Elementary trailer is out. No comments yet.
Except for the fact that I think that by making Watson an ex-surgeon rather than a veteran, they lost the opportunity to do something interesting with story lines. But that’s network television for you nowadays.
Oh so true..unfortunately my bunnies don’t even have a cage to give me a break! >.< haha :D
THIS IS MY LIFE
AS IN MINE. AND I DON’T EVEN OWN THEM. JUST SOMEHOW GET SUCKERED INTO PETTING AND FEEDING THEM.
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“A Thousand Miles” - Vanessa Carlton (Alex Goot + Boyce Avenue Cover) (by gootmusic)
THIS IS MY JAM
I loved this song when I was young, and I love acoustic covers. A perfect mix.
This is when I fell in love with Community.
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Someone stop me before I watch all of this in one sitting. ‘Cause I will.
one day I will build myself a place like this
Yup yup adu.
The only problem with designs like this, though, is that I actually need to be able to stand by my bed, or stand up on my bed. Otherwise I get worried.
And that whole side building is a library, yes?
The Glorious 25th of May.
All the little angels rise up, rise up…
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A Brief History of Time Travel (in Movies)
If ever a movie earned its time-travel plotline, it’s Men in Black 3, which attempts to revive a movie franchise largely forgotten by audiences after its disappointing second entry. Men in Black 3 sees Will Smith’s Agent J going back to the 1960s to save partner Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones in the present, Josh Brolin in the past), and mines its late-’60s setting for jokes both obvious (hippies, Andy Warhol) and subtle (Rick Baker’s new alien designs, which are derived from the style of ’60s science fiction).
But if time travel, as the Men in Black would have it, is “illegal throughout the universe,” cinema is full of lawbreakers. It’s been 10 years since the last Men in Black movie, but nearly 100 years since the first time-travel film hit movie theaters. There are so many variations on turning the clock forwards and backwards in cinema that it’s difficult to say these films even belong to a unified “genre.” But every time-traveling movie has, in its own way, had to overcome the mind-bending logic problems inherent in its premise. And each, too, has played on a universal, if vain, human desire to experience a world that’s entirely unavailable to us—and perhaps to change things in our own.
Read more. [Image: Universal Pictures]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4jolnUILT1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
A Brief History of Time Travel (in Movies)
If ever a movie earned its time-travel plotline, it’s Men in Black 3, which attempts to revive a movie franchise largely forgotten by audiences after its disappointing second entry. Men in Black 3 sees Will Smith’s Agent J going back to the 1960s to save partner Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones in the present, Josh Brolin in the past), and mines its late-’60s setting for jokes both obvious (hippies, Andy Warhol) and subtle (Rick Baker’s new alien designs, which are derived from the style of ’60s science fiction).
But if time travel, as the Men in Black would have it, is “illegal throughout the universe,” cinema is full of lawbreakers. It’s been 10 years since the last Men in Black movie, but nearly 100 years since the first time-travel film hit movie theaters. There are so many variations on turning the clock forwards and backwards in cinema that it’s difficult to say these films even belong to a unified “genre.” But every time-traveling movie has, in its own way, had to overcome the mind-bending logic problems inherent in its premise. And each, too, has played on a universal, if vain, human desire to experience a world that’s entirely unavailable to us—and perhaps to change things in our own.
Read more. [Image: Universal Pictures]
So excited.
This has to potential to be really, really, good or to be exactly like Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
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Visualization of the Week: Urban metabolism
This week’s visualization comes from PhD candidates David Quinn and Daniel Wiesmann, who’ve built an interactive web-mapping tool that lets you explore the “urban metabolism” of major U.S. cities. The map includes data about cities’ and neighborhoods’ energy usage (kilowatt per hour per person) and material intensity (kilo per person) patterns. You can also view population density.
“Yes, I know most of you just grab the book and open the cover, but this is about respect, people! Follow protocol, and your reading experience will be technically enjoyable.”
Lol.I just loved this. We must care for the things we cherish. :)
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America’s First Political Cartoon Turns 258
It would be tough to argue that Ben Franklin doesn’t get his due in American history. In addition to his role as a drafter of the Declaration of Independence, he’s credited for discovering electricity, inventing bifocals, introducing the first public library in the country, and so on. But did you know he also published the first political cartoon in American history?
Read more. [Image: Library on Congress]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3rr2392So1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
America’s First Political Cartoon Turns 258
It would be tough to argue that Ben Franklin doesn’t get his due in American history. In addition to his role as a drafter of the Declaration of Independence, he’s credited for discovering electricity, inventing bifocals, introducing the first public library in the country, and so on. But did you know he also published the first political cartoon in American history?
Read more. [Image: Library on Congress]
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Millennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic?
In my 2006 book Generation Me, I presented data showing generational increases in self-esteem, assertiveness, self-importance, narcissism, and high expectations, based on surveys of 1.2 million young people, some dating back to the 1920s. These analyses indicated a clear cultural shift toward individualism and focusing on the self. But perhaps both views were correct — maybe Millennials’ greater self-importance found expression in helping others and caring about larger social causes.
My co-authors and I decided to find out. Two large datasets — the Monitoring the Future survey of high school students and the American Freshman survey of entering college students — had many questions on community feeling, concern for others, and civic engagement that had been asked since the Boomers were young in the 1960s and 1970s. Both datasets are nationally representative and both are huge — half a million high school respondents and 9 million college respondents.
With representative samples comparing three generations at the same age, this was the best data available to settle the Me vs. We question - and these items had never been analyzed in their entirety before.
So we dug into the data. The results for civic engagement were clear: Millennials were less likely than Boomers and even GenXers to say they thought about social problems, to be interested in politics and government, to contact public officials, or to work for a political campaign. They were less likely to say they trusted the government to do what’s right, and less likely to say they were interested in government and current events. It was a far cry from Howe and Strauss’ prediction of Millennials as “The Next Great Generation” in civic involvement.
Millennials were also less likely to say they did things in their daily lives to conserve energy and help the environment, and less likely to agree that government should take action on environmental issues. With all of the talk about Millennials being “green,” I expected these items to be the exception. Instead, they showed some of the largest declines. Three times as many Millennials as Boomers said they made no personal effort to help the environment.
Millennials were slightly less likely to say they wanted a job that was helpful to others or was worthwhile to society. This is directly counter to the Generation We view predicting that Millennials would be much more concerned for others. Volunteering rates did increase, the only item out of 30 measuring concern for others that did. However, this rise occurred at the same time that high schools increasingly required volunteer service to graduate.
So where did Howe and Strauss, and others who championed the “Generation We” view, go wrong? They developed an idea of the generation first and then went looking for data to support it.
Read more. [Image: Shutterstock]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3emdo5eHt1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Millennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic?
In my 2006 book Generation Me, I presented data showing generational increases in self-esteem, assertiveness, self-importance, narcissism, and high expectations, based on surveys of 1.2 million young people, some dating back to the 1920s. These analyses indicated a clear cultural shift toward individualism and focusing on the self. But perhaps both views were correct — maybe Millennials’ greater self-importance found expression in helping others and caring about larger social causes.
My co-authors and I decided to find out. Two large datasets — the Monitoring the Future survey of high school students and the American Freshman survey of entering college students — had many questions on community feeling, concern for others, and civic engagement that had been asked since the Boomers were young in the 1960s and 1970s. Both datasets are nationally representative and both are huge — half a million high school respondents and 9 million college respondents.
With representative samples comparing three generations at the same age, this was the best data available to settle the Me vs. We question - and these items had never been analyzed in their entirety before.
So we dug into the data. The results for civic engagement were clear: Millennials were less likely than Boomers and even GenXers to say they thought about social problems, to be interested in politics and government, to contact public officials, or to work for a political campaign. They were less likely to say they trusted the government to do what’s right, and less likely to say they were interested in government and current events. It was a far cry from Howe and Strauss’ prediction of Millennials as “The Next Great Generation” in civic involvement.
Millennials were also less likely to say they did things in their daily lives to conserve energy and help the environment, and less likely to agree that government should take action on environmental issues. With all of the talk about Millennials being “green,” I expected these items to be the exception. Instead, they showed some of the largest declines. Three times as many Millennials as Boomers said they made no personal effort to help the environment.
Millennials were slightly less likely to say they wanted a job that was helpful to others or was worthwhile to society. This is directly counter to the Generation We view predicting that Millennials would be much more concerned for others. Volunteering rates did increase, the only item out of 30 measuring concern for others that did. However, this rise occurred at the same time that high schools increasingly required volunteer service to graduate.
So where did Howe and Strauss, and others who championed the “Generation We” view, go wrong? They developed an idea of the generation first and then went looking for data to support it.
Read more. [Image: Shutterstock]
