Do Movie Ratings on ‘Rotten Tomatoes’ Really Affect a Movie’s Box Office?

Either Rotten Tomatoes was destroying the film industry, or it didn’t matter much at all, writes The Ringer, noting competing storylines about the influence of the film review-aggregating web site. But they’ve now performed a statistical deep dive to try to answer the question, and concluded that “The truth likely lies in the middle: Rotten Tomatoes wasn’t tanking the industry or…

Human Nature film review: Telling the CRISPR story with wit and verve

How much do you really know about the revolutionary gene-editing technology called CRISPR? A sharp independent film will have you up to speed in no time, finds Simon Ings in his latest column Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24432580-400-human-nature-film-review-telling-the-crispr-story-with-wit-and-verve/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…