The evolution of the Batmobile from comic books to ‘The Lego Batman Movie’

It’s fitting that one of the most iconic super heroes has one of the most iconic modes of transportation. Introduced first as just Batman’s car, the Batmobile has grown into one of the Dark Knight’s greatest assets in Gotham City. It’s more than just a vehicle – it’s one of his best weapons. Over the years, the Batmobile has gone through many customizations and structural upgrades. From the simple Cord Roadster-based design to the seemingly indestructible Tumbler to the adaptable vehicle of “The Lego Batman Movie,” check out the Batmobile’s evolution, below.
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In our Google era, indexers are the unsung heroes of the publishing world

One of the things that’s commonly imagined is that indexing is, in the age of Google, something that can be outsourced to a computer algorithm. Dead wrong. A concordance – essentially, an alphabetical list of all the words in a book with page references – can be done by a computer. But an index, to be useful, needs to be done by a human. In a book about the Middle East, say, an entry that said: “Syria 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 23, 25, 26, 27 … ” would be no use at all.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/30/in-our-google-era-indexers-are-the-unsung-heroes-of-the-publishing-world?source=Snapzu

Trump plays the villain in trailer for 'An Inconvenient Truth' sequel

"Climate changes. Truth does not." That's the tagline for An Inconvenient Sequel, the follow-up to Al Gore's 2007 documentary An Inconvenient Truth. The documentary — which debuted at Sundance Film Festival — released its first trailer on Tuesday, and it couldn't be more timely. President Trump plays a prominent role in the trailer, which dropped on the same day that the president signed an executive order aimed at rolling back the Obama Administration's climate policies.
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Hulu’s ‘The Mindy Project’ to End After Six Seasons

“The Mindy Project” will return to Hulu for one final season, Variety has confirmed. Season 6, the show’s last, will premiere on the streaming service in September. The Mindy Kaling-created series, produced by Universal TV in association with 3 Arts Entertainment, bowed on Fox in 2012, part of a freshman class that included “Ben and Kate.” It ran on the network for three seasons before being canceled by Fox and picked up by Hulu in 2015. The series was recently sold into syndication on VH1 and Freeform.
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Bob Dylan finally agrees to accept Nobel Prize for Literature

Bob Dylan will finally accept his Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm this weekend, the academy has announced. The American singer was awarded the prize in October but failed to travel to pick up the award, or deliver the lecture that is required to receive the 8m kroner ($900,000;£727,000) prize. The academy said it would meet Dylan, 75, in private in the Swedish capital, where he is giving two concerts.
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Anarchist Cookbook author William Powell dies aged 66

Man behind manual for violent rebellion, used in a number of high-profile killings, had long repented publishing and turned to charitable work...
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Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE.

Music video by Kendrick Lamar performing HUMBLE.. (C) 2017 Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment)
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Gruesome Wasp Named After Shape-Shifting 'Star Trek' Character

A group of wasps with a gruesome lifestyle has just gained 15 new members. Like their kin, the newbies make a habit of laying their eggs in developing insects.
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Iron Fist - Season 1 Review

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For Sale: Baby Shoes. Never Said.

Garson O’Toole’s new book, "Hemingway Didn’t Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations," grew out of a wonderful website O’Toole has been conducting since 2010; the title, Quote Investigator, describes the content. It in turn developed from O’Toole’s realization of a paradoxical truth about the internet. While it has been the prime culprit in the modern-day epidemic of fake quotes, it also offers at the same time tools undreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio, for determining actual quotation provenance.
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Crew chief Dave Rogers takes indefinite personal leave from Joe Gibbs Racing

Crew chief Dave Rogers will take indefinite personal leave from Joe Gibbs Racing. Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series rookie Daniel Suarez now will be paired with Scott Graves.
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She’s the other funky drummer (and every woman, too): Chaka Khan in the 1970s

A young, fierce-looking Chaka Khan behind the drum kit for Rufus back in the early 1970s.  
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IT - Official Teaser Trailer

When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids are faced with their biggest fears when they square off against an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of murder and violence dates back for centuries.
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Five of David Letterman’s Best Late Night Donald Trump Takedowns

Each time Donald Trump appeared on a late night show during his presidential campaign he often left unscathed. Stephen Colbert made a wholehearted attempt to corner Trump during a one-on-one interview in 2015, but the (alleged) billionaire dodged the host’s inquiry for an apology and surprisingly aced a pop quiz that asked if he could accurately remember his own quotes. A year later, the lone Republican candidate’s appearance on The Tonight Show caused then-ratings juggernaut Jimmy Fallon to endure massive backlash for a hair tussling incident that still seems to linger in viewers’ minds.
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American Freedom: Sinclair Lewis and the Open Road

Some three decades before Kerouac and friends hit the road, Sinclair Lewis published "Free Air," one of the very first novels about an automobile-powered road trip across the United States. Steven Michels looks at the particular vision of freedom espoused in the tale, one echoed throughout Lewis’ oeuvre.
Read more: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/03/22/american-freedom-sinclair-lewis-and-the-open-road/?source=Snapzu

Report: Tomi Lahren ‘Banned Permanently’ From The Blaze

Conservative firebrand Tomi Lahren has reportedly been “banned permanently” from The Blaze, where she hosted a popular but controversial TV show. Lahren was previously suspended after she declared she was pro-choice, despite suggesting numerous times on her show that she is pro-life. An insider at The Blaze, founded by conservative radio host Glenn Beck, told The New York Post that Beck is “reminding the world of his conservative principles by sidelining Tomi after she insulted conservatives by calling them hypocrites."
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Bank Of Canada urges Star Trek fans to stop "Spocking" their fivers.

Canadians are ‘Spocking’ their fivers in tribute to deceased actor Leonard Nimoy, aka Spock from the Star Trek series...
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‘American Horror Story’: Billy Eichner Cast In Season 7 Of FX Anthology Series

Ryan Murphy is known for making out-of-the-box casting choices on FX’s American Horror Story. The latest is actor-comedian Billy Eichner, best known for his popular man-on-the street series Billy on the Street. Eichner is joining American Horror Story‘s upcoming seventh season in a heavily recurring role opposite returning AHS franchise stars Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters.
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Native Tongues

The making of the Dictionary of American Regional English, a five-thousand page, five-volume book documenting the history of American slang. By Simon Winchester.
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Homemade monsters: DIY horror movie makeup from 1965

In 1965, Forrest J. Ackerman hired legendary movie make-up artist Dick Smith to produce a Famous Monsters of Filmland Do-It-Yourself Monster Make-Up Handbook. Smith (1922-2014) was the guy who did the award-winning make-up for movies like The Exorcist, Little Big Man, The Godfather, Taxi Driver and Ken Russell’s Altered States. Smith’s special edition illustrated magazine presented a 100-page step-by-step guide on how to get the look for some of cinema’s best-known movie monsters. Using a range of everyday objects—from crepe paper and breadcrumbs to ping pong balls—Smith shared some of his best-kept secrets of the...
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A Marvelous Moment for French Writers and Artists

The close friendship, interaction, and parallelism between writers and artists in nineteenth-century France are the subject of Anka Muhlstein’s "The Pen and the Brush." Balzac put more painters into his novels than he did writers, constantly name-checking artists and using them as visual shorthand (old men looked like Rembrandts, innocent girls like Raphaels). Zola, as a young novelist, lived much more among painters than writers, and told Degas that when he needed to describe laundresses he had simply copied from the artist’s pictures. Victor Hugo was a fine Gothicky-Romantic artist in his own right, and an innovative one too.
Read more: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/04/06/marvelous-moment-french-writers-artists/?source=Snapzu

7 Tips for Donating Old Books Without Being A Jerk

Are you really doing anyone a favor with your book donation?
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Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so’

The visionary historian, author of two dazzling bestsellers on the state of mankind, takes questions from Lucy Prebble, Arianna Huffington, Esther Rantzen and a selection of our readers
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High Fidelity captured the snob’s—and the soundtrack’s—waning powers

“What really matters is what you like, not what you are like,” John Cusack’s Rob Gordon declares midway through High Fidelity, an admission the obsessive, self-obsessed record collector preemptively defends with, “Call me shallow, but it’s the fucking truth.” In Stephen Frears’ film—as in Nick Hornb
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Diddy’s Revolt TV accused of firing staffers for being old white men

A group of white employees is going to war against Revolt TV — claiming the music channel owned by Sean “Diddy” Combs canned them because they weren’t young and black, according to a new lawsuit. Douglas Goodstein and four other Caucasian producers — who are each over age 39 — worked on the televised version of ​Revolt’s popular urban talk-radio program “The Breakfast Club.” The producers say they had experience on other famous programs, such as “The Howard Stern Show,” but were treated by bosses...
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How Donald Trump Hypnotized Scott Adams

Come to his Dilbert-shaped home. Bite into a Dilberito. Be persuaded on genocide, mental orgasms, and his fellow Master Wizard, the president of the United States. By Caroline Winter.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-22/how-dilbert-s-scott-adams-got-hypnotized-by-trump?source=Snapzu

E-bikes are becoming a hit with consumers

E-bikes. Kind of rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? Which is good marketing news for the electric-bike industry which is currently riding a wave of popularity, especially here in sunny, athletically minded California, and enjoying buzz like it got at this weekend’s Electric Bike Expo in San Mateo.
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Duncan Hines: The Original Road Warrior Who Shaped Restaurant History

The name on that box of cake mix belonged to a real person. Hines was a traveling salesman who just wanted to find a decent meal on the road — and ended up being America's go-to restaurant expert.
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Listen to rare recordings of J.R.R. Tolkien reading ‘The Lord of the Rings’

Each year on March 25, Tolkien fans around the world mark the day by reading one of the many works penned by the popular Catholic author. According to the Tolkien Society, the annual event “has bee…
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Recent rulings leave drivers wondering where the line is

If there's a line you can't cross when it comes to retaliation in NASCAR, drivers such as Dale Earnhardt Jr. don't seem to know where it is. This week, it's the talk of the garage.
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Meeting Andrzej Sapkowski, the writer who created The Witcher

Andrzej Sapkowski has something of a reputation. To start with, he's a big deal. He invented Geralt, witchers, Triss, Ciri, the whole thing - it all came out of his head. He has won awards and his work is revered, especially in Poland. More than once I've heard him described as the Polish Tolkien. But I've also heard he can be difficult - and I'm on my way to meet him. "Good luck Robert. He is not the most pleasant person in the world…" one Twitter follower warns. "Good luck, you're gonna need it," says another.
Read more: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-03-24-meeting-andrzej-sapkowski-the-writer-who-created-the-witcher?source=Snapzu

A Delightful Dictionary for Canadian English

A reference book delves into the history of Canadian terms such as “toque,” “double-double,” and even “eh.”
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Succulents, The Ultimate Guide

Since the once-humble succulent is still having its day (read: decade), we were delighted to learn that longtime succulent grower, gardener, and evangelist Robin Stockwell—owner of Succulent Gardens in Castroville, California—finally published a book on his beloved plant genre.
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JUSTICE LEAGUE - Official Trailer

Published on Mar 25, 2017 In theaters November 2017 Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes—Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash—it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.
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Kyle Larson edges Denny Hamlin for Fontana pole

Kyle Larson earned the second pole of his career and his first of an already strong season.
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The Hand Work of the Footbound

Chinese women practiced footbinding for centuries—why is still too little understood.
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Decoding the music masterpieces: Bach's The Art of Fugue

Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue is a work of high art. But in keeping with the late works of artists such as Shakespeare, Beethoven and Goya, it contains elements of pathos, humour, gravity, exuberance and tragedy.
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Sci-fi author John Scalzi on the future of publishing: ‘I aspire to be a cockroach’

The author of Redshirts and The Collapsing Empire lays out his plan for his 10-year book contract, and the future of science fiction publishing
Read more: http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/22/14934064/john-scalzi-the-collapsing-empire-old-mans-war-interview?source=Snapzu

The Wildest Party on Earth

The wildest rock-climbing event in the world happens annually in the Ozarks of Arkansas, in a u-shaped canyon with enough routes for 24 straight hours of nonstop ascents. They call it Horseshoe Hell, but don't be fooled: for outdoor athletes who love physical challenges with some partying thrown in, it's heaven.
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The Rising Tide of Educated Aliteracy

In the age of information overload, discussing books you haven’t read has become a badge of honour—and, for some, a profession
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Gorillaz - Saturnz Barz (Spirit House - 2017)

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Penélope Cruz to Play Donatella Versace in 'American Crime Story'

The American Crime Story executive producer has cast Oscar winner Penélope Cruz to play the famed Italian fashion designer in an upcoming edition of his FX anthology series. The Pirates of the Carribean and Vanilla Sky actress will play the sister of murdered fashion designer Gianni Versace in Versace: American Crime Story. In 2009, the Spanish actress won best supporting actress for her role in Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
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USA vs. Puerto Rico: United States wins 2017 World Baseball Classic

It took four tries, but the United States finally won one of these things. Behind a dominant pitching performance by Marcus Stroman, and following a home run by Ian Kinsler, the USA shut out Puerto Rico 8-0 in the championship game Wednesday in Los Angeles.
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Hooverphonic - Badaboum

2015
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9 sci-fi musicals that rocked television before Supergirl and The Flash

Because musical interludes aren't just for the theatre.
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'Sesame Street' to introduce Julia, a muppet with autism, in April

She’s the wide-eyed little Muppet with a big smile who has made it to “Sesame Street.” Her name is Julia and she has autism. Julia was first introduced in 2015, playing alongside Elmo and Abby Cadabby, as part of an online-only Digital Storybook story called “Sesame Street and Autism: See the Amazing in All Children.” Come April, kiddie viewers will be seeing more of Julia when she makes her transition to the live-action fold of the long-running children’s show, as revealed in a segment Sunday on “60 Minutes.”
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Arca - Anoche

Taken from the new album Arca, out April 7 on XL Recordings. Conceived by Jesse Kanda and Alejandro Ghersi
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Arca - Reverie

Taken from the new album Arca, out April 7 on XL Recordings. Conceived by Jesse Kanda and Alejandro Ghersi
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Six Dots: The Remarkable Life and Legacy of Child Inventor Louis Braille, Illustrated

How a tenacious boy created one of the most life-changing inventions in human history.
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How to finish a novel: tracking a book's progress from idea to completion

Data from an app Wyl Menmuir used to help him write his Booker-longlisted debut gives insights into how it was done
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2017/mar/20/how-to-finish-a-novel-tracking-book-progress-wyl-menmuir?source=Snapzu