Check out this set of tweets tying together feminism and Princess Bride. My guess is that you check out #feministprincessbride you will find many more. The movie keeps on giving.
Check out this set of tweets tying together feminism and Princess Bride. My guess is that you check out #feministprincessbride you will find many more. The movie keeps on giving.
With the finale of this season of Game of Thrones upon us, I thought this take on the theme might be a suitable Friday Nerd entry.
I was a fan of X-Men long before I was a fan of Poli Sci. So, I am eagerly awaiting the chance to see Days of Future Past, which may or may not do kind things to one of the very best X-tales. + For...
Brian Cranston and Godzilla apparently did not get along that well: Check out the story here.
I am scheduling this for Friday, as I think that mid-APSA is the best time for some Star Wars medley mash. I could be wrong, of course.
Sure, the movie came out months back, but this Honest Trailers does a nice job of capturing why Star Trek Into Darkness was meh. JJ Abrams does not apparently get it that the even numbered movies are supposed to be better. Spoilers boldly go below: This video is perhaps inconsistent in pointing out the retrograde gender dynamics in the movie, but gets its point across.
If there is one bit of recent pop culture that will have enduring value as a common reference in the classroom, it is almost certainly Harry Potter.*Â Since his fictional 33rd birthday was this week, here's this week's FNB: Â Â Â Â Â * Not to mention that our Father Duck co-edited a volume on HP and IR.
Of course, Brandon Routh really peaked in Scott Pilgrim as a Vegan-powered supervillain, but he is pretty good here as well: Where is Tom Welling when you need him?
Friday nerd blogging was delayed due to a powerful thunderstorm that disrupted power in the SW part of Ottawa. Anyhow, most of us nerdish folks would prefer to be at Comic-Con this week. Alas, most of us have day jobs. So, here is a video presented at Comic-Con that marks the death toll of the past three seasons:
Lawfare T2000 from Adama on Vimeo. The video you see is not just an intriguing and entertaining way to express one position in legal arguments around the debate over autonomous weapons. It represents a fascinating foreign policy artifact, a data point in the policy discourse over the value of a pre-emptive ban on autonomous weapons, one in which science fiction metaphors are given a prime place. This raises intriguing questions about the relationship between science fiction and foreign policy and how we might study it. The creator of this video is Tom Malinowski, who has just...
As Comic Con approaches and the Course for the Force begins, we, of course, want to sing:
Daniel Bier counters fear-mongering about the world's first genetically engineered babies, another fascinating case study of global normative ferment. But in truly weird science, humans can now transplant whole heads (or rather, bodies). Too bad this important advance comes too late for Ned Stark. -> William Beaty writes about the physics of traffic jams, proposing a simple solution ordinary citizens can use to  escape to de-clutter highways. Cyber-war, nano-weapons, and killer robots, oh my! International Review of the Red Cross has finally published a long-awaited special issue on...