"Chernobyl Diaries": Is It Really Any More Insensitive Than Zombie Nazis?

Source: Mother Jones

It sometimes seems as though people who make zombie movies (and zombie-ish movies) are trying to create a monopoly over minimizing tragedy. This trend continues with Chernobyl Diaries, the new horror flick conceived and produced ...
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Researchers Demonstrate Possible Primitive Mechanism of Chemical Info Self-Replication

Source: Caltech Today

DNA tile ribbons (shown here in an atomic force microscopy image) can store information in their arrangement of tiles—12.5nm x 4nm x 2nm self-assembled DNA structures. This information can be propagated during ribbon growth, and replicat ...
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"Hysteria": Very Feminist, Very Socialist, Mildly Funny

Source: Mother Jones

Allow me to be straight with you: Half of this movie is just watching physicians in 19th-century England getting rich old ladies off. Now for a quick history lesson: Hysteria is set in London in the early 1800s—a time when the word "horny" had no ...
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Money $marts: The Hogwash School for Wizards

Source: Naples Daily News

Produced by Disney studios, "Fantasia" is an animated film with eight segments set to pieces of classical music. One segment, the "Sorcerer's Apprentice," has Mickey Mouse — the apprentice — cleaning up his master's workplace. Finding the sorcer ...
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This week's video games

Source: AZ starnet.com

It's been nearly a decade since we've been steeped in the anti-hero's noir-ish adventures, and I was afraid the bullet-time shooter concept had grown too dated for the modern era. Hearing that multiplayer had been added in only raised ...
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Trevor Rabin to Receive ASCAP Henry Mancini Award at 27th ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards

Source: MarketWire

LOS ANGELES, CA and NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - May 23, 2012) - ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) will honor composer Trevor Rabin at the 27th annual ASCAP Film and Televisi ...
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The current state of the military-industrial complex is strong

Source: San Antonio Express

What can you do with a bunch of used generals? If you keep them active, they need new assignments. These can be expensive. But if you let them retire with fat pensions, they'll go to work for arms producers, lobby ...
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