Interesting Links for 12-02-2016

[andrewducker]

• We're the Only Animals With Chins, and No One Knows Why
  • biology humans faces evolution
• Inside the cloning factory that creates 500 new animals a day
  • cloning animals dogs
• Thanks to Marvel and Disney, endings are now obsolete
  • I pretty-much stopped reading comics that don't have endings. I like things to have a shape, and to be working towards something.
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• One Night Ultimate Werewolf - A Meta Expansion
  • games funny comics
• What happens when an experimental subject is crushed between two portals?
  • portal video
• These Gorgeous Ceramics Are Made By Blasting Music Below A 3-D Printer
  • 3dprinting sound design
• Sex Education for Children in the Norway’s TV (impressively thorough)
  • viaConuly nsfw vagina sex education Norway video
• Don't hate the phone call, hate the phone
  • phones design
• Gravitational Waves Explained
  • gravity physics comic

Comments

[matgb]

I would like to agree with the whole "films should have an ending" thing, but that entire essay is so full of crap it put me off. Main point and thrust of the argument:

What we used to get from our blockbuster movies was the comforting illusion that even the most mountainous obstacles in life could be surmounted in a couple of hours – and that those obstacles would stay surmounted.

Um, yeah. First "proper" blockbuster in the modern sense was Jaws. The next was Star Wars. Given that the essay references Back to the Future which takes the piss out of Jaws for all the sequels, and Star Wars was always conceived as part X of an ongoing saga?

I think this guy may've misunderstood the films he himself is referencing let alone the overall appeal that the rest of us had.

Life goes on, shit happens, the story never ends. Films are about the interesting bits. I finally got around to watching Age of Ultron this week, it has a clear ending to a fairly big plot. But it also clearly sets up a new ongoing story because that's what it's all about, superheroes keep going.

I mean, seriously

the Ghostbusters could hang up their proton packs,

They set up a business in order to use their proton packs. One of the things the sequel (which I also watched again this week) gets 100% right is that when they were forced out of that life between films they hated it.

Sure, they'd probably rather not have to save the world all the time, but they don't want to quit working.

I really like that modern films can have ongoing characters that develop over time. I love the story arc that Tony Stark is going through and the changes to his character. It's not for everyone, OK, that's fine, but there are plenty of films out there that do have endings, and each of the Marvel films also has an ending.