Neill Blomkamp’s big budget SF movie about class warfare opened this weekend to mixed reviews. What place will it occupy on your personal Greatest Science Fiction Film list?
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Newspace: Bureau42 Short Film Fest
Can’t get out to the latest SF blockbuster? Here’s a little Bureau42 Festival of recent short genre films available on Youtube:
“Flying Man” takes a dark look at the superhero:
“R’ha,” “The Final Moments of Karl Brant” (with Paul Reubens), “Caldera,” “Runaway,” and “The Strangers,” below:
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Higher Education:
A team from the University of Toronto successfully launched a human-powered ‘copter, winning a prize that has remained unclaimed for three decades:
Meanwhile, another team of university students will be getting a lift from NASA later this month to see how fire burns in microgravity.
I’d love to go stargazing with you, but…
Ever wonder how to wash your hair in space? Astronaut Karen Nyberg shows you how.
I know rats can carry plague, but….
The U.S. Economic Development Administration spent a fortune destroying computers– including printers and mice– attempting to rid their system of suspected, commonplace, easily-purged viruses and malware. Tax dollars at work, in an agency designed to deal with economic issues.
The best thing since this long-neglected timeline?
If you haven’t stumbled on it yet, a blogger named Joe Negroni has folded all the Pixar films into one universe-building timeline.
Nerd love, Superman’s punch, and more, after the jump.
Continuum Review: “Second Listen”
Cameron teams up with Gardiner, Alec’s house becomes a crime scene, and we learn someone’s truth about why future Alec sent Liber8 to the present.
Podcast feeds now available
Audio podcasts are coming from Bureau 42. The master feed (iTunes, RSS) is now available, and will include all audio podcasts, including the two we’ve already done. The first regular podcast goes up one week from today, in the inaugural chapter of our monthly Silver Screen Superman, covering the 12 feature film incarnations of the character and most of the franchise. (Steel is omitted.) That will also have its own feed, as will our podcasts about the films in our Greatest Science Fiction Film Tournament, this fall’s X-Files Retrospective podcast, and more. There is also a feed for Math From Scratch (iTunes, RSS) and we will be introducing feeds for Summer School, Teaching Tidbits and a master education feed as well. Note that the education feeds are in PDF format, which I find works in iTunes but not in the iOS Podcasts app. The audio podcasts work as expected under iOS.
Season’s Greetings from Bureau42!
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Podcast poll results (sort of)
We polled readers last week, and received responses only from the site authors. The final format decisions can be heard in this inaugural podcast, and the listener poll about the second and further TV podcasts can be found here.
The Greatest Science Fiction Film Tournament
Science fiction has been around for centuries, and science fiction has appeared on film since 1902. Many website purport to offer lists of the greatest science fiction films of all time. We’re going to produce the definitive list, with your help. Read on for details.
Podcast Projects for 2013 and beyond
We have not one, not two, but three different podcast projects starting in 2013 and later. Project 3 is the big one that has been teased for months. If you enjoy them, there will be more. Details for all three follow after the break. I’ll be looking for guest hosts for all of them to add a conversation dynamic. If you are interested in guest hosting on one or more, you can email me and let me know.
Teaser – 2013 Special Project
Coming September 2013