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Smile of the Week: Soul Pancake on the Power of Accepting Compliments

Posted on March 23, 2015 at 8:00 am

My very wise mother always says, “If someone pays you a compliment, don’t argue or deflect it.  Just lower your eyes and say, ‘Thank you.’”  This wonderful film from the great folks at Soul Pancake shows exactly how important that is. #scienceoflove Be sure to check out the earlier film I posted from Soul Pancake …

How Do Movies Change to Convey Modern Technology?

Posted on March 22, 2015 at 3:54 pm

I love this exploration of how cinematic storytelling has evolved to reflect the role that technology plays in our lives, especially in the way we absorb and convey information, especially the discussion of the elegant use of text in the “Sherlock” series.

Interview: Robert Kenner of “Merchants of Doubt”

Posted on March 22, 2015 at 7:03 am

Robert Kenner’s Merchants of Doubt is a deeply unsettling documentary about the way corporations divert money they should be spending on making better products more effectively to spend it instead on undermining science and scientists. By creating fake “public interest” groups with generic names to argue that scientific findings are not sufficient to take action …