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...grew up with quite an impoverished background," he says. "I didn't see any possibility that I would ever get paid for doing anything I enjoyed." Hirst tells me this one rainy afternoon in July at one of his many studios. This one is in Stroud, a rural town in Gloucestershire, about two hours' drive west of London. When he says this I think immediately about the bull in the next room, which I'm pretty sure he enjoyed coming up with, and very sure he's about to be paid for. A lot, actually...
MythBusters: Shark Special and Surviving Sharks Discovery, 9 p.m. E.T., July 27 & 28 MythBusters uses its second Shark Week special to test tips on how to survive a sea-critter attack. Then Survivorman's Les Stroud makes himself into human chum to explore ... exactly the same thing! Edge to MythBusters, which builds a cool mechanical great white. MythBusters: B- Surviving...
...played by John Carroll Lynch, who was the homicidal Varlyn Stroud on HBO's Carnivāle. Deep into the movie, Allen is questioned by Toschi and Armstrong, and suddenly Zodiac forgets its vibe of a CSI: SF episode at miniseries length and gives us a high-voltage face-off with unearthly evil...
...heard explosions doesn't mean there were explosions. You can say you feel the room spinning, but it isn't." This kind of discussion about what we know and how we know it is typical of a theory of knowledge class, a required element for an international-baccalaureate diploma. Stroud has posed this question to his class on the blackboard: "If truth is difficult to prove in history, does it follow that all versions are equally acceptable...
Throughout the year, the class will examine news reports, websites, propaganda, history books, blogs, even pop songs. The goal is to teach kids to be discerning consumers of information and to research, formulate and defend their own views, says Stroud, who is founder and principal of the four-year-old public school, which is located in a repurposed handbag factory...