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Paulina Porizkova: Aging

Paulina is definitely becoming one of my favorite bloggers. Her honesty-without-meanness is refreshing. For a supermodel, how you look is certainly something …

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Of Course I Was Bullied

In the 60s and 70s, if you were a “Braniac”, one thing was almost certain: you were going to be bullied. Being smart wasn’t cool, it was exclusionary. It was also like painting a target on your back.

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Let’s Change the Witness Oath

A person goes to the witness stand, they are told to raise their right hand, and say some version of the witness oath. Thing is, you get in trouble if you refuse to accept it. I propose a fix.

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Armchair Script Doc: Supergirl

We watch a movie featuring one of our favorite actors and it simply doesn’t quite work. I find that most of the time the problems can be traced back to the shooting script (not necessarily the script the writer actually intended). The movie I’m taking a look at this time: Supergirl (1984)

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The Confused Weird Kid

You know that weird kid you knew back in school? Well…I was that kid. I didn’t mean to be the weird kid, that was just how it was. Of course, if I’m being honest, I don’t think I ever really grew out of it.

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Mythergency!

I’m surprised I didn’t see this sooner. Mythbusters is actually a geek version of the beloved 1970s television drama, Emergency! It doesn’t really take a lot of digging to see some amazing parallels.

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Twitter Following Choices

Who you follow and who follows you will define your Twitter experience. The question is: if you send text onto Twitter and no one is following you, does it make a tweet?

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Rebooting Wonder Woman?

The surprising geeky news of the week came with the announcement of a planned reboot of the Wonder Woman franchise, not as a movie but as a television series. The latest development golden boy is hyphenate, David E. Kelley. You know that I have some thoughts on this.

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Wonder Woman: Spirit of Truth

Normally I wouldn’t put an item up that wasn’t still easily gotten, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t suggest to any Wonder Woman fan that they buy “Spirit of Truth” while there are still copies to be had.

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