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You can learn a lot by going to the movies. If you’re a scientist, you can be amused at how wrong-headed some of the ideas presented in a movie like Angels & Demons are.

Physicist Soeren Prell was frustrated by the scenes in the movie that depicted CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research near Geneva, Switzerland, and its Large Hadron Collider, the $8 billion, 17-miles-around particle accelerator.

The collider is the world

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What does your reaction to The Blob reveal about you? Does your friend or partner avoid going to horror movies with you and duck when TV shows display lots of gore? If so, that may mean that, no matter what he says, he’s really a political conservative, especially in his attitudes towards gays.

Psychologist David Pizarro says that disgust is an emotion that probably evolved in humans to keep us safe from potentially hazardous or disease carrying environments. In contemporary life, that translates into judgments about morality and purity.
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Ambigrams! – All those symbols flashing in Web site promos and posters promoting Ron Howard’s new film Angels & Demons, based on the novel by Dan Brown, were created by a professor of typography. John Langdon, who, not by coincidence, shares the same last name as the film’s protagonist played by Tom Hanks, has been creating ambigrams (words that can be read from left to right, upside down or from multiple viewpoints) since the 1970s. They were first seen by the public in Brown’s novel, Angels and Demons, in 2000.

Five of Langdon’s illuminati ambigrams play an integral part in Robert Langdon

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The Nye Incidents, written by Craig Spector from an idea by Whitley Strieber, is going to be filmed by Dark Castle, a division of Warner Brothers.The film will be directed by Todd Lincoln.The Nye Incidents is a fictional exploration of rumors that Whitley Strieber heard of possible human abductions. He says, “I was never able to prove that these happened, but they troubled me enough to where I felt the need to explore the matter in fiction.” In the Nye Incidents, a coroner finds herself confronting a series of horrifying murders that come to look more and more like cattle mutilations. As she investigates, she comes face to face with a burning question: serial killer or something much more bizarre?
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