Down a dark hall by lois duncan5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() This direct-to-video release from 2000 is based on one of Lois Duncan’s earliest attempts at the horror genre. ![]() Still, the author’s point is made by the rest of the movie. The novel goes all the way in showing how dangerous peer-pressure can be, but the film inexplicably has the supporting cast decide to “do the right thing.” These unlikely actions by the students derail what could have been a truly scary ending. Unfortunately, the film takes a wrong turn in the third act. Griffin is an entertaining teenage suspense flick. As teenage sociopath Mark Kinney, Scott Bairstow is genuinely believable. Amy Jo Johnson is an excellent choice as Susan, and Mario Lopez has solid charisma as Dave. Griffin has one of the strongest casts in the author’s film collection. Lois Duncan’s novel of the same name takes a look at the harmful effects of peer-pressure. ![]()
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Physics of impossible by michio kaku5/13/2023 ![]() The topic of Star Trek "phasers" becomes a lesson on how lasers work and how laser-based research is conducted. ![]() The topic of invisibility becomes a discussion on why the speed of light is slower in water than a vacuum, that electromagnetism is similar to ripples in a pond, and Kaku discusses newly-developed composite materials. Kaku uses discussion of speculative technologies to introduce topics of fundamental physics to the reader. Examine topics that currently seem so far outďż˝ of the realm of possibility, such as invisibility cloaks, teleportation, time travel and more. Michio Kaku, this series poses the idea that science fiction may not be so far from science fact. Hosted by internationally-renowned physicist and co-founder of string field theory, Dr. ![]() Roadcasted as part of DC Sci Fi Science series in 2009Įxplore the world of the seemingly impossible with the all-new series SCI FI SCIENCE. Science Documentary hosted by Michio Kaku and published by ![]() ![]() ![]() The quote, as I had used it, was a collection of words that had more to do with me than Camus. My teacher’s message reached me loud and clear: that one sentence, taken out of context, could not communicate anything significant about Camus’s ideas to me, and so indicating any tie between my ideas and his work could not be honest. Struggling to start a paper on the theme of identity in King Lear for my eleventh-grade English class, I googled “quotes on identity.” I included the sentence I found from Albert Camus’s The Stranger as an epigraph to my draft of the paper and blithely went to meet with my teacher about it it was only when he asked me if I had read Camus that I realized I had done something wrong, only when I saw his disdainful, frustrated response to my “no” that I started to feel mortified. ![]() The book of night women by marlon james5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is one of the night women, six half-sisters - all the progeny of that first overseer, the brutal Jack Wilkins. By the end of the novel, Lilith has become Lovey, the pet name she receives from another overseer, Robert Quinn.īut Lilith is never lovey. On the opening page, the narrator describes a baby girl named Lilith, born to a dying 13-year-old slave raped by a white overseer. It is a canticle of love and hate: “Still, though, hate and love be closer cousin than like and dislike,” says Homer, the most powerful woman on Montpelier, where slaves are given fanciful Greek names by their British owners. It is a book as heavily peopled and dark as the night in this isolated and brutal place. “The Book of Night Women” is not merely a historical novel. “People say that Montpelier Estate was so huge that you could tell you’re there as soon as the wind start blowing to the east,” declares the narrator of Marlon James’ second novel, “The Book of Night Women.” The plantation of which James writes, on the east coast of Jamaica, is populated by thousands of slaves, some from Africa, some Jamaica-born, and some women whose bodies are the living chronicle of rape and power. ![]() Bullet to the brain tobias wolff5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() To make the cow sexy, the painter had canted her hips suggestively and given her long, droopy eyelashes through which she gazed back at the bull with sultry welcome. The ceiling was crowded with various dramas, but the one that caught Anders' eye was Zeus and Europa - portrayed, in this rendition, as a bull ogling a cow from behind a haystack. The artist had a few tricks up his sleeve and used them again and again - a certain rosy blush on the underside of the clouds, a coy backward glance on the faces of the cupids and fauns. It was even worse than he remembered, and all of it executed with the utmost gravity. Now he had no choice but to scrutinize the painter's work. The domed ceiling had been decorated with mythological figures whose fleshy, toga-draped ugliness Anders had taken in at a glance many years earlier and afterward declined to notice. Anders had never paid much attention to that part of the bank, a pompous old building with marble floors and counters and pillars, and gilt scrollwork over the tellers' cages. ![]() The Marriage Code by Brooke Burroughs5/13/2023 ![]() Neither of them expect her marriage code to work so well-or to fall for one another-which leads Emma and Rishi to wonder if leaving fate up to formulas is really an equation for lasting love. So, when Emma makes him an offer-join her team, and she’ll write an algorithm to find him the perfect bride-he reluctantly accepts. To make matters worse, not only does his job require him to return home to Bangalore with his nemesis, Emma, but his parents now expect him to choose a bride and get married. Rishi cannot believe that he got passed over for promotion. In an effort to save the one thing she cares about-her job-she must recruit her colleague, Rishi, to be on her development team…only she may or may not have received the position he was promised. ![]() But after turning down her boyfriend’s proposal, everything starts to crumble. The Marriage Code: A Novel Paperback 19 April 2021 by Brooke Burroughs (Author) 4,106 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 0. In Brooke Burroughs’s endearing debut novel set in vibrant India, enemies turned allies encounter obstacles in an unexpected multicultural romance only to discover that in the end, love is love.Įmma has always lived her life according to a plan. ![]() The jungle book original story5/13/2023 ![]() To say that each actor perfectly suited their character and made the performance as believable as possible would be an understatement. One of the biggest advantages the film has is its cast. A home, he's informed, that he was supposed to have lived in his entire life.ĭuring his journey, he encounters new friends (like the bear Baloo, voiced by Bill Murray) and dangerous creatures (like the snake Kaa, voiced by Scarlett Johansson) that show him a side of the world he grew up in he never knew existed. Things change, however, when the vicious tiger Shere Khan (Idris Elba) decides that it's time to kill Mowgli once and for all, leading to the boy's immediate departure from the clan.Īlongside his most trusted friend and protector, a leopard named Bagheera (Ben Kingsley), Mowgli travels deeper into the jungle than he ever has before, informed he must forever leave and live with other humans in the neighboring village. ![]() ![]() Still, that doesn't stop his pack leader Akela (Giancarlo Esposito) from taking him in and protecting him like he was one of their own. Despite that, he can't help but feel a sense of not belonging to their world. He loves his life in the forested world, endlessly running through the open area with his pack brothers and sisters. The Jungle Book follows the "human-cub" Mowgli (Neel Sethi), who has been living in the jungle among a pack of wolves since he was a toddler. The Jungle Book is one of the most beautiful movies to come out of the studio in years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bostrom further highlights the substantial To millions of years of natural evolution. Notes that the existence of highly intelligent humans is a recent phenomenon compared ![]() Progress, Bostrom asserts that the emergence of superintelligence is inevitable. ![]() It then moves to discuss some examples of business research areas related to superintelligence and AI advancements.ĭrawing upon the evolution of intelligence and the history of human technological ![]() This blog post briefly outlines possible paths toward superintelligence discussed in Bostrom’s book and adds two additional possibilities that are not directly covered in the book, namely the expansion of human senses and the Conscious Empathic AI paradigm. Renowned AI philosopher, Nick Bostrom, examines various potential paths to the development of superintelligence, including advances in existing AI technologies, the creation of brain-computer interfaces and neuro-implants, brain emulation, and more. This means that any entity with intelligence greatly superior to that of a highly intelligent individual of today would be considered super-intelligent. The term superintelligence is provisionally defined as a kind of intelligence that surpasses human cognitive abilities in almost every area of interest. Superintelligence, Conscious Empathic AI, and the Future of Business Research ![]() Brush with Catastrophe by Tara Lain5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even though an urban fantasy because it dealt with magic, witches, and other beings, underneath it also had elements of dub-con and manipulation. This tale curved a little darker than the first. Sammy has also found himself strapped with another male Witch-Master Killian’s familiar, Aloysius, has decided to play protector and matchmaker once more. Sammy’s dilemma with these gorgeous men is the fact that the one guy he’s known for years is both human and straight, so completely unavailable, while the new guy, is mysterious, charming, an art major like Sammy, and for reasons Sammy cannot fathom, Lucian wants him. ![]() The second guy Sammy has prophetically painted is exquisite and could have only come from heaven…or fallen from there, only time will tell. The first, his crush since their first year in college, Ryder, who has returned from summer vacation so changed he is hardly recognizable, and if Sammy found him attractive before, he is definitely the stuff of Sammy’s dreams now. In this delightfully wicked tale, young witch Sammy, who is an art major and prophetic witch painter by nature, finds himself painting two gorgeous Men. Book two in The Aloysius Tales picks up a year after book one. ![]() Wolfspeaker5/13/2023 ![]() King Jonathan allowed them to go, provided they search for a group of Riders and a unit of the army that disappeared near Dunlath. ![]() Brokefang, the head of the Snowsdale wolf pack, summoned them to Dunlath to speak with the humans. The novel begins with Daine and Numair arriving at Dunlath, a fief in northern Tortall. Spoilers for all of Pierce’s previous work. Finally, she talks about how we can change and outgrow those biases. She also discusses how humans interact with each other and the ugly biases that everyone has. ![]() Pierce spends Wolf Speaker talking about how humans interact with the environment. For a book largely based around various philosophical debates about humanity, showing her sources is important. While some information is out of date, due to being published in 1994, it’s clear that Pierce cares about accuracy in her work. Pierce included a staggering amount of animal behavior theory in this book. Tamora Pierce’s Wolf Speaker starts with an acknowledgments section. ![]() |