Animate Planet: Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World
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In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans, animals, and their...

David McK (3600 KP) rated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) in Movies
Jan 3, 2021
Much has been made of this movie, and of it's soundtrack and attempt to portray comic-book panels on-screen: bot of which, I have to say, I found to be headache inducing rather than the (supposed) 'fresh and vibrant' I had read they were.

Silk, Volume 1: Sinister
Book
Silk is back and badder than ever! Cindy Moon, the other victim of the radioactive spider that bit...

Children of the Dust
Book
After a nuclear war devastates the earth, a small band of people struggles for survival in a new...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Red Joan (2018) in Movies
Apr 21, 2019 (Updated Apr 21, 2019)
The problem is that the film is so preoccupied with the protagonist's romantic life - she's in love with the dashing mysterious foreign guy! she's in love with her colleague! etc - that the nub of the issue never really comes into focus. Crucial character choices aren't properly explained and some potentially interesting historical material recedes into the background, eclipsed by hackneyed and corny melodramatic scenes that even performers like Dench and Sophie Cookson can't elevate much. Decent production values can't save such a sub-standard script.

Madame Curie
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Marie Curie is a women who changed the face of science for all time, not just because of her...

graveyardgremlin (7194 KP) rated The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady in Books
Feb 15, 2019
Though not as humorous as led to believe by the various quotes on the cover, the most amusing of it happened in the first chapter and nearer the end, the rest of the book is filled with many dramas that had unusual, and not quite so grim, outlooks to them. The book flows nicely and the descriptions were easy to visualize, so I could clearly picture the settings. The characters each have their individual voices that make it easy to separate each of them from the others; I found everyone to be interesting in how they acted, reacted and dealt with the situations that popped up in the story. I both sympathized and hoped they could better themselves by the end. The author tackles some tough subjects (pedophilia, murder, adultery, creating a model nuclear reactor) in a light, yet respectful manner, and who also incorporates some Cold War history into the story too. I had no idea that around 800 unsuspecting pregnant women were given radioactive 'cocktails' (iron) to see how it would effect their fetus. Further information can be found in [b:The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War|212087|The Plutonium Files America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War|Eileen Welsome|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172741136s/212087.jpg|205297], which I am now interested in finding out more about this and other unethical testing, thanks to the author. Overall, the book is a quick and easy read, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to read it.

Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Priestdaddy in Books
Sep 4, 2017
She leads an eccentric lifestyle, following in her family's footsteps, writing poetry and travelling across the US after a marrying a man off the internet. But it also reveals her doubts about their customs and practices, and how she questions the function of the church - especially with claims of molestation. An interesting and enjoyable read.

Loz Hughes (80 KP) rated Transcendence (2014) in Movies
Jul 20, 2018
I think they could have done much more with the film than they did but overall it was a decent watch.

Beyond the Electron
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Sir Joseph John Thomson was an English physicist and Nobel Prize winner and is credited with the...