Looker is the rare cheesy 1980s movie that got the future right
By now, most of us are resigned to the notion that the Future™ is not going to be everything we were promised by science fiction. We will not be getting our flying cars, wise-cracking robot butlers, immortality pills, or pleasure model replicants any time soon. But while we mourn for everything that science fiction got…
Do whales appreciate clarinet music?
According to Dr. David Rothenberg professor of Philosophy and Music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, in the US, there is a definite possibility that they do. The professor, who is himself a clarinetist, embarked on a preliminary investigation in January-February 2007, when he played a live gig to a group of humpback whales…
Will the “I Love Lucy signal” cue aliens to humanity’s existence?
As a fan of I Love Lucy since childhood, I’ve always been pleased that this show – and not, say, Milton Berle or Sid Caesar – is the one always referred to when talking about Earth being detected by other civilizations. And when I first thought about it, the idea that there was a detectable…
