Sleeping Giant Excited Over New Tarzan Trailer!

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We’re happy to see some positive anticipation!

You only get one chance to make a first impression, or so the story goes. It’s especially true of film trailers, especially for highly-anticipated films. A good reception for a trailer can generate buzz that money can’t buy. A poor reception can deal a fatal blow to a film.

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She Grows Up With Gorillas.12 Years Later When They’re Reunited? This Left Me Speechless!

A heartwarming story and video!

The nonprofit Tansy Aspinall was launched among the gorillas at Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent, England. One little girl helped with everyday activities in the family’s charity, The Aspinall Foundation, working to rehabilitate gorillas who had been in captivity. The nonprofit organization’s goal is to be able to release the gorillas back into their native habitat in West Africa.

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Orangutans in Melbourne Zoo playing interactive videogames using Xbox technology

Orangutans in Melbourne Zoo playing interactive videogames using Xbox technology

Never change, our monkey brothers, never change!

Orangutans at Melbourne Zoo are playing interactive videogames as part of a world-first enrichment program. Zoos Victoria worked with researchers at the University of Melbourne’s Microsoft Research Centre for Social Natural User Interfaces (NUI) to create the games, which use Kinect 3D technology from Microsoft’s Xbox One gaming system.

Read the full article at ABC Australia! PHOTO SUPPLIED: UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

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Soldiering on for story: Strange motivations of war journalists

Jaipur, Jan 22 : It is seen as a glamourous branch of journalism which has drawn the most famous writers and politicians – Arthur Conan Doyle, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Edgar Rice Burroughs – but war reporting is also the most lethal for its practitioners, given they face a situation where their very lives are on the line.

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Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Influence on the Development of the Star Wars Franchise

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Great article from the New Yorker:

From “How Star Wars Conquered the Universe,” the new history of the sci-fi franchise, by Chris Taylor, I learned many incredible facts. Among them: Brian De Palma, the director of “Carrie,” helped to write the opening crawl (“Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire”). Christopher Walken was originally cast as Han Solo, and Solo was partly based on Francis Ford Coppola. (At the time, he was a young, seductive, swashbuckling smoothie who had impressed George Lucas by talking Warner Brothers into funding “Apocalypse Now.”) Lucas studied briefly with Jean-Luc Godard—a title card from one of his student productions reads “A film by LUCAS”—and he got the idea for the Force from “21–87,” an avant-garde film by the Canadian director Arthur Lipsett. “Many people feel that in the contemplation of nature and in communication with other living things, they become aware of some kind of force, or something,” a man’s voice says, over images of city life. Sometimes, “they call it God.”

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Museum of Science Fiction Project Status Update No. 8, Q4 2015

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These guys have sure kept themselves busy!

  • Announced the CubeSat Competition
  • Announced the Journal of Science Fiction
  • Received three CarMax matching grant awards
  • Installed the Future of Travel exhibit at National Airport
  • Released the iOS Mobile App
  • Signed a NASA Space Act Agreement
  • Announced Escape Velocity for 2016
  • Exhibited at Awesome Con 2015
  • Ben Bova joined our advisory board
  • Supported Disney’s Tomorrowland opening
  • Built the Virtual Museum of Science Fiction
  • Morgan Gendel came to Brooklyn for Lectures
  • Installed the Architectural Designs exhibit in Brooklyn
  • Opened the Minecraft Server for Informal Learning
  • Supported NASA with Comet Hitchhiker Concept
Read their full list Here!
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