Another band steeped in the artistry of performance wasSparks. Brothers Ron and Russell Mael relocated from America’s West Coast to the UK in 1973, and the following year’sKimono My Housealbum was an ambitious, eccentric oddity that spawned a sizable hit with “This Town Ain’t Big Enough...
Pluto was treated for years as an oddity among planets for a variety of reasons, but its status as a planet was never controversial until other objects reminiscent of Pluto but in no danger of themselves being called planets began to accumulate in the astronomy world. It is smaller than the ...
We haveanother article on creating limitsthat are useful for all magic systems. That includes imposing costs and consequences on magic or making spellcasting more difficult and involved. For this article, let’s just cover limits that are useful for spellcasters who have control over an element,...
Some silliness in cutscenes tends to be fully the player’s responsibility, like dressing companions in goofy attire or putting on clown makeup in thecircus inBaldur's Gate 3Act 3. Other things, however, can be a natural consequence of any campaign. One oddity that tends to crop up particu...
Nature has a way of dispelling the great conceit that all her ways can be captured within the frame of a single scientist’s perspective. Humility makes scientists receptive to this lesson. Intellectually virtuous scientists are concerned to impart knowledge as well as to obtain it. ...
Indeed, this lifelong puberty of the soul identity beyond the psychoanalytic ‘genital-primacy ego’ has its spiritual-bodily manifestations worldwide, throughout all history, and is not some esoteric oddity. Pre-eminent world historian, William H. McNeill gives evidence in his,Keeping Together in ...
The Wonder is an elegant oddity of a film—a slow-burn thriller set in 19th-century Ireland with postmodern casing—and yet it has found devoted admirers. In it, Pugh plays a nurse attempting to get to the bottom of a mystery, seen by some as a miracle. “Florence has the capacity ...
The message sent is this: You, young, black, female child, are not worth the time and energy it will take me to learn to spell and pronounce your name.”This, by the way, is how you say Quvenzhané:This issue goes beyond names rooted in cultures unfamiliar to the speaker. Whatever ...