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On this date in 1930, Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered the (dwarf) planet Pluto, long believed the be the farthest planet in the Milky Way solar system before being formally demoted to the specially designed status of plutoid in 2006. Since then, the astronomical entity has become a very melancholic figure, a sentiment facilitated by Pluto’s [...]

Yesterday, we read in the New York Times that China has imposed a new Visa system on Tibet that makes it impossible for foreigners to visit the occupied mountain nation. This is worrisome for many reasons, none more so than the fact that whatever political and religious oppression takes place there will now be even [...]

Michael Jackson died yesterday, and while everybody is still reeling from the news and trying to process the odd mixture of sadness, confusion (anger?) and adoration that most have felt for the pop superstar and, lately, reclusive nut-job throughout their lives, list-form tributes abound. Rather than add one to the mix, we’ll add 10 suggestions [...]

As you probably know, unless you’re trapped under a rock without wireless reception, the Iranian election is going, well, not so great. The country’s religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for an investigation, opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi claims his defeat was fraudulent, and incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced his victory within twelve hours of [...]

Did you ever see the Eddie Murphy-Steve Martin comedy Bowfinger? No? Well, it wasn’t an Oscar bait film (in fact it was pretty grossly under-rated), but at one point Murphy’s action movie star character Kit Ramsey points out that black men only get nominated for Oscars if they play slaves, and even then it’s the [...]

Amid all the economic doom and gloom, maybe we should be looking to financial films for some advice on dealing with white-collar crime and unethical business practices. mental_floss does just that in their listicle of 5 Movies About Underhanded Financial Shenanigans. Our favorite is undoubtedly the Dan Akroyd-Eddie Murphy class reversal comedy Trading Places:

Growing up in France, I remember seeing my first Eddie Murphy movie, The Golden Child of Tibet, and thinking it was the funniest thing ever. Years went by, and I kept referring to The Golden Child as my favorite Eddie Murphy movie. Then one day I finally saw it in English, and was so horribly [...]

Since we gave you, dear readers, some invaluable movie-rental advice for the beginning of the long weekend, we figure it’s our duty to use our weekly financialisticle Big Money Mondays to come through with more recommendations for the tail end of said three-day period. We realize it’s Presidents’ Day, and that this should really be [...]

As we overdose on inauguration coverage today and tomorrow, we’ll be seeing so many American flags that by Wednesday we’ll think every blank surface is covered in stars and stripes. To complement the plethora of flags in today’s news coverage, we’ve been seeing a lot of a fictional flag being waved lately. All the commercials [...]