Television: Whale Wars Season 5: U.S.A. Whale Wars is a documentary tv show about the environmental activist group Sea Shepards and their campaign to end Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean. Purely as television, its dramatic stuff, with physical confrontations between the whalers and the activists on the opena sea, Continue Reading
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Research Blog Antarctica #149 – Whale Wars, season 4
Tv series: Whale Wars, season 4: U.S.A. Whale Wars is a documentary tv series following the anti-whaling campaigns of the environmental group The Sea Shepherds. Season one to three were pretty amazing stuff, with dangerous confrontations in the Antarctic Sea. In season four, it feels as if the series is Continue Reading
Pikseliparatiisi: Gamergate poliisisarjassa
Gamergate on normalisoitunut osaksi videopelikenttää. Yksi tapa miten tämä näkyy on, että siihen on alettu viitata muualla popkulttuurissa. Yksi esimerkki tästä on 11. 2. 2015 esitetty poliisisarja Law & Order: Special Victims Unitin jakso Intimidation Game. Jakso alkaa lupaavasti, joskin pöhkösti. Ice T:n hahmo on pelaaja, ja selittää muille pelislangia. Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #121: The Seeds of Doom
TV: Dr Who: The Seeds of Doom (1976) The Seeds of Doom is a six-episode storyline in the 13th season of the British tv series Dr Who. British scientists working at an Antarctic base discover strange, organic objects in the ice, and take them inside for study. They turn out Continue Reading