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Todd from Breaking Bad (i.e. Jesse Plemons) as a young Luke Skywalker in J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars movie? Sure.

Depending on your particular streaming video obsession, you know Jesse Plemons as either Landry from Friday Night Lights or Todd from Breaking Bad. I watched both shows, although I was a lot more into Breaking Bad all told, and I think Plemons has one… Continue Reading

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Did Comcast partner with Khan Academy just to get new, low-income customers — and then drop the ball? (Perhaps.)

By now, you’ve probably heard of Khan Academy — hell, it got a 14-minute profile on 60 Minutes a while back (embedded above). It’s an online education community that strives to create a new model for how people are educated around the… Continue Reading

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How big a deal are the Koch Brothers and their dark money?

A couple of days ago in The Washington Post, they ran an article about the Koch Brothers’ impact on the 2012 elections. In short, it was about $400 million through various “dark money” groups that they work with (one of the… Continue Reading

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Could Andre Broessel and the spherical solar energy generator be the answer in the solar energy world?

Cool fact: every hour, the Sun provides the Earth with enough energy to power civilization for a year. Uncool fact: only about 34 percent of all sunlight hitting a solar cell can actually be converted to electricity at this point, meaning it’s not… Continue Reading

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A Packers fan, Jon Niemuth, is the reason it’s impossible to beat the Seattle Seahawks at home

The Seahawks lost once at home this season — to the Cardinals — but before that, they hadn’t lost at home since Christmas Eve 2011 (to the 49ers, and that was only by two points). When they beat the Saints… Continue Reading

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2016 Alert: As Chris Christie struggles with bridges, Marco Rubio turns to poverty as an issue

Two interesting things as relate to the 2016 Republican side of the Presidential equation are in play right now. Today, Chris Christie will address this whole bridge-gate controversy. Meanwhile, yesterday — in the LBJ Room on Capitol Hill, 50 years after… Continue Reading

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Why isn’t Sofia Vergara a bigger movie star?

She owns the ‘highest-paid TV actresses’ list, but can she become a silver screen star too? Continue Reading

Marissa Mayer is apparently rolling the dice on digital magazines

Marissa Mayer — who made a splash wit some product grabs (Tumblr) and some people grabs (Katie Couric, David Pogue) recently — gave a Yahoo (Yahoo!) keynote at CES 2014 and talked about some of Yahoo’s upcoming plans. It was an entertainment-driven… Continue Reading