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Argh. Journalist returns to Steubenville to see how things have changed since “that whole rape thing”. Spoiler: they haven’t.<\/a><\/p>\n

Via Maire, a discussion of Racism and Middle-earth<\/a>, going into detail about what Tolkien wrote (and didn’t write) about skin colour and race and ethnicity, and how that got refracted through the Jackson films, and the implications thereof. (This is a PDF compiling articles from this blog<\/a>, so if you’re on mobile or otherwise PDF-averse you can presumably find plenty to read there.)<\/p>\n

Did you hear that story about four illegal immigrants at a podunk southern school who beat MIT in a robotics competition? You will – there’s a movie coming<\/a>. Wired has put the original story, from 2001, back up as a prominent feature<\/a>. But the teachers involved didn’t stop there – they then turned their attention to the gender imbalance at STEM. Result: an all-women robotics team<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Every Frame a Painting – I’ve linked to a couple of his vids before – looks at Jackie Chan’s HK and US films<\/a> to show some of the many ways U.S. directors don’t know how to shoot comedy. (via Hugh D)<\/p>\n

Seth Rogen and James Franco play the Freaks & Geeks computer game. Kind of lovely if you are a F&G nerd, probably incomprehensible if not…
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