Tag Archives: Netflix
Review: ‘Love Death + Robots’ 2 (2021)
I’ve been curious why the Marvel Cinematic Universe picked the Malthusian catastrophe for the ultimate disaster the superheroes rescue everyone else from. Narendra Modi has invoked the misguided idea of some (religious) communities breeding too fast for Hindu India – … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged animated anthology, LDR, Love Death and Robots, Malthusian catastrophe, Netflix, Pop Squad, Sonnies Edge, Zima Blue
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The real story of ‘The Old Guard’
Spoiler alert: Don’t read this post if you intend to watch The Old Guard but haven’t done so yet. The Old Guard, an action film starring Charlize Theron among others, released on Netflix on July 10. In a scene in … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Science
Tagged apoliticism, Charlize Theron, compassion fatigue, Enrico Fermi, history of science, human experimentation, medical experimentation, medical imperialism, medical research, Netflix, Paul Feyerabend, profiteering, rationalism, The Old Guard, violence
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Partial review: ‘Hitler’s Circle of Evil’ (2018)
Hitler’s Circle of Evil is a documentary series on Netflix that narrates the lives and actions of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle, leading up to and during the Second World War. This is a partial review because it is based on … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Hitler, Berchtesgaden, Berghof, Ernst Rohm, fascism, Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Göring, Hitler's Circle of Evil, interwar Germany, Joseph Goebbels, lebensraum, Martin Bormann, Mein Kampf, Nazi Party, Nazism, Netflix, Reinhard Heydrich, Rudolph Hess, Second World War, Third Reich, World War II
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The potential energy of being entertained
Netflix just published a report drafted by its Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, estimating – among other things – its environmental footprint for operations during the year 2019. According to the report, as The Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi writes: Binge-watching Netflix doesn’t just fry your brain; … Continue reading
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Tagged cable, carbon accounting, climate change, climate change journalism, doomsday scenario, DVD, hope, neoliberalism, Netflix, positive news, social isolation
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Free speech at the outer limits
On January 12, Peter W. Wood, president of an American organisation called the National Association of Scholars (NAS), wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal against attempts by one individual to prevent NAS from organising a conference on science’s … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Scicomm
Tagged boycott, Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules 1964, Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, climate change, Constitution of India, free speech, freedom of speech, Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurie Penny, Leonid Teytelman, Netflix, protest, reproducibility crisis, Tripura high court, Wall Street Journal
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The science in Netflix’s ‘Spectral’
It’s fun to think about the implications of a film’s antagonists being modelled after a phenomenon I’ve often read/written about but never thought about that way. Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, BCS theory, Bose-Einstein condensate, ceramics, Cooper pair, DARPA, electromagnetic radiation, M1 Abrams tank, Netflix, Quantum mechanics, refractive index, SN Bose, Spectral, superconductivity, superfluidity, UV light, warcraft, wavefunction
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