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Iron Man Needs a Little Publicity (No, the Other Kind) Warning: Mild spoilers for Avengers: Age of Ultron By Mark D. White In Avengers: Age of Ultron, our assembled heroes tackle the artificial intelligence Ultron, created (in the Marvel Cinematic Universe) by Tony Stark in an attempt to protect the Earth from attacks from outer…
Time and Life Everything Must Go By James B. South This week’s episode of Mad Men, “Time and Life,” is full of echoes of past episodes, but also full of reversals. Let’s start with something easy, and then move to the more difficult interpretative work. The title of the episode alludes on a very literal…
Fifty Years after the Fair Mad Men Goes to the Dark By James B. South “Oedipa stood in the living room, stared at by the greenish dead eye of the TV tube, spoke the name of God, tried to feel as drunk as possible. But this did not work.” The latest Mad Men episode, “The…
How Star Wars Illuminates Constitutional Law (and Authorship) – New Rambler Review.
“There’s a Twinge in My Chest:” Mad Men Goes in Circles By James B. South Last week in my discussion of “Severance,” I noted that Mad Men seemed to be winding down, showing us that the future of the world was artificial and that the lives of the characters, their motivations, desires, and actions were resistant…
Transcendence with The Boys in the Boat Harmonizing the Team and the Individual (Reposted from Psychology Today) The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown is a terrific underdog story about how the University of Washington crew team became national champions and eventually Olympic gold medal winners in 1936. I’m sure there will be…
Great excerpt from How You Play the Game, over at the following link: On killing virtual dogs
Check this out: A UGA Philosopher professor decodes 5 Modest Mouse songs.
…Why are there no empowering words for vagina? By William Irwin [originally posted over at Psychology Today] I read Fifty Shades of Grey because I wanted to see what all the fuss is about, and I hoped I might be titillated. The book didn’t excite me, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. The trilogy…
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