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Update – New Site

Hardcore Nerdity — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 18:41:48 +0000

Hey anyone still checking this site, thanks! I haven’t given up here. It’s a long story but I am going to be posting at this new location from now on. This site will be archived (it’ll stay online but not be updated anymore). See you over there hopefully.

The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

Hardcore Nerdity — Sun, 10 May 2020 20:37:41 +0000

Arundhati Roy

Hardcore Nerdity — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 18:25:16 +0000

Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.

The Toronto Circus Riot of 1855 — the day the clowns picked the wrong Toronto brothel

Hardcore Nerdity — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 20:15:05 +0000

If that isn’t the headline of the decade, then perhaps the first sentence deserves some kind of award (if not the story itself): “These weren’t the kind of clowns you want to mess with.”

John Graves Simcoe’s Weird Relationship with Slavery

Hardcore Nerdity — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:38:20 +0000

Toronto’s founder was an abolitionist who was assigned to suppress a slave rebellion in Haiti.

The Tangled History of the Joubert Singers’ “Stand On The Word”

Hardcore Nerdity — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 19:58:31 +0000

This echoes the previous article. It’s an interesting mess, and these sorts of issues remind me of similar problems with folk music: there are a million versions, no one knows which one came first, and perhaps, from some angles… it doesn’t matter? It is frustrating when someone other than the creator is making money, though.

The Original Renegade

Hardcore Nerdity — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:44:41 +0000

A 14-year-old in Atlanta created one of the biggest dances on the internet. But nobody really knows that.

Documents Reveal US Army Propaganda Campaign For ‘Independence Day’ Sequel

Hardcore Nerdity — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:39:57 +0000

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The high-tech secret behind the stunning cinematography of ‘Uncut Gems’

Hardcore Nerdity — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 17:44:07 +0000

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An Unsettling New Theory: There Is No Swing Voter

Hardcore Nerdity — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 15:34:21 +0000

It’s not really that unsettling, it’s the argument that turnout is paramount, and it’s very positive for the dems.

A Conversation With Rudy Giuliani Over Bloody Marys at the Mark Hotel

Hardcore Nerdity — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 20:33:39 +0000

“Over a sweater, he wore a navy-blue suit, the fly of the pants unzipped.”

Hand-Painted Movie Posters from Ghana in the 80s & 90s

Hardcore Nerdity — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 19:40:07 +0000

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A decade of New Year’s Eve glasses, ranked by how dumb they looked

Hardcore Nerdity — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:06:18 +0000

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This Is a Real Movie

Hardcore Nerdity — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 21:47:03 +0000

The questions pile up. Is it a joke? Is that the most outlandish plot ever? Is “unwittingly” the word that is carrying the most water in what is unmistakably a champion of a sentence? He trained a dolphin to assassinate the president, ok it’s weird but I get it. But he did it by accident?! Tell me more! I would ask exactly how this dolphin was going to kill the president, but unfortunately the artwork is a pretty huge spoiler by today’s standards… unless it’s speculative? I mean, does the dolphin assassin succeed? Is the president now dead?!

Was there a mid-70s wave of dolphin assassin films? Am I wading into heretofore uncharted waters (sorry) of cinematic excitement? There certainly was a rash of “Day of” + animal movies. Day of the Jackal, Three Days of the Condor. But these aren’t about actual jackals and condors. Did this production team, rushing to cash in on the day-of-the-animal craze, take things too literally?

Speaking of production teams. Day of the Dolphin, produced by Asylum Films. I get it. Produced by Roger Corman, totally can see that. But Day of the Dolphin a 70s mainstream auteur cinema project directed by Mike Nichols and written by Buck Henry?!

Is this a real movie?

The wonderful world of Chinese hi-fi

Hardcore Nerdity — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 18:45:35 +0000

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