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News Briefs 08-03-2018

…Next thing you know, they’ll be enforcing sanctioning tariffs against Mexican film directors, too! 😉

  • 12 sci-fi movies that totally deserved to win Best Picture before The
    Shape of Water.
  • The behavior of the elusive blue whale is revealed through their songs.
  • Archeologists are close to find a lost Viking settlement in North America.
  • Athletes are turning to leeches to try gaining Wolverine-like healing powers, Bub.
  • Tangentially Speaking interviews Jeff Leach, a researcher who made headlines when he inserted fecal matter from Hadza hunter gatherers up his colon. This chat is the $#it!
  • Sleepyhead: Emmanuel Mignot applauds Henry Nicholl’s personal and scientific account for narcolepsy and beyond.
  • 5 ‘extraterrestrial’ points of interest in Southern California for believers and skeptics alike. The Integratron and Giant Rock are still in my bucket list!
  • The strange case of the left-handed UFO.
  • Joshua Cutchin offers a tantalizing non-materialist hypothesis for the persistent UFO secrecy. Listen to him offer more left-field ideas on the new installment of The Paracast.
  • The enigma of Edinburgh’s miniature coffins.
  • Anomalous Americana: 3 stories from the etheric margins of the southern United States.
  • By devising new ways to look into the tiny processes inside brain cells, neurobiologist Ed Boyden aims to solve the ‘big issue of the brain.’
  • Artist Melvin Way holds the key to the Universe –and that key is… cocaine?
  • The Vatican, the exorcists and the return of the Devil in a time of enchantment.
  • Researcher Linda Godfrey takes a look at the reports of glowing red eyes in cryptid sightings.
  • Red Pill of the Day: What do you do when you’re a Japanese farmer that wants to keep wild boars at bay? Why, you hire the services of a super monster wolf, of course!

Thanks to Greg and Guillermo.

Quote of the Day:

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge–the abyss

Guillermo del Toro.

 

  1. Finally, someone asks the loup for help 😉
    By the way you can buy that Halloween mask for $20 on eBay.
    Don’t get me wrong, I am happy for Guillermo and I don’t want to belittle his win, but we all know Disney’s Oscars are political. He and Coco won because of the racial tension in the room, not because the movie. It was a great movie, but I didn’t feel it deserved Best Picture. Best director though absolutely. I kinda wanted Bladerunner to get something.

  2. “12 sci-fi movies that totally deserved to win Best Picture before The Shape of Water.”

    Well, they’re not all science fiction per se, e.g. “The Exorcist”, “The Wizard of Oz”.

    Remove “Mad Max: Fury Road” (non-stop over-the-top violence that quickly became boring, I snoozed through most of it), and I agree with the list.

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