Entertainment 📺 Events
Collected items about TV 📺, Movies 🎥, Music 🎶, Events 🗓, and other activities.
Collection by Memen Isimo
Variety
John Williams Returns to 'Star Wars' Universe with 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' Theme (EXCLUSIVE)
2 min read · Feb 17th · More than two years after completing his ninth “Star Wars” movie, composer John Williams is returning to the Jedi fold with a theme for “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” Variety has learned… · Shared by 17, including Memen Isimo
The Conversation
50 years old, '2001: A Space Odyssey' still offers insight about the future
5 min read · From 2018 · People are still wrestling with what artificial intelligence could and should do, half a century after the debut of the Kubrick-Clarke classic. · Shared by 10, including Charlie Oliver, Memen Isimo, Howard Getson
The New York Times
The World Knows Her as ‘Disaster Girl.’ She Just Made $500,000 Off the Meme.
5 min read · 2021-04-29 · Zoë Roth, now a college senior in North Carolina, plans to use the proceeds from this month’s NFT auction to pay off student loans and donate to charity. · Shared by 245, including Kainaz Amaria, Memen Isimo, Hugh Howey, Yann “shalf@mastodon.social” Heurtaux 不停, Mathew Ingram, Matt Navarra, Brian Stelter, Joshua Benton, Kara Swisher, Glen Gilmore | 🌻🥽Metaverse 🕳🐇, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork #InnoTrans2, The Indian Express, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Jan Firsching 🦦™️, Liz Lumley, Chris Brogan/Chief of Staff, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Cliff Bleszinski, Olivia Nuzzi, Maggie Fox 🇺🇦
The Atlantic
Scientists Are Totally Rethinking Animal Cognition
~20 min read · From 2019 · What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world · Shared by 244, including Florian Hanke 🍎, Tauno, UN Biodiversity, Oscar MacDonald, Jesús Torres 👩💻, Liv 😷, Ward Plunet, Rob Weinert-Kendt, Jane, Vikram Dutt, Vlad the Inhaler 😈 (AlgoCompSynth by znmeb), MIT Press, Liliane Ferrari ™, Howard Getson, David McCandless, Merkstatt, Memen Isimo, Dominik Grolimund, ExApologist
Lifehack
Guided Meditation For Increased Energy: How And Why It Works
8 min read · 2021-04-17 · Let guided meditation for energy banish your depleted states of being. Everything in life is energy! So, start taking control of your batteries. · Shared by 284, including Memen Isimo
Guardian Tech
AI ethicist Kate Darling: ‘Robots can be our partners’
5 min read · 2021-04-17 · The MIT researcher says that for humans to flourish we must move beyond thinking of robots as potential future competitors · Shared by 297, including Jeff Jarvis, Nicolas Babin, Memen Isimo, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Jana Eggers, Tamara McCleary, Kate Darling, Chi Mai, Amber Mac, Ian M Calvert, Joanna J Bryson, MIT SA+P, Tiffani Bova, Clemens M. Schuster, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem, James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA
The Atlantic
The Case for Disagreeing With Yourself
5 min read · 2021-04-25 · Making yourself consider contrary opinions will improve your thinking. · Shared by 542, including Larry Ferlazzo, Howard Getson, Memen Isimo, Daniel Pink, Gabriele, Rachel Botsman, Merkstatt, Lee Keyes, Kamil Ali Kamil
TIME
Introducing the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2021
1 min read · 2021-04-27 · Check out TIME's inaugural list of the world's 100 most influential businesses · Shared by 560, including William (Bill) Kennedy, Glen Gilmore | 🌻🥽Metaverse 🕳🐇, Pronounced Sher - Elle, Jonathan Kogan, Impossible Foods, Felix Capital, Lime, Vala Afshar, John Lee, Marc Benioff, Memen Isimo, Robert Scoble, Steve Case
Quanta Magazine
The Brain ‘Rotates’ Memories to Save Them From New Sensations
5 min read · 2021-04-15 · Some populations of neurons simultaneously process sensations and memories. New work shows how the brain rotates those representations to prevent interference. · Shared by 470, including Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Jennifer Ouellette, David Garner, Jane, Miguel Angel Escotet, Nicolas Babin, Esther Schindler, Gabriele, Tom Pick | #B2Bmarketing guy, Memen Isimo, John Hagel, Lee Keyes, Carly
XKCD Comic
Types of Scientific Paper
2021-04-28 · This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). More details. · Shared by 656, including Lynn Cherny, Kate Crawford, Robert Kosara, Helen De Cruz, M.J. Crockett, Mathew Ingram, Hannah Ritchie, Moritz Stefaner, Jennifer Ouellette, Cory Doctorow, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Danielle! 🌩, Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her), Brendan Nyhan, Kevin Marks, Liam Bright, Renee DiResta, Kevin J.S. Zollman, Andrew Dessler, Maarten Lambrechts
The New York Times
Welcome to the YOLO Economy
Summary · 7 min read · 2021-04-21 · Burned out and flush with savings, some workers are quitting stable jobs in search of postpandemic adventure. · Shared by 679, including Howard Getson, Jordi Serrano, Jess Tyson (she/her), Heather Zynczak, ⭐️Danielle Guzman ⭐️, Jeff Jarvis, Jennifer McClure, Anita Zielina, Edney Souza 🧙♂️, BenYT, Steve Case, Brooks Rainwater, John Schwartz, Kevin Roose, Lauren Young, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Christopher Mims 🤌, Alexia Bonatsos, Kyle Chayka, Esther Schindler
The New York Times
There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing
Summary · 7 min read · 2021-04-19 · It’s the neglected middle child of mental health, and can dull your motivation and focus. And it may be the dominant emotion of 2021. · Shared by 805, including Jennifer Doleac, Brad Frost, Hiroko Tabuchi, Natalie E. Dean, PhD, swissmiss, Marsha Collier, Claire Cain Miller, Chris Heilmann, Taylor Lorenz, Bethany Brookshire, Jeff Jarvis, Anne Thompson, Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈, Julia Ioffe, Dr. Saskia Popescu, Dr Melanie Greenberg, Amy Walter, Scott Galloway, Muge Cevik, Nir Eyal
Lifehack
10 Simple Ways To Refocus a Wandering Mind
~11 min read · 2021-04-13 · Do you want to reach your goals and avoid distractions? Here are 10 simple ways to refocus your wandering mind and achieve success. · Shared by 1098, including Vincenzo Tremonte, Kyle Bunch, Katja Evertz, Memen Isimo, Josh Blaha, Neil Hart 💙, Swebliss, Tauno
Engadget
Netflix explains how it uses AI to sell you on a show
1 min read · 2020-12-12 · Netflix has explained how it uses AI to decide how to not only pitch movies, but predict their audiences — it's not just relying on execs. · Shared by 80, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Nige Willson, LARRY ELKAN, Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁, Ronald van Loon, Dean Anthony Gratton, Memen Isimo, Harold Sinnott 📲 #DigitalTransformation #DTW, Nicolas Babin
Los Angeles Times
Column: The art show of 2020 and how it unearthed the Mexican influences in American art
5 min read · 2020-12-10 · The Whitney Museum exhibition "Vida Americana" shows that to admire 20th century American painting is to admire its Mexican influences on artists such as Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Jacob Lawrence… · Shared by 30, including Carolina A. Miranda, Christopher Knight, Memen Isimo
The New York Times
The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century (So Far)
2 min read · 2020-11-25 · Chameleons or beauties, star turns or character roles — these are the performers who have outshone all others on the big screen in the last 20 years. · Shared by 105, including Aron Pilhofer, Joshua Benton, VPRO Cinema, Memen Isimo, Alex B., zeldman, Ian Lurie 🇺🇦, Saeed Jones
