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Nov 8, 2012 • The Higgs boson discovery this summer made plenty of headlines, and deservingly so. It plays a vital role in the Standard Model (SM) of physics by giving all other elementary particles mass – the property describing an object’s resistance to acceleration – or simply “weight” in layman’s terms. The Higgs bosons constitute an epynomous field...
Inception, by Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight), seems, at first glance, like just another archetype of Hollywood blockbuster productions: A high-budget audience gleaner filled with explosions, picturesque backdrops, an attractive cast and that little spark of romance. However, a full year later, I am still having difficulty curbing the impulse to...
One of the reasons why the Rhetoric started (in all of it’s idealistic hopes and dreams) was to spread art, music, inspiration, the sense of creating something beautiful. But in order for all of these things to be seen by the world, we need to make it easy for other people to find us! Unfortunately,...
In our previous issue for New Beginnings, we featured the song Teardrops by Dan Rutman as the background music and featured an interview taken by Anne Rold about his new EP! Now we’re looking for a musician to be featured for issue #2 BEFORE AUGUST 15th! If you’d like to be considered please email info@rhetoricmagazine.com or...
Well, I guess in a way, that’s a new beginning. But what were you really looking for all this time? To improve yourself? The paper is crunchy, untouched, waiting there right in front of you. A glass of wine always angles from your hand, and the busted streetlight is the single source of luminosity shining...
A star’s death is very symbolic. It burns out all of its own fuel and collapses on top of itself. That’s how I feel sometimes: like all my expectations, dreams and hopes are going to collapse on top of my tiny body. The only way to stop myself from being completely crushed by the debris...
Dearest readers, After reading through many wonderful applications and taking on board fourteen new contributors, we are en route to issue two, themed “Good Ideas Gone Bad”. This new issue is going to bring with it a little bit more politics (on dystopias and corrupted activists), a little bit more art (see below) and a...
I meet Dan, a fresh-looking young Israeli/Romanian musician who is eager to share his greatest passion with the world: his music. ”This is my first official self-released album, so it has been long awaited by some of my friends,” Dan says, adding cheekily: “…whom I like to call fans”. Dan is mostly self-taught, which is...
”I need a coin,” you say, your voice suddenly carrying the authoritative undertone that it has always lacked. She raises an eyebrow at you. “It’s the least you can give me,” you insist stubbornly, and she sighs, a soft, indulgent exhale, and manages to dig out a grimy coin from the pocket of her shorts....
This small, two-day festival may seem like the greenest in the bunch, but in perspective, it has grown to more than twice its size since last year when it started, and this regards both the number of visitors, the area it covers, the budget spent on musicians, and the days that it lasts. The only...
Take a look at the things around you. Look again. What makes something shock you and what does not? Every day you see a million things but in fact, you don’t actually see them at all. The brain glimpses snippets of familiar objects or occurrences, like the colour of your lamp, and supplies you with the...
