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Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood urged members of his Spencer orchestra to show their individuality.

Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood urged members of his Spencer orchestra to show their individuality.

Find not just life on other planets, which i know would be a huge breakthrough just to even have proof of some sort of bacterial organism or water. but what about complex-intelligent life like ours? >> well, wst is really not set up to find intelligence or technologies. but what it will perhaps allow us to do for some of those nearby exoplanets. planets orbiting other stars is to look at the composition of the atmospheres of those exoplanets. and determine whether theres any chemistry that would...

Before the pandemic. we only called it new normal because we were so interested that people in england use the term — whats the term they always use, gilbert? existentialism. and we wanted to find an english word for that, and so normalfor us would be the... so, this new normal of yours predates everything thats happened with the pandemic? yes, yes. all the design of all aspects of it... everything was ready. ..were done before the pandemic. but nonetheless, as i understand it, a lot of the co...

Thanks very much. very kind. very nice. were sitting in this gallery space. this is your latest exhibition. its called new normal pictures. is this your response to what the world has been through in the last year and more? that is, the covid pandemic and lockdown? no, not at all. the title of the show and the pictures predates the pandemic. we created the pictures before the pandemic. we only called it new normal because we were so interested that people in england use the term — whats the te...

But for over 30 years, there has been an unsolved mystery over the cathedrals most famous windows, the ancestors of christ. we thought that the earliest of those dated to about 1176 but in the 1980s, a wonderful art historian, called madeline caviness, suspected these figures were much older. she thought at the time that nobody would ever be able to prove it. she was just going from a stylistic analysis. a team from university college london have been analysing some of the ancestor series. we us...

Making the current composition of the jury nearly all white in rural georgia. right now there are 12 jurors on the case and three alternates, but only one of those 15 people is black. that makeup doesnt even come close to reflecting the actual demographics of the local population and even the judge presiding over the case condemned the defenses tactics that were clear as day to him, but he was powerless to stop it. >> this court has found that there appears to be intentional discrimination. quit...

Look at this and they think, how does this happen? how do you answer that? >> yeah, christi, good morning to you. good morning, elie. it happens because you had a situation here where the judge acknowledged that, in his view, there was intentional discrimination, but failed to faction a remedy. in the event you have a court indicating this is the appearance that something is amiss, i think then you are incumbent as a court to do something about it, right? clearly you acknowledge theres a problem...

The Athens Symphony Orchestra will return to the Classic Center Theatre at full capacity on Nov. 7.

Room for possible appeal after the trial? >> yeah, so what happens is that to the point of having this jury in its composition, is struggling. just address that briefly. you have this community which 69% white, which is about 26% black. you would figure that a jury would be a nice cross section of that demographic. its not. and so thats troubling. whats more troubling is you have an acknowledgment of the court that there is intentional discrimination, but no remedy that would address that. like ...