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...enjoying the best and worst of the last century’s science fiction cinema. The festival’s location has changed since the event first began—moving from the old Orson Welles Theatre in Cambridge (which burned down in the mid-80s) to West Newton to its present Davis Square home. And each year’s event has a different theme (this year’s was “Alien Attack”). But the close-knit audience remains more or less the same; there are multiple people who have been...
...Defiance” is ultimately the tale of the transformative effect of Tuvia Bielski’s hopeful ideals and undying strength. As such, the death and defeat of the Holocaust is overcome onscreen by Tuvia’s message of possibility and faith. Composers Joshua Bell and James Newton Howard weave a brooding tone into each scene. Though a surprising amount of humor is sprinkled throughout the film, the weeping violins speak to the constant melancholy of the woods, winter, and persecution. Even moments of happiness and hope, such as the wedding scene between Asael and his wife Chaya...
Elementary school classrooms are filled with impressionable young minds learning how to add, multiply, and divide; but few of these students will ever understand the logic and the theory behind their calculations. The works of Plato, Euclid, and Newton, upon which all of modern science and commerce depend, are as much philosophical statements about the structure of the universe as they are mathematical treatises. In “Is God a Mathematician?” Mario Livio attempts to impress upon the reader this fundamental connection between math and philosophy while presenting a “greatest hits?...
...With reporting by Jay Newton-Small and Michael Scherer / Washington
...With reporting by Jay Newton-Small / Washington