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...Mankind must learn how to appropriately respond to the crises and opportunities that await us, and grow cognizant of the fact that large-scale violence can be so dangerous to humanity so that we become "aware of the need for a radical change in attitude." Whether his predictions are worth taking seriously or not, they all inevitably turn on the endless capacity of human resilience - a notion that appears to be the only true constant for the future, and the most reassuring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the World Will Look Like by 2050 | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

...Turned out the Mitchells, and their customers, got their money's worth. The special kick of Green Door, for the millions of young marrieds and college kids who make it a smash, is the image of a nice young lady submitting to, or demanding, some extravagant sexual attention. The minimal plot has Chambers inducted into a secret sex society, where she is put in a truss and suffers the pleasures of many gentlemen, including one of the first African-American sex-film stars, Johnnie Keyes. The plot could have been a metaphor for the incursion of a sex-film industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marilyn Chambers, the Ivory Snow Porn Star, Dead at 56 | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

...Online advertising revenue may not soon supplant DVD sales in developed countries. But, where legal, high-quality DVDs are either unavailable or have simply lost out to cheap, low-quality pirated ones, whatever little revenue may come in from the Web is worth it. American viewership is accelerating its decades-long flight to cable channels. In the short term, networks need whatever revenue they can get. Internet broadcasts point the way forward. Active experimentation on a global scale is the only way to refine the current model of online advertising and distribution into something that can support the costly...

Author: By Kiran R. Pendri | Title: Futurology 4 | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...worry if you spent too much time taking Bioengineering to dabble in Portuguese—all the activities will take place in English. Just think about how wonderful it would be to escape the Cambridge winter for 2 weeks in sunny Brazil...though it might not be worth spending the other 8.5 months of the school year slaving away as an engineering concentrator...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel | Title: Definitely the Best Reason to Concentrate in Engineering | 4/11/2009 | See Source »

...Examined Life,” points towards the days of Socrates, not only in its opening lines—Socrates’ famous defense “The unexamined life is not worth living” reaffirmed millennia later by the booming voice of Cornel West—but in its recreation of a world where philosophers wandered regularly among market places and stone forums. Eight of today’s most prominent thinkers are set loose from their offices and classrooms by director Astra Taylor to roam the sites of daily life—airports, parks, Fifth Avenue. While...

Author: By Susie Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Examined Life | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

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