July 01, 2011

The Sleeper Curve: Everything Bad is Good For You
— rdbrewer

In Sleeper, Woody Allen's character, the owner of a health food store, wakes up in the future to find that junk food is good for you, among other things. It's a "fish out of water" story. "The Sleeper Curve" is an expression that acknowledges the fact that much of the absurd humor in the movie Sleeper is coming true. The expression comes from a book by Steven Johnson, Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter. more...

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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

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