Reading List – Week 2
Wondering which comic books should you be reading right now? Here are five new titles for your reading list!
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The Case of the Week Quotient Returns!
How does a TV series change over time? And can we measure it?
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Thalassophobia
Think there aren’t many opportunities to be afraid of giant floating alien heads? Then you must not play many video games.
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Reading List – Week 1
Wondering which comic books should you be reading this week? Here are four new titles for your reading list!
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Beyond Winners and Losers: Failure and Learning in the Meta-Game of Thrones
Why short-term failure might be the key to long-term survival in Game of Thrones.
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A Meta-Game Theory of Thrones
Can game theory help to explain who wins and who dies in Game of Thrones?
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Do Killer Robot Inventors Watch Killer Robot Movies?
How do two computer science nerds spend a week contemplating the nature of artificial intelligence without ever referencing Skynet or HAL 9000?
In Trainwreck, The Women are Men, and The Men are Right
What happens when you combine genre mechanics and familiar gender roles with box office performance anxiety?
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Five Thought Experiments on Editorial Ethics
Publishing can be a morally ambiguous business. In these scenarios, what would you do?
Should we cut Ted Cruz some slack about Rorschach?
There’s a crucial difference between Rorschach and Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, and the rest.
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