How an odd animal called the pangolin may be part of that answer. Its known as the most smuggled animal on the planet. Chinese researchers found a sick pangolin carried a version of that virus that is strikingly similar to the one that has changed our world. The pangolin is a scaly mammal that hunts for ants and termites in Subsaharan Africa and parts of asia. While it may appear to be an unlikely link in the chain of the coronavirus infection, chinese researchers discovered the virus in a sick pangolin was a close cousin to the virus that causes covid19 in humans. Some genes were a perfect match, and the spiked protein used in the virus to enter a cell was nearly identical. So, how could the virus move from a solitary bug hunter to humans . In january, an elderly man died in wuhan, china after suffering from what appeared to be flu symptoms. Suspicion grew around the live animal section of a market he visited regularly where bats are sold. Julia schaletzky bats live with a lot of viru
Feel of the trenches at a safe distance war on the Silver Screen whether patriotic glorification or cautionary tale movies shaped our ideas about war they tell stories of heroism. And trauma real change. But where are the black soldiers on the cinematic battlefield and what roles do women play in war movies we put the film genre in our crosshairs 75 years after the end of world war 2. Most of us have never and hopefully will never go to war. Our experience of battle comes from the movies. War has fascinated filmmakers from the start of. Battle scenes to push the technical limits of movie making. Over a century of cinema war movies have become more intense more realistic and more violent. But they show us what war is really like. Sam fuller hollywood director and world war 2 veteran didnt think so tall or who was sometimes in a bad mood would then say if you really wanted to film war you would have to actually fire real and you nation out of the audience are over the heads of the audien
Thoughts, i know you have a few. Guest im kind of obsessed with looking at this list. I take the bullet for the team. Im always interested and talked a couple of weeks ago about these books that were decades old popping up on to kill a mockingbird was a prime example. And we know why the handmaids tale was there this week on the Washington Post bestseller paperback up pops blue highways. This was a book that was written in 1978. He was an english professor and lost his job and was separated from his wife and got in a forward e. , line 1975 van and rode what he called the blue highways. This was before gps and before google maps here he got the map of the country and all the backroads were colored blue. Those were the road he chose to take and so, he went to 38 of the 50 states and just kind of learning america, learning a lot about himself it was a Remarkable Book on the bestseller list in for 40 or 45 weeks were some like that. That. He has written other books in that he he is best kn
Shes a real powerhouse prize winning film director and well known actress whos equally at home in film and television yet still regularly tears up the stage. We meet her at the office is a Production Company x. During the Berlin International Film Festival when the whole city is in a film fever. Shot of the barrel and allah is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year star is a really good one what role does the Film Festival play for you personally and your career. Benyon and for. I feel berlin is my city even though i listened born here but ive been living here since before the fall of the wall and i think people also identify me with the city and in turn i identify with the festival with the festival. For 10 days the Film Industry takes over berlin girl and attracts stars and filmmakers hollywood productions and independent movies and shot at is in the thick of things she in the festival go way back. In 1906 when she appeared in donnie levys film silent night which was in the compe
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