• Making Us Laugh: What the Independent Spirit Awards Did That the Oscars Didn’t.

    Making Us Laugh: What the Independent Spirit Awards Did That the Oscars Didn’t.

    Award shows, over the past few years have been surrounded by drama.  From #OscarsSoWhite to the La La/Moonlight debacle this year, we are seeing more press around some of these award shows.  Award shows are also becoming a venue for actors and celebrities to voice political concerns.  Which is great since they are the key…

  • The Avengers: The hype was spot on (Go see this movie)

    The Walt Disney Studios who owns Marvel; announced that “The Avengers” made $200.3 million in its domestic debut May 4-6. The movie Hulk Smashed previous records to become the highest-grossing domestic debut of all time. The global box office gross for the film is an estimated $641.8 million over 12 days in release. The film…

  • Scientists Turn Brain’s Visual Memories into a Video

    Scientists Turn Brain’s Visual Memories into a Video [youtube=http://youtu.be/nsjDnYxJ0bo] The left clip is a segment of the movie that the subject viewed while in the magnet. The right clip shows the reconstruction of this movie from brain activity measured using fMRI. The reconstruction was obtained using only each subject’s brain activity and a library of…