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Students of all ages turned out by the thousands for the National School Walkout to protest gun violence and recognize the lives of the 17 people killed during the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. last month.
At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, kids left their classrooms behind and gathered in school yards, on playgrounds, in parking lots, and marched through streets across the country to participate in the powerful movement.
Some stood in silence for 17 minutes to honor the victims of the Florida tragedy, while others shouted chants for gun reform. All across the country students displayed powerful handmade signs. Read more…
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Lara Croft is a character who inherently comes with decades of baggage — and I don’t just mean the absurd chest size that’s tended to define her iconography.
The latest iterations of Lara in the 2013 video game reboot and corresponding 2018 movie reboot (if you’re keeping score, that’s a reboot within a reboot — and please, god, make it stop) have attempted to cast her in a more feminist or relatable light. Some of those attempts feel sincere. Overall, none of them amount to more than #feminism as #woke #branding.
Truth be told, the Alicia Vikander-starring Tomb Raider is still probably one of the best video game adaptations Hollywood has ever managed to produce. True, that’s a pretty low bar to clear, when you’re out-classing, like, the Resident Evil movies and 1995’s Mortal Kombat. But it is a mostly unobjectionable, entertaining way to spend two hours — that presents no modicum of originality or risk. Read more…
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When Stephen Hawking passed away early Wednesday morning, he left behind a legacy of service to the scientific community through his extensive research and landmark achievements, and to the global community through his embrace of public talks and his frequent willingness to partake in pop culture.
Through his books, talks, and interviews, Hawking made his findings more accessible to those outside of the academic community, bringing science into homes around the world.
We’ve picked five Hawking clips from the theoretical physicist’s more recent appearances (plus a delightful, One Direction-adjacent bonus) that’ll make you just a little bit smarter after you’ve watched them. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | 5 Stephen Hawking clips that'll make you just a little bit smarter
SEC charges Theranos and CEO Elizabeth Holmes with ‘massive fraud’
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the third and final chapter in a trilogy of games chronicling Lara Croft’s origin story, is coming on Sept. 14, 2018. Probably. (Definitely.)
Currently, there’s a teaser page up at TombRaider.com hyping some kind of reveal for March 15, 2018 at 6:00 a.m. PT. No details, just the date/time and a drawing of what looks like a solar eclipse.
See for yourself:
We know the title and release date because someone made a mistake. If you view the page source for TombRaider.com and take a look at the metadata, this text is visible: Read more…
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