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40 Years Ago, Village People Tried to Survive the Death of Disco by Changing Sound and Look on ‘Renaissance’

Peter Piatkowski / 2 June 2021

Today, Renaissance feels like both a momentary blip in Village People’s career and an unnecessary reply to the “death” of disco (that never really happened).

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Optimism and the Inquisition: The Extraordinary Life of Girolamo Cardano

Laith Al-Shawaf / 3 March 2020

Polymath Girolamo Cardano was beaten, imprisoned, survived a plague, and was banned by the church. Yet his work in medicine, engineering, mathematics and more is present in our lives today.

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