Thursday, April 05, 2018

Miss Cellania's Links

How 50 Famous Female Characters Were Described In Their Screenplays. Some are perfectly written; others are a collection of body parts.

Still believe an asteroid killed the dinosaurs? Maybe it was the plants they ate turning on them. (via Uproxx)

5 Real Deaths That'd Be Too Unrealistic For Hollywood Movies.

Researchers find a letter we've seen millions of times, yet can't write. Can you write a lowercase looptail "g" or even recognize  it in a lineup?

How Night of the Living Dead Destroyed Hammer Films


Is This Mongoose Playing Dead or Just Playing? The narrator is a wildlife expert, and she can't stop giggling.

21 Times Movies And TV Got College Very, Very Wrong


Ugly Medieval Cats.

A Tribute To ER Doctors Benton And Carter, A Pair For The Ages.

Our One Fight: Stories of marriages that keep coming back to the fundamental differences between two people. (via Metafilter)

3 comments:

Dave T. said...

That article about plants killing the dinosaurs is super sketch:

"IEE does not publish traditional review articles, or papers based primarily on experimental, data-driven studies."

"IEE also does not publish papers based primarily on mathematical/quantitative modeling."


https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/IEE/about

Miss Cellania said...

I'm not surprised. The article had a kind of "thought experiment" vibe.

newton said...

The letter I find interesting is the printed letter 'a' with an arc over the top, which is not how anyone writes it. Just about the only font that prints it the way we write it is Comic Sans.