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Still wondering why Game of Thrones was such a mess? David Benioff and D.B Weiss talked about the show at the ongoing Austin Film Festival and there were lots of WTFs.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 9:16 PM PST - 227 comments

Philosophy often emphasises the significance of being the same person despite change. It asks how various changes – such as total memory loss or a brain transplant – might create a different person. This helps to clarify aspects of personal identity and the self, but it also overshadows intuitions about the significance of change itself. The ideal or model way to persist through time is not to stay exactly the same. Instead, it is to change.
posted by eirias at 4:31 PM PST - 20 comments

As they say, not all heroes wear capes. Some wear Chanel, hoop earrings and an England t-shirt. She didn’t know it when she posted her investigative report on Twitter, but Coleen Rooney lifted a nation deep in Brexit gloom. It is, after all, a story that has everything, as evidenced by its breathless (and global) reaction. But part of its appeal is its accessibility. We are all still figuring out how our personal lives tessellate with our digital ones. And when so many of our relationships are entangled with social media, are we in fact falling into a trap of mutual surveillance of our friends and family? Hannah Jane Parkinson investigates the significance of Wagatha. [more inside]
posted by chavenet at 3:11 PM PST - 23 comments

Scoring Godzilla : "We all know Godzilla’s iconic roar, but the musician who scored Godzilla's rampages is not as well known. The composer Akira Ifukube’s collaboration with the director Ishiro Honda is fascinating because the two men had different ideas of what Godzilla represented. Honda filmed Godzilla as a monster, but Ifukube saw Godzilla as an anti-hero." -- The Imaginary Worlds podcast presents an excellent story on the origin of Godzilla's theme music. [more inside]
posted by kaibutsu at 2:45 PM PST - 9 comments

RIP, Michael Blumlein Science fiction/horror/fantasy writer and medical doctor Michael Blumlein died at 71. His last work was the novel Longer. [more inside]
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Spin The Guardian CBC Wikipedia Rolling Stone links the first two singles "The Goal" "Happens To The Heart" A collection of previously unheard Leonard Cohen material will be released as Thanks for the Dance, an album described by representatives for the late songwriter as “an unexpected harvest of new songs” and “a continuation of the master’s work”. [more inside]
posted by dancestoblue at 12:55 PM PST - 5 comments

Economic Growth Shouldn't Be a Death Sentence for Earth - "But it does mean learning how to do more while using fewer resources."[1,2] (thread-reader) [more inside]
posted by kliuless at 2:34 AM PST - 65 comments