Voice Your Opinion on DC
DC Comics is asking their readers to give feedback on the new 52. From now until October 7th, you have a chance to voice your opinion on various titles and the importance of comics in your life. [Via Previews]
Category Archives: Culture
Star Trek vs. Star Wars According to William Shatner [Video]
In the following video, William Shatner weighs in on the decades long debate of which is the “better” movie franchise between Star Trek and Star Wars. Thoughts?
BEHOLD: The ThunderLOLcats [Video]
I’m a narwhal! Im the Jedi of the sea! Please note that I’ve added this video to the “culture” category. Yes, I know, this is quite sad. You should all weep for me now, thank you. [Via Being a Geek]
Gaming study coverage shows media struggles with reality
It’s hardly a surprise to learn that a survey about video games has been grossly misrepresented by mainstream media sources. But it’s still sad. Three researchers from Nottingham Trent University in the UK and Stockholm University in Sweden recently published a study based on interviews with 42 Swedish gamers aged between 15 and 21. It […]
Beta Test Facebook’s Timeline Feature
Getting antsy about all the changes on Facebook? Well, there’s a way for you to take a sneak peak now before the new feature launches next week! David Daw over at PC World magazine lays out the step-by-step instructions on how to hack your way into Facebook’s new Timeline.
Twilight Zone San Francisco [Video]
Jason just wanted to enjoy a day off from work, but unfortunately, he lives in San Francisco, where it seems nobody works during the day. [Via Neatorama]
What’s So Wrong With Women in Comics?
There’s been a lot of focus this week on the role women play in comics. It’s nothing new to see an ill-proportioned babe in an awkward pose gracing the pages of my favorite superhero books. Maybe it’s something I’ve just grown used to, or maybe I’m a traitor to my kind, but it’s not often […]
Neuroscience as Art [Gallery]
Grad student-turned-visual artist Greg Dunn studies neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. In his spare time, he creates these almost-landscape prints of neurons–extreme close-ups of the hippocampus, retinas and plant-like pyramidals. You can find (and purchase) more of Greg Dunn’s work on his website, including these along with some actual landscapes with real trees and flowers, […]
TED Talk: Our Natural Sleep Cycle [Video]
As a person with a sleep cycle that is best described as erratic (but more accurately, nonexistent), I’m fascinated by body clock studies. In this short TED Talk, Jessa Gamble talks about the influence of circadian rhythms on culture, and vice versa. In today’s world, balancing school, work, kids and more, most of us can only […]
What we learned from 5 million books [Video]
Have you played with Google Labs’ NGram Viewer? It’s an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words. […]