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  1. "I don't think they think they are writing software, I think [they think] they're midwifing a deity here."

    instagram.com/reels/DY_7vO6t5_

  2. This week's #NewBooks at the library:
    - I found a much reduced copy of Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860–1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of #Geology and #Palaeontology, published by Oxford University Press
    - I was so taken with Guillermo del Toro's visual take on #Frankenstein, I bought the book on the making of the movie by Sheila O'Malley, published by Titan Books.
    - I found a second-hand copy of The Spirit of System: #Lamarck and #EvolutionaryBiology, published by Harvard University Press, which should come in handy for a future review on Lamarck.

    #Books #Bookstodon #Paleontology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #Scicomm @bookstodon

  3. This week's #NewBooks at the library:
    - I found a much reduced copy of Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860–1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of #Geology and #Palaeontology, published by Oxford University Press
    - I was so taken with Guillermo del Toro's visual take on #Frankenstein, I bought the book on the making of the movie by Sheila O'Malley, published by Titan Books.
    - I found a second-hand copy of The Spirit of System: #Lamarck and #EvolutionaryBiology, published by Harvard University Press, which should come in handy for a future review on Lamarck.

    #Books #Bookstodon #Paleontology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #Scicomm @bookstodon

  4. This week's #NewBooks at the library:
    - I found a much reduced copy of Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860–1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of #Geology and #Palaeontology, published by Oxford University Press
    - I was so taken with Guillermo del Toro's visual take on #Frankenstein, I bought the book on the making of the movie by Sheila O'Malley, published by Titan Books.
    - I found a second-hand copy of The Spirit of System: #Lamarck and #EvolutionaryBiology, published by Harvard University Press, which should come in handy for a future review on Lamarck.

    #Books #Bookstodon #Paleontology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #Scicomm @bookstodon

  5. This week's #NewBooks at the library:
    - I found a much reduced copy of Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860–1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of #Geology and #Palaeontology, published by Oxford University Press
    - I was so taken with Guillermo del Toro's visual take on #Frankenstein, I bought the book on the making of the movie by Sheila O'Malley, published by Titan Books.
    - I found a second-hand copy of The Spirit of System: #Lamarck and #EvolutionaryBiology, published by Harvard University Press, which should come in handy for a future review on Lamarck.

    #Books #Bookstodon #Paleontology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #Scicomm @bookstodon

  6. This week's #NewBooks at the library:
    - I found a much reduced copy of Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860–1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of #Geology and #Palaeontology, published by Oxford University Press
    - I was so taken with Guillermo del Toro's visual take on #Frankenstein, I bought the book on the making of the movie by Sheila O'Malley, published by Titan Books.
    - I found a second-hand copy of The Spirit of System: #Lamarck and #EvolutionaryBiology, published by Harvard University Press, which should come in handy for a future review on Lamarck.

    #Books #Bookstodon #Paleontology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #Scicomm @bookstodon

  7. Preview of Mark Voger's 'Son of Monster Mash', Coming November 2026

    All new! All grue! It’s the long-awaited sequel to RetroFan and Cryptology contributor Mark Voger’s Rondo Award-winning book Monster Mash: The Creepy, Kooky Monster Craze in America 1957-1972, which redefined Monster Kid fandom with a visually immersive graphic approach. This companion book revisits the period, while examining the literary and cinematic roots of its fictional precedents (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bram Stoker’s Dracula); early silent films (Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu); the golden age of monster movies (with such stars as Lon Chaney Sr., Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and Chaney Jr.); the 3-D and teenage monster movie trends; the Edgar Allan Poe adaptations and Hammer Studios releases of the period; the monsters of Sixties TV; the eye-popping toys, memorabilia and comics; and the aftermath of the influential Monster Craze. It features interviews with filmmakers such as Ray Harryhausen (20 Million Miles to Earth), Roger Corman (The Pit and the Pendulum), and stars like Gloria Stuart (The Invisible Man), Ricou Browning (Creature From the Black Lagoon), Haruo Nakajima (Godzilla), Jonathan Haze (Little Shop of Horrors), Hazel Court (Curse of Frankenstein), Kathryn Leigh Scott (House of Dark Shadows), Robert Quarry (Count Yorga, Vampire) and many others. No monster fan should be without this treasure trove of terror!

    1st book: Monster Mash (2015)

    Time-trip back to the frightening era of 1957-1972, when monsters stomped into the American mainstream! Once Frankenstein and fiends infiltrated TV in 1957, an avalanche of monster magazines, toys, games, trading cards, and comic books crashed upon an unsuspecting public. This profusely illustrated, full-color hardcover covers that creepy, kooky Monster Craze through features on Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, the #1 hit “Monster Mash,” Aurora’s model kits, TV shows (Shock Theatre, The Addams Family, The Munsters, and Dark Shadows), Mars Attacks trading cards, Eerie Publications, Planet of the Apes, and more! It features interviews with James Warren (Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella magazines), Forrest J Ackerman (Famous Monsters of Filmland), John Astin (The Addams Family), Al Lewis (The Munsters), Jonathan Frid (Dark Shadows), George Barris (monster car customizer), Ed “Big Daddy” Roth (Rat Fink), Bobby (Boris) Pickett ("Monster Mash” singer/songwriter) and others, with a Foreword by TV horror host Zacherley, the “Cool Ghoul.”

  8. Synthetic biology has taken a big step forward.

    I’m generally bullish on the potential with equal measures of caution and horror. One of the many advances that is going to destabilize our world views.

    #science #biology #syntheticlife #frankenstein

    quantamagazine.org/for-the-fir

  9. Synthetic biology has taken a big step forward.

    I’m generally bullish on the potential with equal measures of caution and horror. One of the many advances that is going to destabilize our world views.

    #science #biology #syntheticlife #frankenstein

    quantamagazine.org/for-the-fir

  10. "Resulta curioso cómo la metáfora de lo ajeno y lo desconocido, materializada en el monstruo, sigue vigente. Esta figura –cuyo único espacio ha sido el arte– es el recipiente por excelencia de nuestros miedos culturales; el límite que transgrede y ayuda a diferenciar lo “natural” de lo que no lo es."

    #frankenstein #tecnologia #trans

    gaceta.unam.mx/cuando-el-monst

  11. "Resulta curioso cómo la metáfora de lo ajeno y lo desconocido, materializada en el monstruo, sigue vigente. Esta figura –cuyo único espacio ha sido el arte– es el recipiente por excelencia de nuestros miedos culturales; el límite que transgrede y ayuda a diferenciar lo “natural” de lo que no lo es."

    #frankenstein #tecnologia #trans

    gaceta.unam.mx/cuando-el-monst

  12. The best parody movies are also tributes to the films or genres they are riffing on, which is why Young Frankenstein works so well. It was obviously made by real fans of Universal Horror and they did the extra work to make the film look and feel like a Universal monster flick.

    #melbrooks #horror #comedy #universalmonsters #frankenstein #movies #films #cinema

  13. The best parody movies are also tributes to the films or genres they are riffing on, which is why Young Frankenstein works so well. It was obviously made by real fans of Universal Horror and they did the extra work to make the film look and feel like a Universal monster flick.

    #melbrooks #horror #comedy #universalmonsters #frankenstein #movies #films #cinema

  14. 📚 Oliver Plaschka: „Die Geister von La Spezia" – Genua 1822, Mary Shelley und eine Detektivin, die in Erinnerungen eintaucht. Eine Neudeutung der Entstehung von „Frankenstein" zwischen historischer Fiktion und spekulativer Fantastik.
    Rezensent Carsten Kuhr: starke Idee, eindringliche Atmosphäre – aber anspruchsvolle Struktur.
    🔗 schreiblust-leselust.de
    #OliverPlaschka #DieGeisterVonLaSpezia #MaryShelley #Frankenstein #Literatur #Bücher #Buchempfehlung #Lesetipp #HistorischerRoman #KlettCotta

  15. Garai bakoitzak du bere #Frankenstein doktorea. Gurean, He Jiankuiri eman zaio izen hori. Eta, garaien seinale, badugu Biotech Barbie ezizena duen genetika-enpresari bat ere. Teknojauntxoentzat diseinuzko haurrak sortzea da haien ametsa. Batzuek dirua jartzen dute; besteek teknika.

    "Frankenstein, Barbie eta diseinuzko haurrak", @berria n: berria.eus/bizigiro/analisia-b

    #etika #genetika #FrankensteinAgurgarria

  16. Garai bakoitzak du bere #Frankenstein doktorea. Gurean, He Jiankuiri eman zaio izen hori. Eta, garaien seinale, badugu Biotech Barbie ezizena duen genetika-enpresari bat ere. Teknojauntxoentzat diseinuzko haurrak sortzea da haien ametsa. Batzuek dirua jartzen dute; besteek teknika.

    "Frankenstein, Barbie eta diseinuzko haurrak", @berria n: berria.eus/bizigiro/analisia-b

    #etika #genetika #FrankensteinAgurgarria

  17. Garai bakoitzak du bere #Frankenstein doktorea. Gurean, He Jiankuiri eman zaio izen hori. Eta, garaien seinale, badugu Biotech Barbie ezizena duen genetika-enpresari bat ere. Teknojauntxoentzat diseinuzko haurrak sortzea da haien ametsa. Batzuek dirua jartzen dute; besteek teknika.

    "Frankenstein, Barbie eta diseinuzko haurrak", @berria n: berria.eus/bizigiro/analisia-b

    #etika #genetika #FrankensteinAgurgarria

  18. Garai bakoitzak du bere #Frankenstein doktorea. Gurean, He Jiankuiri eman zaio izen hori. Eta, garaien seinale, badugu Biotech Barbie ezizena duen genetika-enpresari bat ere. Teknojauntxoentzat diseinuzko haurrak sortzea da haien ametsa. Batzuek dirua jartzen dute; besteek teknika.

    "Frankenstein, Barbie eta diseinuzko haurrak", @berria n: berria.eus/bizigiro/analisia-b

    #etika #genetika #FrankensteinAgurgarria

  19. 'Groaning in the rain'

    One year ago today I posted this miniature Frankenstein meets Singing in the Rain photo I created using real figures, lighting, miniature sets, water and some digital foreground rain I added

    #frankenstein #miniatures #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #photography #toyphotography #miniaturephotography #photographicart #actionfigurephotography

  20. 'Groaning in the rain'

    One year ago today I posted this miniature Frankenstein meets Singing in the Rain photo I created using real figures, lighting, miniature sets, water and some digital foreground rain I added

    #frankenstein #miniatures #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #photography #toyphotography #miniaturephotography #photographicart #actionfigurephotography

  21. Aim for today's evening is finishing Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Considered a classic, it was somehow different from what I expected. No digging on graveyards, not even described of what Frankenstein's monster - this artificial "human" - consists. 🤔

    Nevertheless, started with God Emperor of Dune yesterday. I assume this will be my next reading project.

    And maybe something German too.

    #reading #frankenstein #dune

  22. Aim for today's evening is finishing Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Considered a classic, it was somehow different from what I expected. No digging on graveyards, not even described of what Frankenstein's monster - this artificial "human" - consists. 🤔

    Nevertheless, started with God Emperor of Dune yesterday. I assume this will be my next reading project.

    And maybe something German too.

    #reading #frankenstein #dune