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...pass that Her Majesty the Queen of England decided her website needed a little juice-up. Thus, on the 13th day of February in the Year of our Lord 2009, she stood before her subjects and held aloft the royal remote control and behold, there appeared on a screen behind her what nobles and seers would come to call QE2.0, the new and improved official website of the British Monarchy...
...even fun and whimsical, in this environment. Footage of sharks encountering giant sting rays and turtles casually munching on deadly poisonous jellyfish are viewed through a mask, in the dark; scuba divers see the ocean the same way. 3-D filmmakers have found that objects moving quickly across the screen can make viewers nauseous, but having anything move quickly into your field of vision in the water is startling. Mostly the technology succeeds, however, not because it makes you feel you're underwater so much as that you're no longer on solid ground. At several points, you almost want...
...after Deep Sea 3-D and Into the Deep 3-D. Shot mostly in coral reefs around Indonesia and Australia, this one required lugging enormous equipment (total weight: 8,000 lb.) about in boats and logging vast numbers of hours under the sea for a mere 40 minutes of screen time. But the brevity of the film, and the spectacular oddness of the creatures, leave you - and, perhaps more crucially, your children - wanting more. Awww moments, the tentpoles of so many nature documentaries, are mostly reserved for the sea lions, who apparently enjoy looking at themselves in the camera...
...global recession have crowded the virus out of the news. But the disease survives - in the limelight or out of it. "The point is, this virus has not disappeared at all," says Malik Peiris, a virologist at the University of Hong Kong. "It kind of dropped off the radar screen of media attention, but the virus itself has increased its spread. It's not only entrenched in Asia, the Middle East, in Egypt, Africa, parts of India and Bangladesh. It's really a problem...
...shelves of the Cabot Science Library sit a license plate, several action figures, ape skulls, and a television screen looping a cartoon video of Felix the Cat. The objects are part of an exhibition—the culmination of months’ work by the students of Professor Janet Browne’s History of Science 238: “Rethinking the Darwinian Revolution.” To celebrate the year of Charles R. Darwin’s 200th birthday, the course’s eight students conducted research and constructed a display on the English naturalist. Each of them...