Wes Phillips

Dr. Anne Newman suggests that a simple test—the ability to briskly walk a quarter of a mile—might be an "important determinant" not only of whether an elderly subject might be alive in six years, but of the illness or disability he or she might experience during that time. Yes, it's a small sample, but I'm going to keep walking.

Has the time-bomb become a time-capsule?

The Guardian has an extra edition on adapting books into films. It's all pretty good, so read it all.

Huckleberry smolders with Tabby sensuality.

A seven-minute science fiction film.

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That's right, "Using infrared video cameras and an array of microphones in their bat lab, the University of Maryland research team discovered that the big brown bat solves a rather complex geometrical problem to minimize the time it takes to intercept flying insects. ..." (Italics mine.)

If two guys with limited resources and a lot of imagination can put together a lightsaber battle this good, why can't George Lucas make a decent movie with more money than God?