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The overall voting membership wasn’t impressed with these choices, and awarded other work in every category. But this year, Sad Puppies, buoyed by Beale’s more extreme, Gamergate-affiliated campaign Rabid Puppies, managed to secure the extra votes needed to dominate the nominations. The result? They managed to push out those seeking to make the Hugos more…
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The science-fiction and fantasy literature world might seem by its nature to be forward-thinking, but it hasn’t been free from the kinds of culture wars embodied by last year’s Gamergate controversy—a fact aptly illustrated by this year’s nominations for the genre’s (arguably) most prestigious awards, the Hugos. The tastes of the voting audience for the…
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As the philosopher John Dewey argued through much of the 20th century, one can teach subjects with the aim of liberating the students, or one can teach them mechanically simply to train students. Once we drop, as we must, the notion that some people should be educated for leisure and others for work (the notion…
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gifnews: The Brontosaurus Is Back: Decades after scientists decided that the famed dinosaur never actually existed, new research says the opposite
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kamigarcia: #Coffee, books, and rain… The perfect combination. http://goo.gl/qHO1Ym #reading and a sketchbook, and a pencil
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mikerugnetta: sizvideos: Hole punch flipbook Video good morning
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“The M^3 is ready for production now, the faculty and staff are already looking forward to creating even smaller computers, which they call Smart Dust.”
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giancarlovolpe: leseanthomas: There are few young artists I’ve encountered in the last 10 years who, upon meeting has instantly inspired me. Like, seriously. Whenever I see Toronto resident/ born and raised Accra, Ghana, West African creative wunderkind, Gyimah Gariba’s work, I am reminded that in some small way, the future of art/animation will be okay for us,…