We’ve still got plenty of Wimbledon and the Tour de France to enjoy, not to mention the British Open baseball’s All-Star game (which one doesn’t belong). But on July 27, all eyes (most eyes?) will be on London and the Summer Olympic Games. To celebrate, here is an Olympic athlete montage video featuring Muse’s London […]
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Thanks, mom (P&G campaign)
From Mashable: As athletes get ready to take the global stage during the London 2012 Olympic Games less than 100 days away, Procter & Gamble has released a new ad praising mothers worldwide. Press play and cue the waterworks. In three days, the video has received over 700,000+ views on YouTube. P&G, the personal care and […]
Mashable- No CGI in new Alien: Earth xenomorph teaser December 26, 2024The upcoming "Alien: Earth" series showcases its titular monster in a video and images.
- ChatGPT has gone down the day after Christmas December 26, 2024ChatGPT experienced some service outages while users were presumably recovering from holiday festivities.
- Apple explains why it will never build a search engine December 26, 2024Apple has a lot of reasons not to make a search engine that would theoretically compete with Google, but a certain one stands out.
- 4 radio emissions Earth received from space in 2024 December 26, 2024Radio telescopes received mysterious signals in 2024 including strange slow pulses, powerful and ancient bursts, interference from Starlink, and magnetar emissions with clues from deep space.
- Why this 2020 MacBook Air might be your favorite computer yet December 26, 2024Upgrade to the 2020 MacBook Air with the M1 chip — fast, quiet, and perfect for work or play, now available refurbished.
- No CGI in new Alien: Earth xenomorph teaser December 26, 2024
The place to meet on the Fairfax campus
The George Mason statue is kitty-corner to the Johnson Center and the Mason Pond Parking Deck, where guests can easily park on the first three levels (Fairfax campus map). As soon-to-be emeritus faculty, I'm always happy to meet with friends and my former Mason students on campus.
Alum Kevin McCarthy at work
Film critic and GMU alum Kevin McCarthy encouraged students during his many visits to my GMU classes to pursue internships and "get noticed!" See some of Kevin's terrific interviews on his Nerd Tears website.
The One Thing
So, as Billy Crystal asked Jack Palance in "City Slickers," what's "The One Thing"? To find out, just contact me by email to set up a "Journalism for the Rest of Us" seminar, workshop or program.