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Reactions to Mother Movie | POPSUGAR Entertainment

You might think you know what Mother! is about, but do you? Really? Even after you’ve seen it? That’s what everyone who bought tickets for Darren Aronofsky’s brutal new thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence is trying to figure out. Thanks to all of the gore, biblical themes, and the brain-melting twist, it’s . . . a lot, to put it lightly. Mother! has also pulled in a shockingly bad “F” rating on poll-based website Cinemascore — the worst score that can be given — so audiences have clearly been thrown by…

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Who Are the First Men on Game of Thrones?

  In the seventh season of Game of Thrones, Jon Snow is determined to woo Daenerys Targaryen. And we mean “woo” in many senses. Sure, we’re low-key hoping they get married (even though they’re related), but we’re also hoping they join forces to fight off the approaching White Walker army that draws closer with each passing day. In the fourth episode of the season, Jon Snow takes another stab at winning over the Mother of Dragons: he takes her into his newfound dragonglass cave to show her some supercool cave…

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Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89

“I thought of a computer as some obscene piece of hardware that I wanted nothing to do with,” Ms. Sammet recalled in an interview in 2000. Continue reading the main story Her initial aversion was not unusual among the math purists of the time, long before computer science emerged as an academic discipline. Later, Ms. Sammet tried programming calculations onto cardboard punched cards, which were then fed into a computer. “To my utter astonishment,” she said, “I loved it.” In the early 1950s, the computer industry was in its infancy,…

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