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Aaand we’re back with another podcast full of random goodies. This past Sunday in our nerd laboratory we had a group discussion about six headlines in today’s media (including the words of the day). Our group discussion featured Ms. Melissa x Ms. Si x Kevin Golden x Spit x Mr. Blair which = Headline Anarchy. [...]

When the school board asks Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) to make a new commercial for the school, he enlists the study group to star in his production. As he gets swept away with the project, more of the student body is pulled into the fray, including Magnitude (Luke Youngblood), Fat Neil (Charley Koontz), Garrett (Erik Charles [...]

The study group pitches in to help when Annie (Alison Brie) decides to move in with Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed (Danny Pudi), but the plan breaks down when she becomes frustrated by their fun-loving lifestyle. Elsewhere, Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) discovers Jeff (Joel McHale) at the mall and blackmails him into spending a lovely [...]

Like most gentlemanly pursuits with their origins in a past era, fine dining has its own set of conventions some men have never entirely managed to adopt. Dining etiquette extends to more than just which fork goes where – sitting at a table and sharing a meal is a social, personal experience, and everything a [...]

Entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel spoke to a group of student entrepreneursat Stanford this evening, and at the end one student asked him what he thought the U.S. government should be doing to spur innovation. His response: “The U.S. government is socialism without the five-year plan. As a result, we have much worse outcomes than [...]

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends limited television for children – and discourages it altogether for children under age 2. A new study in the October, 2011, issue of the journal, Pediatrics, finds that some TV shows may be worse than others. The study, “The Immediate Impact of Different Types of Television on Young [...]

Most women are naturally bi-curious when it comes to sex, a new report has discovered. And what’s more, it becomes more pronounced the older they get. In a study carried out by Boise State University found that out of a group of 484 heterosexual women, 60 per cent were sexually attracted to other women; 45 [...]

Episode Synopsis: When Britta (Gillian Jacobs) runs anonymous personality tests on everyone for a psychology class, one of the test results seems to indicate that someone in the group is deeply disturbed. At the group’s Halloween pre-party, she enlists Jeff (Joel McHale) to help draw out the potential sociopath and the two of them lure [...]

Are Black Parents Being Disrespected by Catholic Schools In the U.S.? In Chicago, St. Helena of the Cross Elementary School(98% Black), is being systematically dismantled and destroyed by the Chicago Office of Catholic Education. Chicago Catholic Superintendent Sister Mary Paul McCaughey makes critical decisions about Black children without the input of Black parents.  This is not 1850!  She is wrong!!!  [...]

Music From Saharan Cellphones Vol. 1 Music from Saharan cellphones is a compilation of music collected from memory cards of cellular phones in the Saharan desert. And it’s coming to vinyl. In much of West Africa, cellphones are are used as all purpose multimedia devices. In lieu of personal computers and high speed internet, the [...]

It is hard to watch the news without being confronted with images and stories that disparage young black people again and again. From Philadelphia to Chicago to England, elected leaders and the media represent black youth as being engaged in uncontrollable behavior that necessitate legal interventions and arrests. In Philadelphia, black mayor Michael Nutter has [...]

For 20 years, the Chicago Public Schools have tried it all.   High-stakes tests, decentralization, ending social promotion, shuttering failing schools and opening new ones.   And through it all, reading scores in the city‘s weakest elementary schools largely haven’t budged, an exhaustive University of Chicago study released Friday shows.   It’s a conclusion Mayor [...]