It’s almost as if the makers of “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” are interested in making the sequel to “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” really, really good. First they go and get Matt Reeves to replace Rupert Wyatt. Then they cast “Zero Dark Thirty” break-out and star-waiting-to-happen Jason Clarke in the [...]
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Gary Oldman To Lead Humanity In ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes’
By admin on Saturday, March 2nd, 2013 | Comments Off
Health Care Meets Humanity In ‘The Waiting Room’
By admin on Wednesday, September 26th, 2012 | Comments Off
The new documentary The Waiting Room chronicles a day in the emergency room at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California. The film has no narration or expert interviews, but instead the camera shows interactions between hospital staff and patients, many of whom lack health insurance. Guest host Celeste Headlee speaks with filmmaker Peter Nicks. Movies
Read More...Genetic study finds complexity in cradle of humanity
By admin on Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 | Comments Off
A comparison of the genomes of present-day southern African populations confirms that our ancestors did not originate from a single group New Scientist – Online news
Read More...Armstrong’s small step a giant leap for humanity
By admin on Monday, August 27th, 2012 | Comments Off
When man first harnessed fire, no one recorded it. When the Wright Brothers showed man could fly, only a handful of people witnessed it. But when Neil Armstrong took that first small step on the moon in July 1969, an entire globe watched in grainy black-and-white from a quarter million miles away Science News Headlines [...]
Read More...Ryan Bethencourt at Humanity+ @ Caltech: “The Future of the Pharmaceutical Industry”
By admin on Monday, May 7th, 2012 | 2 Comments
Ryan Bethencourt’s talk at Humanity+ @ Caltech (www.humanityplus.org “The Future of the Pharmaceutical Industry” Video Rating: 5 / 5
Read More...‘Chimpanzee’: Oh, The Humanity!
By admin on Sunday, April 22nd, 2012 | Comments Off
A lighthearted Disneynature documentary aimed at kids follows an orphaned chimp who is adopted by an older male. Critic Mark Jenkins says the Tim Allen-narrated film, even as a kids’ movie, anthropomorphizes its animal subjects too much. Movies
Read More...Gbagbo faces charges of crimes against humanity: ICC
By admin on Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 | 3 Comments
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo was arrested and flown to The Hague overnight to face charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, the first former head of state to be tried by the ICC since its inception in 2002. The world’s top war crimes court opened an [...]
Read More...UN: Syrian forces commit ‘crimes against humanity’
By admin on Monday, November 28th, 2011 | 4 Comments
Syrian troops have killed hundreds of children and committed other “crimes against humanity” since the government crackdown began in March, a U.N. probe said Monday. msnbc.com: World news
Read More...Exit Humanity
By admin on Sunday, November 13th, 2011 | 3 Comments
Film Reviews: Given the drastically overcrowded field of zombie movies, “Exit Humanity” merits appreciation for really trying something different: It’s a Civil War-era piece that, low budget aside, is in many ways closer in feel to “Cold Mountain” than to the usual George Romero-derived splatfest. Variety – Film Reviews
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