Well, obviously I don’t dispute that. My point was simply that predictions about scientific understanding of human nature changing politics and society often don’t take into account existing power structures.

My favourite thing about the Dutch baby is that we don’t have them in the Netherlands.

Similarly psychology once held the promise of bettering society through understanding human nature, but it mainly lead to ways to get us to buy stuff. I doubt cognitive science is going to radically transform society in any way that will lead to greater equality or less chaos.

So, is Joe Cornish busy?

Thank you. I had plenty of issues with Interstellar, but this constant complaining about ‘emotions’ and ‘not enough science’ is pathetic internet-whining. You don’t need to praise one movie by putting down another for not living up to your platonic ideal of a science-fiction movie.
And there are few things more…

Give Terry Gilliam the money for his Don Quijote movie, give Peter Weir carte blanche to make a Star Trek movie, cancel all reboots, movies featuring superheroes, and movies based on games, rides, and nostalgia.

Exactly, regardless of the outcome of the trial there would have been these conflicts. Dany may have abolished slavery, but that doesn’t wipe away the past. Meereen will have to go through a painful transformation in order to become a truly free city. And Danaerys seems almost totally oblivious to how she can actually…

So, is that symbol a circle with spikes facing inwards, or a black circle with a red star on it?

I guess as a collector and illustrator of books, I just don't see the appeal of ebooks. They seem joyless when bereft of their physicality. It also just takes the fun out of going to a bookstore and discovering old secondhand books.

Do you have kids? Do you give books as presents? Ebooks are nice, I'm sure, but they'll never become the sole form for the medium. Paperbacks might go the way of the cassette tape, but like vinyl books will stick around.

House of Cards reflects the current cynical attitude towards politics, while also pretending to be serious. It's a bad combination that won't hold up. Scandal is just as silly, but at least it doesn't try to be a very important drama. The West Wing was anchored by an idea about government, which made the show more…

Every decade has to some degree a defining type of movie. Currently it's superheroes, in less than ten years Marvel's cultural domination will be over. They'll still be making movies, but they won't command the same level of attention that they have now.

Pshaw, a real huckster doesn't need broth to trick people, all you need is a rock.

Probably the horn of a goat I found on vacation with my parents in 1993 in Tallin. According to an expert it was from around 1400.

Don't forget about that horrible old throwback Milton.

I imagine that's a bit of humorous exaggeration born of feeling somewhat stressed out by his writing duties. Mostly I think it's probably producers trying to ascertain how much stuff is going to cost. Though it's not the most reassuring thing to hear. Generally when a movie is still being written while production is…

just because it's more simple and a lot more bleak doesn't make it better. Jonathan Nolan's version mostly sounds terribly unresolved and anticlimactic. You'd leave the theater frustrated with the lack of closure. Interstellar was by no means a perfect movie, but I don't think that sentimentality bending the laws of…

Considering JJ Abrams' involvement with the new movies, I was kind of expecting Michael Giacchino to handle these scores. But since Desplat worked with Edwards before, I guess this isn't surprising, especially since he's already adapted William's work in his Harry Potter scores.
But this good news, there's hardly a…

If you want a better sense of how Desplat might tackle Star Wars there are scores that will give you a better indication than his work with Wes Anderson, or the type of thing he gets hired to write for prestige dramas like The Imitation Game. Desplat has been around for quite a while, and he's proven himself capable…

Instead of destroyed, I prefer to think of it as lovingly sacrificed in the oven to make delicious bread. And of course only an idiot would use his entire batch. You save half of your culture for the next batch of dough.
The process is actually a bit more involved than the way it's described above. In order to keep…