Canadian football is a game built on stars. Those guys you see on all the flashy television game promos and on billboards around your town, theyre how teams hope to get you to games. We connect with stars because we want something to cheer for or against. With so much player movement in the CFL off-season we want someone consistent and known to us.

The Edmonton Eskimos built a core of those stars over the last couple of seasons that any fan would be right to welcome onto their teams roster tomorrow. The smooth talking, big play receiver in Adarius Bowman. The elusive and explosive Derel Walker who played a perfect Robin to Bowmans batman in 2016 and the 9-5 lunch pail linebacker who you could set your watch to in J.C. Sherritt.

On Saturday night on the road in Vancouver the Eskimos displayed the ever important ability to evolve. A capability which just might make them a contender in the West Division.

Duke Williams was one of Mike Reillys favourite targets last week (Jimmy Jeong/CFL.ca)

Derel Walker left for the NFL this off-season. Duke Williams had four catches for 110 yards and a touchdown.

J.C. Sherrit went down early with a season ending achilles injury. Korey Jones stepped in and played admirably with six tackles.

Adarius Bowman was held to two catches for 13 yards. Brandon Zylstra exploded into 2017 by leading the CFL in receiving yardage with 152 in Week 1.

Hell, even Cory Greenwood the prized free agent linebacker who went down early in camp wasnt in uniform which apparently just opened the door for Adam Konar to make seven tackles on defence, two on special teams and pick up a quarterback sack for good measure.

If you would have told me a month ago the Eskimos would have two backup linebackers playing, Derel Walker nowhere to be seen and Adarius Bowman had as many catches as John White and only two more receiving yards than Calvin McCarty I would have predicted Edmonton took a beating. Especially with the knowledge they were playing a revamped BC Lions squad with a talented young quarterback in Jonathon Jennings ready to take the next step in his development.

That didnt happen.

The Eskimos evolved, they kept their cool which seems to be a Jason Maas team quality and found ways to be successful.

The Eskimos offence led the CFL during Week 1 in terms of run/pass play calling balance with 39 per cent of their play selection being of the ground and pound variety and most important of all, they didnt ask Mike Reilly to be Superman.

Now lets get one thing straight, Mike Reilly can be a super hero any day of the week, hes that good, but nothing signals desperation more than a team seeing what they used to rely on leave or be nullified by a defensive game plan and respond by putting it all on the quarterback.

The Eskimos avoided that cliche mistake Saturday and I think it got them a win.

Reilly would finish with just twenty completions. Yet another stat that would suggest the Eskimos probably lost the game and scored under ten points, but that wasnt true. It was a managed game plan by a veteran quarterback and a savvy coaching staff who clearly had a plan to grind the clock, be balanced and find creative ways to get everyone, not just Bowman, the ball.

If Edmonton can harness Saturday nights performance as their mentality moving forward they could be a difference maker in the West again this season. Lost in the excitement and shuffle of having football back is just how important winning on the road against a playoff team like the BC Lions could be down the road for seeding and home field.

We have a long way to go until we get into that discussion and throughout the season Edmonton will inevitably face periods of instability at a variety of positions.

For now, all that matters to the Eskimos is the quiet confidence of two men charged as leaders of the Green and Gold on game day, Mike Reilly and Jason Maas.

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The fossilized teeth of Coronodon havensteini (Credit: New York Institute of Technology)

If you're a fan of whales, then you probably already known that some of the largest ones feed mainly on tiny crustaceans known as krill. They do so by lunging forward and filling their mouths with water, then straining the krill out of that water as they expel it, using fibrous plates in their mouth called baleen. Now, scientists claim to have come a step closer to understanding how that baleen came to be.

Although there are currently both toothed and baleen whales, the fossil record indicates that the prehistoric ancestors of today's baleen whales just had teeth. Even now, baleen whales pass through a phase in which they start developing teeth while still in the womb, but then stop and grow baleen instead.

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This means that at some point in their evolution, baleen whales transitioned from catching larger prey by snagging it with their teeth, to filtering smaller prey out of the water. What hasn't been clear is whether they used their teeth to filter-feed, or instead went through a toothless stage of sucking prey down whole, before later evolving baleen.

That's where Coronodon havensteini comes in.

A type of mysticete a toothed prehistoric precursor to baleen whales it lived about 30 million years ago, in a period between that of purely toothed whales and the appearance of the first modern baleen whales. Its fossilized remains were discovered in the early 2000s by scuba diver Mark Havenstein, while exploring South Carolina's Wando River. In a recent study conducted by the New York Institute of Technology, associate professors Jonathan Geisler and Brian Beatty led a team that examined its teeth.

One of the things they discovered was that as compared to other ancient whales, its molars were unusually large about the size of an adult human's palm. Unlike its front teeth, which were presumably used to snag prey, they showed no evidence of having performed shearing or cutting. Wear was visible, however, on cusps bordering openings between them.

"The transition from teeth to baleen is widely contested, but our research indicates that ancient toothed whales relied on the spaces between their complex and enormous teeth for filtering," says Geisler. "It appears that over millions of years, the teeth were retained until baleen became sufficiently large and complex to take over the role of filter feeding."

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Calm, careful, potentially revolutionary, "Food Evolution" is an iconoclastic documentary on a hot-button topic. Persuasive rather than polemical, it's the unusual issue film that deals in counterintuitive reason rather than barely controlled hysteria.

As directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy, "Food Evolution" wades into the controversy that makes the term GMO (genetically modified organisms) what Jon Stewart once called "the three most terrifying letters in the English language."

For what right-thinking citizen hasn't quailed at the thought of armies of artificially conceived zombie fruits and vegetables marching in lockstep under the command of monster corporation Monsanto until they take over the world.

As environmental activist Mark Lynas says, "its difficult to pay Monsanto a compliment. It's like praising witchcraft."

But taking as his theme a quote attributed to Mark Twain that posits, "It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled," filmmaker Kennedy wants us to consider the notion that much of what we feel about GMOs may be wrong.

Previously responsible for the splendid "OT: Our Town" and the Oscar-nominated "The Garden," about the plight of a 14-acre community garden in South Los Angeles, Kennedy is a veteran documentarian.

Here he's engaged the mellifluous voice of science celebrity Neil deGrasse Tyson as narrator and made sure to talk to people on both sides of the issue, partisans who, ironically, all have the same goal: safe, abundant food for everyone without the use of excessive toxic chemicals.

It is in fact the question of how to feed the staggering amount of people in the world more than 7 billion now, 9 billion by 2050 that was one of the stimuli that started Kennedy on this project. And he wants you to remember that trying to modify plants to emphasize desirable aspects is something farmers have been doing for a long time.

"Food Evolution" begins in Hawaii in 2013 when the big island's Hawaii County Council held hearings on whether to make the location into the world's first GMO-free zone.

That was ironic because Hawaii turns out to be a state with a major GMO success story, the rainbow papaya, which enabled papaya farming to come back from the dead after a devastating attack of disease in the 1990s.

While anti-GMO activists like Jeffrey Smith talk darkly of GMOs as "thoughtless, invasive species," the other side wrings its hands about pervasive doomsday tactics and distrust of scientific data.

"It's so much easier to scare people than reassure them," says writer Mark Lynas, with food authority Michael Pollan adding, "I don't believe fear-mongering has helped. I'm careful never to say GMOs are dangerous."

One statistic the film cites reveals the considerable gap 88% versus 37% between what scientists and laypeople say about whether GMOs are safe to eat.

"Food Evolution" takes time to carefully parse several issues that arise in the debate, like tumors in rats who eat GMO food (they get tumors no matter what they eat) and poundage versus toxicity in pesticide use.

The film also emphasizes that decisions made in the developed world can have global implications, exploring difficulties farmers in Uganda are having gaining access to the GMO bananas they want to combat decimation by disease.

"Food Evolution" certainly understands the larger factors that put GMO foods in the crosshairs: societal fury at corporate lying and greed, and distrust of Monsanto in particular as the developer of DDT and Agent Orange.

But finally the film is more troubled by the erosion of trust in science and by anti-GMO activists like Zen Honeycutt who says on camera that she trusts personal experiences of mothers more than the conclusions of scientists. As writer Lynas says, "If you throw science out, there is nothing."

Though it ultimately sides with the pro-GMO camp, "Food Evolution" makes some fascinating points about human behavior along the way, about how we don't make decisions based on facts as often as we think we do. This documentary may not change your mind, but it will make you consider what caused you to decide in the first place.

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The Goodwood Festival of Speed is going on right now, which means we get to watch some tasty, tasty delights race up a British driveway. One of those delish numbers was supposed to be a Ford RS200 Evolution 2, until it crashed directly into some hay bales.

And before you go HAR HAR HAR I AM THE GREATEST DRIVER IN THE WORLD WHO EVER CRASHED THAT CAR SUXXXXXXXXXX Y0, the driver in question is named Pat Doran, and hes a four-time British rallycross champion.

The man knows what hes doing, is all Im saying. Crashes happen to the best of us, and Pat seems to be in good spirits about the whole thing.

The car, on the other hand, isnt in such good spirits. But thats okay, because its an RS200 Evolution 2. Ill let Hemmings explain what the difference is between the regular, already-legendary Rs200, and the Evolution models:

Evolution models received a 2.1-liter turbocharged four-cylinder, rated at a minimum of 600 horsepower in stock trim, though the use of larger turbos, bigger intercoolers, a variable-boost controller and updated tuning could produce outputs as high as 900 horsepower. Torque could be split three different ways, including 100-percent rear; 63-percent rear and 37-percent front; and 50:50, depending upon road conditions and driver preference. Performance of Evolution models, even in stock form, was impressive, with the run from 0-60 MPH taking just three seconds and the run from 0-100 MPH taking a mere five.

Lets see you try to drive that beast up a hill.

(You cant, youd probably die.)

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At its peak, 24 players crowd around the tarima, a make-shift platform in front of the Aratani Theatre at the Japanese American Culture and Community Center on June 3 for a pre-show fandango, the extended jam session fueled by son jarocho music. Playing a melody in unison on requintos and jaranas (small guitars with four and eight strings, respectively), the musicians watch as two dancers stepped on top of the plywood and set off a percussive, tap-like dance that provided the backbeat of the son (the music). That rhythm is infectious, spreading through the crowd. Even on the first hot day of the summer, a couple of crowd members attempt the dance, cheered on by what was an audience, but now feels like a part of the party.

Despite the thousands of miles between downtown Los Angeles and the Mexican state of Veracruz, this fandango wasnt worlds away from how Cesar Castro, lead singer and founding member of Cambalache, the evenings headlining act, was first introduced to the traditions of son jarocho.

Cambalacheand friends performing at the Aratani Theatre | Erick Iiguez

[My first fandango] was very warm, very human, very friendly, he recalls. The people from the house who were hosting the fandango, they noticed that I hadnt eaten, and they just told me, sit down and eat. I felt very protected and very safe.

That warm feeling of community has been one of the constants of son jarocho, even as the genres music and traditions have spread, migrating from Veracruz to Mexico City and, in the hands of skilled practitioners like Castro, to Los Angeles.

A direct translation of son jarocho may come closest to Veracruz sound. The style started in the eastern Mexican state, and the music contains the influences one might expect from a region with one of the most important ports during the colonial era; the stringed instrumentation owes to Baroque, while the time signature and rhythm is indebted to Africa. The percussion comes primarily from dancers, stepping rhythmically on top of a small platform (the tarima).

Accordingly, it is difficult to separate son jarocho from the fandango, the gathering so central to the culture. Sones, the long-form jams played at a fandango, can go for ten minutes or more (at JACCC, the pre-show fandango consisted of two sones over a 35 minute-period), with pairs of dancers tagging in and out, stepping onto the platform to help propel the music forward. In the beginning, that was as far as the music made it: a folk art made to bring friends and family together with sones passed from family to family and town to town by word of mouth.

But eventually, music became both an industry and an art, and the city came calling.

When the music started to become commercialized in the 1930s, thats when you started to see musicians play sones that were three minutes long, because now they had these opportunities to make money and move into urban areas, says Alexandro Hernandez, who earned his PhD in ethnomusicology at UCLA and is a member of jarocho/futurist group Aparato!. The music started to get taken out of the context of the fandango setting, which wasnt even a performance it was outside at someones house.

The golden age of Mexican cinema put son jarocho and the fandango front and center, with artists like Andres Huesca, a harpist, relocating to Mexico City, now with the ability to make a living playing the music. Huesca eventually made the move to Los Angeles (he passed away in the late 50s in the San Fernando Valley) and is credited by many as bringing son jarocho with him, performing at major venues like the Million Dollar Theater in downtown L.A.

Aparato! performing in Peru | Romina San Martin

But son jarochos formal introduction to wider America likely came in 1958, when Ritchie Valens recorded a rock-and-roll version of La Bamba, one of the older sones, with verses thought to date back to the 1800s. The plugged-in cover peaked at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was one of the first rock songs sung in Spanish to cross over to American audiences, its existence a shot across the bow of a white-dominated culture.

The time that it emerged here was McCarthyism, and legal segregation, Hernandez says. The places I grew up [Hernandez is originally from Texas], 30 or 40 years before me, signs said No Dogs and No Mexicans. I think anything that didnt fit into the status quo, at least to the people on the status quo, that was already resistance itself, whether the musicians articulated it that way or not.

La Bamba would figure again in son jarochos journey in the late 80s, when Los Lobos recorded its version of the son for the soundtrack to the movie of the same name. By then, the music had become not just a tradition on its own, but a part of the musical DNA of several acts. Son jarocho influences, especially through the jarana and requinto, can be seen in the pan-Mexican sound of Jarana Beat, the rock and beat music of Las Cafeteras and the electronic assisted mash-up of Aparato!.

Its like being bilingual musically, Hernandez says of his musics multicultural influences We can fuse and take it as far as we want to, but we can also show up to a fandango and hold it down. Its not like we dont know the traditional verses some of us are really good at it. Theres that code switching that exists with us as well.

Cesar Castro performing at the Aratani Theatre | Erick Iiguez

In order to add to the tradition, though, one has to understand it. Thats where artists like Castro come in; the master luthier and sonero has taught students in the art of son jarocho in Veracruz, Mexico City, Los Angeles and everywhere in between.

Im not trying to repeat the tradition as it is in Veracruz, but we need to keep the most important pillars of what makes son jarocho what we like, he says. If we lose that, then it goes off the stage and thats it. We have more people trying to learn the tradition and trying to learn the social dynamic that comes with the fandango than performers.

On the evening of June 3, the performers threaten to outnumber the audience at the Cambalache show, even in a near-capacity Aratani. Guests like Hernandez and Louie Perez of Los Lobos round out the numbers on stage. Non-traditional elements, like a rapped verse by emcee Maya Jupiter on an original song, fold into the music seamlessly. And as the show draws to a close, the band and associates are joined on stage by their children, playing bass, dancing on the tarimas, or even singing.

Son Jarocho performers at the Aratani Theatre | Erick Iiguez

For an evening, it might have felt like those outdoor fandangos in Veracruz. But simply reminiscing about home isnt on Castros agenda.

Im not tied to Veracruz, he says. Im expanding Veracruz. Its not about moving to L.A. to become something different. Its growing up as a human being, understanding the world a little broader. It is vital, I need that connection, but its an extension.

Top Image:Cambalacheand friends performing at the Aratani Theatre | Erick Iiguez

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As a die-hard action junkie, I constantly find myself pondering how this genre fights creative staleness. After decades of pulverized bodies and eviscerated landscapes, youd assume filmmakers would be spinning the same bloody chainsaw blades by now. Can Hollywood forever recycle an Expendables formula by plugging in different renegades, a new villain, and loads more henchman deaths? At what point do franchises like Fast and Furious push too far and become ridiculous farces? How do you sustain a genre founded on punches, kicks, guns and explosions, without sleepwalking through the same motions?

These are all valid questions that can be answered with a single word: adaptation.

In the 80s, when effects were minimal, but pyrotechnics could outshine the sun, studios turned to the Arnolds and Sylvesters who would become camo-clad icons. These hulking he-beasts drank from Olympus fountains and could flex their way out of any trouble. Look at Predator a movie made famous by biceps, chewin tobacco and quite possibly the most blatant homosexual undertones in any action movieuh, I mean masculinity. There were nowarehouses of CGI monkeys working tirelessly to redefine the bounds of visual cinema. Just grit, brawn, and beads of sweat dripping down clasped handshakes.

Years later, animation and post-production magic ushered in this digital takeover. A little movie called The Matrix came along and introduced an overnight bullet time craze. Action heartthrobs became all about agility and acrobatics overnight. You no longer needed weight-lifting ogres when characters were now backflipping at the slowest rotation possible. Ammo streams spiraled like smokey little trajectory paths with artistic appeal, like a 3D Jackson Pollock painting that floated in zero gravity. Pretty effin cool, right?

It goes without saying that these are two far-plotted trends in action cinema, but I wanted to use themas a primer for a bigger discussion. One that delves into todays genre nuances and those that dare defy established norms. Adaptation is the name of the game so what are new-age filmmakers dreaming up to keep audiences excited?

Let me start with this articles inspiration Edgar Wrights Baby Driver. As you may know, this is a heist thriller where every single movement is scored to a non-stop soundtrack oftenonly heard by the films main character Baby (Ansel Elgort) and gleeful audiences.

Action movies have long utilized musical composition to tap a beat of symphonic destruction (get excited for Atomic Blonde), but not on Wrights level. Every single shift in gear, pulled trigger and prepared meal syncs with background rhythms. As Elgort passes time in a getaway car, he goes all OK GO and performs his own little music video and thats just the beginning. As Focus Hocus Pocus blares during an endorphin-spiked chase scene, Wright brings melodic mayhem to a psychedelic rock track with absolutely no balance in tempo. A challenge no doubt, but to execute almost two hours of similar feats with car-crunching choreography? Destruction doesnt have to be primitive. It can be a sophisticated ballet (with evil Jon Hamms and Drive undertones).

Speaking of brutal ballets, lets highlight a mag-freaking-nificent trend across the globe highlychoreographed fight sequences featuring new (on-screen) forms of martial arts. Sure, this is something that Bruce Lees and Jackie Chans have been doing for decades. But like in Gareth Evans The Raid franchise? Or the Timo Bros Headshot?

The Indonesian fighting style of Pencak Silat has catapulted masters like Iko Uwais into mainstream fame thanks to a majestic combat style thats both fluid and bone-crunching. American audiences have their Frank Grillo and Scott Adkins clones, but theyre chumps compared to the final three-way battle in Evans The Raid: Redemption (jk, please dont bash me in ,Mr. Grillo). Two brothers double-team a man known as Mad Dog for a performance thats best described as recklessly poetic. They land every punch. Audible thwaps and concrete thudsresonate through your body with shattering impact. These new Pencak-first franchises are a tornado of snapped limbs, thrown chops and long-takes thatd make Chan-wook Park blush.

While Indonesia focuses on hand-to-hand, America has turned to mastery by weapon. Guns, specifically. John Wick and John Wick 2 have coined their action style as Gun Fu like Kung Fu, except firearms are alwaysinvolved. Whether Keanu Reeves is beating someone with a blunt pistol butt or blasting twenty headshots in a row, its Deadshot-level aim paired with onslaughts of deceased henchmen. Stamina is required and motion continues forward, rarely opting for duck-and-pop shootouts from cover. Finesse is stressed in a way that accentuates marksmanship like never before seen now the question is, can anyone replicate such pin-punching calibration?

Or you can look at society and echo popular trends. Say, video games? And what popular title comes to mind when you think multiplayer franchises? If you were a college gamer like myself, Call of Duty probably rings a bell.

The success of First Person Shooter (FPS) titles has long been chronicled (is Counter-Strike considered old school at this point?), and technology has finally granted filmmakers a way to handily replicate such points of view. Were not talking about found footage or POV, either. Peeping Tom rewrote thatgame a while ago, or if you want a specific action example, you need only look toAliens. Im talking gun-in-hand, balls-to-the-wall warfare that puts you inside the characters body for long periods of time. Kickin ass and chewin bubble gum.

Doom, for example, constructed a pretty damn perfect homage to id Softwares pixelated hellscape. Karl Urban has enough demon hatred for one day, and with cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts flip of the camera, we become a pissed-off John Grimm (you know, the name of Urbans character). Its onlyfor a single scene, but its a tonal kick in the behind. This is the first moment that really asserted first-person as a viable cinematic technique, even if itd been done/attempted before.

Other recent films have crafted the same kind of eye-to-eye thrills, such as Mark Strongs introductory shootout in The Brothers Grimsby or a jungle spider takedown in Kong: Skull Island. With the development of GoPro units and advancements to similar digital camera technologies, were given an amusement-park-ride glimpse into a heros mindset through some pretty crisp perspective swaps. Yet, no one believed entire action movies could benefit from such a jarring-at-times POV.

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Viruses have evolved to invade the cells of plants, animals and other organisms.

Viruses and their hosts have been at war for more than a billion years. This battle has driven a dramatic diversification of viruses and of host immune responses. Although the earliest antiviral systems have long since vanished, researchers may now have recovered remnants of one of them embedded, like a fossil, in human cells.

A protein called Drosha, which helps to control gene regulation in vertebrates, also tackles viruses, researchers report today in Nature1. They suggest that Drosha and the family of enzymes, called RNAse III, it belongs to were the original virus fighters in a single-celled ancestor of animals and plants. You can see the footprint of RNAse III in the defence systems through all kingdoms of life, says Benjamin tenOever, a virologist at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and lead author of the paper.

Plants and invertebrates deploy RNAse III proteins in an immune response called RNA interference, or RNAi. When a virus infects a host, the proteins slice the invaders RNA into chunks that prevent it from spreading. But vertebrates take a different approach, warding off viruses with powerful interferon proteins while Drosha and a related protein regulate genes in the nucleus.

But in 2010, tenOever witnessed an odd phenomenon: Drosha appeared to leave the nucleus of human cells whenever a virus invaded2. That was weird and made us curious, tenOever says. His team later confirmed the finding, and saw that Drosha demonstrates the same behaviour in cells from flies, fish and plants.

To test the hypothesis that Drosha leaves the nucleus to combat viruses in vertebrates, the researchers infected cells that had been genetically engineered to lack Drosha with a virus. They found that the viruses replicated faster in these cells. The team then inserted Drosha from bacteria into fish, human and plant cells. The protein seemed to stunt the replication of viruses, suggesting that this function dates back to an ancient ancestor of all the groups. Drosha is like the beta version of all antiviral defence systems, tenOever says.

tenOever speculates that RNAse III proteins originally helped bacteria to maintain their own RNA, and that bacteria later deployed the proteins against the genetic material of viruses. He points out the occurrence of RNAse III proteins in immune responses throughout the tree of life. For instance, some CRISPR systems, a virus-fighting response in archaea and bacteria, include RNAse III proteins. Plants and invertebrates deploy the proteins in RNAi. And although vertebrates rely on interferons for viral control, this study now shows that Drosha still chases after viruses, in the same way a pet Golden Retriever a dog bred to retrieve waterfowl fetches a stick as if it were a fallen duck.

Donald Court, a geneticist at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland, calls the finding cool, but he doesnt buy the evolutionary scenario. RNAse III is involved in many things, in almost all domains of life, he explains. He sees no reason to think that one antiviral system evolved into the next. For instance, he says, the fact that one CRISPR system includes RNAse III whereas others dont suggests that the proteins were probably deployed acquired independently and not inherited.

Its a really intriguing story, and the data are good, but youre talking about processes that happened over millennia so its hard to know whether its true, says Bryan Cullen, a virologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Cullen predicts that the paper will prompt researchers who study RNA and infectious diseases to test tenOevers hypothesis. The immune system has been under tremendous pressure to evolve as viruses overcome defences, and this paper suggests that RNAse III has played an important role in that evolution, he says. Its like what the Red Queen said to Alice in Through the Looking-Glass: you have to keep running to stay in one place.

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A supercut of the animation studios illustrious rise to power.

For just over 30 years now, Pixar has been pushing the animation envelope to new, glorious, and mostly infallible heights. The studio has one of the greatest track records of any in the history of the medium, and they seem to have no shortage of ideas for whats next. This year alone will see the release of two new Pixar films, Cars 3, in theaters now, and Coco, a mystery-adventure boasting an entirely Latino cast, which opens in November.

In the latest supercut from Burger Fiction, the evolution of Pixar is traced from its early days in the late 80s making groundbreaking shorts, to its heyday in the 90s making box-office-busting hits, to the present era where it continues to extend the limits of what animation can do, as well as the number of people it can reach. Pixars greatest quality has always been its inclusivity, the way it makes films that can be enjoyed by several different age groups at once, parents included. In fact, it feels safe to say the way Pixar tells stories and the kind of stories they tell has been just as influential as the technology they use to tell them. You cant really have a monopoly on a genre, but if you could, Pixar would own the family film.

So rather round the kids and take a quarter-hours walk through a quarter-century of imagination, innovation, and evolution, the studios and the art forms.

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In the US there have been many attempts to expunge evolution from the school curriculm or demand that creationism the idea that all life was uniquely created by God is given equal treatment in science textbooks. While all these have failed, the government in Turkey has now banned evolution from its national curriculum.

US creationists want both views to be presented, to let children decide what to believe. Bids to reject this are wrongly characterised as attempts to shut down debate or free speech to promote a scientific, atheistic, secular, ideology over a more moral, ethical, commonsense religious worldview.

Turkeys decision goes much further. This isnt about claiming equal treatment, its an outright ban. The government justifies it by claiming evolution is difficult to understand and controversial. Any controversy however is one manufactured by ultra-religious communities seeking to undermine science. Many concepts in science are more difficult than evolution, yet they still get taught.

Evolution, creationists argue, is just a theory its not proven and so up for debate. Evolutionary trees (especially for humans) are regularly re-drawn after new fossil discoveries, showing how poor the theory is. After all, if the theory was correct, this wouldnt keep changing. Often, creationists will pose a challenge for science to prove how life started, knowing that there is not yet a firm, accepted theory. Finally, theres the king of all arguments: if we all evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?

These arguments are packed with factual inaccuracies and logical fallacies. Evolution doesnt need an explanation of how life started. It simply describes how life develops and diversifies. Humans did not evolve from monkeys were great apes. Modern apes, including humans, evolved from now extinct pre-existing ape species. Were related to, not descended from, modern apes.

Creationists fail to understand that evolution itself is not a theory. Evolution happens. Life develops and diversifies, new species come into existence. We can see intermediate life forms right now, such as fish that are transitioning to living on land and land mammals that recently transitioned into aquatic life. The theory of evolution explains how evolution takes place. Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace first described the mechanism that drives the change - natural selection - in 1858.

Creationists also fail to understand the difference between a theory and a law in science. This is something that even science graduates suffer from, as Ive noted in my own research. Theories explain scientific concepts. They are evidenced and accepted by the scientific community. Theories are the pinnacle of scientific explanation, not just a hunch or a guess. Laws however have a different role, they describe natural phenomena. For example, Newtons laws of gravity do not explain how gravity happens, they describe the effects gravity has on objects. There are laws and theories for gravity. In biology however, there are few laws, so there is no law of evolution. Theories do not, given sufficient proof, become laws. They are not hierarchical.

A third issue is the lack of understanding of the nature of science. Science aims not to find some objective truth, but to elicit an explanation of natural phenomena. All scientific explanations are provisional. When new evidence is found that contradicts what we think we know, we change our explanations, sometimes rejecting theories that were once thought to be correct. Science is always working to try and falsify ideas. The more those ideas pass our tests, the more robust they are and the greater our confidence is that they are correct. Evolution has been tested for nearly 160 years. Its never been falsified. Science only deals with natural phenomena, it doesnt deal with or seek to explain the supernatural.

Banning good science undermines all science, especially considering evolutions place underpinning modern biology, with plenty of evidence to support it. For mainstream scientists, the fact that evolution happens is neither seriously questioned nor controversial. Any controversy in discussions of evolution resides in the role natural selection has in driving diversity and change, or the pace of that change.

This ban on teaching evolution in Turkish schools opens up the possibility that alternative, unscientific ideas may enter science teaching, from those who believe in a flat earth to deniers of gravity.

How do we deal with the apparent schism between religious belief and scientific evidence?

My research and approach has been to distinguish between religion, a belief system, and science, which works on the acceptance of evidence. Beliefs, including but not limited to religious beliefs, are often held irrationally, without evidence, and are resistant to change. Science is rational, based on evidence and is open to change when faced with new evidence. In science, we accept the evidence, rather than choose to believe.

Turkeys move to ban the teaching of evolution contradicts scientific thinking, and tries to turn the scientific method into a belief system as if it were a religion. It seeks to introduce supernatural explanations for natural phenomena, and to assert that some form of truth or explanation for nature exists beyond nature. The ban is unscientific, undemocratic and should be resisted.

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Nothing lasts forevernot even, apparently, the ratings and revenue primacy of the Fox News Channel, especially in the confounding Age of President Trump.

For the No. 1 cable news and opinion outlet, still immensely profitable at the start of its third decade for parent company 21st Century Fox (an estimated $1.65 billion in operating income for 2016), the media landscape has become a tricky territory laced with minefields and other perils.

The three moguls at the top of the empire, 86-year-old Rupert Murdoch and his fortysomething sons Lachlan and James, must figure out how to navigate this new world and ensure the survival of their golden-egg-laying goose.

Its a world that doesnt include Fox News creator, Roger Aileswho died in May at age 77, a mere 10 months after scandal forced him from the throneor its tent-pole prime-time personality, Bill OReillyanother scandal casualtywhile the channels evening programming schedule has necessarily undergone a hasty makeover.

And its a world in which conservative media rivals, such as Newsmax and One America, along with Sinclair Broadcasting, are increasingly in the mixand conspiracy-mongering outlets like Alex Joness Infowars and Trump-loving trolls like Mike Cernovich are gaining traction while mocking Fox News as a wholly owned subsidiary of the supposedly dying Republican establishment.

Fox News is on the way down, and Im on the way up, claimed Cernovich, an ardent Trumpkin who boasts nearly 300,000 followers on Twitter (including frequent retweeter Donald Trump Jr., who once suggested Cernovich be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize) and recently joined forces with Jones and Infowars to do regular reports such as his June 18 report that NBC is now trying to get the Murdoch brothers to do a contract buyout to bring Megyn Kelly back to Fox Newsan assertion that has no factual basis, according to an authoritative NBC News source. (The channel placed Cernovich, a favorite of the Trump White House and presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway, on its do-not-book list last year because hes an alleged date-rape apologist).

I dont watch Fox News, he told The Daily Beast. They dont move the needle for me.

While the right-leaning network has continued to post solid wins in the Nielsens, including in the recent May sweeps (on which advertising is sold), the latest numbers are also exposing once-unthinkable chinks in the armor.

Deprived of Ailes guidance and OReillys services, along with the defection in January of Megyn Kelly to NBC, Fox News is suddenly losing to liberal-leaning MSNBCs Rachel Maddow at 9 p.m., not just in the 25-to-54 advertising-friendly age demographic, but sometimes in total viewers.

Whats morein what has to be another troubling developmentMSNBCs other prime-time anchors, Chris Hayes at 8 p.m. and Lawrence ODonnell at 10 p.m., along with Brian Williams at 11 p.m., have occasionally beat their formerly unassailable competitors in that all-important demo.

They [Fox News] seem to be doing pretty well lately just in terms of the numbers, former CNN President Jonathan Klein told The Daily Beast. Theyre always going to be challenged in the demo, because theyve got a much older audience But any impact of losing Roger and Bill is going to be seen more in the long term than the short term.

So will the Murdochs stay the course? Or somehow try to alter it?

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Thats the dilemma, said a former top Fox News executive who asked not to be further identified. We stick with the status quo, because weve got to maintain this enormous revenue source and keep what we have, but were losing valuable assets along the way and there are strong indications that the brand is no longer as relevant as it once was. We probably need to look at retooling, but can we do that when the guy standing at the gate, Rupert, is saying, Not under my watch?

The ex-Fox News exec added: Ive seen a lot of companies maintain the posture of hoarding success until they dont have it anymore. And when they dont have it anymore, theyre in a position where theyre at the bottom of the ocean looking up, and then they almost always say, How did that happen?

Fox News exec Jay Wallace, whom Rupert Murdoch appointed president of news after longtime Ailes confidant and successor Bill Shine was forced out in early May (while Murdoch named Ailes loyalist Suzanne Scott president of opinion programming), is facing the challenge with a display of sangfroid.

Of course we knew there would be some softening with the loss of Bill OReilly, Wallace told Variety this month. The man was the tent-pole of our prime-time lineup. We knew there would be a little bit of a difference there. But overall, Fox News fans are committed to us. They watch us longer than any other network [per session]. They like our brand of storytelling and the way we report news. (The widely liked and respected Wallace was not made available for this article, and the elder Murdoch is reportedly in charge, often running the morning news meetings.)

Yet another looming threat is Sinclair Broadcast Groups pending $3.9 billion acquisition of Tribune Media and its WGN America cable station, which will likely position the merged media juggernaut to become a credible challenge to Fox News dominance among conservative and Donald Trump-loving viewers.

In the nightmare scenario for Fox News, OReilly, who was basic cables most popular personality until his abrupt April 19 departure, would host a show for the freshly reconfigured Sinclair powerhouse, maybe on WGN America opposite his 8 p.m. successor, Tucker Carlson Tonight.

WGN America is the crown jewel of the Tribune Media empire, the ex-Fox News exec said, noting that the cable station reaches some 73 million households, not that far off from Fox News 87 million as of February 2015, and could take advantage of cross-promotion and content-sharing with the post-merger Sinclairs more than 200 local TV stations.

That is a massive platform, and Fox has to be very concerned about it, said the exec. Sinclair should absolutely be looking at OReilly. The median age of his audience is 71, but they loyally watched Bill five nights a week, and hes still the biggest name in conservative media.

If Sinclair also managed to recruit Sean Hannity, the top-rated 10 p.m. anchor who publicly expressed displeasure and made veiled threats of resignation with the ousting of Bill Shine, I could see a real sort of devastating competition boil up, the exec said. It could be a major hit to this billion-dollar revenue machine that Fox News is.

Meanwhile, mushrooming scandals, sexual-harassment lawsuits, and negative publicity about Fox News allegedly misogynist and racially charged corporate culture could influence this Thursdays expected decision by Britains shaky Tory government on whether to permit 21st Century Fox to fulfill its long-held ambition to acquire the whole of Europes profitable Sky satellite television and online property.

James and Lachlan met recently in London with British regulators to make their case for their good intentions and sincere efforts at corporate house-cleaning. Its unclear what the effect on Fox News will be if the $14 billion acquisition is once again denied, much as it was seven years ago in the midst of a Murdoch newspapers phone-hacking scandal that outraged the British public, resulted in the shutdown of the popular News of the World tabloid, inspired hearings in Parliament, and rendered the transaction politically indefensible.

I wonder if, in a way, it would take the pressure off Fox News, and people can relax and stop proposing these little change elements and we can just be who we are, because theres nothing at stake anymore, said the former exec.

Like CNN and MSNBC, Fox News has benefited from the heightened news cycle and the sense of going to the mattresses, said Klein, co-founder and chief executive of TAPP Media, a personality-focused network of online video channels. Trump wants to portray criticism of him as a cultural war against conservatives, and Fox continues to treat the investigations as a war of ideas rather than an investigation of Trump himselfand to the degree that Fox viewers have bought that argument, Fox will continue to have a lot of viewers.

Klein added: Looking at the meteoric rise of MSNBC over the past year, which is mirroring Foxs approach on the left, its clear that unfortunately embitterment works these days, regardless of ones philosophical orientation.

As for Fox News, they may not do as well as they did when they had the biggest star in all of cable [OReilly] kicking off prime-time, Klein said, but Fox News is going to be finefor now.

Tim Graham, director of media analysis for the conservative Republican Media Research Center, told The Daily Beast: I wouldnt say to you, as a Fox watcher, that wow, they seem like theyve lost their vision. But there is an overwhelming concern among the right that the Murdoch boys are going to water this down to the point where its going to be Gergenizeda reference to CNN political analyst David Gergen, a former White House aide to three GOP presidents (Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan) and one Democrat (Bill Clinton), who proudly calls himself a raging moderate.

Its going to be moderate to the point where its no longer addressing the things that people are worried about, Graham said, elaborating his fellow conservatives fears. The business mistake would be, Now heres a two-hour Fox News special on the climate threat.

Ailes, who was conspicuous in his distaste for the elite Manhattan social scene and proud of his working-class Ohio roots, liked to stoke internal suspicion of Lachlan, now 21st Century Foxs co-chairman, and James, the freshly minted CEO, when he was Fox Newss all-powerful emperor. Indeed, Ailes famously bested Lachlan in one of their behind-the-scenes turf battles, obtaining Ruperts assent to let him run Foxs broadcast television stations over Lachlans objections, and prompting the latters 2005 decade-long departure from the company then known as News Corporation.

It was not entirely unwelcome in January 2011, when Murdoch brother-in-law Matthew Freud, then married to Ruperts daughter Elisabeth, told The New York Times: I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailess horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder, and every other global media business aspires to.

Said the former Fox News exec: There was a general feeling that the family held their noses and cashed the checks, but really had no love for Roger or Fox News. To a degree, Roger cultivated that. He sort of identified an enemy that it was good to battle against, and good for the morale of his inner circlefighting against the liberal rich kids.

Media Matters President Angelo Carusone, whose liberal watchdog organization has been a relentless critic of Fox News, said that with the exits of Ailes and his proxy, Shine, the channel has betrayed a notable lack of message consistency that would probably not have been tolerated under the previous regime.

While Fox & Friends in the morning and Hannity at night are reliable purveyors of pro-Trump propagandaand the president remains their most faithful and grateful audience member, frequently parroting their content on his Twitter feedthey are islands unto themselves, Carusone said.

On June 6, for instance, afternoon host Neil Cavuto let fly with an impassioned denunciation of Trumps attacks on the fake news media.

Mr. President, its not the fake-news media thats your problem its you, Cavuto raged. Its not just your tweetingits your scapegoating. Its your refusal to see that sometimes youre the one whos feeding your own beastand acting beastly with your own guys.

Cavuto continued: Mr. President, they didnt tweet disparaging comments about a London mayor in the middle of a murder spreeyou did. They didnt turn on a travel ban that you signedyou did. Youre right to say a lot of people are out to get you... but... the buck stops with you, Mr. President.

That was revolutionary, University of Virginia political science Professor Larry Sabato said about Cavutos anti-Trump apostasy.

Carusone, meanwhile, predicted Ailess invention will incrementally shed its ideological identity for something resembling a straight news operation, much as the channel recently stopped using Fair and Balanced, the dog whistle of a marketing slogan that let Fox News aging largely white-male viewers know that the channel was actually a retort to the liberal mainstream media. (I created a TV network for people 55 to dead, Ailes once boasted to The Nations Joan Walsh. Nobody believed it could be done, but I did it. Its for guys who sit on their couch with the remote all day and night.)

The way I would characterize it is, Fox News now is a laggard, and when Ailes was running the show they were vanguards. They imbued right-wing misinformation with a veneer of credibility, said Carusone, whose David Brock-founded group has been an irksome thorn in Fox News sidecharacterized by OReilly, for one, as the most vile, despicable human beings in the country.

My prediction is that Fox News will be unrecognizable in five years, Carusone said. From a business perspective, what they now have is an unsustainable, untenable position. There is no growth for them. They will lose out every day to the new emerging right-wing voices that are primarily distributed on digital platforms, and they will never be able to catch up. They will never be as creative. They will never have the same reach and relevance among the conservative audience. They lost their most valuable asset the moment they fired Bill OReilly. They pissed off their core audience.

A Fox News spokesperson said eye-rolling is the most appropriate response, given that the latest June and second-quarter ratings, released Tuesday, show the channel winning across the board for 186 consecutive months.

The ex-Fox News exec said: Theyve certainly lost an incredible tonnage with the loss of OReilly and, to an extent, Megyn. I think it would be foolhardy to think that it didnt have a pretty significant massive impact

And I dont think you can discount the family dynamic there. James and Lachlan would love to use the opportunity and use the crisis to shape and redefine. But Rupert is still very much in control of Fox News. Hes still running the show, day to day.

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The subject has been cut from the curriculum under changes made to eliminate "controversial" topics, the head of the national board of education, Alpaslan Durmus, announced in a video address.

"If our students don't have the background, the scientific knowledge, or information to comprehend the debate around controversial issues, we have left them out," Durmus said.

The new curriculum will go into effect for the 2017- 2018 school year.

It was crafted to emphasize national values and highlight contributions made by Turkish and Muslim scholars, Durmus said.

History classes will look beyond "Eurocentrism" and music classes will focus on "all colors of Turkish music," he said.

Critics view the changes in the education system as another step in the ruling Justice and Development Party's ambitions to make Turkey more conservative. Erdogan has been vocal about wanting to raise "a pious generation."

The argument that evolution is too difficult for ninth-graders to comprehend is not a reasonable explanation for removing the unit from high schools, according to Ebru Yigit, a board member of the secular education union Egitim-Sen.

"The curriculum change in its entirety is taking the education system away from scientific reasoning and changing it into a dogmatic religious system," Yigit said in a phone interview with CNN. "The elimination of the evolution unit from classes is the most concrete example of this."

Darwin's theory of evolution has been at the center of the Turkish culture wars over the last decade.

The controversy is based in a conservative and hard-line approach to the scientific theory that equates evolution with atheism, according to Mustafa Akyol a fellow at the Freedom Project at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.

But the theory in its most basic form doesn't have to pose a problem for Muslims, he said.

"There are various progressive theologians in Turkey who argue that evolution is the way God created life via natural means," Akyol said.

The decision to eliminate evolution from the curriculum "implies that more conservative, parochial and anti-intellectual Islamic views are more ascendant," he said.

Eliminating evolution from high schools takes information away from students and reveals a worrying trend of getting rid of anything that challenges tradition, he said.

"They could have been still conservative, but also wise," Akyol said. "The students could have been informed, rather than uninformed."

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In the US, opponents of evolution have tried to undercut instruction on the topic by suggesting schools should "teach the controversy." The national education authorities in Turkey, however, have decided that teachers should avoid any hint of controversy in the classroom. In service of that goal, the country is pulling evolution out of its high school curriculum entirely. The change will be implemented during the upcoming school year, 2017-2018.

In Turkey, the curriculum for state-run schools is set by the national government. The move against education in biology came as the state education authorities were undertaking a review of the national curriculum. Reports indicate that the review largely resulted in an emphasis on religious themes and Turkish culture and history, at the expense of information on Mustafa Kemal Atatrk and his role in the founding of the modern Turkish state.

But science got caught up in the process somehow. According to the head of the national board of education, Alpaslan Durmus, the problem is that Turkish students aren't given the necessary scientific background to separate the theory from the controversy that it has generated in some communities:

We are aware that, if our students don't have the background to comprehend the premises and hypotheses, or if they don't have the knowledge and scientific framework, they will not be able to understand some controversial issues, so we have left out some of them."

So, rather than bring the students up to speed on biology in earlier grades, Turkey has chosen to drop the subject entirely. If students want to understand biology, they'll have to continue studying the topic in college.

The move has alarmed secular Turks, who are viewing it as a further encroachment by religious conservatives. Like many other countries, Turkey has a religiously motivated creationist community (one that includes some rather flamboyant public figures). But until the election of Recep Erdogan, religious figures had little influence on national policy.

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