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Winning The Game Of Love In 'Loathe At First Sight'

7:00am August 22, 2020

by Denny S. Bryce

Suzanne Park's debut adult novel is a crackling romance starring a young woman trying to make it in the extremely male-dominated gaming industry — can she find love AND a career? Signs point to yes.

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I'd Like To Thank The Academy

3:57pm August 21, 2020

William Jackson Harper (The Good Place) and Yvonne Orji (Insecure) visit past Academy Awards ceremonies in an audio quiz about iconic Oscar speeches.

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Landmark Lark

3:57pm August 21, 2020

William Jackson Harper and Yvonne Orji combine geography and wordplay in a game about well-known landmarks, with a twist.

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Are You Not Edutained?

3:57pm August 21, 2020

Tony Shalhoub and Luke Kirby (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) go back to school in a game involving audio clips from vintage educational films. Luke and Ophira discover they have a lot in common.

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Must Love Dogs

3:57pm August 21, 2020

Tinder goes wild in a game where Tony Shalhoub and Luke Kirby try to guess the animal based on imagined online dating profiles.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt

3:57pm August 21, 2020

Joseph Gordon-Levitt talks about starring in a peanut butter commercial as a child. And plays a game where songs associated with movies are rewritten to be about the movie scene in which they appear.

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Documentary Chronicles Students' Fight For Black Rights During 'Freedom Summer'

1:20pm August 21, 2020

by Terry Gross

Freedom Summer, now streaming on PBS, focuses on the 1964 movement to get Black people to vote in Mississippi. Director Stanley Nelson and organizer Charles Cobb discussed the film in 2014.

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Ethan Hawke plays Serbian American inventor Nikola Tesla in the playful new biopic, Tesla.

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Wild And Daring, 'Tesla' Captures The Spirit Of An Unorthodox Inventor

1:20pm August 21, 2020

by Justin Chang

Ethan Hawke plays the famed Serbian American inventor in a new film that reminds us what a modern creature Tesla was — a figure from the past who never stopped pointing the way to the future.

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Derek Amato became a musical savant after a traumatic accident.

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You 2.0: Fresh Starts

1:02pm August 21, 2020

Unpredictable things happen to us all the time. As part of our annual You 2.0 series on personal growth and reinvention, we revisit two of our favorite stories of loss and the change it brings.

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This 1895 portrait of Susan B. Anthony was painted by Carl Gutherz when Anthony was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, a group dedicated to women's voting rights.

Susan B. Anthony Museum Rejects President Trump's Pardon Of The Suffragist

4:39pm August 20, 2020

by Neda Ulaby

The director of the museum, Deborah L. Hughes, suggests that the best way to honor Anthony would be to take a clear stance against voter suppression and to advocate for human rights for all.