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A comic book property like “Guardians of the Galaxy” may seem ideal for the big screen, but comics have singular pleasures of their own. Source: www.nytimes.com

Everyone has a limit where they just stop refusing to put up with shit. Some people — like the megalomaniacal Animaniacs’ character Brain here — will put up with his compatriot Pinky’s gross incompetence for years until he snaps… as captured in the above video in all its profane glory.…

Ahead of the Lone Star Film Society’s retrospective, we talk about the Japanese animator’s lasting legacy with Dr. Marc Hairston, a UTD professor who teaches a Source: artandseek.net

Skyrocketing university costs are forcing a growing number of students to choose between paying for rent or tuition. Colleges are failing to meet the needs of marginalized students. Source: www.truth-out.org “homeless college students remain institutionally overlooked and no reliable nationwide data exists. Colleges are not required to keep data on…

Source: www.noozhawk.com “A synchronicity is, essentially, a meaningful coincidence. Something happens in the world around us that seems to defy probability and “normal” explanations, and due to its correspondence in some manner with our mindset at the time it becomes a meaningful event.”

Not surprisingly, as we can ascertain by reading the Bible and many other religious and mythological texts of the past, also in Norse beliefs food and fecundity were central elements in the origin of all things (Creation and Food in Old Norse Mythology… Source: www.medievalists.net

Let’s face it, humans are pretty intelligent. Most people would not argue with this. We spend a large majority of our lives trying to become MORE intelligent. Some of us spend nearly three decades of our lives in school, learning about the world. We also strive to work together in…

The popularity of drones is climbing quickly among companies, governments and citizens alike. But the rules surrounding where, when and why you can fly an unmanned aerial vehicle aren’t very clear. The FAA has tried to assert control and insist on licensing for all drone operators, while drone pilots and…

Ever since Thales, Philosophy has had a reputation for being irrelevant and remote from the concerns of the world.  Thales, it will be recalled, was reputed– by Plato in the Theatetus –to have fa… Source: larvalsubjects.wordpress.com

Henry Corbin sought to synthesize in one study these three works: The first was “The Paradox of Monotheism,” which was written for 1976 session of Eranos, where the theme was “The One and the Multiple.” The second was on the “Need for Angelogy,” which was given at the Conference organized…

Time-lapse heat map tracks social media conversation. Source: stream.aljazeera.com

Pope Francis has become the first pope to visit a Pentecostal church, pressing his outreach to evangelicals who represent Catholicism’s greatest competition for Christian souls around the globe… Source: abcnews.go.com “Someone will be surprised: ‘The pope went to visit the evangelicals?’ But he went to see his brothers.”

The evolution of #technology in the #classroom #education #learning (The evolution of #technology in the #classroom. The future of #education? Source: www.pinterest.com

Marvel has announced a new ongoing Star Wars book by Jason Aaron and John Cassaday, plus titles focusing on the stories of Darth Vader and Princess Leia. Source: comicsalliance.com

IDW and BOOM Studios are planning an epic crossover between two of the world’s biggest science-fiction franchises; Star Trek and Planet of the Apes. Source: comicsalliance.com

The Warner Bros. panel at Comic-Con just started with a bang – with the first image of WONDER WOMAN. Source: www.newsarama.com I very much like that she is not all tarted up in “Red White Blue” .