Here is my eclectic Halloween movie list for this year. 8 great movies to keep you in the mood for 16 waking hours.

Hot take: Rumble Fish should be ranked higher than the Godfather and Apocalypse Now in Coppola's filmography.

I recently rewatched Tokyo Story and while it's an amazing movie, I noticed a lot of defects that are different from other analog film. Bad contrast, flickering halos, a lot of weird grain, other stuff that's really unexpected in a movie that is made with so much precision.

There's a general misconception that American creationism as a movement is some kind of default religious stance, just a continuation of what religious leaders were saying back in the late 1800s, but it actually has historical reasons for existing that are separate from this.

My top 2 phylogenetics papers of 2024.

Only one philosophy of science paper this year.

My top 3 palaeontology (sorry, only Ediacaran and Proterozoic this time) papers of 2024 in the thread.

My top 30 (yes, 30!) primate and human palaeontology, anthropology and archaeology papers of 2024 in the thread.

My top 3 history of science (well, only bio and geo) papers of 2024 in the thread.

My top 2 historical geology papers of 2024 in the thread.

Top 2 evolutionary biology and theory papers of 2024 in the thread.

Top 10 arthropod, entomology and arachnology papers of 2024 in the thread.

Top 5 climate and environmental papers of 2024 in the thread.

Top 4 botany and plant science papers of 2024 in the thread.

It's that time of the year again, the time to start dumping top of 2024 lists. First up, academic books (only 2 this time, I'm not even in academia anymore why am I doing this).