Новости за 26.04.2017

Where is the line between “fair use” in the legal sense and ethical transgression? As Vocativ reported on Monday, several adult performers have accused the producers of the Netflix documentary series Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On—which is meant to be a sympathetic window into the porn industry—of featuring them without their consent. In one case, the performer’s legal first name was revealed on screen after the producers found her Facebook page.

We have reached peak Mitt Romney nostalgia. This month, the former Republican nominee is being praised for long ago naming Russia “our number-one geopolitical foe,” a throwaway line that many considered at the time to be a campaign gaffe. The Atlantic’s McKay Coppins reported that Romney is exploring a bid for Senator Orrin Hatch’s Senate seat in Utah. And The Boston Globe came into possession of Romney’s infamous “binders full of women,” which he bragged about—to much hilarity and criticism—during a debate against President Barack Obama. Читать дальше...

In 1952, the US Army asked Duke University to help them develop a program to determine if dogs were psychic. Specifically, they wondered, could dogs use extrasensory perception (ESP)? To this end, researchers carried out a series of 48 tests on a beach in Northern California to see if dogs could locate underwater explosives. At first, the results pleased the scientists, who concluded that there was “no known way in which the dogs could have located the under-water mines except by extrasensory... Читать дальше...

Leonardo Padura’s full name is Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes. Like his name, Padura’s new novel Heretics is long, elegant, a little religious in flavor, and invokes a great mononymous painter of the European past.

Democrats devolved last week into an intra-party dispute over abortion. It began with a controversy over Senator Bernie Sanders and Democratic national chairman Tom Perez’s support for Heath Mello, a mayoral candidate in Omaha, Nebraska, with a mixed record on the issue (though not as mixed as originally reported). NARAL Pro-Choice America pounced, calling the DNC’s move “not only disappointing” but “politically stupid.” By Friday, Perez had released a strong statement saying all Democrats must... Читать дальше...

When it was first announced that Richard Spencer, one of the founding fathers of the alt-right, would be giving a talk on April 19 at Auburn University in Alabama, it immediately and quite predictably set off a flurry of threats and counter-threats between the strangely symbiotic camps of America’s fascists and anti-fascists. The website for Antifa (short for anti-fascist) blared that Spencer and his goons were descending on the South, threatening to overrun Auburn with white power combatants armed in “safety gear.” In response... Читать дальше...