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A conversation with the former U.S. general.
A sentiment registering somewhere between disgust and loathing rose up in my chest yesterday when I read that Delaware Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell had claimed on the site LinkedIn […]
Yesterday, Howard University hosted a panel discussion on “The Poetry of Science” featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins. Among subjects, Tyson and Dawkins discussed the prospects for life on […]
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Directing doesn’t just mean directing feature films anymore. Almost everyone has access to video recorders these days, and they can begin directing from their iPhones.
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The only monsters that have scared the filmmaker are the ones from “Alien” and “Phantom of the Opera.” But he is “mortally afraid” of cops, big churches, and politicians.
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Monster creation is not a mechanical or algebraic process. “What is important is that you riff, you riff by instinct, and you riff with the best you can.”
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The filmmaker grew up Catholic but is now agnostic. He prefers to abandon himself to the embrace, or perhaps indifference, of the Universe.
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Things are constantly flying through your hands as you’re trying to shape the product, says the filmmaker.
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The vampires from “Twilight” and other recent shows have been “defanged” and combined with the bad boy romantic lead myth from gothic fiction. The filmmaker interprets this as a sign […]
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Western culture teaches us to understand the world in terms of binaries. That’s why the myths we’ve created to explain the world need both angels and demons.
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A conversation with the filmmaker and author.
"Rahm Emanuel’s expected departure is more than just your standard White House shakeup: it costs Obama the man with the political grit and muscle to make his dreams come true."
"Experiments on monkeys suggest that the animals can recognise and react to their own image in a mirror. They altered their posture to look at their own genitals."
"A family of four in the U.S. have put themselves up for sale offering to advertise companies for $2 a day." The Telegraph reports on the self-named 'Billboard-family'.
"My sense is that the mama-grizzly phenomenon is part of populist conservatism's obsession with American authenticity." The Economist on why mama-grizzly has nothing to do with policy.
"Time and opportunities have created a new breed of so-called 'feminist' artists. Intelligent Life's Jessica Machado talks to a few de facto practitioners."
"Two new studies suggest that Twitter isn't exactly a font of credibility as viewed by the general public." Many users do not hold information from the site in high regard.
"The utter lack of a sense of solidarity among so many people—horrifyingly evident in the U.S. health-care debate—is now undermining the very basis of what a modern democratic society is."
"The Indian government says its prototype tablet computer will cost only $35, but past attempts at building inexpensive PCs have fallen short."
"As an antiterror measure, the U.S. government has deployed mobile X-ray technology to randomly scan cars and trucks. But the measure is riling privacy proponents."