |
Marc Maximov |
08-25-2011 |
Nonfiction
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Parasite Therapy: Rob Dunn's The Wild Life of Our Bodiesnew
One increasingly tenable theory holds that the disproportionate prevalence of a spectrum of disorders in affluent nations -- from allergies and asthma to diabetes and Crohn's disease -- may be because we miss our worms.
INDY Week |
Marc Maximov |
08-17-2011 |
Nonfiction
Last Train Home is a Stellar Doc About Chinese Internal Migrationnew
Chinese-Canadian director Lixin Fan's documentary is an intimate treatment of the lives of ordinary people in a fast-changing China.
Do Today's Children Hear the Call of the Wild?new
The Audubon medal-winning writer Richard Louv has just released an updated version of his 2005 book, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder to create a movement of sorts to get kids outside.
INDY Week |
Marc Maximov |
04-17-2008 |
Nonfiction
Asheville Indie Film Garners Attention at Sundancenew
Asheville-based director Chusy Haney-Jardine took an entirely different road to Sundance: Most of the players in his film had never acted before—anywhere.
Ecological Anxiety Increases & Search for Radical Solutions Beginsnew
The books After Eden and Hope, Human and Wild, along with the film What a Way to Go lay out a blueprint for change.
INDY Week |
Marc Maximov |
04-19-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Suspicious Mindsnew
It was all sound and fury, signifying nothing, which is also a good description of the political and media circus that has surrounded Hounddog since midway through shooting in the summer of 2006 in eastern North Carolina.
