The Center for Scholars and Storytellers, a US/Canadian research group backed by UCLA, Toronto’s Ryerson University, and others, has released a study of children’s TV
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Amazon’s narrowed its HQ2 candidates down to 20 cities
Late last week, Amazon issued an update on its plan to set up a new headquarters (dubbed “HQ2”) in another city. Which city will get
Read moreWhere should Amazon’s new headquarters be located?
Earlier this month, online giant Amazon announced it wants a new secondary headquarters (dubbed “HQ2”) in another North American city. Amazon listed their desired criteria
Read moreAnimated cartoons set in the South
Plenty of cartoons have featured the southern United States, aka the South. Granted, some tend to depict the region as a backwater full of hillbillies.
Read moreAnimated cartoons set in the West
The Western United States is a popular setting for animated cartoons. Westerns alone ensure it’s definitely not underrepresented in media. California’s also (disproportionately) treated by
Read moreAnimated cartoons set in the Northeast
The east coast is the setting of plenty of animated cartoons, thanks to the prominence of Boston, Philadelphia, and New York City. So, on the
Read moreAnimated cartoons set in the Midwest
Animated cartoons sometimes set their series somewhere in the American Midwest. Non-Midwestern characters might also occasionally visit a specific locale in the Midwest, such as
Read moreHow American media reported this week on mass shootings and gun control
Today’s edition of the “New York Times” comes with a front page editorial, the first one the paper has run since 1920. This editorial is
Read moreThe metric system in animation
The metric system, the measurement system used by the entire world save the United States (and Myanmar/Burma and Liberia) saw a short-lived promotion in the
Read morePixar on stamps in 2011 (plus all US stamps to become “forever stamps”)
Some of Pixar’s characters will become United States Postal Service stamps in 2011. Here’s what they’ll look like: Yes, they’re all from recent Pixar films,
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