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...story is the hunky human warrior Aragorn (Mortensen). But Jackson is the true lord of these Rings. The New Zealand auteur spent seven years on the trilogy, collaborating on the scripts with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. He chose and directed this perfect cast, orchestrated the smashing visual effects--Tolkien's bestiary on the march in fantastical realms. In Return, the giant trolls, four-tusked elephants and flying, screeching serpents of Mordor will amaze adults and may startle small children. The spider monster Shelob, creeping up on Frodo and mummifying him in a silken straitjacket, offers a delicious horror-movie...
...based in Emeryville, Calif., is working on a miniature sensor, sometimes called an electronic nose, that detects hazardous chemicals in the environment. If these three firms were real detectives, Alien and Nanomix would be out on the streets doing surveillance, while Imagen would remain in the lab sorting through visual images for clues. Each of these companies plays its own role in the binary gumshoe game...
...music introduced the play. A large bronze shield on the back wall and a yellow curtain hung to the side served as the only set elements. The minimalism of the props provided well-considered contrast to the complexity of the drama. The play also made unique use of audio-visual technology, presenting the suicide of Ajax as a televised clip. The TV’s blurry, black-and-white image made the suicide scene creepier and more powerful than it would have been had it been acted out on stage...
...long been interested in the visual system,” Dowling says. He has always used the retina as a model for research in the brain, in part due to the variety of cells involved in retinal actions. Aside from photoreceptors, five other types of neurons in the retina connect with the brain to help start the process of visual imaging...
...raised in large numbers; in Dowling’s small facility, he can keep 30,000 fish at a time. The fish’s fast generation time also proves helpful in developmental studies; by the time a fish is just five days old, one can measure its visual function very effectively by using the optokinetic reflex—the same test used to test vision of human babies. Finally, Dowling notes, “They’re highly responsive visually—for my purposes, perfect...