An educational soap opera made by some guys at the University of Illinois-Champagna. The purpose of Destinos is to immerse lowere level college and mid level high schoolSpanish students in the language. Its format is based on the Spanish "telenovela" soap formula, different from the U.S. and others because there is actually a plot, hmm, what a novel idea!
an ever diminishing sine wave that represents the introduction of a new concept, swinging from a positive bias to a negative until eventually settling at acceptance or normalcy
the disinuous hysteria of fake news resulted in healthy skepticism of main stream media
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flexcash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.