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  2. Olaf Stapledon - Wikipedia

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    Freeman Dyson credits the novel with giving him the idea, even stating in an interview that "Stapledon sphere" would be a more appropriate name. [26] Last and First Men features early descriptions of genetic engineering [27] and terraforming. Sirius describes a dog whose intelligence is increased to the level of a human being's.

  3. Sphere (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Sphere is a 1987 novel by Michael Crichton, his sixth novel under his own name and his sixteenth overall.It was adapted into the film Sphere in 1998. [1]The story follows Norman Johnson, a psychologist engaged by the United States Navy, who joins a team of scientists assembled to examine a spacecraft of unknown origin discovered on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

  4. Sphere (1998 film) - Wikipedia

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    Sphere is a 1998 American science fiction psychological thriller film directed and produced by Barry Levinson, adapted by Kurt Wimmer, and starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone and Samuel L. Jackson. It is based on Michael Crichton 's novel of the same name .

  5. Today (1982 TV program) - Wikipedia

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    Officially launched as The National Today Show, [1] Today is Australia's longest running morning breakfast news program. [2] The show premiered on 28 June 1982. The original hosts, Steve Liebmann and Sue Kellaway , spent four years together before Liebmann left to present the evening news for Network Ten in Sydney.

  6. Heinz Hartmann - Wikipedia

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    In 1939, Hartmann, in what Otto Fenichel called "a very interesting paper, tried to show that adaptation has been studied too much from the point of view of mental conflict. He points out that there is also a 'sphere without conflict' "[5] – something that would be repeatedly emphasized in ego-psychology. In the same year, in "Psychoanalysis ...

  7. Cognitive poetics - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive poetics is a school of literary criticism that applies the principles of cognitive science, particularly cognitive psychology, to the interpretation of literary texts. It has ties to reader-response criticism , and also has a grounding in modern principles of cognitive linguistics .

  8. Kismet (musical) - Wikipedia

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    The poet pleads that, as a poet and storyteller, the loss of a hand would cripple his career; it is the gesture that tells the story ("Gesticulate"). The lovely Lalume, attracted to the handsome poet, begs her husband for forgiveness, but the Wazir is not convinced and orders his guards to drag Hajj off to punishment.

  9. Amanda Gorman - Wikipedia

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    Amanda S. C. Gorman [1] (born March 7, 1998) [2] is an American poet, activist, and model.Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora.