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Film log 2011 - a summary
[Just FYI, and if you’re not interested, just for my records]
1. Pontypool (interesting idea, fairly good execution)
2. Encounters at the end of the world (Herzog meets suicidal penguins: AWESOME )
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (great cast and yeah, hum, OK if you’re into that sort of stuff)
4. Solyaris (the Tarkovsky original; mind=blown)
5. The Fountain (it’s totally...
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The cultural life of whales | Feature | Science |... →
New research suggests that whales use their sophisticated communication techniques to develop distinct and separate cultures. Biologist Hal Whitehead and writer and self-confessed ‘whalehead’ Philip Hoare discuss this new frontier
This conversation is unbelievably interesting: it includes a discussion of what ‘culture’ means in terms of science; a proposition that humans...
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