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The entertainment industry provides us with culture, but so does science — and not just the kind of culture you can grow in a lab dish. Entertainment editor Emily Yoshida and science editor Liz Lopatto guide you through the week's cultural events, both in the arts and sciences. The series finale aired on September 9th, 2016. For more on what’s happening now (and next) in science and culture, listen and subscribe to The Vergecast.
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The end of headphones - 0:35 Horror movies — final girl trope - 3:21 Narrative psychology — how storytelling shapes our understanding of events - 21:44
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0:24 - Wilderness Week 4:22 - Epi-Pen/drug costs 18:11 - Frank Ocean and album releases 32:02 - Halt and Catch Fire
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0:18 - Ryan Lochte 3:54 - Arrival film 8:57 -Nate Park + Birth of a Nation 23:09 - Interview with Ed Yong
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0:41 - Liz sees Suicide Squad
6:35 - Scientist hit list
10:14 - Flossing revisited
12:52 - Smithsonian misconduct
31:08 - Stranger Things
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0:33 - Ghostbusters
8:15 - Flossing
13:07 - Nature documentaries
23:21 - Suicide Squad
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03:43 - biodiversity
07:32 - Pokémon GO
24:50 - Ohlala
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Liz and Emily discuss a disheartening week in national news, The Purge and violence in entertainment, and Beyonce’s very awesome headphones.
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The Season of the Shark: The Shallows, Game of Thrones, and Jupiter by The Verge
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Alternative weight loss, alternative music, and the best YouTube account ever by The Verge
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Taylor Swift: 00:50
Space news: 05:06
Astronaut health care: 09:48
Audible: 17:26
Yoshiaki Nishimura: 19:38
Lemmy: 32:24
Recommendations: 38:41
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05:23 - Prince
07:50 - Elon Musk
23:19 - X-Men Apocalypse
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14:02- Game of Thrones discussion
24:58 - algorithms
35:11 - Neighbors 2
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Ghostbusters Twitter, Brazil, and other failed states by The Verge
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Captain America Civil War, the genetics of education, and other disappointments by The Verge
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Microbiomes, Biggest Losers, and other gut-related tragedies/interview with Arielle Duhaime-Ross by The Verge
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Quantum Break, band reunions, and other forms of time travel by The Verge
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Time passes and the internet evolves — as everything does, really. ocial norms, minimal genomes, and the changing nature of celebrity
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Liz and Emily discuss SXSW, genetic testing, and getting the chills from songs.
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This week on Verge ESP: Emily chats with food critic Jonathan Gold about the forthcoming documentary City of Gold, a movie about his approach to LA's food. In fact, we discuss a glut of movies this week, including the genre-benders The Witch, 10 Cloverfield Lane, and Midnight Special. Liz and Emily revisit the topic of spoilers — are there some cases where a lack of expectation is to be encouraged?
Also: Sunday is the start of Daylight Saving Time in the US, a stupid practice Liz feels ought to be discouraged. Not only does it interrupt her morning schedule — the sun's only just started rising when she gets up and she'd like that to continue — it also leads to sleep deprivation. And everyone is worse when they don't get enough sleep!
Meanwhile, Maria Sharapova, the most highly-paid female athlete in the world, was taking performance-enhancing drugs and still couldn't beat Venus Williams. What's even weirder is the history of those drugs: they were originally meant for Soviet super-soldiers. Anyway the moral of this story is that Venus Williams is an incredible athlete, and we all ought to admire her. (In fact, both Williams sisters are remarkable athletes — Sharapova lost to Serena Williams the same day Sharapova tested positive for PEDs.)
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Mermaids, Fad Diets, and #FreeKesha by The Verge
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