Five Bad Ideas Science Fiction Teaches Us to Love – Mythcreants

Blog Podcast Comics Editing Search Analysis Five Bad Ideas Science Fiction Teaches Us to Love July 1st, 2016 by Oren Ashkenazi A fate worse than death, so far as Kirk is concerned. A defining feature of science fiction is that it teaches us something. Even the more outlandish stories can inspire us to think about the future by asking interesting questions: How will we use new technologies? How will we overcome pressing problems of the day? This is the province of scifi. But wh...

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urine (n.) c. 1300, from Old French orine, urine (12c.) and directly from Latin urina "urine," from PIE *ur- (source also of Greek ouron "urine"), variant of root *we-r- "water, liquid, milk" (source also of Sanskrit var "water," Avestan var "rain," Lithuanian jūrės "sea," Old English wær, Old Norse ver "sea," Old Norse ur "drizzling rain"), related to *eue-dh-r (see udder).

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You will be advanced socially, without any special effort on your part

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What subjects the new BioShock game should tackle next, according to philosophy professors | GamesRadar+

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Empowering Poetic Defiance

Empowering Poetic Defiance: Baudelaire, Kant and Poetic Agency in the Classroom Many strategies for incorporating poetry into non-poetry classes, especially outside of English and associated disciplines, appear to make poetry subservient and secondary in relation to the prose content of the course. The poet under consideration becomes a kind of involuntary servant to one or more prose authors, forced to "speak only when spoken to," and effectively prevented from challenging the ideas of the...

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Note that "burnt orange" could be a way to describe sepia, as in historic films from the 1930’s and before. -zas

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Ultraviolence: On Color Out Of Space And Adapting Lovecraft

After a 10-year hiatus, director Richard Stanley returns with Color Out Of Space, a technicolor nightmare-scape based on a short story by horror author HP Lovecraft. Stanley takes the 19th-century work, one written with scientific detachment, and creates an intensely emotional narrative fit for 21st-century horror cinema. A colour, unable to be classified or defined, has consumed the very thoughts of a family who have descended onto an ancestral land as a respite from the city. Madness descen...

A contribution to the history of common salt

A contribution to the history of common salt. Source: Kidney International Supplement . Jun1997, Issue 59, pS-127-S-134. 8p. Author(s): DeSanto, Natale G.; Bisaccia, Carmela; Cirillo, Massimo; DeStanto, Rosa Maria; DeSanto, Luca Salvatore; DeSanto, Daniela; Papalia, Teresa; Capasso, Giovambattista; De Napoli, Nicola Abstract: Salt has influenced human nutrition, health, politics, taxation, economy, freight, transport, and commerce throughout the ag...

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Theory explains the biggest mystery about Heath Ledger's Joker - Dark Knight

Dais Johnston2.25.2020 12:00 PMCanon FodderDark Knight theory explains the biggest mystery about Heath Ledger's JokerThis theory's got Nolan's fingerprints all over it.More like thisEntertainment2.14.2020 4:45 PMRobert Pattinson's 'The Batman' Batsuit has a ghoulish comic book Easter eggBy Eric FranciscoEntertainment2.21.2020 9:30 PM'The Batman' set leaks: There's a good reason Pattinson looks like thatBy Eric FranciscoEntertainment2.21.2020 5:55 PM'The Batman' movie set photos reveal an icon...

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PLTxt- How Sex Plays a Significant Role in Children’s Literature

Become a memberSign inOpen In AppHow Sex Plays a Significant Role in Children’s LiteratureTom Sawyer & the Absence of Sex (from Para.doxa)Jerry GriswoldFollowDec 5, 2016 · 8 min readPhoto credit: WikpediaThough it might at first seem an unlikely assertion, sex plays a significant role in Children’s Literature. One of the cornerstones of our very definition of childhood–evident, for example, in our system of movie ratings–is the taboo that surrounds knowledge about sexual matters. Such a r...