This sounds like an awesome idea. It’s a “limited, unscreened” school. […] It means that any student who is interested can apply–their grades and attendence record are not taken into account in deciding whether or not to admit them, only their interest. I think this is the best thing about the school. A lot of …
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In honor of the year’s first Friday the thirteenth: it’s not bad luck when you bring it on yourself. 😉
I’m a hard-core geek, but even I am just shaking my head in bafflement.
From this article: […] This is why one of the great contributions of science fiction is its ability to create monsters and technologies from the ether. When they show up out of nowhere, they challenge us to think more broadly and to make new connections. […] That’s one of the things — maybe the main thing …
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Twenty years ago, headlines like this one wouldn’t have even been imaginable.
Remember those severed human feet that were being reported last year? As it turns out, there’s a very simple, if somewhat gruesome, explanation for them.
This sounds like something directly out of science fiction, to me.
My wife’s high school newsletter apparently had a section titled “Overheard in the Halls,” which as I understand it detailed bits of conversation heard in passing, with no context, which sounded either very humorous or utterly bizarre. I think this would have qualified, in spades.
The character of Darth Vader, in the original Star Wars trilogy, has long been known to be a fusion of two people: bodybuilder David Prowse for (of course) the body, and the now-iconic James Earl Jones for the voice. But apparently there was a secret third component to this armored villain: sword-master and Hollywood fencing …
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That’s not data models, it’s women who model clothing. 🙂 There was a near-future SF novel I read many years ago (I don’t recall which one) that posited that actors would be replaced almost entirely by computer-generated models. We’re already seeing the precursors of it — all the Pixar releases, for instance. And characters in …
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