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To understand the future properly, it's crucial that we listen to geologists as often as we do computer scientists.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Computer Crucial Future Listen Often Properly Scientists Understand

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'World War Z' is basically a big-budget B-movie.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Basically War World World War

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The novel 'World War Z' is told from the perspectives of so many people - speaking to the narrator - that there's no way a movie could capture all of them. Still, the idea of turning a zombie pandemic into a war story is fascinating and could have translated easily to film.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Capture Could Easily Fascinating Film Idea Many Movie Narrator Novel Pandemic People Perspectives So Many People Speaking Still Story Them Translated Turning War Way World World War Zombie

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Max Brooks' novel 'World War Z' is one of the greatest zombie stories ever written, partly for reasons that make it basically unfilmable.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Basically Brooks Ever Greatest Make Max Novel Partly Reasons Stories War World World War Written Zombie

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Turning a zombie pandemic into a generic disaster movie robs the zombies of their dirty, nasty edginess and robs the disaster of its epic scope.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Dirty Disaster Epic Generic Movie Nasty Pandemic Scope Turning Zombie Zombies

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The myth that young people should leave the nest at 18, never to return, started with iconic American Benjamin Franklin.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: American Benjamin Franklin Franklin Iconic Leave Myth Nest Never People Return Should Started Young Young People

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There can be problems with extended families, and it can get a little close for comfort. But for the younger generations, it's clear that this option is becoming almost as appealing as living alone.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Almost Alone Appealing Becoming Clear Close Comfort Extended Families Generations Get Little Living Living Alone Option Problems Younger

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Radio Shack is meeting the fate of many other stores that were wildly popular in the twentieth century, including record stores, comic book stores, bookstores and video stores.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Book Bookstores Century Comic Comic Book Fate Including Many Meeting Other Popular Radio Record Shack Stores Twentieth Twentieth Century Video Were Wildly

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Back in the 1980s, you could learn how to add memory cards to your PC in a Radio Shack.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Add Back Cards Could How Learn Memory Radio Shack You Your 1980S Pc

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Millions of nerdy kids who grew up in the 1980s could only find the components they needed at local Radio Shacks, and the stores were like a lifeline to a better world where everybody understood computers.

~Annalee Newitz

Topics: Better Better World Components Computers Could Everybody Find Grew Kids Lifeline Like Local Millions Needed Nerdy Only Radio Stores Understood Up Were Where Who World 1980S

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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