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Opinion: Happy Halloween? Living with unease, uncertainty and the uncanny in a scary season
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: Happy Halloween? Living with unease, uncertainty and the uncanny in a scary season

LA Times  

One of the best parts of new parenthood is figuring out what your child is going to be for Halloween. Our modern holiday might be thought of as a portmanteau of All Hallows’ Eve — the Christian feast that precedes All Saints’ Day — and Samhain, an ancient Celtic holiday marking the final harvest of the year and the beginning …

Halloween Season
Archaeologists unlock 3,000-year-old secrets about creation of universe and monsters after deciphering oldest known map of the world
3 months, 1 week ago

Archaeologists unlock 3,000-year-old secrets about creation of universe and monsters after deciphering oldest known map of the world

Daily Mail  

Researchers have finally decoded a Babylonian tablet thought to be the oldest map of the world. The Babylonian tablet has a circular map with pieces of text written in cuneiform - an ancient writing system that used wedge-shaped symbols - which describes the early creation of the world. The Imago Mundi, also called the Babylonian Map of the World, was …

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Sea monsters? This bizarre whale feeding technique may explain some ancient folklore
1 year, 9 months ago

Sea monsters? This bizarre whale feeding technique may explain some ancient folklore

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. But the “trap feeding” or “tread-water feeding” method, as it’s called, was first observed in 2011, scientists speculated that it might have been a new method that whales adapted because of changing ecological conditions. The study published Tuesday, however, suggests that humans recorded instances of whales trap feeding in the 13th century …

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Ancient work inspires modern world
2 years, 3 months ago

Ancient work inspires modern world

China Daily  

The exhibition Imaginary Encounter－Divine Comedy Dialogue with Shan Hai Jing was staged in Shanghai from November to February. Legendary Chinese collection resonates with producers of online literature, TV series, video games Chang'e, China's lunar probe, is named after a legendary goddess in ancient fairy tales, but few people know that she first appeared in the book Shan Hai Jing, or …

China Japan Book Liu Jing Monsters Hai
Ancient work inspires modern world
2 years, 3 months ago

Ancient work inspires modern world

China Daily  

The exhibition Imaginary Encounter－Divine Comedy Dialogue with Shan Hai Jing was staged in Shanghai from November to February. Legendary Chinese collection resonates with producers of online literature, TV series, video games Chang'e, China's lunar probe, is named after a legendary goddess in ancient fairy tales, but few people know that she first appeared in the book Shan Hai Jing, or …

China Japan Book Monsters Hai Shan Hai Jing Jing Liu
Ancient work inspires modern world
2 years, 3 months ago

Ancient work inspires modern world

China Daily  

The exhibition Imaginary Encounter－Divine Comedy Dialogue with Shan Hai Jing was staged in Shanghai from November to February. Legendary Chinese collection resonates with producers of online literature, TV series, video games Chang'e, China's lunar probe, is named after a legendary goddess in ancient fairy tales, but few people know that she first appeared in the book Shan Hai Jing, or …

China Japan Book Monsters Hai Shan Hai Jing Jing Liu
Ancient work inspires modern world
2 years, 3 months ago

Ancient work inspires modern world

China Daily  

The exhibition Imaginary Encounter－Divine Comedy Dialogue with Shan Hai Jing was staged in Shanghai from November to February. Legendary Chinese collection resonates with producers of online literature, TV series, video games Chang'e, China's lunar probe, is named after a legendary goddess in ancient fairy tales, but few people know that she first appeared in the book Shan Hai Jing, or …

China Japan Book Liu Jing Monsters Hai
Drawing inspiration
3 years ago

Drawing inspiration

China Daily  

Chang Yi's new book series, Fantastic Travels in Dunhuang, helps young readers better understand the rich cultural legacy of the grottoes in Dunhuang and Guazhou, Gansu province. Following the best-selling book series Monsters in the Forbidden City, Chinese writer Chang Yi's new series for children, Fantastic Travels in Dunhuang, was recently released and has become a best-seller on Dangdang, a …

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Review: In ‘Godzilla vs. Kong,’ the big monsters brawl. And the audience actually wins
3 years, 8 months ago

Review: In ‘Godzilla vs. Kong,’ the big monsters brawl. And the audience actually wins

LA Times  

There is a moment early on in Adam Wingard’s deft, daft “Godzilla vs. Kong” that almost feels topical. It’s a truly noble aim when even Ishiro Honda’s dinky 1962 release “King Kong vs. Godzilla,” in which a dude encased in spongy rubber had a couple of hilarious slappy-fights with another dude wrapped in old carpet, billed itself as a media …

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