what do you think will be some unexpected side effects of global warming?
I’d never heard, for instance, about a potential impact on airline travel: commercial airliners may not operate safely in extreme heat.
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must we resign ourselves to living in a total-surveillance state?
I don’t want to think this is the case, but when even the Constitutional scholar U.S. President is okay with it, I’m not seeing any other options…
what’s the most dangerous thing about the place where you live?
Oklahoma City got walloped again last night by a series huge, deadly tornadoes, just two weeks after an even larger twister devastated its suburb Moore…
question of the weekend: What word or phrase would you eliminate from the English language, and why?
Perhaps there’s a word or phrase that no longer serves the purpose it once did, or some otherwise innocuous words have been twisted in shapes they shouldn’t have been…
a feminist film critic defends the Onion’s Quvenzhané Wallis tweet
Yeah, I’m going there.
QOTD: Is a filmmaker’s primary responsibility to the truth or to a good story?
Three Oscar nominees for Best Picture — Argo, Lincoln, and Zero Dark Thirty — have come under criticism that they’re not entirely as factual as they might be…
QOTD: Was South African TV right to air a reality show featuring Reeva Steenkamp (even with her family’s approval)?
Is there any parallel universe in which the decision was made not to air this, or was it entirely inevitable, given the buzzardlike nature of pop culture today?
question of the day: Do you second-screen?
Do you tweet or answer emails or surf the Web while watching TV? Has this changed in the past year?
Justin Timberlake, who played that Napster guy in that Facebook movie, is now promoting the new Myspace (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: Do you turn on the TV out of habit, hoping to find something to watch, or only when you know there’s something you don’t want to miss?
Or maybe it’s something in the middle? When I want company, for instance, I’ll leave an all-news channel on… at least till it starts annoying the hell outta me.
