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...past decade has seen experiments like documentary maker Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days for FX, a brilliant trading-places switcheroo. (For instance, an anti-immigration militant spent a month living the life of an illegal alien.) Wife Swap is an intriguing show about American subcultures (homeschoolers, political activists, etc.) and the natural tendency of parents to secretly judge one another. TLC's 19 Kids and Counting, about the fecund Duggars, may be an extreme-parenting freak show, but it's also a series about the life of a deeply religious family, a rare subject for TV dramas today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality TV at 10: How It's Changed Television — and Us | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

Anna J. Murphy ’12 chose to explore thermodynamic entropy—or degree of disorder—from the perspective of an alien in a short movie, and Katherine A. Mills ’11 investigated the same concept through a set of two paintings entitled “Colorful Dots...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Science Gen Ed Course Exhibits Final Projects | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...Bocuse d'Or is the gastronomic version of the Apollo program. There's no real reason to do it, the difficulties are nearly insoluble, and the cost in time and money is prohibitive. But to plant the flag on the alien surface of European haute cuisine! To beat the Frenchies at their own game! The chef that pulls that off will be a hero to his peers, and will make his career overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Bocuse d'Or Says About Culinary Culture | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...then create a new document." If you wanted to embed some piece of information that Microsoft Word wasn't optimized for, you had to launch another application, create and modify a new element there, and then move back to your original application environment, where you could deposit the alien data object. A number of proposed interfaces - most famously, Apple's failed OpenDoc initiative, shut down shortly after the company acquired NeXT - promised to reverse the priorities: our desktops would prioritize the tasks over the tools, the documents over the applications. The user wouldn't launch documents inside an application. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Questions (and Answers) on the iPad's Shortcomings | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

...damage it does to Tim and his family. The longer it resists a cure or even a diagnosis, the more dense the walking becomes with multiple meanings, until it's a pulsating black hole at the center of the novel. It could stand for depression, mania, lust, rage, any alien element that lives within a marriage and tries to tear it apart. It could stand for the author's compulsion to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walking the Line | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

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