Month: March 2016

News, Videos

Development in Africa: Young Scientists Make Their Pitch

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Read about it at BBC.co.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates Gives Early Look at Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ #1!

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LINK: The suspense is killing folks.

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The CW Renews iZOMBIE for 3rd Season and SUPERNATURAL for 12th Season

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Check out the list of renewed series at Dailydead.com.

SUPERNATURAL KICKS ASS. But let’s make some calls, urging them to “darken” things up a bit more. C’mon, it’s been 11 seasons, already. It’s obviously impossible not to love the big lugs (SEE BELOW), but imagine some people of color inserted there…and… there. Perfect.

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Articles, Videos

New ‘Ghostbusters’ Trailer Nods To Controversy Over Race And Gender

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Read at The Guardian.

Ok, so that’s a “nod.” But, when a person watches the white characters praise each other for their scientific brilliance and the only black one in the bunch works for public transit…it feels like crap. Frankly, this stuff is reaching the point of absurdity.

News

POTUS sets goal of expanding broadband

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LINK: Our leader wants internet for 20 million more Americans by 2020

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Articles, News

Retro Japanese horror game “Back in 1995” launches in April

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LINK: Throw the Warped Code Out’s latest is a throwback to the PlayStation and Sega Saturn era

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Articles

Karyn Kusama and Emotionally Sophisticated Horror

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LINK: Director of ‘Aeon Flux’,’Jennifer’s Body’ and ‘The Invitation’

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Articles

Remembering Unsung Science Fiction Hero & Genius Grant Winner Octavia Butler

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Read about it at the Southern California Public Radio website.

Below: Devil Girl From Mars : the movie that sparked Butler’s first science fiction story

Articles

Writers Talk Afrofuturism, Historical Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

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LINK: BRINGING THE FUTURE TO THE NOW

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Articles, News

It’s (Finally) Official: Suicide Squad’s David Ayer, Will Smith re-teaming on Netflix

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LINK: Netflix & Will: Working on a sci-fi crime flick called “Bright”

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