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Magie in al je communicatie – Bas Mouton (2015)
A self-help book that promises magic in all our communication by getting rid of the well known tricks (where to put your hands, how to capture the audience with your… Read more
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Inside Out (2015) ****
Pixar and Disney worked together to create this highly entertaining animation film about the little voices in our head, that is at its strongest when asking philosophical questions about emotions… Read more
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Will Angus Deaton’s thinking now become mainstream?
This week Angus Deaton won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on development, welfare and poverty. Although he is optimistic about the world as a whole becoming a… Read more
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The Tyranny of Experts – William Easterly (2014)
This book wants to provoke, to stir debate and eventually change our thinking on how to help the poor. Its great subtitle, Economist, Dictators and the Forgotten Rights of the… Read more
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Putinism, Russia and it’s Future with the West – Walter Laqueur (2015)
As one of the most important actors on the geopolitical chess board I’m dying to better understand Putin and his Russia: Should he be feared and contained or, as some… Read more
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Slow West – John McLean (2015) ***
Since I saw him excel in Steve McQueen’s “Hunger”, I go to see every new Michael Fassbender movie. Slow West is certainly not his best, but it’s good entertainment: a… Read more
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Food for thought
As seen during my visit to Riga, Latvia. A powerful reminder of the suffering the Baltics went through. Read more
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The Imitation Game – Morten Tyldum (2014) ***
Being familiar with his story, Alan Turing’s achievement didn’t come as a surprise to me. One of the film’s merits is that it succeeds in getting across the enormity of… Read more
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Whiplash – Damien Chazelle (2014) ****
Cruel and beautiful, Whiplash stands for the search for excellence, the extreme way – pushing people into the abyss hoping they will emerge from it as a once in a… Read more
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Latvian National Opera, Riga
September 2015 Read more
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