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We all know product placement happens in movies. Its when you see a can of Coke instead of a generic soda, or CGI a corporate logo into a Times Square background. The existence of product placement is not a mystery or scandal, but Morgan...

Director Tom Shadyac is playing up the fact that the director of Ace Ventura: Pe...

Dr. Steven Novella eats, sleeps, and breathes science. An academic clinical neurologist by day at the Yale University of Medicine, he spends much of the rest of his time promoting science and rationality through the massively popular weekly podcast he hosts, The...

We all know product placement happens in movies. You see the results when a can of Coke is seen in a shot instead of a generic soda, or a corporate logo comes into focus in a scene played out in Times Square.

The existence of product placement is not a mystery or scandal, but Morgan Spurlock wanted to put it to a real test. Big...
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Dr. Steven Novella eats, sleeps, and breathes science. An academic clinical neurologist by day at the Yale University of Medicine, he spends much of the rest of his time promoting science and rationality through the massively popular weekly podcast he hosts, The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, his own blog, Neurologica, and the influential blog he founded, Science-Based Medicine. He is also...
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Director Tom Shadyac is playing up the fact that the director of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective has made a philosophical documentary. It shouldnt be such a shock to people. Anyone deserves a voice in matters of humanity, and someone whos already in touch with how to inspire laughter and happiness doubly so.

A bicycle accident left Shadyac with Post Concussion Syndrome. The resulting hypersensitivity to...
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Neil Strauss has a talent for honing in on the very essence of who a person is. It's an attribute that has served him well as a interviewer for publications such as The New York Times and Rolling Stone, as a writer penning biographical books with the likes of Mtley Cre (The Dirt) and Jenna Jameson...

Dr. Phil Plait comes at science blogging with some heavy credentials, having actually worked on the Hubble Space Telescope and, to a lesser extent, the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) programs. His blog, Bad Astronomy, began life as an outlet for his frustration at the misuses and misunderstandings of astronomy in popular culture, but soon became a venue for his advocacy of all things science-based....
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Camilla dErrico burst onto the comics scene earlier this decade and doesnt seem to have slept since. Its not just that she worked on comics like Burn, Make 5 Wishes, Mightmares and Fairy Tales, The Sky Pirates of Neo Terra, and her own Tanpopo, though thats certainly a full time career in itself. dErrico has been an artistic dynamo, moving from one form and one...
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At this years Sundance Film Festival, there were two films in which a religious fundamentalist threatened the lives of gay or gay sympathetic characters. Kevin Smiths Red State got the most attention with a full on religious protest out side the screening. However, The Ledge also explored a similar idea. In The Ledge, Gavin (Charlie Hunnam) crosses paths with his neighbor Joe...
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