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  • App Smart: BuddyTV, Peel And TV Guide Apps Find Shows Worth Watching

    nytimes.com 4 days, 3 hours ago

    Apps like BuddyTV Guide, Peel and TV Guide let viewers find shows they want to watch more efficiently than by channel surfing.

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    forbes.com 17 hours, 18 minutes ago

    For the last eight years, Times Higher , a London magazine that tracks the higher ed market, has put out a list of what it deems to be the world's top universities. Each year, THE gets more ambitious in its rankings, expanding the list from 200 schools to 400 in 2011. (I wrote about the ...

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Comedy, as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in Ancient Greece. In the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was remarkably influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters. The theatrical genre can be simply described as a dramatic performance which pits two societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. Northrop Frye famously depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old", but this dichotomy is seldom described as an entirely satisfactory explanation. A later view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes; in this sense, the youth is understood to be constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to take recourse to ruses which engender very dramatic irony which provokes laughter.

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