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Are You Ready For Some … Reality TV?
Quick: what’s the most popular reality television show this autumn? Dancing With the Stars? The X-Factor? Survivor? Sorry, but no. Sure, they’re popular. They’re reportedly
Mapping Our Muddled Minds
In a recent interview with mega-Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings, Time magazine’s Belinda Luscombe asked about our growing dependency on GPS maps. The context was Jennings’
A Little Horror Exorcise
On Friday, Bob Hoose posted about why our society has a collective yen for horror flicks. It is a curious phenomenon: None of us love
Movie Monday: Puss in Boots
Leave it to a swashbuckling, animated cat to do a little trick-or-treating this Halloween weekend. Puss in Boots, a spinoff from DreamWorks’ Shrek series, flouted
Screeching with a Mouthful of Popcorn
Well, it’s Halloween time again. Jack-o-lanterns are in the windows, fake cobwebs are strung over the doorframes and Paranormal Activity 3 is raking in big
The Original Angry Birds
Last week, I noticed that the video game Angry Birds has inspired a theme park in China, which got me thinking about that whole phenomenon:
Dad, the Magazine’s Broken’
I recently read an article about a 1-year old who didn’t quite understand why a print magazine didn’t behave the same way an iPad does.
A Heady Facebook Question
A new study by the University College of London found a link between the size of your brain and the number of friends you have
Movie Monday: Paranormal Activity 3
For weeks, the box office has felt fairly … dispirited. Oh, sure, we’ve dutifully reported the weekly winners in this space every Monday, but let’s
Of Sex and Singing, Part 2
Yesterday I posted on a spat of sorts between Maroon 5’s Adam Levine and American Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe over how American Idol and The
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