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Respecting Tolkien and Adaptations

This blog looks at the strange phenomenon of Lord of the Rings fans who hold up Jackson's films as an inviolable version, despite the criticism of their adaptation of the source material. It discusses how great stories accrue adaptations over time and suggests that Tolkien would be tickled to see his work adapted.

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Chris Riedel

Medieval history professor. Researches religious reform c.1000CE. A greyhound named Malibu. Nerdy things. Personal acct, opinions mine not anyone else’s. he/him

3 Books to Change How You Run Your Businesses

Read less, do more. Check out 3 books that changed how I run my businesses. Learn how Netflix built a company culture based on freedom, trust, and creativity, how to hire top performers, model openness to feedback, decentralize leadership, and more.

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Codie Sanchez

Investing millions in boring businesses & sharing what I learn. On a mission to create 1M financially free humans | My bio, not my tombstone, I hope it changes

Ethnicity Assignment: A Cultural Process

A brief muse on a longstanding theme of mine - that ethnicity assignment is a very different process than genetics, with the only commonality being that one of the salient features for ethnicity assignment - skin colour - has strong (and very complex) genetics. It's worth reminding people that there is not a set of universal ethnicity categories; the categories provided in forms are inherently cultural.

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Ewan Birney

Deputy Director General of EMBL, Director of EMBL-EBI. I have an insatiable love of biology. @ewanbirney@genomic.social. I also work with ONT, Dovetail + GeL.

The Tragic Devaluation of African American Art and Artists

Sculptor Augusta Savage passed #OTD 61 years ago. Her signature work, THE HARP, was displayed at New York’s World Fair of 1939. What happened to Savage and her magnificent sculpture speaks to the tragic devaluation of African American art and artists.

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Ibram X. Kendi

Partner • #GirlDad • Scholar @BU_Tweets • Dir @AntiracismCtr • @NationalBook Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author • MacArthur Fellow • Surviving Cancer 🐍