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Nationalism
is behind political arguments on sovereignity
which start from a belief about which is the right government to rule about a particular topic,
and then find the evidence to prove that belief.
2013-07
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Office Space
is a rather random comedy of corporate life,
whose fans will make you be happy you didn't get to live in that environment.
2013
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Lockout
is about a princess waiting to be rescued from her prison,
and kissed,
by a bad ass she yet again didn't get to choose.
A souless refried pile of sci-fi cliches,
which was made, and probably should be watched,
while sleeping.
2013
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Duality in Mathematics
is perhaps initially hard to understand
for the same reason that the idea of meme is amusing:
they are concepts defined as mappings between familiar concepts.
2013-06
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Sucker Punch
tries to leave you with the feeling that you missed something
while you felt nonchalant about the intentionally emotion-less action scenes.
2013
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Facebook
is fundamentally a walled garden, which I don't like much perhaps because my corner,
although inhabited by reflections of people I care about,
is not particularly beautiful, interesting, elucidating or intellectually demanding.
It worries me that people don't see the dangers of it being a walled garden.
2013-06
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The Walking Dead, Season 3
confronts a well oiled survival machine, the ad-hoc extended family,
with a sadistic dictatorship.
Nostalgia, however, is given a swift axing in the head.
2013
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The Walking Dead, Season 2
plays with the notion of comfort in an apocalyptic American fantasy,
by contrasting them with unbelieavable horrors.
It pushes the audience to accept peer confrontation as the lesser of all evils,
but then it is not.
2013
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The Walking Dead, Season 1
is a scary ride with zombies and modern-day cowboys.
Quite entertaining, but won't leave you any happier.
2013
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Iceland, the country
overconfident in Mercator's projection, but shy in influence,
it hints at an ideal cohabitation between mankind and nature,
this later in a heightened state of consciousness
at the expense of the former.
2013
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Bad Pharma, by Ben Goldacre
is depressing, but the fact that it won't make much sense if you skip the first chapters
is an argument for its importance in changing our collective tolerance to bad experimental science.
2013
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Twitter
is fun to explain to a visitor from the past.
It is surprising, and somehow worrying,
that a dynamic yet strightforward network
built of such simple elements,
can still be maintained as a walled garden.
2013-03
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Javascript
should be commended if only for providing a coding environment out of the box.
2013