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Attack on Titan 4×10 Review: “A Sound Argument”

February 15th, 2021

After the emotional whiplash and action of the past several episodes, "A Sound Argument" gave us a moment to breathe and take stock of where we are right now in the story. It also, in true Attack on Titan fashion, answered some questions while leaving us with more. "A Sound Argument" dropped a lot of reveals, but it also shows more than just the information dumps. Historia is pregnant, the military is just as corrupt as before, Mikasa is the long-lost descendant of the ruling fam...

Nabu: Ancient Mesopotamian God of Scribes and Wisdom

February 15th, 2021

Nestled in the fertile region around the River Tigris and Euphrates, the historical region of ancient Mesopotamia has long been regarded as one of the earliest cradles of civilization. Home to ancient cultures of Assyria, Babylon, and Sumer, it was also the home of diverse gods and goddesses.  Sumer, one of the oldest civilizations in this region, influenced the developing pantheons of both Assyrians and Babylonians. And the God Nabu, one of the most important deities in  Mesopotamia, was est...

Edward's Syndrome - Everything2.com

February 15th, 2021

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Edward's Syndrome (thing) by BioTech Fri Nov 02 2001 at 16:00:15 Edward's Syndrome (also known as trisomy 18 or trisomy E) is a congenital disorder caused by a baby having an extra copy of chromosome 18 (in other words, the baby has three copies instead of the normal two). Characteristics of the disorder include widespread defects in internal organs throughout the body and malformed physical features of the face and skeletal s...

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The Rape of the A*P*E* (thing) by ModernAngel - Everything2.com

February 15th, 2021

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Rape of the A*P*E* (thing) See all of The Rape of the A*P*E*, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by ModernAngel Sun Apr 02 2000 at 1:11:25 The Rape of the A*P*E*: The Official History of the Sex Revolution 1945 - 1973: The Obscening of America: An R*S*V*P* Document. by Allan Sherman, 1973, Playboy Press. Out of print. (A.P.E. : American Puritan Ethic R.S.V.P.: Redeeming Social Value Pornography) Very entertaining. I laug...

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Celtic Feasts

February 14th, 2021

Feasts were an important part of ancient Celtic culture which marked important dates in the calendar and community successes. They were, too, an opportunity to display social status and, of course, eat and drink aplenty. Drunkenness and brawling were not an uncommon feature of these events, and sometimes there were even fights to the death over matters of honour such as who should have the right to eat the best cut of meat. Feasts feature prominently in tales from Celtic mythology and even gi...

Love spells in the Greek Magical Papyri

February 14th, 2021

As it’s nearly Valentine’s Day, we have collected some ‘charming’ love spells preserved in the Greek magical papyri of the British Library. Such spells were believed to rouse love and passion, but more worryingly they were also intended to bind and attract the loved one to the user. Some spells even went so far as to cause suffering to the victim, which was to end after the lovers were united. Most of the spells presented below are preserved in Papyrus 121, a magical handbook presumably from ...

Rome’s Venus Was Not Your Regular Greek Aphrodite

February 14th, 2021

By Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510 CE), commissioned by Lorenzo and Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de’Medici for Villa di Castello. / Wikimedia Commons Ancient Rome’s Venus had many abilities beyond the Greek Aphrodite. By Brittany Garcia Introduction In Roman mythology, Venus was the goddess of love, sex, beauty, and fertility. She was the Roman counterpart to the Greek Aphrodite. However, Roman Venus had many abilities beyond the Greek Aph...

“Letting the contemporary run through you”: The Film Criticism of Olivier Assayas

February 14th, 2021

One of Assayas’s most ferocious articles he ever wrote (and also one of the most theoretical) attacks le cinéma publicitaire – a film aesthetic (associated in France with Jean-Jacques Beineix and Luc Besson) brazenly derived from commercials, in thrall to advertising. Commenting on the mediating use of recycled old-Hollywood images, he writes that cinephilia "used to be a taste for the old, born of a creative search for the new"; it meant studying the filmmakers of the past "in order to confr...

Kitty Mammas

February 14th, 2021

The tagline on the poster for Kitty Mammas is "The cat’s out of the womb." Well, that is certainly truth in advertising. The Katrina Nicholson-penned, Dennis Alexander Nicholson-directed mockumentary is, indeed, about wombs and cats. See, the (wrongfully) disgraced Dr. Han (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) is starting a clinical trial with a camera crew in tow to capture it all. What’s so special about this clinical trial that the good doc wants someone to film the ups and downs of the participants? ...

“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below." Metaphors and Analogies in Technological Writing

February 13th, 2021

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below." Metaphors and Analogies in Technological Writing Cyber nerd | Research Analyst at InvoZone. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called" - Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare Analogies have always been writers’ favorite medium to use. They give life to both literature and pr...

From Where They Stood shines a light on secretly taken photos to help us remember - Production / Funding - France/Germany

February 12th, 2021

12/02/2021 - Christophe Cognet’s second feature film – produced by L’Atelier Documentaire and sold by mk2 Films - will world premiere at the Berlinale Forum From Where They Stood by Christophe Cognet For some fifteen years now, Christophe Cognet has been working on pictures taken in secret and at risk of death by deportees in Nazi camps. And after the drawings and watercolours of Parce que j’étais peintre (revealed in the Cinema XXI section of Rome Film Fest 2013), it i...

The Glint

February 11th, 2021

If you’ve purchased a new phone or TV in the past few years, you may have noticed that night-time viewing has caused your eyes a bit more strain. That’s because many new displays are equipped to produce, in one flavor or another, a "high dynamic range" image — HDR, for short. A fundamentally relative and fuzzy term, HDR purports to produce brighter whites and inkier blacks than have previous display technologies. The recent iPhone 12 family, for instance, touts a peak brightness of 1,200 nits...

How Many Colors in This Image? Here's The Science Behind The Illusion Dividing Twitter

February 11th, 2021

Shaded image shared via 0UTR0EG0 on Twitter. HUMANS How Many Colors in This Image? Here's The Science Behind The Illusion Dividing Twitter Mike McRae 10 February 2021 Now that the bin-fire that was 2020 is in our rear view mirror, social media is making a return to serious discussions that truly matter. Like how many colors a thing has. Again. Earlier this month, a classic optical il...

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A Glitch in the Matrix

February 10th, 2021

Rodney Ascher’s documentaries dream of something bigger than just sharing information—they aim to permanently rewire your brain. His debut feature "Room 237" broke down the wildest hidden messages within Stanley Kubrick’s "The Shining," so that you'll never see that classic the same way again. His follow-up documentary, "The Nightmare," focused on the phenomenon of sleep paralysis, with the menacing trick being that watching a movie about such a concept could indeed pass it on to vi...

La Llorona: The scary film representing horror at this year’s Golden Globes

February 10th, 2021

Horror is being represented at this year's Golden Globes thanks to the Foreign Language category. In a genre that is not usually given much love at awards ceremonies, fans will be happy to see that La Llorona has been nominated. The Guatemalan film is directed by Jayro Bustamante, and follows an ageing paranoid war criminal who is haunted by the ghosts of his past. In the UK, it is available to stream via Amazon Prime Video's Shudder...

Fabric and Fog, and Tied Together: Visconti’s White Nights (1957)

February 10th, 2021

By Joe McElhaney. I. Fabric and Fog For Visconti, though, the white nights are those of winter, with the electric lights of the film’s urban setting creating one manifestation of white…." Dostoevsky’s white nights are those of a summer, when the sky of Petersburg "was so bright and starry."(1) The arrival of spring causes Petersburg to become comparable to a female body as she "reveals herself in all her might and glory" and as "she blossoms out, dresses up, decks herself out ...

a reason to love the internet today - The Brown Daily Herald

February 10th, 2021

The Instagram post shows an image of Kris Jenner, matriarch and momager, standing with arms on hips, wearing stripes, a beret, red suspenders, and classic (except for the burgundy lipstick) mime makeup. Above her, a title reads: "‘Life on a Stage or Staged Life? The Chicken or the Egg Dilemma of Reality and Unreality on Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ Calabasas University Press (2018)." The poster, @kardashian_kolloquium (note the "k" in "kolloquium") writes in the caption: "The visibly genu...

Tom Holland debunks popular Spider-Man 3 rumour – but fans are not convinced

February 10th, 2021

Tom Holland has firmly denied the rumours that Spider-Man 3 will feature past incarnations of the titular superhero.  The hugely anticipated sequel has been the subject of rumours and speculations for months as fans anticipate the Marvel movie will include the Multiverse, which would allow timelines to intersect with one another.  One rumour that has gained particular traction suggests that Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield will reprise their past rol...

Cut To The Chase

February 10th, 2021

Meanings of "Cut To The Chase" The phrase "cut to the chase" means to immediately get to the point without the unnecessary preface or preamble. Origin of "Cut To The Chase" The phrase "cut to the chase" has originated from Hollywood. It was first used in a novel, Hollywood Girl, written by Joseph Patrick McEvoy. It was published in 1929. The phrase in this novel goes thus; "Jannings escapes… Cut to chase." However, the meanings were almost the same in the later usages, too. A Brit...

J. M. Coetzee on Writing, Literature, Animals, and More

February 10th, 2021

Happy birthday, J. M. Coetzee! 81, today! Here are some quotes from the author:   "Unimaginable perhaps, but the unimaginable is there to be imagined."   "The activity of writing, then, is not to be distinguished from the activity of self-exploration. It consists in contemplating the sea of internal images, discerning connections, and setting these out in grammatical sentences."   "Writing, in itself, as an activity, is neither beautiful nor consoling. It’s industry."   ...

On the Complexity of Using the Mango as a Symbol in Diasporic Literature

February 9th, 2021

In Calcutta, we cut mangoes into crescent moons, the skin still attached. The mess is the ritual—we drag our teeth against each rind, tear the fruit from skin, prolong every sweet note. I work meticulously through the mango, like a duty, until it would be sin to touch anything else; my hands covered in juice, yellowed and sticky. And yet I want to touch other things—my face, the sofa, my clothes, the people I love. I suck the fruit from the gutli. I sit there with wet hands, waiting to wash t...

The Drenching Richness of Andrei Tarkovsky

February 9th, 2021

Tarkovsky, despite his avant-garde leanings, ultimately gravitated toward nineteenth-century Romanticism and its fin-de-siècle mystical offshoots. His diaries channel Goethe ("The more inaccessible a work is to reason, the greater it is") and Schopenhauer ("We are all dreaming the same dream"). He displays a misogyny that is retrograde even by nineteenth-century standards; a woman’s real purpose, he writes, is "submission, humiliation in the name of love." He pictures himself as a messianic a...

Victoria Chang on the Humor and Oddity in Obituaries

February 9th, 2021

At the New York Times Magazine, poet Victoria Chang discusses with Malia Wollan the art of the obituary poem, as seen in her newest collection, Obit, a memorial to the dead and a reflection on grief. "’There’s a lot of humor and oddity, strange tensions and funny stuff about people and the things they do together,’ Chang says. Obituaries, even simple ones, remind us of our briefness. After watching her mother die, Chang understood in a visceral way for the first time that she, too, would die....