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Film review: Man on Wire
As soon as I finished this watching this film on DVD last night, I had to jump on the computer to record my immediate thoughts! ‘Man on Wire‘ is a dramatised documentary about Philippe Petit‘s amazing stunt in the 1970s … Continue reading
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Nim Chimpsky and humanity
Yesterday we went to see Project Nim, an utterly fascinating account of the life of Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee who was brought up in a human family and taught sign language. I always knew that there was a chimp, or chimps, … Continue reading