Meal in a Box

Diposting oleh good reading on Senin, 27 April 2009

Here's yet another post on our weekday lunch express...meal in a box. I got the idea of making these Tuna Sandwich Rolls from a Chinese cookbook. These rolls are perfect to bring along to a picnic as they are nicely wrapped [...]
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CHERRY BLOSSOM CUPCAKES

Diposting oleh good reading on Sabtu, 25 April 2009

Have you ever swum in a pile of freshly fallen cherry blossoms?it's cool.you oughta try it.My little girls love spring in Vancouver when the whole city is bursting with blossoms. Our favourite bunch of Cherry Trees are located [...]
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Nutrition and Infectious Disease

Diposting oleh good reading on Jumat, 24 April 2009

Dr. Edward Mellanby's book Nutrition and Disease contains a chapter titled "Nutrition and Infection". It begins: There is general agreement among medical men that the susceptibility of mankind to many types of infection is closely related to the state [...]
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CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA?

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vanilla?orchocolate?If you had to decide between eating only Chocolate or Vanilla flavoured desserts for the rest of your life, which would you choose? chocolate? orvanilla?TAKE THE CHOCOLATE VS. VANILLA POLL ON THE SIDEBAR [...]
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35 Shots of Claire Denis (and more)

Diposting oleh good reading on Kamis, 23 April 2009

Image from Vendredi soir (Claire Denis, 2002)Film Studies For Free's author is excitedly preparing to give a talk at the event 'Drifting: The Films of Claire Denis'. This is the first of an annual series of symposia on 'Modern [...]
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Fructose vs. Glucose Showdown

Diposting oleh good reading on Selasa, 21 April 2009

As you've probably noticed, I believe sugar is one of the primary players in the diseases of civilization. It's one of the "big three" that I focus on: sugar, industrial vegetable oil and white flour. It's becoming increasingly clear that fructose, [...]
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Film Festival Studies Online

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As regular Film Studies For Free readers will know, this blog likes to flag up worthwhile examples of innovative online pedagogy in the film and media studies field (see previous related posts HERE, HERE, and HERE).It was [...]
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Werner Herzog Links inc YouTube Fest

Diposting oleh good reading on Senin, 20 April 2009

Film Studies For Free wanted to let academic fans of Werner Herzog know that (certainly in the UK, but most probably elsewhere, too, if no geoblocking) they can currently watch eight of his films on YouTube in their glorious entirety. This is thanks [...]
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手做的幸福

Diposting oleh good reading on Minggu, 19 April 2009

在一个偶然的机会下, 我在一间不常去的图书馆, 从书架上找到德永久美子的這本书, '愛上做面包'。隨手拿起來翻了一翻,立刻如获至宝似的把它捧回家。沿途我一边翻阅一边幻想着,如果能学会制作那一款款的面包, 那将是多美好的事。单是想像滿室的面包香就觉得好幸福! 这真是一本好温馨的书。我也好羨慕作者有一个可爱的女兒当任她的小帮手。如果我家那两个臭小子有她一半任真的态度哪该多好! 把书借回家后, 第一个做的就是圆面包! 这都是手做的哦, 花了半小时才把面团搓好, [...]
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A Testament to the Flexibility of the Human Mind

Diposting oleh good reading on Kamis, 16 April 2009

I'm sure you've heard that humans have five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. But we actually have far more senses than that. The canonical list doesn't include equilibrioception-- our sense of balance-- the result of fluid sloshing around [...]
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Queer Film and Theory Links In Memory of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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Image from Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce, 1999)Film Studies For Free was very sad to hear of the death at 58 of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, one of the founders of the discourse of 'queer theory', and an inspirational teacher [...]
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