is in trouble. Following the conservative talk-radio host’s remarks about a college student, Sandra Fluke, who testified before congress during the contraception debate, numerous advertisers are pulling their ads from the show. After Fluke’s testimony, Limbaugh took to the airwaves. “What does that make her?” he asked. “It makes her a slut, right? It makes […]
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Sex. Battle. Intrigue. Dragons. Yes, this latest trailer for HBO’s second season of Game of Thrones has it all. Thank goodness, too. I need to keep getting my fix until the April 1st air-date. By far the most revealing, intense trailer for the second season so far. We begin to see the sibling rivalry erupt. […]
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Nonconformists are responsible for many of the big evolutionary leaps and bounds in leadership and social evolution. Robin Hanson argues that being a nonconformist is more important than looking like one, writing that “people who are weird about ideas tend to care more about ideas, and so over-estimate how much others care. You can actually […]
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That’s according to Copyranter who writes, “It’s a little long, but I guess the agency figured :30 wasn’t long enough to set-up the joke, and so they needed to extend it to a minute for a possible broadcast buy. And thank you, agency and client, for not ruining the moment with a honking LG logo.” […]
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China Miéville is well known in the science fiction and fantasy universe for his dark, literary steam-punk novels and his extraordinary prose. In 2011 he published his latest book, Embassytown, and my Forbes colleague Alex Knapp and I are going to be running a chapter-by-chapter book club on the new novel. It’ll be nice […]
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I’m no longer eligible to make it into the Forbes 30 Under 30 project, which launched today, having just turned 30 this year. Mathew Herper reports that if you’re going to become famous you’re statistically likely to do it by the time you reach 30. I suppose what little scraps of fame I’ve gathered all […]
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I really do love the new Ryan Adams record, Ashes & Fire, and not just because I love ampersands. It’s a return to his best work: his country Americana roots coming back into sharp focus – thank goodness. I’m biased of course, but Ryan Adams is always at his best when he’s playing the music […]
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I’m not really a country music fan. I do enjoy alt-country groups like The Avett Brothers, and I enjoy a few country artists like the Zac Brown Band and, lately, a few of Josh Turner’s songs, but for the most part I’m pretty uninterested in country. However, I do listen to country music on the […]
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I hadn’t seen Pete’s Dragon since I was a kid, so when I watched part of it with my daughter last night, and realized that Pete had actually been a slave of the Gogan family, I was pretty taken aback: I also couldn’t help but think that it would have been a much more powerful […]
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