Weekly Twitter Round Up


With the Academy Awards only an hour or so away and the Middle East still shaken by protest, the Twitterverse continues to pulse with activity and information exchange, be it life altering or merely superficial.  Hands down, my favourite tweet of the week comes from the ever eloquent Yoko Ono who wrote: โ€œTo the youth who think they are silenced by the media and alienated from the world: The future is yours. And ours, actually.โ€ Enjoy your Sunday night whether spent with Oscar or pouring over your homework (or a bit of both) and check out a few of my other favourites from around the Twitterverse:

Fascinatingly bleak: Visual evidence that movies are getting worse




Canada reverses brain drain by spending freely on research




The 15 Most Trivial Things We Learned on the Oscar Campaign Trail





Things could be worse: 12 dystopian novels you should read




Is Facebook justified in censoring users who post classic art nudes to their pages?




Film professors offer their predictions on who should win the




Oscar the Grouch predicts the Oscars. WATCH!