Every year millions of students take part in science fairs. The projects may involve fairly simple ideas, or they may be world changing. Science Fair is about those that are head and shoulders above the average science project. It looks at some of the projects that...
Set twenty thousand years ago in Ice Age Europe, Alpha is a story of struggle and survival, of fear and courage, but it also is a story of an unlikely bond between natural enemies that brought a new way for both of them to advance. This is the very first...
?He painted the soul, not just the image.? The PBS series American Masters is airing an episode focusing on the painter Andrew Wyeth. Wyeth was one of the 20th century?s most famous magical-realist painters. He had both popular and critical success. But the popular...
Think of how much time we spend looking at screens. I?m looking at one (with various windows open) as I write this review. You?re reading it on a screen. We work and play and often socialize through the many screens of our lives. Searching tells us its story through...
?We?re all animals fighting for scraps on the Serengeti.? One of the most celebrated trials of the twentieth century was when Israel put Adolph Eichmann on trial. Eichmann headed the SS Office for Jewish Affairs and was one of the key architects of the Holocaust. But...
An L.A. Minute seeks to be a satire focused on the place fame has in our culture. It clearly makes a point that fame and success are not all that many might hope for, but it misses opportunities to truly speak to cultural issues. Ted Gould (Gabriel Byrne) is a...
In post-apocalyptic fiction we are used to seeing the dystopian aftermath. Gangs, lawlessness, greed, violence. When the English Falls by David Williams has all that, but it is on the periphery of the story. At the center is a man of faith trying to understand what...
?It?s not rehabilitation?we know that?s worthless?so we do our best to break you.? Papillon is inspired by semi-autobiographical bestselling books (Papillon and Banco) and the 1973 film with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman (with a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo).?...
Every year many fourth grade students read Island of the Blue Dolphins in school. ?The book is a fictional account based in a historic tale of a Native American woman who spent eighteen years alone on San Nicolas Island (part of California?s Channel Islands). Alone on...