J. G. Ballard says that a lot of writers are 'intensely nostalgic'. Take the Angry Young Men. Kingsley Amis, John Osborne and others weren't responding to what was really going on in society.
'The laying down of the M1 was much more important than anything Jimmy Porter's father-in-law thought about this or that. The motorway system had a much bigger influence on freedom and possibility ... I was interested in the evolving world, the world of hidden persuaders, of the communications landscape developing, of mass tourism, of the vast conformist suburbs dominated by television ...'
Scientists’ experiment is ‘beacon of hope’ for coral reefs on brink of
global collapse
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Recordings of healthy fish are being transmitted to attract heat-tolerant
larvae back to degraded reefs in the Maldives
An underwater experiment to resto...
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