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The Avengers: why Hollywood is no longer afraid to tackle 9/11

“The medium is the message. Hollywood felt threatened by 9/11 in 2001 but impervious to financial disaster in 2008. Three days after Lehman Brothers went bust, DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg assured investors that movies were “recession-proof”. Of course, the industry did not allow for the simultaneous erosion of the DVD market and the public’s discretionary income. The Avengers has less to do with the terror of falling buildings than falling grosses. The palliative for that goes by the name 3D. Bombs away: The Avengers is 9/11 as you’ve never seen it!”

Nekem is eszembe jutott az Avengers es 911 kapcsolata, de hát már ezt is megírták…

Beliefs about God across Time and Countries (.pdf fájl)

Érdekes, hogy nálunk az ateisták és a hívők száma is magas. Mintha nem lenne közép.

Wrong man was executed in Texas, probe says.

Ezért sem értem az embereket, akik a halálbüntetés mellett vannak.

A nap videói:
1. Kiskutyára szerelt GoPro kamera
2. Beastie Boys - Sabotage gyerekekkel újraforgatva (az eredeti)

Superweeds roll over America’s farmland.

Éljen a Monsanto! Éljen a GMO!

Welcome to Life

A science fiction story about what you see when you die. Or: the Singularity, ruined by lawyers.

Szabó Zoltán Instagram-os fotói az Egyesült Államokból. Nálam ez a kedvenc.

IAmA 24yo electrical engineer with magnets implanted in my fingertips.

My implants have allowed me the ability to “see” magnetic fields. Any device that has alternating current flowing through an inductive load throws off substantial amounts of magnetic energy. I can feel the shape, intensity, and frequency of this field as the magnets in my fingers shake in response.
They have changed my life, and I think they are freaking awesome.

Mind. Blown. Komolyan, ez annyira egyszerű, de mégis hihetetlen. Veszélyes, de kipróbálnám.

Ivy League school janitor graduates with honors.

For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University. A refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia, he eked out a living working for the Ivy League school. But Sunday was payback time: The 52-year-old janitor donned a cap and gown to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in classics.

Good Will Hunting? Respekt! Van videó is.

Auto designer, racer Carroll Shelby dies.

“Carroll Shelby, most famous for creating high-performance road and racing cars bearing his name, died Thursday in Dallas, Texas. He was 89 years old.”

Álmom.

Every issue of New Scientist from 1956 to 1989

Hartverdrahtet – Infinite complexity in 4096 bytes.
Kisebb mint egy üres Word dokumentum….

Rock, paper, Skrillex

Is It Possible to Build an “Unsinkable” Ship?

A Veteran’s Death, the Nation’s Shame.

HERE’S a window into a tragedy within the American military: For every soldier killed on the battlefield this year, about 25 veterans are dying by their own hands.
An American soldier dies every day and a half, on average, in Iraq or Afghanistan. Veterans kill themselves at a rate of one every 80 minutes. More than 6,500 veteran suicides are logged every year — more than the total number of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq combined since those wars began.