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A 17th-century depiction of Murasaki

Murasaki Shikibu (c. 973 – c. 1014 or 1025) was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period. She is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012. She became a lady-in-waiting to Empress Shōshi at the Imperial court around 1005, and continued to write during her service, adding scenes from court life to her work, reflected in The Diary of Lady Murasaki. After several years, she left court and retired with Shōshi to the Lake Biwa region. Within a decade of its completion, Genji was distributed throughout the provinces; within a century it was recognized as a classic of Japanese literature and became the subject of scholarly criticism. The Tale of Genji was translated into English in the early 20th century; scholars continue to recognize the importance of her work, which reflects Heian court society at its peak. (Full article...)

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The Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy dramatic works such as movies or television episodes. To be eligible for Nebula Award consideration a work must be published in English in the United States. During the 14 nomination years, 84 works have been nominated, with 13 winners in addition to the 4 awards chosen without nominees in 1992–2009. A few franchises have seen multiple nominations; the Marvel Cinematic Universe has earned the most nominations with nine films, two television seasons, and one television episode, with one film and one television season winning. Other franchises with multiple nominations are Doctor Who with one win out of three nominated television episodes, Star Wars with three film and three television episode nominations, and The Good Place with one win out of three nominated television episodes. (Full list...)
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Warming stripes (sometimes referred to as climate stripes or climate timelines) are graphics that use a series of chronologically ordered coloured stripes to visualize trends in the temperature record of Earth. They employ a minimalist style, avoiding technical distractions by using colour alone to intuitively convey trends in global warming to non-scientists. The initial concept of visualizing historical temperature data has been extended to use animations, to visualize sea level rise and predictive climate data, and to visually juxtapose temperature trends with other data series, such as the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere, global glacier retreat, precipitation, the contribution of aviation emissions to global warming, and biodiversity loss. These warming stripes were published by the British climatologist Ed Hawkins in 2018, using data from the World Meteorological Organization. The colours represent the annual mean global temperature for each year from 1850 (left) to 2018 (right) – the progression from blue (cooler) to red (warmer) stripes is indicative of global warming.

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