Tag: Frankenstein

  • Frankenstein – and the misunderstood monster

    Frankenstein – and the misunderstood monster

    For over 200 years, Frankenstein’s monster has been the model for how monsters and zombies are portrayed in everything from film and popular culture to masquerade costumes and modern ghost stories. Emelie Rosenqvist and author Sara Bergmark Elfgren dive deep into the legacy of Frankenstein and the eternal questions that keep the story alive even…

  • Ukraine is trying to oust Russia from the uranium market

    Ukraine is trying to oust Russia from the uranium market

    Kiev must loosen Moscow’s grip on the nuclear energy market to pave the way for new Western sanctions, the energy minister has declared. Ukraine intends to increase domestic uranium production in an attempt to elbow Russia out of the global nuclear fuel market, Energy Minister German Galushchenko has said. His comments come after several Western…

  • Performance Preview: In this modern ‘misery’, the matriarch is the monster

    Performance Preview: In this modern ‘misery’, the matriarch is the monster

    Most novelists who cite dreams as their inspiration tend to call them ‘nightmares’ – but not Stephen King. In fact, the ‘dream’ that inspired his novel ‘Misery’ was even more horrific – the mad woman kills the author and uses his skin to bind a book. It wasn’t by chance that King had a ‘dream’…

  • Artificial intelligence can predict human diseases: Research

    Artificial intelligence can predict human diseases: Research

    One day, artificial intelligence-powered genome readers may even be able to predict the prevalence of diseases, from cancer to the common cold. Unfortunately, the recent popularity of artificial intelligence has led to a bottleneck for innovation. “Right now it’s like the Wild West. Everyone does what they want,” says the assistant professor at Cold Spring…

  • Mary Shelley – mother of Frankenstein and his monster

    Mary Shelley – mother of Frankenstein and his monster

    Want to know more about Mary Shelley? Here are some of the books that form the basis of the episode: The Night Page of the Soul – about Mary Shelley and her Frankenstein by Merete Mazzarella Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon Mary Shelley by Miranda Seymour Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley The…

  • Friday essay: scary tales for scary times

    Friday essay: scary tales for scary times

    Progress, the German philosopher Walter Benjamin once wrote, is a storm. The winds that propel us forward also uproot and tear apart what we leave behind. The modern world is a world of progress and it leaves in its wake the ruins of the old world. Progress, then, is indistinguishable from destruction – creative, positive…

  • Why children with gender dysphoria are treated like lab rats

    Why children with gender dysphoria are treated like lab rats

    A condemning investigation in Sweden has found that doctors ignore the physical damage and the irreversible damage caused by giving puberty inhibitors to primary school children diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Wherever you are in trans issues, no one can escape being shocked by it revelations comes out of Sweden about the life-threatening injuries and harmful…

  • The death of a British choreographer abruptly follows Danish theater’s decision to cancel his ballet

    The death of a British choreographer abruptly follows Danish theater’s decision to cancel his ballet

    In the hours following the Royal Theatre’s (KGL) decision last Friday to cancel a ballet in the spring of 2022, the 35-year-old internationally acclaimed choreographer, Liam Scarlett, lost his life. The ballet star’s family confirmed the news on Saturday, leaving KGL boss Kasper Holten to make a completely different kind of announcement than the one…

  • Theater drops performance after information about violations

    The cancellation takes place as, according to the press release, information has emerged about “unacceptable behavior” from the choreographer towards several employees at the theater during rehearsals in 2018 and 2019. The choreographer in question has been associated with a theater in London. Here too, according to the press release, there have been accusations of…

  • From Iceland – “Yes, a falling tree makes a sound (and that has a lot to say)” Serves feminist pace insects AI fantasies

    From Iceland – “Yes, a falling tree makes a sound (and that has a lot to say)” Serves feminist pace insects AI fantasies

    Imagine a utopian world where gender roles are unthinkable, alien life forms among us, travel between planets is dirt cheap and all the structures you grew up with are now the kind of ancient history that people mock and wonder “How about the new earth” did we ever act like that? “How did that fantasy…

  • Darth Vader actor dead

    Darth Vader actor dead

    The man who gave Darth Vader a body is gone. Actor James Prowse is dead. British actor David Prowse was best known for his role as Darth Vader in the films “War of the Stars”, “Space Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi”. However, he was never seen because his face was covered by…

  • Judges reject Trump’s lawsuit in Pennsylvania

    Judges reject Trump’s lawsuit in Pennsylvania

    In the United States, a federal judge has now forcefully dismissed President Trump’s attempt to stop the approval of the election result in Pennsylvania, one of the most successful states where Joe Biden received the most votes. The announcement is another setback for Trump in the fight to have Biden’s election victory annulled. During a…