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Prisoners
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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Directed by Denis Villeneuve, with Jake Gyllenhaal & Hugh Jackman. Good, suspenseful, but a watch-once sort of movie. I enjoyed the "war on terror" allusions and metaphors, and was drawn in somewhat by the plot - but - could have as well found something a little richer.
Der Tagesspiegel
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Images
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Making the most of the layout...Seems more relevant than ever.
Minerals - Waiting to be found
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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A short visual exploration into the world of undiscovered rocks and minerals.
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Comets and the Plague
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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News that there's a new inbound comet that's brightening a lot faster than expected: https://phys.org/news/2020-03-comet-atlas.html
On a completely unrelated note, a few articles linking comets to outbreaks of plague and as harbingers of doom:
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326160954_Comets_and_Contagion_Evolution_Plague_and_Diseases_From_Space
- https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=Comets+as+predictors+of+plague&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart
- A selection from Cultures of Plague
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4x3yeg/a-comet-tried-to-kill-earth-with-the-black-death
You can find a lot more...
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