I know you love cinema, why else would you be here? Well, here’s a cool opportunity you might want to join in on. Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro will be answering some questions about ‘The Hobbit’ for a full hour Saturday next week — or Sunday, depending on where you live. The ‘party’ will [...]
Folk-rock outfit the Hobbits was the studio project of Queens, New York-born singer/songwriter Jimmy Curtiss, who ranks as one of the more interesting footnotes in the history of rock & roll — the rare would-be teen idol who actually wrote his own material (and did so admirably), he later expanded his reach into psychedelia and harmony-laden folk-rock, but while the subject of a small cult f
It seems as if every time I darken this blog with my ominous visage, I must first apologize for my long absence. So once again, flesh-bags, I must express my regret that I could not enlighten and terrify you sooner.Frankly, I grow a bit weary of being employed to kill gophers and the occasional errant hobbit at the Diesel estate, only occasionally being called upon to dispatch a troublesome meme or two. I have over 900 years of slaying experience! Could I not find a more meaningful gig?True, I have done the occasional guest column over at the Clay Pigeon humor magazine, but even that does not come close to filling the insatiable gnawing pit of blackness that is my soul. I am considering taking up scrap-booking. I've already got one of those neat scissors that cuts the jagged lines, as
Following the suggestion from last week’s controversial paper about the nature of the Flores Hobbits comes a new discovery that may argue that the Hobbits are just really small humans. Fossil...
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(Turangi/Neuseeland). Wirklich früh verschwinden wir hier und fahren in Richtung Lake Taupo. Bis Turangi sind es lediglich 170 Kilometer, was ja in zwei Stunden machbar sein sollte. Was wir allerdings nicht wissen, dass der „Forgotten Highway“ ein quasi unbefahrener Serpentinenweg mit vielen Schotterpisten ist. Wir kommen nur mühsam voran, allerdings ist das hügelige bewaldete Gebiet eine echte Entschädigung für die Mühen. Wir finden hier die mit Abstand schönste Landschaft auf der Nordinsel. Es sieht aus wie bei den Hobbits in Herr der Ringe. Als Grußkarte versenden Es sowieso eine Traum in Nord-Neuseeland Auto zu fahren. Alleine schon wegen der Straßen! Dieses Land wäre der absolute Traum für jeden Schweizer Tunnelbauer, denn so etwas wie Tunnel gibt es hier so gut wie überhaupt nicht (dafür wahnsinnig viele Berge und Hügel!) Wir haben genau zwei gesehen auf unserer Reise und keiner der beide
Something new I'm doing on Mr Science this year is reviewing various scientific books, podcasts and websites.This week we review the book "The discovery of the hobbit : the scientific breakthrough that changed the face of human history" by Mike Morwood and Penny van Oosterzee, the "Science Talk Australia" podcast by Darren Osborne, and the easternblot.net website by Eva and Ed.
MODERN humans wiped out the hobbit-sized people who lived on the Indonesian island of Flores, research suggests. Remains of at least 13 members of the little species, Homo floresiensis, who were about a metre tall, were unearthed in Liang Bua between 2001 and 2004. The hobbits lived there from 95,000 to 12,000 years ago when a layer of volcanic ash filled the cave.It had been thought the eruption devastated life on Flores and led to the demise of the little people, as well as the pygmy elephants they feasted on. Studies of the volcanic ash by two team members, Chris Turney and Douglas Hobbs, however, showed it was from an eruption about 600 kilometres to the west, near Bali, and so was unlikely to have resulted in island-wide extinctions.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=198867&page=1
And we thought Tolkien wrote fiction. Maybe he knew more than he was saying. He was part of a fiction-writing group with some other authors with imaginations bigger than they could feasibly write down in a lifetime: C.S. Lewis was one.
Anyway, what coincidence that they'd be found with Komodo dragons and pygmy elephants!
