A new iPad game called Syz: EG, now available from Apple's App Store, showcases the professional quality of the work done by UC Santa Cruz students in the computer game design program.
Actors Jack Black, Owen Wilson and Steve Martin go on a one-year search for birds in the upcoming comedy film, “The Big Year.” The movie, which debuts in the United States on Oct. 14, includes 18 sounds from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library, the world’s largest collection of animal sounds.
AMC's Breaking Bad makes chemistry entertaining but the show is not improving chemistry’s tarnished public image says Matthew Hartings, assistant professor of chemistry at American University.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” the best-selling novel of the 19th century, has had an enduring impact on film and popular culture. In a year when we observe the 200th anniversary of author Harriet Beecher Stowe’s birth, a UC researcher is presenting on the novel’s impact, interpretation and reinterpretation on the silver screen.
Lady Gaga and other celebrities commenting on bullying have the chance to teach young people about the horrors of bullying abuse, says the director of the University at Buffalo’s Alberti Center for the Prevention of Bullying Abuse, a power that makes it important they act responsibly.
The iPod remixed the music industry when it was introduced by Apple Inc. ten years ago. Along with the iPod came iTunes, a program that transformed the way music was sold, played and produced. The music device also led to mobile marketing as we know it today.
In Contagion, scientists scramble to diagnose and stop a new strain of flu virus that achieves pandemic status. It's a scary scenario, but one that should help convince people to "roll up their sleeves" and get a seasonal flu vaccine.
When presidential candidates poke fun at themselves or at opponents, viewers take away different impressions of the humor and of the candidates based on previously held opinions.
Buddy Holly's impact on music and the legal side of the music industry still raves on today.
Diagnosed at age 48 with a potentially deadly form of lymphoma, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist John Kaplan turned the lens on himself and chronicled his experience in a moving visual journal. Kaplan’s new film, Not As I Pictured, is now showing on PBS stations nationwide. Kaplan is giving away 10,000 DVD copies to anyone affected by cancer.
On Sept. 1, the Fall 2011 issue of Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review hit the newsstand — the virtual newsstand, that is. The 61-year-old literary journal is now entirely online and free.
National radio personality Bob Edwards has teamed up with University Press of Kentucky to offer his new memoir, "A Voice in the Box," for free as an e-book prior to its print release.
In this International Year of Chemistry (IYC), writers and producers for the most popular crime and science-related television shows and movies are putting out an all-points bulletin for scientists to advise them on the accuracy of their plots involving lab tests, crime scenes, etc., and to even give them story ideas.
In an essay published this month in the Public Library of Science journal Medicine, two prominent tobacco researchers argue against adopting adult movie ratings in the United States for films that include on-screen cigarette smoking.
Monica Mei is smart, savvy, stylish and... an entrepreneur. In fact, she’s one of Toronto’s hottest young entrepreneurs, according to the Globe and Mail. This fashion-preneur has found a home at Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone, a space for the every-preneur.
The film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s "The Help," which opens nationwide today, Aug. 10, depicts a fictional slice of the 1960s civil rights movement. Washington University in St. Louis holds one of the largest archives of civil rights media in the United States, thanks to the Henry Hampton collection and "Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965," a six-episode documentary on the American civil rights movement. Since receiving a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in April 2011, Washington University has been in the process of preserving the acetate-based film used in "Eyes on the Prize."
American courts are significantly expanding the legal rights and privileges celebrities can command over others using their names or likenesses. And a University at Buffalo Law School professor is questioning whether these courts have gone too far.
“The Interrupters,” a documentary by director Steve James ("Hoop Dreams") and bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz ("There Are No Children Here") featuring the University of Illinois at Chicago's CeaseFire project will open in Chicago Aug. 12 at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
For fans, the day an artist dies is also the day the music dies -- unless the artist has left some previously unreleased material. But according to two Kansas State University professors, a posthumous release of unfinished and shelved material can often trivialize a career. Worse, it can also come off as unethical.
University of Kentucky will present a compelling documentary drama based on riveting oral history interviews of student veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at the New York Fringe Festival.
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