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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/
In a nature versus nurture experiment, two too-rich men decide to swap the roles of an unfortunate and fortunate man.
A riveting movie through and through.
Contains plenty of inappropriate things that wouldn't fly in later years.
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Entertainment > Movies >
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6613878/
https://www.facebook.com/CLARATheFilm/
A vulnerable science teacher is taken advantage of by a homeless woman.
A boring premise meets mediocre writing which cannot be supported by good acting.
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Entertainment > Movies >
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067197/
http://www.davidlwolper.com/shows/details.cfm?showID=275
A documentary about insects.
Well.. it's a documentary about insects I guess. Go science!
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Entertainment > Movies >
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2333804/
https://www.thezerotheorem-movie.com/
A crazy man is reassigned to work on a theory that has driven others mad.
Visual and kinda interesting, but it tries to hard to be bubblegum and has no resolution to meet its vague intellectual attempt. Not recommended; unsatisfying.
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A meal replacement beverage.
The ~2023-05-01 cocoa version is not good enough.
The 2019-07-26 cocoa version is like drinking chocolate ice cream, including the gummy mouth feel afterwards. It's definitely only a "treat" and not a meal replacement.
The 2019-07-26 vanilla has a definite flavor but is definitely tame. It also suffers from the mouth feel problem, which I think would be a problem for narration and singing.
See Soylent for a lot of notes which also apply to this product.
Women >
Several years ago I had a vague interest in looking up the history of women in science.
I don't think I ever had any particular notes, but I'll drop a page here just in case.
See also Genius women.
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Entertainment > Movies >
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073898/
Brief moments from a symposium on the probability of alien life, held at Boston University.
This does more to set up who would be speaking than .. actually present what they're speaking. Pass.
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https://soylent.com/
A meal replacement beverage.
A hands-down spectacular idea and implementation. I ate Soylent for months, and have even eaten it both as a snack, then a meal, and then as my only food. Highly recommended, not just for diet or general health but for lifestyle.
This is yet another unfinished piece. I've been thinking of some of these ideas on and off for some years, and some of it may make it into the fiction I'm writing.
If I had not a regular time machine, but some magical one, would I do with it?
I say magical because I imagine completing fairly vague and complex goals not achievable as myself simply going back and performing whatever action.
What could I accomplish? What would I do?
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The idea behind the Drake equation is to put the vastness of the universe beside the probability of contact with aliens.
The idea is deceptive -- the universe is large, so it has so many planets, so the possibilities become probabilities and then become absolutes, right?
Wrong.
