Slashdot reader shirappu writes: AI|Writer is an experiment in which artificial intelligence is used to simulate both real and fictitious famous personalities through written correspondence. Users can ask questions and receive explanations from simulated versions of Isaac Newton, Alfred Hitchcock, Marie Curie, Mary Shelley, and many more. The Next Web calls it “a new experiment by magician and novelist Andrew Mayne,”…
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‘Dr. Strangelove Syndrome’ actually exists
Named after the 1964 Stanley Kubrick movie, this very rare condition gives your hands a will of their own. Imagine if you had no control over what you… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/335867/dr-strangelove-syndrome-actually-exists…
Astronomer probes idea of ET ‘lurkers’
What would an extraterrestrial intelligence need to observe Earth, long-term, from nearby? Materials, a firm anchor, concealment? Earth’s co-orbital objects, or quasi-satellites, might be the ideal place to “lurk.” Source: https://earthsky.org/space/alien-lurker-probes-co-orbital-asteroids-earth…
The moon landing was a giant leap for movies, too
In 1964, Stanley Kubrick, on the recommendation of the science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, bought a telescope. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-07-moon-giant-movies.html…
Film expert explains why Moon landing footage would have been impossible to fake
It’s been a half-century since the magnificent Apollo 11 moon landing, yet many people still don’t believe it actually happened. Conspiracy theories about the event dating back to the 1970s are in fact more popular than ever. A common theory is that film director Stanley Kubrick helped NASA fake the historic footage of its six successful moon landings. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-07-expert-moon-footage-impossible-fake.html…
Tomorrow Inc: how Stanley Kubrick designed the future
Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition comes to London’s Design Museum, and in its wake a renewed fascination for the futuristic design culture of the 1960s and 1970s. Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2200866-tomorrow-inc-how-stanley-kubrick-designed-the-future/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Lost Sequel to “A Clockwork Orange” Found in Author’s Archives
“I was cured all right.” If you remember the “prestoopnick” who repeated those words incessantly to his “droogs” in a “khorosho” of a novel followed by an even greater horrorshow of a movie, then you’ll be pleased to hear that an unpublished sequel of sorts to “A Clockwork Orange” has been found in the archives… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/04/lost-sequel-to-a-clockwork-orange-found-in-authors-archives/…
Our new column on Hollywood hits launches with Stanley Kubrick’s gladiatorial smash Spartacus
Kirk Douglas wanted to be Judah Ben-Hur. At the time it came out, William Wyler’s Ben-Hur was the most expensive movie ever made. It was a huge, overwhelming production, cast with thousands of extras and filmed on sets bigger than anyone had ever used. And the film turned out to be a phenomenon. It was the…Read more…Source: https://film.avclub.com/our-new-column-on-hollywood-hits-launches-with-stanley-1834012710…
This Overlook Hotel Welcome Mat Is the Best, Least Inviting Way to Greet Your Friends
The idea of a welcome mat, generally, is to make someone feel invited into your home. It’s a form of greeting for your friends and their (presumably dirty) feet. This welcome mat, inspired by The Shining, won’t do that. But if you’re looking to make your home feel more supernaturally unsettling, you’re in luck. Read… Continue reading This Overlook Hotel Welcome Mat Is the Best, Least Inviting Way to Greet Your Friends