Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
So by now we’ve all seen Mad Max: Fury Road at least once and have had our faces melted off. If you haven’t, stop what you’re doing and go see it. Then come back and read this. Or proceed with caution. Spoilers be near. Writer/director George Miller has been somewhat fast and loose about the…
Mad Max: Fury Road has reached that critical point on the internet where a tsunami of critical and popular appreciation begins to hit the breakwaters of both informed dissent and insincere contrarianism. To be clear, it would neither be interesting nor desirable to have uniform, monolithic appraisals of film or culture of any kind, and…
The Nobel laureate Tim Hunt has apologised for comments he made about female scientists. Hunt had told a conference he had a reputation for being a chauvinist, before saying: “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they are in the lab. You fall in love with them, they fall…
Scientists should work in gender-segregated labs, according to a Nobel laureate, who said the trouble with “girls” is that they cause men to fall in love with them and cry when criticised. Tim Hunt, an English biochemist who admitted that he has a reputation for being a “chauvinist”, said to the World Conference of Science…
Power needs a critic. But a paradox mars criticism of the ascendant technological elite who are seeking to remake our lives: The people who understand technology well enough to criticize it tend to adore it uncritically; the critics are often Luddites who struggle with their toasters. It is notable, then, when a techie insider steps…
Canada’s version even has mustard drizzled on top. Pizza Hut’s most frightening pie — with a crust that doubles as a hot dog — has been inching toward America for years (eight, to be exact), first invading South Korea, then infiltrating the U.K., and then Canada. The wait is over: Pizza Hut is finally inflicting…
Women work all the time, too. But colleagues are more likely to judge them for it than male counterparts. (Photo by Flickr user Matthew Hurst) Americans work an average of roughly 1,836 hours each year, up nearly ten percent from 1,687 in 1979. Labor economists expect this number to keep growing, especially in competitive fields with high…
Get a closer look at Wonder Woman’s costume in Batman v Superman. AKA Jessica Jones gets a title change. Once Upon A Time is looking to cast some Arthurian legends. Plus, a teeny bit of new Ant-Man footage, Julie Benz teases Defiance, and Doug Jones want to return to The Flash. Spoilers Now! Jurassic World…
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comIs Sarah Palin on drugs? We don’t know, but maybe! We hear Alaska is a great place for scoring meth, to buy with your government hand-out checks from sweet drill-baby-drilled oil profits. And maybe those drugs have eated up the itsy bits of Palin’s brain? We’re just asking, with question marks,…