Social Experiment: Unibrow Discrimination [Video]
Youtuber Mark Rober wanted to know if unibrow discrimination was a real thing and came up with a social experiment to test out his hypothesis. Check it out! [Mark Rober]
Category Archives: Culture
Verizon pricing plan could make cult programming less valuable
Verizon has proposed that it only pay channel providers when viewers actually watch a show. It’s not clear what effect this would have on pricing for consumers, though TV industry skepticism means it may well only be a hypothetical debate. At the moment, most US cable and satellite firms pay channel providers a fixed monthly […]
50 Common Misconceptions [Video]
A weekly show hosted by John Green, where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John debunks 50 common misconceptions that most people have about topics such as vikings, exploding birds and peanut butter. [Mental Floss]
What Teens Are Reading Now [Picture]
What, no smartphones? [Via Neatorama]
5 FREE (no, really!) Image Comics #1’s You Should Read
If you saw our post suggesting Marvel #1’s you could read for free during Marvel’s recent promotion, you might have been disappointed to then not actually be able to get to ComiXology to download some comics. The huge demand killed the site, and they had to put the promotion on hold for now. Still, as […]
Facebook Likes more revealing than you think
What you “like” on Facebook can predict your demographics and personality according to a Cambridge University study. The authors go as far as to say these links could be misused by oppressive regimes. The study involved asking 58,000 US volunteers to provide their demographic information, allow access to the list of pages they had “liked” […]
10 Marvel #1’s You Should Read For FREE
Did you notice Comixology’s servers getting utterly pounded on Sunday? (And quite possibly, still are?) Well, that’s just because Marvel just announced that they have over 700 comics available for a free download through the end of Tuesday, March 12. There are of course a great many classic series that you can try out, but […]
Reflections on King of the Nerds (Warning: Spoilers!)
When I first heard that TBS was producing a reality show pitting nerds against each other in competition, I was skeptical to say the least. There are a lot of ways that this could have been extremely insulting – especially since the show seems to have sprung out of the success the network has had […]
Geeky Translations of Hamlet
If the hundreds of human-language translations of Shakespeare’s works don’t satisfy your need for the Bard in your life, rest assured other geeks have you covered. Apparently, Hamlet is available in Klingon: There’s a line in one of the Star Trek movies where a Klingon character says, “you have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in […]
Failure to Launch: On Finally Finding my Doctor
When it comes to fandom these days, I have to be exceptionally picky. It’s not like when I was in college, where I had stupid amounts of free time and no cares in the world. I’ve got kids. I’ve got work, finances, responsibilities. Just like my game playing, my television/movie fandom-watching selection have suddenly achieved […]