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Here’s an updated version of this list. I have added soundtracks that I heard first in 2019. The big winner of 2019 is Randy Newman for his delightful Toy Story 4. Year Winner Runner Ups Honourable Mentions 2019 Toy Story 4 Avengers: Endgame Captain Marvel How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World […]
{4.5/5} “Walking is just like swimming, but without fins or a tail. And also there’s no water.” Luca, released in 2021 Luca is a sea monster — his mom always tells him to stay away from the surface. But one day he follows a guy named Alberto out of the water and finds that when […]
{5/5} “They’re not regular arrows.” Hawkeye, aired in 2021 After Hawkeye saves her from the Chitauri in the Battle of New York, Kate Bishop learns archery herself. Years later she obtains the outfit that he wore when he was Ronin, and wears it while trying to do some good — and then he comes looking […]
{5/5} “Every glimmer of life that fell from the starless sky represented a sentient being’s anguish and torment; each spark that rained down was another life stolen, another soul murdered, all to feed a hunger that had grown like a cancer until it became insatiable. Millions of brilliant motes descended on the horde like a […]
{4/5} “This isn’t a farm, it’s a trap.” Ghostbusters: Afterlife, released in 2021 Callie and her two kids get evicted, but at the same time her estranged father dies and leaves her his house in the country. Trevor gets a job at a restaurant because there’s a cute girl there. Phoebe makes a friend at […]
{4/5} “It’s just a number.” No Time to Die, released in 2021 James Bond has retired after years of serving his country, and he and Madeleine are living happily ever after. But then he finds that people are still trying to kill him. Blofeld is locked up, but Spectre is still active. His old friend […]
If you don’t have time to read The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins, you can watch this video. Prosanta Chakrabarty gives a TED talk on evolution and dispels some myths. He argues that it’s important to understand where we come from, in order to treat others on this planet the right way. Four billion years […]
Here are some shows that I’ve seen a few episodes of, vacation edition. The previous iteration of this list is here. Finding Your Roots Celebrities, and sometimes non-celebrities, find out about their ancestors on this show. I found it enthralling. The guests are presented with copies of significant documents like newspaper clippings and birth certificates. […]
Ilissa Ocko, an atmospheric scientist, provides some details in this TED Talk that I hadn’t heard before. In addition to reducing carbon dioxide, which is important for the long term, we also need to reduce methane — which is important for the short term. The 3 main categories of methane production are energy production, waste […]
{5/5} “Now let me be clear, Captain. The Federation has suffered great damage to its confidence over the pat few years… If this threat is as serious as you suggest, then we must move carefully to address it. At this moment, our Federation is fragile. I must balance the needs of the member worlds and […]