Following in the footsteps of Pixar’s previous full-length computer-generated successes, Monsters, Inc. provides eye-popping imagery, laugh-out-loud humor and three-dimensional characters — and I’m not just talking about the animation.
Most significantly, though, like its predecessors, the film creates a complete world around things we think little about because we feel we have good reason to [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2001’
“Green”-eyed Monsters
A Prelude to Begin With
Life on earth has been evolving for billions of years. For all this time nobody was “in control” and, most of all, nobody was “managing things.” If anything could be said to have been in control, it was natural selection. Natural selection deemed whom was fit to live and who fit to die — and [...]
To Scientific American, Re: Biodiversity
If a human population’s death rate or a nation’s commercial bankruptcy rate increased 17 times, it would be considered an unparalleled disaster. To consider this extreme-low-end estimate of the increase in the current extinction rate — not to mention larger increases — to be anything less is insanity.
More importantly, the truth about biodiversity ["On [...]
Queen Control, Worker Policing, Anarchy and Law in Honeybee Society (Apis Mellifera)
This paper was written during Chris’ undergraduate studies at the University of Queensland.
Read the Queen Control, Worker Policing, Anarchy and Law in Honeybee Society (Apis Mellifera) .pdf.
