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10 Great New Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Films to Put on Your Radar
If you love genre films, there truly is nothing like Fantastic Fest. While most festivals play a more balanced slate of films covering all genres, this Austin, Texas-based fest plays only the good shit. Other festivals sometimes refer to them as “Midnight Movies,” but it’s always midnight at Fantastic Fest. Horror, sci-fi, fantasy, martial arts,…
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Mrs. Coulter Reaps What She’s Sown on His Dark Materials
No offence to Dafne Keen, Amir Wilson, or even James McAvoy, but Ruth Wilson has always been His Dark Materials’ biggest star. Her icy, enigmatic villain, Mrs. Coulter, serves as the lynchpin of both of tonight’s episodes, as she’s forced to take stock of her past actions… and what they may cost her in the…
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Chimps Might Use Insects as First Aid, Scientists Find
Researchers have documented a remarkable behaviour among wild chimpanzees: chimps applying insects to wounds on themselves or others, perhaps as a sort of first aid. Little is still known about the practice, but the researchers suspect it to be the latest example of altruistic behaviour in nonhuman animals.
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Bonobos Appear to Say ‘Hello’ and ‘Goodbye’ to Each Other
You don’t walk up to a coworker without some sort of greeting, and you don’t end conversations simply by turning heel. There are rules to the game of social behaviour, and now a research team studying chimpanzees and bonobos say those great apes have social habits that look a lot like what we humans call…