California schools confront loss as Los Angeles burns

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The previous week has been a blur for Fred Farina, the California Institute of Know-how’s chief innovation officer, who misplaced his house within the fires nonetheless tearing via Los Angeles. “Issues turned on a dime. One night we have been sitting in our front room and inside 10 minutes we needed to evacuate,” stated Farina,…

Ken Burns’ New Documentary on Leonardo da Vinci Streaming On-line (within the US) for a Restricted Time

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A fast heads up: The movie­mak­er Ken Burns has simply launched his new doc­u­males­tary on Leonar­do da Vin­ci. Run­ning close to­ly 4 hours, the movie gives what The New York Instances calls a “thor­ough and engross­ing biog­ra­phy” of the Fifteenth-cen­tu­ry poly­math. Cur­lease­ly air­ing on PBS, the movie may be streamed on-line by means of Decem­ber…