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Topic: The Conversation (page 40)

Dave Willetts in: "Jesus Christ Superstar" in Zürich 1992 (Blick/RDB/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Jesus Christ Superstar's Easter legacy

Henry Bial - The Conversation
A visual representation of a Bitcoin cryptocurrency as a gold coin on a computer keyboard. (Getty Images)

Psychopaths like crypto

Di Wang, Brett Martin, Jun Yao - The Conversation
"A Night to Remember" a 1958 British drama film starring Kenneth More. Tells the story of the sinking of the ship Titanic in 1912 (Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)

The best Titanic film isn't "Titanic"

Gill Jamieson - The Conversation
International Space Station (NASA via Getty Images)

Ukraine war threatens space exploration

Wendy Whitman Cobb - The Conversation
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A man walks amid debris in front of a residential apartment complex that was heavily damaged by a Russian attack on March 18, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Russian forces remain on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, but their advance has stalled in recent days, even while Russian strikes - and pieces of intercepted missiles - have hit residential areas in the north of Kyiv. An estimated half of Kyiv's population has fled to other parts of the country, or abroad, since Russia invaded on February 24. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Ukrainians' psychological wounds

Arash Javanbakht - The Conversation
Mikey Day in "Is It Cake?" (Netflix)

"Is It Cake?" feeds visual catharsis

Maggie Cao - The Conversation
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin lights a candle as he attends an Orthodox Christmas service in the XIX century church of the Protecting Veil of the Mother of God in Turginovo village, about 160 km northwest of Moscow, on January 7, 2011. (ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Evangelicals loved Putin: And now?

Melani McAlister - The Conversation
Jennifer Lawrence as Kate Dibiasky, Leonardo DiCaprio as Dr. Randall Mindy, and Timothée Chalamet as Yul in "Don't Look Up" (Niko Tavernise/Netflix)

Stop embracing the "bunker fantasy"

David L. Pike - The Conversation
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Iceberg melting in Disko Bay in Greenland (Getty Images/Paul Souders)

Arctic greening won’t save the climate

Donatella Zona - The Conversation
South Korean actor Seo Kang-joon attends an autograph session on May 1, 2016 in Hong Kong, China. (Visual China Group via Getty Images)

Women seeking boyfriends in South Korea

Min Joo Lee - The Conversation
Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong (1907-1961), formerly Wong Liu Tsong, stands alone on a grand staircase in a scene from an unknown film. (General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

Hollywood's thwarting of Anna May Wong

Shirley J. Lim - The Conversation
Jake Johnson and Ophelia Lovibond in "Minx" (Katrina Marcinowski/HBO Max)

TV's prosthetic penises reinforce taboos

Peter Lehman - The Conversation
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American jurist, lawyer, associate justice Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993), who had been recently appointed Solicitor General by President Lyndon Johnson, sits behind his desk in his office at the Federal Courthouse, Washington, DC. He later became the first black Supreme Court Justice. (Sam Falk/New York Times Co./Getty Images)

KBJ hearing: Echoes of the past

Margaret M. Russell - The Conversation
Dorris Bowdon, Jane Darwell and Henry Fonda in "The Grapes of Wrath," directed by John Ford, 1940. (20th Century Fox/Courtesy of Getty Images)

Classic literature insights on refugees

Robert F. Barsky - The Conversation
Flee (Neon)

Animating conflict & refugees in "Flee"

Yael Friedman, Deborah Shaw - The Conversation
Russian President Vladimir Putin (Alexander Nemenov/Pool Photo via AP/ Getty Stock/ Salon)

Putin's oligarchs plotting to topple him

Stanislav Markus - The Conversation
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Licorice Pizza (MGM)

Debating Paul Thomas Anderson's films

Ari Mattes - The Conversation
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko greets the troops during a military drill outside Brest, on Sept. 12, 2021. (Maxim Guchek/BELTA/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Belarus is backing Russia

Tatsiana Kulakevich - The Conversation
Vladimir Putin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Could Putin use nuclear weapons?

Miles A. Pomper - The Conversation
John Lennon and Yoko Ono photographed on November 2, 1980. (Jack Mitchell/Getty Images)

Yoko Ono’s prophetic vision of self-care

Brigid Cohen - The Conversation
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in "Don't Look Up" (Niko Tavernise/Netflix)

We need fictional "green" role models

Denise Baden - The Conversation
Sylvia Plath seated in front of a bookshelf (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage

Jason Miller - The Conversation
Elizabeth Holmes in "The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley" (Courtesy of HBO)

Obsessing over Elizabeth Holmes' voice

Kathryn Cunningham - The Conversation
President of Russia Vladimir Putin touches the World Cup trophy after the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia Final between France and Croatia at Luzhniki Stadium on July 15, 2018 in Moscow, Russia. (Chris Brunskill/Fantasista/Getty Images)

Russia's soccer ban: Sports as politics

Stefan Szymanski - The Conversation
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