Facebook Buzz About 'Best Picture' Oscar Nominees Is Way Up This Year

Brian Anthony Hernandez2013-02-24 15:18:34 UTC

The nine Oscar-nominated Best Picture contenders have sparked a high volume of chatter from Facebook users ? 20 times higher so far than last year, according to data Facebook and ABC shared with Mashable. Meanwhile, mentions of "Oscars" is three times higher.

And while Lincoln and Argo are the heavy favorites to take home the Best Picture statuette, the official fan pages for those two movies don't have the most Likes on Facebook.

Most-Liked Best Picture Nominees

• 1. Les Mis?rables: 1,298,730 Likes

• 2. Django Unchained: 879,079 Likes

• 3. Life of Pi: 567,998 Likes

• 4. Lincoln: 298,290 Likes

• 5. Argo: 226,018 Likes

• 6. Silver Linings Playbook: 173,752 Likes

• 7. Zero Dark Thirty: 154,943 Likes

• 8. Beasts of the Southern Wild: 58,105 Likes

• 9. Amour: 19,692 Likes

Most-Discussed Best Picture Nominees

But the most-Liked flicks aren't necessarily the most-discussed.

Gender Split for Best Picture Nominees

• Men overwhelmingly like Zero Dark Thirty. The movie?s fan base on Facebook skews 78 percent male versus 22 percent female.

• Women prefer Les Miserables and Silver Linings Playbook. These movies tied in the gender split, with 73 percent female fans versus 27 percent male fans.

Age Split for Best Picture Nominees

To see what movie fans who Liked a specific Best Picture nominee also likes on Facebook, check out the gallery above. For example, people who Liked Zero Dark Thirty also Liked Radiohead, the Rolling Stones and Mark Wahlberg.

For more social media commentary about the Oscars, tune into "Backstage Pass" starting at 4 p.m. PT at Oscar.com or on the Oscars app. Mashable's entertainment reporter Brian Anthony Hernandez is among the hosts who will provide behind-the-scenes facts and online analysis from the red carpet and in the winners' photo room.

Hernandez is part of the the first-ever Red Carpet Digital Lounge along with by Radio Disney?s Jake Whetter and PopSugar's Allison McNamara.

Other "Backstage Pass" hosts include The View?s Sherri Shepherd, TV personality Cameron Mathison, Modern Family?s Rico Rodriquez, Entertainment Weekly?s Jess Cagle, PEOPLE?s Peter Castro.

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Photo courtesy of LesMiserablesFilm.com, graphics courtesy Facebook and ABC

Topics: 85th Academy Awards, academy awards, Entertainment, Facebook, Film, gallery, oscar, Oscars, Social Media, Television

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Has evolution given humans unique brain structures?

Feb. 22, 2013 ? Humans have at least two functional networks in their cerebral cortex not found in rhesus monkeys. This means that new brain networks were likely added in the course of evolution from primate ancestor to human.

These findings, based on an analysis of functional brain scans, were published in a study by neurophysiologist Wim Vanduffel (KU Leuven and Harvard Medical School) in collaboration with a team of Italian and American researchers.

Our ancestors evolutionarily split from those of rhesus monkeys about 25 million years ago. Since then, brain areas have been added, have disappeared or have changed in function. This raises the question, 'Has evolution given humans unique brain structures?'. Scientists have entertained the idea before but conclusive evidence was lacking. By combining different research methods, we now have a first piece of evidence that could prove that humans have unique cortical brain networks.

Professor Vanduffel explains: "We did functional brain scans in humans and rhesus monkeys at rest and while watching a movie to compare both the place and the function of cortical brain networks. Even at rest, the brain is very active. Different brain areas that are active simultaneously during rest form so-called 'resting state' networks. For the most part, these resting state networks in humans and monkeys are surprisingly similar, but we found two networks unique to humans and one unique network in the monkey."

"When watching a movie, the cortex processes an enormous amount of visual and auditory information. The human-specific resting state networks react to this stimulation in a totally different way than any part of the monkey brain. This means that they also have a different function than any of the resting state networks found in the monkey. In other words, brain structures that are unique in humans are anatomically absent in the monkey and there no other brain structures in the monkey that have an analogous function. Our unique brain areas are primarily located high at the back and at the front of the cortex and are probably related to specific human cognitive abilities, such as human-specific intelligence."

The study used fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scans to visualise brain activity. fMRI scans map functional activity in the brain by detecting changes in blood flow. The oxygen content and the amount of blood in a given brain area vary according to a particular task, thus allowing activity to be tracked.

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1. Dante Mantini, Maurizio Corbetta, Gian Luca Romani, Guy A. Orban, Wim Vanduffel. Evolutionary-Novel Functional Networks in the Human Brain? The Journal of Neuroscience, 2013; DOI: 10.1523/%u200BJNEUROSCI.4392-12.2013

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Chicago bluesman Magic Slim dead at 75

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Guitarist Magic Slim, a mainstay of the Chicago blues scene who followed in the footsteps of such greats as Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, died on Thursday at age 75, his manager said.

Slim, the son of Mississippi sharecroppers, gave up the piano and turned to guitar after losing his right pinky finger in a cotton gin accident at age 13. He died at a Philadelphia hospital where he had been under treatment for various ailments, manager Marty Salzman said.

A heavy smoker who suffered from emphysema and heart problems, Slim was forced by illness to cut short a tour with his band, the Teardrops, in late January, Salzman said.

Born Morris Holt in Torrence, Mississippi, Slim grew up on a farm and made his first trip to Chicago in 1955, starting off as the bass player for a friend and mentor known as Magic Sam, who lent the younger musician his nickname.

Slim cut his first record in 1966 and became a Chicago blues fixture in his own right, developing a guitar style that blended a distinct vibrato with a slide-guitar-like sound formed with his bare fingers against the strings.

Known for playing with picks on both the thumb and index finger of his right hand - a somewhat unusual technique, according to Salzman - the guitarist was recognized as much for his powerful, gruff vocals as his musicianship.

With more than 30 albums to his credit, Slim also was known for an encyclopedic mastery of the blues, Salzman said.

"There's probably not another bluesman who had quite the repertoire that Slim had," he said.

While Slim lived in recent years with his family in Nebraska, "Chicago was always like home to him," his manager said.

(Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Peter Cooney)

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We live in a world where we have beaten most diseases and already live longer than we should

Oh yeah... beaten most disease? Give me a fucking break. We certainly nailed some big viruses, but those aren't diseases.

Let me know when you figure out how to cure something as simple as Migraine headaches. How about depression, we have 'treatments' but certainly no cures, and those treatments are a crapshoot. Maybe this drug works... oh no, well lets try this one... Yeah it works, but your heartrate doubled...

The simple fact of the matter is that the current state of 'medicine' is that your options for actually beating a disease are:
1. Take a vaccine for the cause before you actually get the disease (if a vaccine exists)
2. Take antibiotics if it is bacterial in nature. Hope that the infection hasn't caused irreversable damage
3. Take a knife and cut it out.
4. Sew it back up.

Everything else is basically palliative care. We are just now beginning to se the barest glimpse of genetic treatments, and you are considering most diseases beaten and that people live too long?

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Kim K. not quitting 'Keeping Up' after season 9

By The Hollywood Reporter staff

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Kim Kardashian says she won't be quitting "Keeping Up" after season nine.

Despite reports to the contrary, fans will be able to keep up with?Kim Kardashian?for at least a few more years.

In a recent?DuJour?cover story, which features remarks from?The Hollywood Reporter's editorial director?Janice Min, Kardashian allegedly says that season nine of her hit E! reality show will be her last. The story indicates that Kardashian -- having signed on for the upcoming eighth and ninth seasons -- will not extend her contract beyond what she has already committed to. Multiple outlets picked up on the story, blasting headlines all over the Internet about Kardashian calling it quits on the hit franchise and with many suggesting that Kardashian?s beau,?Kanye West, is to blame.

Photos from THR: Inside Kardashian Inc.

?My boyfriend has taught me a lot about privacy,? she is quoted as saying. ?I?m ready to be a little less open about some things, like my relationships. I?m realizing everyone doesn?t need to know everything. I?m shifting my priorities.?

Kardashian now is disputing the reports, saying that the reality franchise remains her first priority but maintaining a noncommittal stance on what the future might bring.

?In the article, I was asked about continuing on with?'Keeping Up With the Kardashians,'?? she writes on her?official blog. ?As everyone knows, we are extremely proud of the show and all of us are staying on through at least season 10. The show remains to be my number 1 priority and it?s a big part of my life and I enjoy every moment of it.?

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She continues: ?I?m looking forward to the new season and beyond. The fact is that I have many goals that I still need to reach and accomplish and I (like so many of you) don?t know where my life will be in the next couple of years, but I?m looking forward to continuing this journey.?

Season eight of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians"?began filming this month and will premiere in June. According to her interview with?DuJour, "KUWTK"?will not include any explicit ?baby stuff,? relating to the child she is expecting with West, and might or might not include her beau.

?We haven?t really gotten that far yet,? says Kardashian.

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