Stories like this are really important for people who wave away concerns about concussions with “they knew what they were getting into when they chose football.” They really, really didn’t. When most of today’s pro players started out in the game, they knew about the possibility of physical damage but the neurological…

While I sincerely doubt that Beijing will move to take Taiwan by force in the next decade, it could be interesting how a non-KMT politician will play out. A woman, no less, dealing with the very male CCP.

You are correct. Fargo has been (not to sound pretentious) a tour de force: the writing, acting, cinematography, directing, editing, production design, hell I will thrown in graphics and marketing if need be. What an incredible season.

Nothing for Fargo?

I thought her performance in Joy was one of her best yet. Better than Silver Linings by far. The movie wasn’t a fully realized work, but her performance was. I would’ve liked to have seen McCarthy or Tomlin take it home, though.

You know what else is important? Understanding language, rhetoric, reasoning, argument, logic, etc.

I am so sick of this bullshit prioritizing science and math over the humanities. People who can’t evaluate argument, recognize propaganda or understand history and sociology are much easier to manipulate, even if they…

The industry “self regulates”. So, don’t worry.

I have to say, this isn’t a topic I usually stress over, but I’m actually totally on board about Avatar. The Nickelodeon show did a really good job of building a world based on Asian and Native American cultures, and when the live action movie came out, every single good guy main character was white, and the only…

^{That is a way oversimplification of what’s going on in the story. I’ll admit that I’ve only read the book, but there’s no implication that these are the same person or that they should be similar in any way.}

I’m giving an honorable mention to Cloud Atlas—which is only left off this list because putting actors in yellow face is something even worse than whitewashing.

This recent Kotaku article had me a little spooked about the direction Sesame Street is taking (just at the time my toddler is starting to pay attention to the show and it’s characters main furry red star) but I’ll try to keep some optimism that their hearts are still in the right place. At least there are still…

So we all agree that he went out and had a copy made, right?

Anything would’ve been better than what we got as it sounded like a man with his balls trapped in a vice, hardly fitting to a Bond Film which isn’t surprising given how he boasted it only took him 20 minutes to make.

- Michael Pollan

I kind of loved it. It was frantic and witty and fun. Quick and sharp. It was nice to see River back for a little and I liked the angle that she didn’t realize the Doctor was the Doctor. I didn’t even mind that it didn’t have much to do with Christmas. It was just a nice episode to watch through my food and wine coma…

He also tweeted this a couple of days ago and I wanted to share it because he’s talking about the two part Infinite Monkey Cage special about General Relativity and you can listen to it (and the rest of this excellent BBC science radio program) for free here- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00…

See, I thought Jez was side-eyeing Mayim because, well, she is a little wacky about some parenting stuff and I can see where that taints her as a source if you’re trying to be snarky. I wasn’t thinking about it in terms of sex-skepticism.

I don’t watch BBT unless I’m too lazy to find something better when the reruns are on, but Mayim’s essay was pretty good. She basically says a)it’s creepy and sexist that people kept asking her if this fictional character who her fictional character had fictional sex with was “good” and b)the characters had fun, and…

There was no mother. She was conceived by midichlorians and Luke gave birth to her. :D