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...volunteers were outfitted with electrode caps - akin to a white shower cap with a jungle of wires sticking out of it - that tracked their brain waves in order to determine their stage of slumber. Using an electroencephalogram (EEG), investigators monitored the sleepers' brain activity, and just when the squiggly lines on the screen showed that participants had entered deep sleep, researchers began playing a series of 25 of the sounds that the individual had heard earlier in the memory game. "[The volume] was a little over a whisper, probably much [quieter] than ... your iPod," says John Rudoy...
...budget, Hollywood movies. And yet his films have recently started to attract more mainstream audiences and enjoy commercial success. Four years after his thriller Hidden earned a respectable $16 million at the box office worldwide, he is garnering critical acclaim and snapping up awards for his latest film, The White Ribbon. The movie, released this fall in Europe and set to open in December in the U.S., won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and is generating Oscar buzz as a possible candidate for best foreign film. (See pictures of the red carpet...
Haneke certainly achieves that in The White Ribbon, which some critics have called his most beautiful movie to date. Set in a German village just before World War I, the film is shot in black and white and depicts how a community falls apart following a series of inexplicable events: a doctor injured when his horse stumbles over a trip wire, a woman killed in a sawmill accident, a child who suffers a horrific beating. As the mystery builds, Haneke examines how the villagers, in the face of their despair, grasp at any straw offered to them - in this case...
...called seasonal affection. With the big college teams fighting for conference championships and audiences in a beneficent holiday mood, the mass audience must have figured it was downright Thanksgiving-y to see a real-life uplifter about a crack addict's son who is adopted by a nice white couple and pulls himself up to be a star tackle at Ole Miss. (Sort of Rudy meets Precious.) It doesn't hurt that the movie's subject, Michael Oher, graduated impressively from college to the NFL. As a starting right tackle for the Baltimore Ravens, he is ranked second on ESPN.com...
...crowd reportedly consisted of about 100 people, mainly white, with a moderate ratio skew toward males (some things are the same at Harvard and Yale). It seems like this was not a one-time exposure either. The Currier sophomore said that “girls acted surprised when I told them it was the first time I’d been to a naked party...