Dorian Lynskey

5 days ago | msn.com | Dorian Lynskey

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5 days ago | theguardian.com | Dorian Lynskey

There is something biblical about the fraternal relationship between the atomic bomb and the nuclear reactor. Both involve bombarding uranium-235 atoms with neutrons to produce a chain reaction via nuclear fission. Both were made possible in the same instant, at 3.25pm on 2 December 1942, when the Manhattan Project’s Enrico Fermi orchestrated the first human-made chain reaction in the squash court of the University of Chicago.

1 week ago | internazionale.it | Dorian Lynskey

Perfino Donald Trump sa che il prezzo dei biglietti dei concerti è troppo alto. Di recente il presidente degli Stati Uniti ha firmato un ordine esecutivo per proteggere i fan dai “prezzi folli” attraverso il contrasto al bagarinaggio e alle spese di commissione nascoste. Al suo fianco, con un vestito molto colorato, c’era il cantante Kid Rock, sostenitore del movimento Maga (Make America great again). “Make America fun again” (Rendiamo l’America di nuovo divertente), ha detto Kid Rock.

2 weeks ago | airmail.news | Dorian Lynskey

On a bench in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, there sits a statue of a beaming six-year-old girl in a lime-green dress and a ribbon in her bell-shaped hair. There’s another one like it, wearing ruby red this time, in a park in Oviedo, Spain. The girl’s name is Mafalda, and between 1964 and 1973 she was Argentina’s most beloved fictional character. Admirers of Mafalda and her creator, Quino, included Gabriel García Márquez, Charles M.

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Dorian Lynskey

When strangers ask Jon Ronson what he does for a living he says he’s a non-fiction writer. But if they press him for details, it gets tricky. “Then I get flustered,” he admits. “I say, ‘Psychology, funny stories, crazy adventures…’”That’s one way of putting it. From his first book, Them, 25 years ago to his BBC podcast Things Fell Apart, Ronson has specialised in people who go to extremes: conspiracy theorists, culture warriors, psychopaths, the radicalised and the disgraced.