According to [@aftermath.site](
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 )'s Chris Person, IMDB reviews are "reliably banal and awful." Here's why he dislikes the system. We want to know: Which of these do you use to decide if you'd like to watch a movie? Choose as many answers as you like.
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The Sweet Spot Of IMDb Is 6.3-7.6  - Aftermath
IMDb's scoring system is useless and conceptually poor, unless you account for that ahead of time and assume it's wrong.
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Garrett Graff hopes this weekend's No Kings protests will someday be looked back upon as a turning point. Here's his story for his newsletter, Doomsday Scenario, in which he lists his reasons for hope: Trump's unpopularity, the fact that he can't last forever, and America's historical imperfection. "Today may be dark, but the story of America for 250 years is that — with hard work by good people — tomorrow there is hope it will be better," he writes.
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Three Reasons I Still Have Hope for America
This weekend's "No Kings" rallies stand as an important corrective amid a dark moment
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In September, Masha Hamilton and her son, Cheney Orr, took a nearly-2,000-mile road trip along Interstate 95 — to connect with each other, and America. The pair chronicled their experiences for this Atavist longread. "The America I’ve met on the road is also far more recognizable, resilient, and generous than the noise of now would have us think," she concludes. "Online, we’re a nation of factions. In parking lots and at picnic tables, we’re a nation of encounters," writes Hamilton.
I’ve Gone to Look for America - The Atavist Magazine
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Baek Se-hee, the South Korean author of the memoir "I Want to Die but I Want To Eat Tteokbokki," has died at age 35. Her book was a global bestseller, celebrated for its nuanced approach to the author's internal conflict between her depressive thoughts and her appreciation for simple joys. "The human heart, even when it wants to die, quite often wants at the same time to eat some tteokbokki, too," she wrote. Here's a tribute to her by [@BBCNews](
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Baek Se-hee: South Korean author of I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki dies at 35
South Korean writer Baek Se-hee was known for her 2018 bestselling memoir about her struggle with depression.
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Making a corn maze takes logistics, agricultural science, technology and artistry. Here's [@PopularScience](
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 )'s story about how Tim Fitzgerald created Indiana's Exploration Acres, the advances he's seen in maze technology since he took over his family's dilapidated farm in 2008, and the challenges he faces, from rodent pressure to climate change.
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Inside the making of a world-class corn maze
In Indiana, Exploration Acres found a way to keep the family farm alive.
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Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" will be released in select theaters tomorrow, and on Netflix on Nov. 7. [@BBCNews](
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 )'s Rebecca Laurence takes a look at the theme of empathy that is at the heart of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, how Hollywood forgot it, and whether the new adaptation reinstates it.
Frankenstein: Why Mary Shelley's 200-year-old horror story is so misunderstood
As a new film starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi is released, why is the message of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel still overshadowed by its success,...
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RIP Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. The legendary trans activist died on Oct. 13, surrounded by her loved ones, according to an announcement from her nonprofit, The House of gg. Here's [@19thnews](
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Legendary transgender activist Miss Major dies at 78
Known as a surrogate mother of her community, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy leaves behind a legacy as a fierce advocate for trans and LGBTQ+ rights.
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D'Angelo, a master of soul music and the singer/songwriter behind three classic albums, has died at age 51 after a cancer diagnosis. Here's [@RollingStone](
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D’Angelo, Soul's Modern Visionary, Dead at 51
D'Angelo, the soul and R&B great whose three albums — 'Brown Sugar,' 'Voodoo,' and 'Black Messiah' — are all...
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An old tradition finds new life as Germans flock to forests to collect mushrooms. From [@AssociatedPress](
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An old tradition finds new life as Germans flock to forests to collect mushrooms
Wolfgang Bivour, a renowned fungi expert in Germany, leads mushroom hunting tours near Potsdam. This activity, once a necessity after World War II,...
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Where does a racist slur come from? When a national conversation around the racist nickname of an NFL team sprouted up a few years ago, an author gained access to dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster’s Consolidated Files: 16 million citations of words that have been published for more than a century. “It boggled the mind that the team had gotten away with propagating the word for as long as it did,” Stefan Fatsis writes for [@Defector](
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 ). A great read that explains why the team finally dropped its nickname:
The Annotated History Of A Slur | Defector
A few years ago, when the conversation over the racist nickname and racist iconography of the NFL team that maintained racist hiring policies longe...
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