@stalking_goat: Football: No way. Not just the risk of injury but the criminalistic subculture associated with it for players of all races, whether high school, college, or pro. I hate to stereotype, but we all know its true: roids, dating and marital violence, booze, and general thuggery go hand in hand with…
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It reeks of pretentious pseudo-profundity, which is Aronofsky's calling card. On the other hand, the premise of a dancer being tortured for the sake of the dance mirrors the evolution of ballet itself, which originally had normal weight women doing more natural movements to near-anorexics spinning on tip toes all the…
The scientists might just be observing plasticity, maybe with a heritable epigenetic switch. Over time, that could be genetically assimilated and the plasticity lost, with speciation likely.
Even more than Matheson's novella, The Last Man On Earth is the missing link between zombies (modern undead zombies, not entranced Haitian slaves which at best have only a tenuous connection to them) and vampires. The novella is one of, if not the very first, 'scientific' treatment of vampires in literature, and so…
Classic speculative biology: the snouters.
Nemo Ramjet, speculative biology artist extraordinaire, has an online future evolution book on pdf called All Tomorrows. Unfortunately his site has been down for a while. But there are teasers on his deviantART page.
@Illundiel: Right, arithromania, a folkloric traditional vampire trait. The only modern pop culture example I know of is the Count on Sesame Street.
Zombies have been here to stay since the exploded back onto the scene in 2002, with 28 Days Later and Resident Evil, after more than a decade and a half of irrelevancy and fading cultural memories. (Even Romero did no zombie movies for years until '05's Land of the Dead.) Their status as a craze was cemented in 2004…
@Death_By_SnuSnu: And then there's Boy Eats Girl:
Actually, contemporary pop culture zombies have almost nothing to do with the zombies of West Indies folklore. Instead, they are almost entirely derived from Matheson by way of Romero. Richard Matheson's 1954 novella I Am Legend, with its demented vampires, was adapted into The Last Man On Earth. Matheson's book…
Americop looks like a homage to Marshal Law, who an Americanized Judge Dredd who in turn was a parody of Dirty Harry.
@stalking_goat: LOTR: That I don't know too much about, but Wagner's Ring Cycle was a big one.
@garywalmsley56: I think the lightning bolt was added to the logo after Potter. Earlier posters of WW don't appear to have it.
Skyline has a Yahoo User Reviews' rating of C (with over 300 votes), which is pretty terrible considering that they are more generous than professional critics.
As a pop culture piece this makes for a fascinating two-parter with its earlier companion article:
How does that nutcracker even crack nuts without a big hinged jaw? Maybe it has a compartment in the belly for nuts and then his head is turned like a screw to press the nuts open. Not very majestic nor dignified.
@Strakus: I agree 100%! And my background (undergrad and grad school) is in biological anthropology.
"Everyone has a mother" - children of Lilith (Adam's first wife)?