TALKING ANIMISM AND THE ANOMALOUS | DR JACK HUNTER
Jack is the author and/or editor of 'Talking With The Spirits, 'Strange Dimensions', Why People Believe in Spirits, Gods and Magic, 'Damned Facts' and the recently published 'Engaging The Anomalous'.
TALKING SPIRITS ON FILM AND TV WITH JULIO CESAR ODY
Jack Hunter?-) |
Rune Soup: Talking Spirits on Film and TV
That turned out freakier than the shows that I watched, in hindsight.
This movie 'Encounter' has an interesting plot on paper, too -
"A newlywed couple Ted and Lauren rent an old farm house to do a thesis on orbs and set up cameras, Strange ghostly noises and hauntings occur at night.
"A newlywed couple Ted and Lauren rent an old farm house to do a thesis on orbs and set up cameras, Strange ghostly noises and hauntings occur at night.
Ted sees video of Lauren, possessed and wandering the fields at night.
When their roommate kills himself they decide to do a sรฉance to see what is haunting the house. Little do they know what they hear and fear is nothing they can pray away."
Gee, if Ted survived in that movie I think that he could give a really good TED talk about that encounter:-)
The actor named Jack Hunter also does skits for the 'Cracked' TV show called 'Honest Ads', which are really worth a watch, I think.
Many a true word is said in jest, as they say.
I've got to say that listening to Gordon's podcast with Dr. Jack Hunter once more that Gordon did mention flooding in his speech quite a lot.
A Cascade AND Rabbits?
Hobart weather: Record rain, flash flooding inundate CBD and parts of southern Tasmania
It was an interesting week for sure last week and it wasn't even shark week ... was it?-)
How 'Jurassic Park' technology could bring back extinct Tasmanian tiger
"Scientists in the US are using a DNA tool, known as CRISPR, to recreate the iconic animal’s genetic blueprint.The extinct thylacine, better known as the Tasmanian Tiger |
Tasmania's coat of arms ... extinct Tassie Tigers |
How 'Jurassic Park' technology could bring back extinct Tasmanian tiger
University of Melbourne associate professor Andrew Pask described the procedure as “complicated” and “exactly the same technology” as in the Jurassic Park films.
“Basically, you can take the DNA from a closely related living species and you can make all the edits that you see and all the differences you can see from a thylacine genome and put them into the living marsupial species genome,” Professor Pask told Sunrise.
“Rather than it being science fiction, which was when the book (Jurassic Park) was written, it is now becoming science fact.”
Professor Pask said teams in the US were making a lot of progress with the mammoth genome and could have an elephant-mammoth hybrid in a few years.
He added the technology could be applied to a number of different species but the “thylacine is a great candidate” because “it’s a recent extinction event” and the habitat for it in Tasmania still exists."
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