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How Accurate Should Movies Be? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube

PBS Idea Show06 mins

Why don’t the dinosaurs have feathers?? Tweet us! http://bit.ly/pbsideachanneltwitter Idea Channel Facebook! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelfacebook Talk about this episode on reddit! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelreddit Idea Channel IRC! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelirc Email us! pbsideachannel [at] gmail [dot] com Neil DeGrasse Tyson has made a small game out of decrying the factual inaccuracies of popular movies, but do these noted inaccuracies actually…matter? On…

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There Aren’t Enough Rich People to Fill NYC’s Luxury Condos – Lifestyles of the Rich and Richer – Curbed NY

Zoe Rosenberg05 mins

[Rendering via VisualHouse.] There are a lot of really, really expensive apartments poised to enter the market in the next few years (we’re lookin’ at you, 220 Central Park South and Nordstrom Tower) that will join the ranks of the city’s already-inundated luxury market. A few questions have been floating around for a while: when’s…

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Not Off The Hook: The White Myth Of Black Forgiveness

Mallory Ortberg and Carvell Wallace017 mins

Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 Mallory: Hey, Carvell: would you say that white Americans pretty much constantly misunderstand the concept of black forgiveness? Carvell: It’s hard to know what white Americans are thinking, but given what they say, then yes. Like…a lot. A lot. Like this guy who got on the shooter’s Facebook page and forgave him publicly. I…

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Cuomo’s Raw Rent Deal “Is How Ethnic Communities Disappear From This City”: Gothamist

Ben Miller03 mins

(Gothamist) Less than 24 hours after Albany’s Three Men in a Room announced their “framework” for a deal that leaves the city’s rent regulations mostly unchanged for the next four years, a crowd of protesters gathered outside Governor Cuomo’s Midtown office to voice their outrage and concern for the future. “I’m exhausted, frustrated, and honestly…

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Slack and Flickr co-founder says ‘fuck you’ to WSJ over Charleston shooting | The Verge

James Vincent05 mins

Stewart Butterfield, the co-founder of both Slack and Flickr, has condemned the The Wall Street Journal on Twitter for an editorial it published after the Charleston shooting. The WSJ described the massacre as “a problem that defies explanation” and claimed that “the system and philosophy of institutionalized racism identified by Dr. King no longer exists.” Butterfield responded:…

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