Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
First Lines: Neal Stephenson - The System of the World
"Men half your age and double your weight have been slain on these wastes by Extremity of Cold," said the Earl of Lostwithiel, Lord Warden of the Stannaries, and Rider of the Forest and Chase of Dartmoor, to one of his two fellow-travelers.
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Chernobyl (2019)
In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes.
Harrowing account of the Chernobyl catastrophe takes some liberties with the facts, but is excellently produced with a good cast; the focus is - besides on the actual impact of the explosion - on human frailty and the political bureaucracy's attempts to contain the truth.
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