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...disbelief in ways that painting and sculpture can't. Here the lens dissembles as much as it documents, stretching "the camera never lies" maxim to breaking point. Appropriately titled Tensio-Latin for tension-is Brook Andrew's mirrored image of a currawong poised as if to attack a coiled snake. These are in fact stuffed museum exhibits, reappropriated by this Aboriginal lensman to tell his own personal Dreaming story (as academic Marcia Langton tells it, "When color spread throughout the bird world, crows ignored their fellow birds and missed out, remaining black like the inchoate world from which life sprang...
...Snakes on a Plane” was one of the most entertaining films of the summer because it knew exactly what it was doing: objectifying the violent deaths endured by the passengers. The filmmakers engineered the film to make viewers say, “Oh man! That snake totally just bit that guy’s dick off!” It’s more of a horror-comedy film than an actual action movie...
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, but the husband-wife illustrator-author team covers many more exotic forms of animal locomotion in this stunning book. Slithering, for example (a snake through rustling leaves). Or swinging (a gibbon through jungle trees). Each variation comes alive in Jenkins' vibrant paper-cut illustrations. For more on the animals, kids can leap, dance or slide to the book's back pages...
...cables," says Ruckus CEO Selina Lo. "It's just one rung above plumbing." So Ruckus, a California-based start-up with 57 employees, came up with a better idea: refine wireless networking so that you can more efficiently fling high-speed access around your home without having to snake wires around doorways and under desks. Ruckus routers use hardware and software that direct signals around obstacles, so that wireless works smoothly even in a large home, and even for video, for which stability and speed are vital...
...studies fear pathways in laboratory animals. He explains that the jumpiest part of the brain--of mouse and man--is the amygdala, a primitive, almond-shaped clump of tissue that sits just above the brainstem. When you spot potential danger--a stick in the grass that may be a snake, a shadow around a corner that could be a mugger--it's the amygdala that reacts the most dramatically, triggering the fight-or-flight reaction that pumps adrenaline and other hormones into your bloodstream...