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“The tech billionaires ‘read science fiction in their childhood and [they] appear unaware of the ideological underpinnings of their youthful entertainment: elitism, ‘scientific’ racism, eugenics, ...
In 1954, Walt Disney was struggling to imagine tomorrow. Disneyland was set to open the following year and would be divided ...
When Daniel Radcliffe performed an a cappella version on The Graham Norton Show – prefacing it by introducing Lehrer, ...
So farewell, the satirist Tom Lehrer who has died at a ripe old 97. His acidic little ditties shocked and delighted us.
A musical satirist with an extensive repertoire of lived experience passed away on Saturday. One quirky accomplishment was ...
Lehrer, who died Saturday, was a Harvard-educated math prodigy whose satirical music was everything my nerdy teenage self ...
Yet, in truth, satire—at least satire of great quality—lives just as long as any other kind of art. It keeps its objects ...
To nail the presentation, NASA brought von Braun, its most celebrated engineer, to do the talking. After all, they were ...
Obituary The field of satirists and hit singer-songwriters who were also professional mathematicians and lecturers is a very ...
Brief though his career as an entertainer was, Tom Lehrer inscribed his signature on a brainy, no-holds-barred brand of ...
The mathematician, songwriter and satirist Tom Lehrer has died. In his later years, he put his musical work in the public ...
Almost every American schoolkid has heard the song: "There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium." Set to a tune from The ...