Category: Geekdom

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  • Halloween 2020 Movie List

    Because of COVID-19 and working from home, I’ve had a lot of time to fill October with Halloween monster and horror movies! Many of these I’ve seen before so I can just put them on in the background while working whereas others I like to watch with my girls (especially the older Universal Monster Movies!).…

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  • Ghost in the Shell is a huge let-down

    I haven’t been this disappointed since Episode 1. Thankfully there’s no Jar-Jar but the live-action version of “Ghost in the Shell” misses all of the philosophy and depth of the original. And the whitewashing…good God. I won’t give any spoilers but they seem to have taken bits from the 1995 original, tossed in a bit…

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  • Why I Am Leaving Facebook

    I originally posted this to Facebook on November 29, 2014 but re-posting here as a way to re-start Anthurian.com. I do not know what this site will turn into or how often I post but the bigger experiment is how long I can away from social media, Facebook especially. Here’s to 2015 and new starts……

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  • Weird Musings: Evolution and Endangered Species

    While watching TV the other night, the host of a video clip show quipped that pandas have now evolved to become so cute that humans can’t help but go “awwwww” when they see them. This got me wondering: are animals in captivity, especially endangered species which are being bred, evolving to become almost entirely reliant…

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  • Depictions of Dinosaurs in Standardized Tests

    As with many children, I was always interested in dinosaurs and I have kept that love of paleontology with me as an adult. I’m not a paleontologist but just a run-of-the-mill (35yr old) kid who loves dinos and tries to keep up with current trends in paleontology and evolutionary science. So, naturally, it pains me…

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