Authors on Banning Books

Published authors, naturally, have a lot to say about the practice of banning books.

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Long before astronauts took to Twitter to post snapshots of the Earth from space, NASA was using old-school film photography to capture images of Saturn’s rings, Martian craters, and astronauts on the Moon.

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Everyone went through those awkward teenage years—even David Lynch, even Toni Morrison, and yes, even Madonna.

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Thinner, bigger, faster, better: witness the iPhone's evolution in one simple GIF that illustrates how much the flagship technology has changed in less than a decade.

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For those less enamored with Apple technology, this is what happens when the iPhone 6 Plus meets a blender.

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Cirque de Soleil deviates from its usual routines featuring human performers doing extraordinary things with a new video starring just one man and a supporting cast of flying, dancing drones.

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Liam Neeson has played the same character over, and over, and over again. Will he ever get his revenge?

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British actor Benedict Cumberbatch's fatal flaw has been revealed: the man cannot pronounce the word "penguin."