I agree with some other commenters - these movies can't be remade because much of their charm comes from being of their times. Remakes would only produce generic, script-doctored shadows of the originals. And I'm not blanketly anti-remake on principle.

"plenty of the modern notions ... may not have become commonplace until the 19th century or even the 20th."

I expected to like The Secret Circle, but it's just too formulaic and generic as a young adult paranormal show.

When I was in grad school in the 90s, the majority, perhaps just the noisiest, view was that not only were neandertals a completely separate special that never interbred with humans, they had a completely different and markedly lower intelligence. Some archaeologists and biological anthropologists posited that they…

My favorite stories on the science of the mind in the last year or so:

I see a lot of promise in Marling and Cahill, so I'll give them a pass with a plea to hire a fact checker next time.

It is a shame because the boners about Columbus and Galileo would have been easily avoided if they had just run the script by someone with even the slightest background in the history of science. It's not like they fouled some technical fine points on an esoteric subfield.

This revisionism on Galileo was started by ex-commie, Lamarckian, and all-around crackpot Arthur Koestler, who in his book The Sleepwalkers bemoaned the rift between religion and science, rationalism and faith, allegedly spawned by Galileo's obstinacy.

Agreed. They had an unprecedented level of detail, craftsmanship, facial accuracy, and improved anatomical proportion - especially for a mass marketed affordable product - and caused everyone to raise their games.

Charles is also an advocate of homeopathy and an all-around fan of New Age and alternative medicine. But still, the messenger is not the message and if people listen to him on mass extinction because he's a inbred representative of an outmoded system of governance, that's to the greater good I suppose.

A vaccine against HPV is such a commonsensical thing to support that even many conservatives have been briefly restored to sanity, including National Review and some bloggers like Ace of Spades and Powerline, and are criticizing Bachmann's malign, rube-pandering idiocy.

I can't believe that anyone would razz Twilight for being about unhealthy relationships, goofy, implausible, campy after that recent recap of the season finale of True Blood. And hey, I like True Blood.

No, but The Craft, the original inspiration for Charmed and one of the things that kick-started the young adult paranormal trend of the past decade and a half, is one of the best treatments of witchcraft ever (I don't care about real wiccans mind you, just pop folklore). As well as one of the greatest movies of all…

One thing we can be sure of is that among the first applications of these technologies will be improved porn. Such is technological history: the printing press, photography, the telephone, movies, TV, the internet...

I stand corrected!

Isn't Frank Miller's Holy Terror coming out? (About 8 years too late?)

So Emmerich is finally giving the concept of the Singularity the coating of cheese it so richly deserves.

But why would they need to evolve proxy preferences when the association between deep voice and androgenization - that is masculinity - is obvious and can be re-learned with each generation? If you're attracted to men, you're probably attracted to masculine men and notice deep voices. No need for an evolved adaptive…

Still better than Superman Returns.

Maybe the reduced T is just so they won't stomp on and/or eat their own kids while they cohabitate with the mother (mate guarding, attempts to knock her up again, provisioning from her - lazy bastard). Evolution's bunk anyway, though. (I kid!) Wingfield, schmingfield. (Still kidding.)