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Prior to my recent visit to the World Science Festival, I had only heard whispers of the mysterious Panna II Garden Indian Restaurant in New York’s East Village. Now I have experienced it for myself and must dedicate my remaining years to deciphering what I witnessed. The rumors told of twin Indian restaurants, their doors opposed atop a flight of stairs. Word also had it that highly aggressive barkers from each restaurant worked the sidewalk, fighting like hyenas over each passing potential customer. Let’s go inside and solve the cosmic mystery.
Another day, another reboot — well, sort of: Deadline Hollywood is reporting that “Frankenstein” will be the next film to get the “modern update” treatment, joining adaptations like ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Clueless.’ Was 1994 — the year the last version of Mary Shelley’s classic premiered — really that long ago? Well, given Hollywood’s recent penchant for remaking movies that have barely passed the quarter-century mark, the answer is clearly “yes.”
It’s been a little more like Stuff From the Mad Science Lab in the weeks leading up to Halloween. Shovels in hand, Allison and I have trudged off into the moonlit cemeteries to unearth a number of grotesque, chilling and occasionally peer-reviewed horrors from YOUR science and culture. Then we dragged it all into the podcasting lab, flipped the switch and created three awesome Halloween episodes:
Science vs. Monsters!
This one’s a real slobber knocker, folks, because we pit actual science against fictional monsters in an all-out battle royale. We’ll discuss who would win in a fight between bigfoot and the wolfman — and tell you why Charles Darwin already decided the match. Plus much more!
If you clicked on this link hoping to vote for your favorite monster in a geeky Internet death match, then you’re out of luck. As it turns out, Charles Darwin decided the outcome on this fight more than a century ago.
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