August 2019

Chester Nakayama (Derek Mio) in All the Demons Are Still in Hell (Image courtesy AMC Studios / Amazon. All rights reserved)

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“All the Demons Are Still in Hell” is the second episode of the second season of the TV show “The Terror”, which was named “The Terror: Infamy”, and follows “A Sparrow in a Swallow’s Nest”. It’s broadcast in the USA on AMC Studios and in other nations on Amazon Prime Video.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Terminal Island’s residents of Japanese origin are evicted from their homes. Henry Nakayama (Shingo Usami) and others are interned in a camp, others get moved around. Meanwhile, Chester Nakayama (Derek Mio) worries about the strange events that struck the community but above all has to think about his personal problems.

The fossil skull of Chilecebus carrascoensis (Photo N. Wong and M. Ellison/© AMNH)

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An article published in the journal “Science Advances” reports a study of the known fossil skull of Chilecebus carrascoensis, an extinct monkey that lived about 20 million years ago, in the Miocene period, in today’s Chile. A team of researchers subjected it to a high resolution CT scan to obtain a 3D digital reconstruction that allowed to study its internal structure and therefore the brain’s structure. The new information on this primitive relative of monkeys and hominids that evolved later suggest that the evolution of these primates’ brains was non-linear and that it grew several times independently.

The changes in the brain of Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis in the transition from quadruped to biped

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An article published in the journal “PeerJ” reports a study on the development of the skull structure of Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis during its growth. A team led by Claire Bullar of the British University of Bristol examined dozens of fossils belonging to this species focusing in particular on their skulls to understand their growth. This also offers more information on their locomotion changes since they were born quadrupeds but were bipeds in adulthood.

Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold

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The novel “Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen” by Lois McMaster Bujold was published for the first time in 2016. It’s part of the Vorkosigan saga.

Cordelia Vorkosigan intends to leave her role as Vicereine of Sergyar to raise the children she wants to have through in vitro fertilization and automatic gestation following the use of the genetic material of her late husband Aral.

In carrying out her project, Cordelia Vorkosigan also involves Admiral Oliver Jole, who for years has been her husband Aral’s lover. There’s the possibility of combining the two men’s genetic material to give birth to their children.

Nobuhiro Yamato (George Takei) in A Sparrow in a Swallow's Nest (Image courtesy AMC Studios / Amazon. All rights reserved)

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“A Sparrow in a Swallow’s Nest” is the first episode of the second season of the TV show “The Terror”, which was named “The Terror: Infamy”. It’s broadcast in the USA on AMC Studios and in other nations on Amazon Prime Video.

A woman’s suicide shakes the Japanese-American community of Terminal Island, California, where she lived. Events that other inhabitants of the community interpret as omens make the situation even worse. In 1941 living in the USA and being of Japanese ancestry is becoming increasingly difficult and someone thinks that an evil entity is working against them.