Visual effects pros share their woes, and 2012 Academy Award winners reflect on their life with Oscar.
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VFX Industry in Trouble; Won an Oscar…Now What?
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The 404 883: Where the PATH to success is paved with delays (podcast) | The 404 Podcast - CNET Blogs
Why are schools no longer teaching typing? Typing class used to be a sanctuary for nerds, but now that everyone has a smartphone and a Facebook profile, some school districts are making a case against teaching standardized touch-typing lessons. Read this blog post by Justin Yu on The 404 Podcast.
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Medical Marijuana
In 1998, Washington was one of the earliest states to legalize medical marijuana, but the over the last 13 years the law has proven vague and rife with opportunity for confusion. For instance, patients can’t buy marijuana, but they can grow it. What if you’re too sick to grow your own or don’t know
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Tank Riot — Episode 36: Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson! We discuss our favorite gonzo journalist’s life and works from early material like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to the last of the Gonzo Papers. We also look at film adaptations featuring Johnny Depp, Bill Murray and more…
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Introducing the Fireland Podcast!
In this episode: Oscar Fever! (Note: Some crude language.)
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Junot Díaz reads his short story “Flaka” (Live at the Brattle Theater)
On stage, he was gracious, warm, conversational, and above all, sincere. A generous curser, he peppered his sentences with swears. When answering questions from the audience, he alternated, seamlessly, between a casual tone and a more professorial air, with lines like, “The praxis of reading is supported by this constant inquisition, this constant questioning: what does this mean?” He talked of reading, of race, and of language. And when one woman asked his thoughts on an article that stated that Oscar Wao would replace Catcher in the Rye as the seminal high school experience text, he dismissed it, laughing. “Jesus,” he said, “No comment.”
Listen to Junot Díaz read his new story “Flaka” and the Q&A here.