Hollywood’s distortion of the truth alters history in the eyes of schoolchildren:
en films get it right then children benefit enormously and remember much more detail when later questioned, said lead researcher Andrew Butler of Washington University in St Louis But when they it wrong, so do the children. Even if they have read the correct version in a textbook they remember what was in the film not what was in their book. "When information in the film was consistent with information in the text, watching the film clips increased correct recall…
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Hollywood’s Fondness for the Familiar Only Grows – Wharton:
nsider that four of the top 10 films at the box office over the all-important July Fourth weekend were movie sequels or remakes. (Some 40% of all U.S movie tickets are sold during the roughly three-month period stretching from Memorial Day to Labor Day.) Battling it out to be number one were Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, the third installment in the animated Paleolithic comedy series, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the mechanical (in multiple senses of word)…
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Clay Shirky on cultures of participation and social media’s effects on politics (Video):
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Don Tapscott of Growing Up Digital & Wikinomics (Video):
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Clay Shirky at the Smithsonian (Video):
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Jerry Michalski – If you have to market it, it probably sucks (Video):
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Moby on how tech has changed making music (WSJ Video):
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Who Needs Spy Satellites? Google Earth Pinpoints Where Missile Targeted Taliban:
e leader of Pakistan’s Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, may or may not be dead after a CIA missile hits his father-in-law’s home in the remote “Zangarha area” of the country. But now we can see exactly where that missile hit, and we don’t even need access to a spy satellite. Thanks to Google Earth, we get the image above. Stefan Geens pinpointed the location on his blog Ogle Earth using location information gathered from news accounts. He also figured out where…
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