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A Century of Science Fiction That Changed How We Think About the Environment

A Century of Science Fiction That Changed How We Think About the Environment 26/07/2021 (2017). Source: Netflix screenshot It has become axiomatic to say that the world is becoming like science fiction. From mobile phones that speak to us (reminding Star Trek fans of tricorders), to genetically modified foods, to the Internet of Things and the promise of self-driving cars, people in industrialised nations live immersed in technology. Daily life can thus at times seem like visions from the pulp science fiction of the 1920s and 1930s – either a world perfected by technology, manifested in events such as the 1939 World’s Fair, with its theme ‘The World of Tomorrow’; or a dystopian nightmare, such as Aldous Huxley’s

Whaley co-authors book on comics studies

Whaley co-authors book on comics studies By: Office of Strategic Communication  |  2021.06.09  |  09:57 am University of Iowa Professor Deborah Whaley has co-authored a new book about the field of comics studies. Released June 8 by NYU Press, Keywords for Comics Studies introduces key terms, research traditions, debates and histories, and offers a sense of new frontiers emerging in the comics studies field. The book of more than 50 essays provides an interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art, as well as identifies new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the 20th and 21st  centuries. Keywords for Comics Studies presents analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art that are traditionally found only in distinct lexicons: these include creative and aesthetic terms like ink, creator, border, and panel; conceptual terms such as trans , disability, universe, and fantasy; genre term

NASA names Mars sites for author Octavia Butler, engineer Jakob van Zyl

1:21 pm UTC Apr. 10, 2021 A Black science fiction author who believed she could write better stories than those in B-grade movies, and a former NASA senior director who gazed at the stars while growing up in a remote part of Africa have been honored with Mars Perseverance sites named after them. The names of Jakob van Zyl, a brilliant engineer and manager who helped send spacecraft across the solar system, are now part of the Perseverance rover’s mission. Their names now designate where the rover landed and where it will watch the Ingenuity helicopter fly. There s a tradition for Mars rover teams to name their landing sites after someone they want to commemorate, says Kathryn Stack Morgan, deputy project scientist of the Mars 2020 rover mission.

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