The New York State Department of Health pulled radioactive kleenex boxes from the shelf, fearing they could cause cancer– and mindful, perhaps, of bringing another angst-ridden superhero into the world.
♪”Kleenex-man, Kleenex-man, does whatever….” ♬
Author Archives: JD DeLuzio
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This recent signal from space could be many things, but it does look like the sort of thing a radio-transmitting civilization might send.
Maybe it’s a birthday greeting to Stephen Hawking.1
More below, including disappointing news for Captain Kirk and a very small wire.
Weekend Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
This seems, I recognize a little off-genre for our site. However, the breakout hit among the season’s non-Family offerings (and this is seriously not a film for young’uns) is a thriller with moments of horror and an an alienated hacker hero who scrapes the border of SF.
Crossover Comix Update
I can’t recall when I last updated ye olde Crossover Comix, but Archie’s recent encounter with Kiss (a strange version of Riverdale: everyone knows Sabrina is a witch, but no one has heard of Kiss) prompted me to post it, along with a few older items, including an epic Barbarian battle and one of the Green Lantern’s most unusual public appearances:
Seek out new life…. in Antarctica
No Great Old Ones thus far been identified, but a research team has found some fascinating things living in the hydrothermal vents near Antarctica.
Video below.
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NPR has the audio and transcript of 2011 science stories in review. Cosmos magazine’s list of the year’s top science stories appears here.
Sense and Science, meanwhile, rounds up its drubbing of celebrities who misreport and misrepresent science. I approve of their regular debunking—but does anyone really turn to Snooki for scientifically sound commentary? And should they be allowed to vote?
And we’ve got some new-ish science stories bellow, the return of the airship, and some largely irrelevant video.
Happy New Year! See you in 2012!
Movie Review: The Adventures of Tintin
Few comics have achieved the international fame of Hergé’s Tintin. Graphic novels before anyone used the term, they concern a youth of indeterminate age who engages in rollicking “Boy’s Own” adventures with his brilliant dog and eccentric adult friends. He’s probably least-known in the United States, where Steven Spielberg, who cites Tintin as an influence on the Indiana Jones movies, has spent years getting the property to the big screen.
How has Tintin fared in the translation?
Weekend Review: A Christmas Carol (1999)
Review: Neverland
Peter Pan never grows up– and he’s not going away anytime soon. This latest twist on J.M. Barrie’s memorable character brings him to Neverland for the first time. Before he flew around with Tink and the Boys, he belonged to a gang of street urchins, in the employ of one James Hook.
Higgs boson?
Doubtless everyone here by now has heard that the best evidence yet has been found for the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle” proposed by six physicists in 1964. If it exists, it would help explain much about the universe, including the fact that other particles have mass.