Daily Archives: 9 Feb 16
Hell-in-a-Handbasket Dept (cont’d)
Upscale couple in Irvine CA who mistook the volunteer tennis coach’s comment as insulting their son’s intelligence end up planting drugs in her car when they can’t get her fired. And it goes on from there. Source: The Washington Post
Dictionary of dead language complete after 90 years
‘A dictionary of the extinct language of ancient Mesopotamia has been completed after 90 years of work.’
Source: BBC News
Neurothrillers
‘It’s not just your imagination. Horror films are much more scary than they were in the past. Here’s how they do it…
This new brand of film, the neurothriller, creates a spiral of fear or lust, a warm bath of sorrow, not through classic narrative, but with sound, image, and sophisticated computer technology, all of it tapping the circuitry of the ancient emotional brain…’
Source: Aeon


