Geekolinks: 8/23

1. You’ve got a new Batman, and it’s Ben Affleck. (EW)
2. Awesome YouTube series The Brain Scoop has a new home at Chicago’s Field Museum (The Mary Sue)
3. One in three people prefer their dogs to their relatives. Related: two in three people are big liars. (Metro)
4. As D&D players already know, tomb bats are carrying deadly infectious diseases. In real life too, now. (BBC)
5. The next Star Wars will be shot on film, not digitally. (The Verge)
6. Paula Deen and Trayvon Martin scandals get combined into one Law & Order: SVU racism extravaganza (The Braiser)
7. Brandy just played to 40 people in a soccer stadium in South Africa. It was pretty, pretty, pretty sad. (The Jane Dough)

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