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After finishing Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, I wondered what film adaptions were available (besides the 1998 Gweneth Paltrow/Ethan Hawke modern day version). There was a 1999 Masterpiece Theater mini series staring one of my favorite actors, Ioan Gruffudd of Horatio Hornblower fame. I watched the three episodes instantly on Netflix. ( Read more... )

I came across this short video today and had to share it.

Listen to what he says--and how he says it. It's quite lovely.

Iceberg poet?

Scientists Turn Stem Cells Into Pork

Without a doubt, we will be eating differently in the next few decades. Maybe it will include grown meat. Would you eat it?

Huge Chunk of Ice Cracks Up Off Antarctica

Let's hope it doesn't take a chunk the size of Texas to garner some interest from world leaders.

We'll be finding dinosaur fossils in Antarctica at this rate.