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That’s Revolting!: School for undocumented students in Georgia
That’s Revolting!: School for undocumented students in Georgia univisionnews: University of Georgia Professors are running a school for undocumented students who have been blocked off from the state’s top universities. (Photo by Freedom University) By JUAN GASTELUMChannel: Immigration A group of four University of Georgia…
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it successfully ties science fiction icons to the questions that haunted us 200 years ago and now alike, about what it means to be human, about whether there are places that science shouldn’t venture. But it does fall into one easy trap: portraying these fiction writers as “prophets” in the first place. Ridley Scott’s Prophets…
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http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1 newyorker: newyorker: The most remarkable use of screens I’ve seen recently was at a Portishead show in October. The band finished their world tour two weekends ago, in Australia, and the band’s visual director, John Minton, agreed to answer questions and provide the one-minute collage you see below. What you see [above] isn’t footage…
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But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics. Outside…
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8bitfuture: Kinect 2 accurate enough to lip read. Sources close to website Eurogamer have revealed the next generation Kinect device will be so accurate it can read your lips, along with improved cameras, motion sensing, and voice recognition. It will also track the pitch and volume of player voices and facial characteristics to measure different…