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FEATURE: Busy Halloween? Anime Shorts Are Easy To Watch And Full Of Horror

  One of my favorite animated horror sequences comes from a forgotten 2010 Gainax series called Hanamaru Kindergarten. The tenth episode’s ending sequence tells the stand-alone story of the show’s protagonist, a kindergartener named Anju, who from the back of a bike sees a mysterious house populated by rabbits and is drawn into a series of horror vignettes. We’re given several quick references in succession that no kindergartener could ever hope to recognize: The Exorcist, The Shining, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and even David Lynch’s Inland Empire. Anju escapes to the other side, the rabbits receding to become a distant memory. But then it’s revealed that the teacher giving her a ride is in fact a vampire! Horror of horrors!

  Storyboarded and directed by Masahiko Murata, who directed this year’s To Your Eternity, this sequence works on several levels. It’s a love letter to cinematic horror, cramming in as many references as the staff could fit into a minute and a half. It realizes those influences in a loose and cartoony style that still captures horror’s expressionist appeal. Finally, it successfully grounds itself in the perspective of Anju, a kindergartener to whom everything happening here might be nothing but a faintly remembered dream later in life. The sequence resembles the nightmare of a child, plunging its heroine into fragmented scenarios from which there is no explanation or escape. Despite having never watched Hanamaru Kindergarten, I find this sequence deeply creepy and nostalgic. After all, serial killers, houses of rabbit people, and other creatures of the night are statistically rare; but who hasn’t been a terrified little kid at one point?

    Another key element of this sequence: it’s short. At just 90 seconds long, this ending sequence packs in more unnerving atmosphere and scares than you’d find in many “horror” anime several times the length. I’d personally even rank it over some full-length horror dramas. So what gives?

  When it comes to horror, a shorter length can actually be an advantage. It’s no coincidence that for centuries, horror literature consisted of short stories rather than novels and films rather than TV shows. It’s just that much easier to build and release tension when you have your audience trapped within a limited space, wholly subject to your whims. In recent decades, authors like Stephen King figured out how to successfully produce long-form horror narratives and rode that innovation toward popular success. But these projects work in part because they combine horror with other elements, like character drama or mystery. Pure horror itself remains tough to sustain over a long period without either wearying the nerves of your audience or breaking their trust completely.

  Image via Eve

  Anime has its own tradition of horror “short stories,” from the long-running series Hell Girl to Kenji Nakamura’s bizarre visual experiment Mononoke. Several of these are quite good — I especially love Mononoke, which looks like almost nothing else ever produced. But you don’t need the full length of a 24-minute anime episode to scare somebody — some of the weirdest and most unsettling Japanese animation out there is less than five minutes long. One of my favorite recent discoveries is Eve, a former Vocaloid producer whose YouTube page is full of music videos featuring talented independent animators beloved by Twitter’s sakuga circuit. The spookiest of them by far is 2020’s How to Eat Life, an orange and black fantasia where a boy is pursued through a city where time is mutable and everybody wants to eat you (and you want to eat everything). Animated by Mariyasu, the film is packed with motifs that appear throughout Eve’s work: giant monsters, doomed cities, and far too many hands and eyes. There’s a new fixation on cannibalism that will turn your stomach and an ending that avoids catharsis for something messier and more fraught.

  Watching How to Eat Life is like coming in at the climax of a long-running anime series with no other context to understand the sensory overload happening on-screen. I can’t help but ask questions about what exactly is happening here: Who is this boy and what is the purpose of his fanged case? What does the city’s giant headless monster want with him? These questions frustrate me, but that’s the point. Like many videos released under the Eve banner, How to Eat Life works because of, rather than in spite of, what it chooses to leave unexplained. Those unresolved associations stick in your craw only to resurface while rewatching the video, while watching other Eve videos, or, worst of all, in your dreams. One of the great advantages of short-form horror is that lack of context, forcing the audience to fill in the blanks themselves. Often what they put in those blanks can be nastier or more personal than anything you’d write in yourself! That’s the fun part.

  Image via Eve

  Another advantage of short-form horror is stylistic: unusual, off-kilter experiences are often more feasible in smaller packages than larger ones. One such example is My Little Goat, a 2018 stop motion short created by Tomoki Misato. It recasts the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats” as a modern tale of surviving abuse and trauma. The goats are adorable, fluffy little creatures, but having been cut out of the belly of a wolf in the opening minute, all of them are burned or even disfigured to varying degrees by the wolf’s stomach acid. The main character, a human boy abducted from his family to replace the goat mother’s missing child, hides under a wool cloak but is feared and distrusted by the other goat children. Despite being adapted from a classic fairy tale, My Little Goat keeps you guessing throughout its eight minutes. Will the goat children descend on our protagonist and tear him to shreds? Will the wolf come knocking on their door? The film ends on a relatively warm and sentimental note, but there are hints that the goat family’s happiness won’t last forever.

  My Little Goat could have been told in another format but I’m glad it was done through stop motion. The tactility of the goat puppets heightens both their cuteness and sense of creepiness. The practical transformations and matter-of-fact magic tricks (like the moment a goat abruptly transforms into a picture frame) add to the film’s fairy tale nature. The start-and-stop movement of stop motion itself is a fantastic tool for generating unease, as it has been employed through the career of master director Jan Svenkmajer. But stop motion is both costly and time-consuming, due to the nature of its production. My Little Goat’s length of eight minutes must be a practical measure as much as it is an artistic one. All things said, the film never wears out its welcome and finds new ways to surprise you up to its final seconds. Tomoki Misato must understand the value of punchy, creative shorts, since he rode that very train to success with this year’s hugely popular comedy series Pui Pui Molcar. 

  Image via Tomoki Misato

  Two connections between My Little Goat, How to Eat Life, and Hanamaru Kindergarten’s ending sequence come to mind. The first is a sense of mystery or ambiguity. That the wolf in My Little Goat is both a man and a beast, or that the lore of Eve’s music video universe is suggested rather than explicit. The second is surprise. There was no reason Masahiko Murata had to turn in a horror masterpiece for an ending credits sequence, but that’s exactly what he did. You might ask: Does a credits sequence really count as a film in its own right? Not a traditional one. But then again, like a well-executed jump scare, good horror can appear just when you least expect it. All you need is a good eye.

  Do you have a favorite horror anthology? What’s that thing standing behind you? Let us know in the comments!

      Adam W is a Features Writer at Crunchyroll. When he isn't recommending that people check out The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, he sporadically contributes with a loose coalition of friends to a blog called Isn't it Electrifying? You can find him on Twitter at: @wendeego

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Yes, NASA, you absolutely need to go (back) to Triton

One of NASA’s Discovery concepts looks to investigate the weirdest ‘moon’ around.

Space exploration is best interpreted, I think, as a specialised form of high-jumping. It is therefore sports, and that means we’re obligated to share our opinions about it with you, especially since 2020 is an Olympic year. I don’t make the rules here*, I just enforce them. Also, space exploration is interesting.

Anyway, NASA have just announced the finalists for the next wave of Discovery missions. Discovery is NASA’s small-scale exploration program, focusing on relatively minor missions to be launched alongside their flagship exploration projects. These four finalists will be given funding to further ‘mature’ their mission concepts, and in a year’s time as many as two could be selected for actual flight.

The four current Discovery concepts are:

DAVINCI+, a probe designed to analyse Venus’s atmosphere and perhaps send a lander down onto the planet’s surface.

VERITAS, a Venusian surface mapper.

IVO, an Io orbiter designed to explore the vulcanism of Jupiter’s innermost (significant) moon.

Trident, a flyby probe of Triton, Neptune’s largest moon.

NASA’s press release gives more details on each; rehashing them here would be silly. Instead, I’m going to do some Trident evangelism, because Trident would be some extremely cool shit and I need it to happen.

Triton is currently about 2,866,509,580 miles from Earth. It’s also the seventh largest moon in the solar system and, perhaps, the most interesting. Most major moons — ours excepted — formed from planetary accretion disks. The likes of Saturn’s Titan and the Galilaen moons of Jupiter have been planetary companions for their whole existence.

Triton definitely did not. How do we know this? For one, it orbits Neptune backwards. There’s no way for that to happen without having been captured at some point. This means that Triton began its life as an independent object minding its own business in the outer solar system before Neptune kidnapped it.

And Triton is big. Bigger than Pluto, in fact, by a hundred miles or so. Which means that Neptune has STOLEN A WHOLE-ASS DWARF PLANET. If not for it getting snatched up by a big old ice giant billions (?) of years ago, the science-fetish community probably be mourning Triton’s recent demotion from full-on planetary status.

There are other reasons to be interested in Triton beyond it being a kidnapped planet. It is somehow geologically active, appearing to respond to sunlight with nitrogen geysers and with significant cryovulcanism, as well. There’s even a thin atmosphere, probably generated by outgassing.

Triton’s unexplored, relative to the other Discovery targets: Neptune is a tricky target, and only Voyager 2 has ever visited. Our knowledge of one of the solar system’s most interesting moons largely stems from a few photographs taken in 1989. Only 40 percent of its surface was mapped during that flyby. Unsurprisingly, that has left many unanswered questions.

Venus and Io, both extremely interesting in their own right, are relatively easy targets. Admittedly, landing on Venus is somewhat less than easy, because Venus is a hell-world where it is so hot that it somehow snows metal. The Galileo and Juno probes (as well as the upcoming Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, an SB Nation favourite), have demonstrated our ability to vex the Jovian system in something like our sleep. Trident’s task, as one of pure exploration, is vastly more ambitious and the window for arrival in 2038 is much narrower.

Obviously, I have no say in NASA’s decision making, and probably neither do you. But it’s still nice to have rooting interests, and I’m rooting hard for a Trip To The Stolen Planet. Even for a robot that would be one hell of a high jump.

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6 Finest Foldable Drones 2020 [UPGRADED Folding Drones listing] 6 Top Foldable Drones Today

DJI Mavic Pro

The Mavic Pro best drones with camera has been obtaining a lot of love since release and also we have not been any kind of any difference in our insurance coverage. So it's rarely as if it's a rare product.

Still, it IS a foldable drone and also most certainly one of the most effective drones on the marketplace. Foldable or not.

When folded up the Mavic Pro is 83x83x198 millimeters in size. That ´ s favorably little and makes it very easy to get on a knapsack or bag.

I specifically like the folding design, with the front and also back arms folding under and also over the text.

DJI has additionally provided a clear guard for the video camera and gimbal, which makes me comfortable with the suggestion of putting the drone in my bag without fretting that points will certainly obtain harmed or scratched.

Basically, it's obtained a virtually 30-minute trip time, excellent cam gear for the size as well as some of the most advanced trip intelligence we have actually seen in a modern-day consumer drone. There's a reason the Mavic is confirming prominent as well as this little guy does extremely little incorrect compared to various other drones in its market section.

ZeroTech Dobby

I'm always amused by the names that makers generate for their products.

I make sure there is a flawlessly practical reason why this drone from Zerotech is called the "Dobby", but I can not listen to that name without creating that poor pitiful house fairy from the Harry Potter series.

The Dobby arms fold out in a nice strong method, a minimum of based on the photos. Also when folded the props don't get taken care of in the area, so it's still a bit extra fragile than one would like for storage space objectives.

I can not state much about the design of the drone. It's white, the curved plastic covering is clearly indicated to evoke Sci-Fi techno paradise, however, what they actually manage is weird techno dystopia. That's simply a viewpoint though, you could such as the Dobby. That recognizes, it takes all types.

When it comes to requirements the Dobby makes for a very intriguing recommendation, not evaluating a publication by its cover is an excellent virtue however as well as. Which is obviously why it's on this list, to begin with.

Like the DJI Spark (which does not fold) the Dobby is pitched as a selfie drone. It's tiny sufficient to be kept in your hand as well as has a trip time of only 5 minutes. Nevertheless, the battery is removable, so you could take some saved along.

The Dobby has a rather suitable cam, easy app-based flight controls and also reliable picture tracking. This is just one of the best offers I have seen for budget-conscious drone aficionados.

GoPro Karma

Ah indeed, the GoPro Karma. This drone seems to have been named for paradox since GoPro has to have kicked many puppies in the past to be entitled to such a rough item launch.

When the Fate first came to market it had a major pest which created unavoidable collapsed of clients' shiny new drone.

This forced the activity video camera company to remember all the devices and also three months later on a newly-fixed Fate was back for sale.

Now that the Karma is back, we should give it a sporting chance to verify itself once more. It would be a great relocation too since it ends up that they have actually come up with something rather special.

Although that GoPro has never ever made a drone previously, the Karma is an adventurous practically thousand buck access to the market. Typically I would certainly place that down as a measure of hubris on GoPro's part, but it appears like the Karma is good value for cash also at that cost.

Particularly, the use of GoPro video camera technology suggests this little guy can obtain some wonderful video. GoPro has actually additionally made some clever decisions when it involves the gimbal and cam mount factor. The Karma has it's assembly on the front, which implies you can get all kinds of user-friendly angles and remain in little risk of the actual drone remaining in the shot.

There's no collision discovery as well as only fundamental autonomy, however, the Fate has the vital notes down. It can just improve from here.

We just listened to that GoPro will give up the drone service and will stop making drones after they have actually sold their existing stock. They will continue to provide assistance as well as service to the consumers who buy the Karma drone. You can see a listing of other drones you can utilize with GoPro right here.

Hover Video Camera Passport

What the heck is this thing? When I started folding drones I indicate ones that folded up like origami or something. This drone from hover simply folds up like a publication or, await it, a TICKET! Yes, this is among the weirdest drone designs I've seen, yet when you consider it there's a great deal of technique to this chaos.

This isn't the initial drone we've seen where all the blades are framed in a plastic grille point, but typically it's some weird round of dice.

Below the ideal and also left sets of rotors each to form a "web page" of the video camera ticket. So when it's folded it has the shapes and size of a publication. That makes stashing it rather easy, although I would certainly ensure there weren't sharp things that could jab via the grill in the exact same bag.

The drone does not resemble a lot. It's simply a flying rectangle. Still, I need to remove my hat to the useful layout factors to consider right here.

This is a utilitarian machine implied to do a job in an easy means. It utilizes face recognition and independent modern technology to remove, take snaps and after that break in half. Purposefully. You can put it away.

Halo Pro Drone

We did a small feature on the Halo Pro Drone not too long ago. Off, this is one of the most beautiful drones I have ever seen. Yes, I even believe it looks far better than the Mavic. Sue me.

Just like GoPro, this is Halo's very first venture into drones. Unlike GoPro, Halo has actually been making electrically ridable instead of cams. Is Halo on far better footing? That's open to question, yet I think their experience in making robust smart electric cars was probably super-helpful.

Like the Mavic, the Halo folds snugly with the props securely out of damage's method. It ships with a 4K, 30 FPS electronic camera and also a number of sensors as well as software program features to actually hammer in that modern drone track record. Halo Boards are truly attempting to do something next-generation with this product. It's only shipping to customers late in October of 2017. You can check out our post for a comprehensive break down over what's so exciting regarding it.

DJI Spreading Wings S1000+.

Let's completed with the largest, badest collapsible drone on the listing. This is not your sis's selfie drone. This is a monster of the skies that can bring some of the heaviest tons of any kind of industrial drone.

This is a drone that DJI made from the ground up to lug relatively hefty DSLR equipment. It gets its excellent lift from 8 rotors, each installed on an independent arm.

The S1000+ is made from some appealing high-grade products, by which I mean carbon fiber. It's a terrific selection because it's extremely solid yet still very light. Simply a pity it's valued as if made from solid gold.

To be sincere, the S1000+ was one of the very first folding drones that captured my focus. It's rather a view to see those 8 arms fold up down to make sure that this beast will (barely) enter into the back of a hatchback.

It's one of the less complex folding systems we have actually seen, with each arm just bending directly down. Thanks to that simplicity DJI says the S1000+ can be up and also flying in just 5 minutes.

In the trip, there's a little bit extra "folding" taking place, as the touchdown equipment gets out of the way and also permits sensational multi-angle shots. Despite being around for a while now, I still think the S1000+ is just one of the most functional expert photography drones one the marketplace.

It's a pity about the fifteen-minute flight time, but that can be rather forgiven, considering that the S1000+ has an optimum launch weight evaluated a heft 11KG.

The Advantages of a Foldable Drone.

There is one product category where collapsible drones appear to be one of the most many: selfie drones. Individuals like to take images of themselves with smart devices and so drone makers have thought of the fantastic idea of letting a drone do it for you.

The drone will fly off, count on the face you and also take a snap. Usually, this is all driven by some smart software programs that can acknowledge motions as well as faces.

It's a smart idea, but its selfies are prominent due to the fact that individuals have their smartphones with them at all times. Also when those silly droopy freight trousers were still the norm (I'm guilty you'll), I question any person was going to stuff a flying ninja celebrity right into their pockets. The same opts for a backpack. Not to mention, your gangly, starfishing drone is most likely to snap something while being sprayed throughout your jaunt.

Folding drones then have two major advantages. First of all, they make it useful to keep them with you. In the case of little selfie drones, this is crucial. It also suggests bigger drones can be transferred in a knapsack, in the trunk of a small car and truck or even on a motorcycle.

The 2nd advantage is that by folding the drone it makes it a lot less delicate during travel. The fragile rotors and also various other elements can be kept safe while folded up away, without the need to carry a bulky foam-molded case with you everywhere. It also makes "pocket drones" into something you 'd actually intend to embed your pockets!

The Downsides of Foldable Drones.

That all audios quite terrific, appropriate? Nonetheless, you always provide something up when you do something brand-new. Collapsible drones are no various and there are several downsides to them compared to their less-flexible relatives.

For one point, the folding mechanism includes a lot of complexity to a drone. Simply put, by adding several folding factors there are currently a lot more points of failure.

Whenever you include another moving part to your machine, there's one more point that can fail. Although many moving systems nowadays can be operated hundreds of times prior to breaking, it's simply the physics of damage.

Maintaining it Genuine (Tiny).

There you have it, these are some of one of the most fascinating collapsible best drones with camera out there right now. The future of drones is certainly looking a lot more compact and feature abundant. Soon the days of awkwardly lugging around a box or case will certainly lag us. Drones will certainly be packed away almost everywhere. If you're checking out DroneGuru that's probably currently real for you.

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Top Ten Things That Look Cool in 2019

After last week’s trip down memory lane, stopping in all of 2018’s laybys for a wee, I'm turning my attention to the coming year. 2018 was, in a lot of ways, great; can 2019 top it? I mean, for a start, we might see the back of both Trump and Brexit, although I admit in both cases that’s probably a long shot; Brexit might even end up consuming the entire world like that little black hole thing they fire at Vulcan in Star Trek. But I remain an optimist, and I think even these twin evils can be vanquished. But, really, I'm meant to be talking about fun entertainment-y type stuff. Otherwise I'd fill these things with “aww, my little girl starts school” or “boy, I hope I don’t contract Ebola”.

So! What could be better than the year that brought us the end of IDW’s Transformers comics and the biggest Avengers movie of all time? How about a year that brings us the start of a new range of IDW Transformers comics and an even bigger Avengers movie, AND a Star War?

So. 2019. Ten things. Don’t disappoint me, you fickle time bastard.

Ends of an eras: look, in 2019, a Star Wars trilogy ends. Not only that, but it’s the end of a trilogy of trilogies; arguably the culmination of a story begun over forty years ago and which has changed cinema irrevocably, more than once. And that is not even the most exciting film released in 2019. Avengers: Endgame and Star Wars Episode IX are two of the biggest, most exciting-looking, most-anticipated films of my entire life, and they come out merely months apart. I can’t get over it. It's ridiculous. Literally nothing else comes close to generating the buzz I get from these two films. Disney owns my soul.

Animation showdown: if further proof were needed vis-a-vis Disney and soul-owning, there is also a battle of the animation superpowers when Pixar’s brightest goes up against Disney Animation’s biggest. Toy Story 4 and Frozen 2 both come out in 2019. Despite all three Toy Storys being better than Frozen, I'm probably more excited to return to Arendelle than to Bonnie’s toybox; we have three perfect Toy Story films already, and I just can’t believe that a fourth will be anything other than a disappointment, even if it’s really very good. A sequel to Frozen still has a North Mountain to climb, but I'm more comfortable with it being less of a masterpiece. As to which will make more money? I reckon if it’s good, if there’s a wind behind it, and if Star Wars doesn’t hoover up too much airspace, Frozen 2 could be not only the biggest animated movie of all time but maybe – just maybe – the first animation to hit $2 billion.

Next-gen now: well, not now exactly; more likely 2020. But all things being equal 2019 will see the first concrete details – maybe even names?! - of the successor consoles to the PS4 and Xbox One. I’m really interested in seeing where they go from here: game streaming? Integrated VR? 8k? Beyond the grunt and gimmicks, I'd like to see a next-gen that offered gameplay-improving abilities such as deformable scenery, vast crowds, destructible cities, water and flame physics, rather than just sexier graphics or even more Ds to make H. All the same, I'm really excited to see how it all pans out.

It never ends: as one door closes, so another transforms into a giant robotic dinosaur and breathes fire. Yes, coming soon to a comic store near you, is IDW’s revamped and rebooted Transformers universe. Streamlined, bereft of around 13 years of continuity, potentially excluded from the wider universe of Hasbro properties, we have (yet) another origin of everyone’s favourite robots in disguise (sorry, Go-Bots). The idea to set the story on Cybertron, pre-war, is a good one, and seeing newer characters like Windblade take their rightful place in Transformers lore is delightful (I hope we see other comics-originated characters like Nautica and Aileron before too long). My only reservation (other than, y’know, this series following my favourite series of all time) is that some of the best Transformers stories ever told were about pre-war Cybertron, and specifically Megatron’s ideology and subsequent formation of the Decepticons. I’m still really excited, but can this possibly come close to living up to what came before?

Discovering Picard: two Star Trek shows in one year? What is this, 1996?! But it’s (probably going to be) true: season 2 of Discovery starts very soon, bringing with it Pike, Spock, and the Enterprise. Truth be told, although I dug Disco, it didn’t feel quite as “Star Trek-y" as it could have, and trying to square its continuity circles gave me a headache. How its darker take on the Federation’s history will impinge on characters we already know gives me pause. I’m much more excited – although likewise much more nervous – about Patrick Stewart’s return to the franchise in the currently-untitled Picard spin-off. Next Generation is my favourite Trek flavour, so catching up with probably my favourite character and seeing how the universe has evolved beyond the ending of Nemesis is – wait for it – engaging. See what I did there?

Get ready, Agent: I’ve been looking forward to a new Crackdown for years. Not just since Crackdown 3’s announcement in (wow!) 2014; I’ve been hoping and wishing and praying since Crackdown 2 (which, weirdly, I never really got into). Off the top of my head, I can’t really think of another announced game in 2019 which I'm really excited for; just as well, as I’ve still got Mass Effect: Andromeda, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Gears of War 4 to complete. But I love the superheroic verticality of Crackdown, the tower-climbing, orb-collecting, minivan-throwing power you feel. The second-to-second gameplay in the first game is one of my top gaming experiences of all time, right up there with Halo in terms of sheer enjoyment rush. I’m disappointed the freeform destruction appears cordoned off in a multiplayer arena, and the game doesn’t appear to have evolved much since 2007, plus it’s had a protracted and apparently difficult development... but I love Crackdown, so I'm keeping everything crossed.

Strang3r: I missed Stranger Things this year. Whilst perhaps not quite reaching the heights of the first season, Stranger Things 2 was more consistent for me, building from episode to episode and feeling like a more complete package (the slightly dodgy Eleven-in-the-big-city story notwithstanding). So I'm really looking forward to Part 3. Moving out of its spooky Halloween comfort zone is a bold move, but perhaps allows for some delightful blockbuster thrills. It'll be interesting to see how the young cast fare as they get older, and hopefully they’ll continue to put David Harbour and Winona Ryder closer to the action.

Literate TV: there are a number of Capital-B-Big adaptations of books coming to the small screen this year: Good Omens (which I'm reading at the moment), His Dark Materials (which is one of my favourite books), and Catch-22 (which is also rather good). This is to say nothing of the Gatiss & Moffat Dracula adaptation, which may still sneak in at the end of the year. Although my TV backlog is ridiculous at the moment – including most of the Marvel Netflix stuff, the last couple Maniacs, Sabrina, Lost in Space, and fellow Gaiman adaptation American Gods – these all sound rather fantastic, and I can’t wait.

Livewood: speaking of classic TV... I can’t believe it’s actually happening, but the Deadwood movie is apparently coming out this year. Deadwood is phenomenal, one of my favourite shows of all time, cut down far too soon, and it’s so, so good that they’re finally being allowed to finish their story. I’m worried, naturally, as I often am when classics are revisited; but truth be told I'm more worried about how I'm going to watch it as it’s all HBO. Presumably it’ll be on Sky or something.

Gelflings-a-go-go: what’s this? More TV? Bloody hell, how on Earth am I going to finish writing my book?! To say nothing of completing Red Dead! Anyway, this is another Netflix biggie: a prequel/continuation/spin-off/whatever of beloved 80s puppet curio The Dark Crystal, the weirdest and creepiest kids’ movie ever made. I'm fascinated to see how they build upon what Jim Henson created, especially as I believe it was a very personal movie for him. Also: have you seen the cast list?! Blimey!

All that, and I still didn’t get round to the other superhero films (including two Captain Marvels – or Captains Marvel?), the return of Alan Partridge, the frankly-tragic-looking (in a good way) conclusion of the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy, DC’s young-reader-friendly Wonder Comics, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. There are an awful lot of things to look forward to this year, even if the rest of the world is getting all Children of Men on us.

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The journey of NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has been filled with close calls and amazing discoveries. Now, a new documentary chronicles the life (thus far) of this incredible mission.

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Scott Pruitt’s office deluged with angry callers after he questions the science of global warming

Washington Post  – ‎11 hours ago‎

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s phones have been ringing off the hook – literally – since he questioned the link between human activity and climate change.

Washington Post

Harvard theorists: How sailing aliens could have caused fast radio bursts

Washington Post  – ‎Mar 10, 2017‎

In 2007, a West Virginia University astrophysicist named Duncan Lorimer detected a brief yet intense signal while combing through archival data from the Parkes Observatory telescope in Australia.

Scientific American

Synthetic Yeast Chromosomes Help Probe Mysteries of Evolution

Scientific American  – ‎21 hours ago‎

Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould once pondered what would happen if the cassette “tape of life” were rewound and played again.

New York Times

How Did Aboriginal Australians Arrive on the Continent? DNA Helps Solve a Mystery

New York Times  – ‎Mar 8, 2017‎

A study found that all living Aboriginal Australians descend from a single founding population that arrived about 50,000 years ago.

Seeker

The International Space Station Will Soon Host the Coolest Spot in the Universe

Seeker  – ‎22 hours ago‎

If successful, NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory could help unlock some of the universe’s deepest mysteries. BY ELIZABETH HOWELL.

Space.com

NASA’s Orion Space Capsule Prototype Aces Parachute Drop Test

Space.com  – ‎Mar 9, 2017‎

Wednesday’s trial run was the second of eight drops that are designed to test the parachute system in various scenarios. This test simulated an abort sequence, which might occur if something went wrong with the rocket launching an Orion spacecraft into …

Tech Times

Stephen Hawking Warns Of Robot Apocalypse: Here’s How Humanity Can Protect Itself From Artificial Intelligence

Tech Times  – ‎Mar 9, 2017‎

Technology has come to a point where it poses danger to the existence of mankind. The warning of robot apocalypse comes from Stephen Hawking, one of the most popular and brightest minds of modern science.

Yahoo News

IBM has figured out how to store data on a single atom

Yahoo News  – ‎17 hours ago‎

IBM announced it has managed to successfully store data on a single atom for the first time. The research, carried out at the computing giant’s Almaden lab in Silicon Valley, was published in the scientific journal Nature March 8, and could have …

Phys.Org

The future of space colonization – terraforming or space habitats?

Phys.Org  – ‎20 hours ago‎

Artist’s concept of a terraformed Mars (left) and an O’Neill Cylinder. Credit: Ittiz/Wikimedia Commons (left)/Rick Guidice/NASA Ames Research Center (right).

Spaceflight Now

Falcon 9 rocket performs static fire test

Spaceflight Now  – ‎Mar 9, 2017‎

Held down by heavy-duty restraints, a Falcon 9 rocket fired up its nine Merlin engines for more than three seconds Thursday evening in a key readiness test before launching from Florida with a commercial television broadcast satellite next week.

The San Luis Obispo Tribune

Abandoned Monterey sea otter finds a new home (and a new friend) in New Orleans

The San Luis Obispo Tribune  – ‎9 hours ago‎

A juvenile sea otter who recently found a new home with the Aubudon Aquarium in New Orleans plays with her favorite toy, a red ball.

Phys.Org

NASA mission named ‘Europa Clipper’

Phys.Org  – ‎20 hours ago‎

The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa looms large in this reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s.

Space.com

Kepler Telescope Beams Back Raw Data on Earth-Size Exoplanets of TRAPPIST-1

Space.com  – ‎Mar 10, 2017‎

Scientists, have at it: NASA has released raw data from the Kepler Space Telescope probing the many Earth-size planets around the star TRAPPIST-1.

Gizmodo

The Great Barrier Reef Is Suffering Yet Another Mass Bleaching

Gizmodo  – ‎14 hours ago‎

The past few months have brought another rough summer for the Great Barrier Reef, which is suffering a major bleaching event for the second year in a row.

CBS News

Climate scientists worry NOAA budget cuts will hinder weather forecasting in Alaska

KTOO  – ‎11 hours ago‎

Scientists who study Arctic climate say their research will suffer if the Trump administration goes ahead with big budget cuts reportedly under consideration for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Seeker

Young Galaxy’s Old Stardust Sheds Light on the First Stars

Seeker  – ‎Mar 8, 2017‎

A recently found galaxy is so far away, astronomers see it the way that it looked when the universe was only 600 million years old.

Astronomy Magazine

Plans for the first spaceport are close to finalization

Astronomy Magazine  – ‎16 hours ago‎

By the 2020s, NASA and other ISS partners are planning to begin construction on an orbiting lunar outpost. By Alison Klesman | Published: Friday, March 10, 2017.

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