“Nancy Drew may be growing up. CBS has ordered a pilot for a new TV series based on the character, The Wrap reports, but rather than portray her as the teenage sleuth she’s been in books, movies, and previous shows, the network intends its Nancy to be a detective for the NYPD in her 30s.”
“Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has responded to the controversy surrounding this year’s all-white Oscar nominations and confessed to being disappointed about the lack of diversity.”
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“When Tamir Rice was killed by police officers in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2014, some observers assigned a portion of the blame to a 911 dispatcher. She relayed a citizen’s concern that a black male was sitting on a park swing, pulling a gun from his waist band, and pointing it at people.”
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“Last week at CES, I got to try a haptic jacket straight out of Ready Player One. It’s gotten glowing reviews from testers, but in order to work, its electrode-lined fabric needs a direct connection with your body. On anyone built roughly like its male creators, it looks like a snug wetsuit.”
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“Teegan Lexcen was born in August with a heart and lung defect so unusual that doctors had never seen it before. She has only one lung, and almost all of the left half of her heart is missing.”
“The first bot I ever befriended went by the name of GooglyMinotaur. The Minotaur appeared in 2001 to promote Amnesiac, the latest album from Radiohead, which was and still is my favorite band.”
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“Tamir Rice’s beyond tragic death has exposed painful assumptions that seem hard-wired into the (white) American psyche about black children. The video sequence of Rice’s killing has been read in a variety of ways.”
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