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"Is Facebook Changing Our Identity?" (Singularity Content Within)
Posed by the newest video in the PBS Idea Channel series (above), it's a good question. Facebook has almost a billion users, storing on the site some 250 million photos daily. archiving a past (of sorts) along a neat timeline. In an idealized world, we...
Is Dubstep Secretly a Beacon of the Avant-Garde?
This is the question posed by our pals at PBS' Idea Channel in a new video, and if anyone out there remembers "old dubstep," it's kind of confounding. Because dubstep at its genesis was actually a way exciting avant-garde genre of music on its own...
How Super Mario Brothers Turned the World Surreal
Our pal Mike Rugnetta at PBS' new "Idea Channel":http://www.youtube.com/user/pbsideachannel sent along this video a couple days ago, wherein it is argued that the present-day rush of pop culture surrealism and wanton non sequitur traces to said video...