New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane spots an anachronism, or more specifically a parachronism (OED: 'too late a date'), in the new Star Trek.
There's a scene in the movie, which introduces us to Captain Kirk's childhood and early adulthood, where the youthful James trashes a red Corvette.
'Nice work, Jim,' writes Lane, 'getting hold of fossil fuel in the twenty-third century'.
I just returned from Antarctica: climate change isn’t some far-off problem
– it’s here and hitting hard | Jennifer Verduin
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As an oceanographer, I study how the ocean shapes our world. For Australia
and other nations, the lesson is urgent
Antarctica is often viewed as the last...
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