Errol Morris Takes Perverse Trip Down Tabloid Lane

Errol Morris' Tabloid examines Joyce McKinney -- beauty queen, bondage phenom and canine cloning champion.
Errol Morris’ latest documentary, Tabloid, was supposed to be a return to the humane quirk of his early work, like pet-cemetery laugher Gates of Heaven, which infamously made auteur Werner Herzog eat his shoe. But then Rupert Murdoch’s toxic News of the World scandal exploded, reminding everyone on Earth that tabloid journalists are mere steps above cockroaches on the evolutionary chain. It also made Morris’ film about the tabloid-ready exploits of a ’70s beauty queen exceedingly timely.
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Forget Slates: Sony's Android Tablets Come in Funky Shapes

Sony's two new Android tablets, codenamed S1 and S2, come in form factors different than most others on the market. Photo: Mike Isaac/Wired.com
Sony is betting you’ll buy one of its upcoming tablets for one big reason: They look like nothing you’ve seen before.
Codenamed the “S1? and “S2? for now, Sony’s two unreleased Android tablets depart from the usual square, flat slabs we’ve seen so far in 2011. Instead, the S2 design comes as a dual-screen, clamshell device, while the S1 is similar to many current tablets with one significant deviation — its funky, wedge-shaped form factor, which tapers f...
Search Engines Change How Memory Works
Thanks to search engines, most simple facts don’t need to be remembered. They can be accessed with a few keystrokes, plucked from ubiquitous server-stored external memory — and that may be changing how our own memories are maintained.
A study of 46 college students found lower rates of recall on newly-learned facts when students thought those facts were saved on a computer for later recovery.
If you think a fact is conveniently available online, then, you may be less apt to learn it.
As ominous as that sounds, however, study co-author and Columbia University psychologist Elizabeth Sparrow said...
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