Given that it opens with a tsunami so realistic that it got an Oscar nomination for its special effects, Hereafter (out this week from Warner Home Video) got yanked from theaters in Japan even as it hits video store shelves in the United States. But that sort of ouchy coincidence happens all the time in every corner of pop culture. For instance:
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DVD: Clint Eastwood’s Tsunami Movie, and 3 Other Examples of Bad Pop-Culture Timing
Photo by Cofrin Library We love seeing the ways the environmental movement alters mainstream culture, and the degree of its impact can be viewed quickly by just taking a look at the dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary is no slouch on keeping up with new words created in every corner from clean tech to the DIY movement — like when “hypermiling” made it as word of the year in 2008. Added to the latest edition are such greenie favories (or not) as “staycation,” “carbon capture and storage,” and “geo-engineering.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Oxford Dictionary of English Adds Climate Science Vocabulary
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