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...everything that comes on television because I can’t hide these things from him.” While 50 shies away from discussing what many describe as the objectification of women in his videos, he does offer an explanation for why he exposes his son to explicit content: “[As a parent,] you can either say, ‘Listen, you can do this and we can talk about it, or you can do this when I’m not paying attention and make your own assumptions about...
Student-made pornography is once again in the national news media, but this time (for once) it’s not at Harvard. Controversy over the content of Koala TV, a program that airs on the student-run televsion network at University of California San Diego (UCSD), reached a climax two weeks ago when the show’s producer, senior Steve York, was banned from the station after the airing of a 30-minute pornographic film. In the film, entitled “Rising Fees and Poppin’ B’s,” an adult film...
...Next year is the year of digital cinema,'" he says. "But now it could actually be next year. The stars are aligning." Yet even when a sizeable portion of the world's projection systems are converted, they may not be the money spinner everyone hopes, experts warn. "Distribution, storage, content management, delivery of the content in a safe way - all of that is far more costly than you would assume," says Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, an economist for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Cinemas that are used to spending minimal amounts on upkeep - fixing a belt here, replacing...
...example, they did allow Arab thinkers to pursue such expressions of free thought. The ruling Muslim caliphs financed scientific endeavors to enhance their own power and prestige. At first, scholars used the support to translate scientific classics from China, Greece, India and Mesopotamia. Soon, however, Muslim intellectuals were not content just to reproduce others' works, and began to elaborate on them, making their own important discoveries and innovations. Muslim mathematicians took principles developed in Greece, such as Euclid's theories of numbers and geometry, and the Indian concept of zero, as the basis for developing such new disciplines as calculus...
...Increase in TV scenes with sexual content from 1998 to 2005, according to a survey of programming from a broad sampling of shows...