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Films portraying tech are ‘leaning towards more personal, moral fables’

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Watching robots on the movie screen always has an impact on human beings; Terminator might inspire fear and foreboding, while...

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Need your Christmas nostalgia film fix? New free streaming app has all your favorites

The Sociable4 years ago

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It may come as a surprise (or it really might not) that Home Alone takes the title of the number one...

The Field, available to watch on RTÉ Player later this week

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RTÉ Player to include movies for the first time

Darren McCarra9 years ago

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RTÉ Player is to include movies for the first time later this week, the national broadcaster announced in a tweet earlier this evening.

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Show how nerdy you are with these retro posters

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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Show off your nerdy credentials with these retro, and public domain, movie and propaganda posters.

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Twitter employs sentiment analysis to try and predict who will win at the Oscars

Piers Dillon Scott9 years ago

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Can Twitter, using sentiment analysis, predict who will win at the 2013 Academy Awards? The company wants to find out with the launch of its Oscars site.

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Anticipating The Avengers

michael.carroll10 years ago

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Michael Carroll takes a look at Marval's Avengers film & tells us of his love for the comics & why we should never call it Avengers Assemble!

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Dublin’s Movie Fest: Bringing an amazing lineup of Hollywood exclusives this side of Comic Con

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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Irish films fans are in for a treat this August when some of Hollywood's most anticipated films of 2011 and 2012 are screened during Ireland's inaugural Movie Fest.

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Foursquare records check-ins from every country in the world, and also 1 from space

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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Foursquare users checked in over 380,576,305 times in 2010, including once from the International Space Station, the company announced today. Describing 2010 as “an insane year” the three year old smartphone social network released some information (in infographic form, of course) about their userbase.

Brains Byte Back

We explore how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. If you want to be better prepared for the new information age, have a healthier relationship with technology, and get more out of life using top technology and psychology hacks, this is the podcast for you! Every other Friday we bring you interviews with leading experts in the fields of technology and psychology combined, with past guest speakers such as New York Times journalists, MIT Professors, and C-suite executives of top tech companies.

You may have heard of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his followers, commonly known as Rajneeshees or sannyasins, from the incredibly popular Netflix documentary “Wild, Wild Country.”

Well in today’s episode we speak with a former follower of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult to get a better understanding of how this society functioned, what it was like to live in normal society as a member of the cult, and what it was like on the famous Oregon ranch.

With our guest, Annie (who has asked to remain anonymous but showed her mala that she wore during her time as a Rajneshee to prove her affiliation with the cult), we find out how she first find out about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the Rajneeshees, and what inspired her to join their cult, where she goes into great detail about how she found them when she was 16 at an Alcoholics Anonymous event.

She also shares why life as a Rajneeshee was difficult off the ranch in normal society, as society often treated them with a mixture of suspicion, curiosity, and fear. In fact, she was fired from all of her jobs due to her membership in the cult, but she also explains how she saw this as a positive, “a trial by fire” as she claims.

Annie also goes into detail about what it was like visiting the ranch in 1983, when, she believes, much of the footage used in the documentary was filmed. She talks about the important role meditation played in being a Rajneeshee and what a normal day was like on the ranch.

She also shares her thoughts on how accurate the documentary was, how close she came to meeting Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and finally, how she left the cult in the end.

Overall, Annie explains why she doesn’t see the following as a religion or cult, but instead as a community and how this community had such an overall, lasting positive experience in her life.