I got 4 and maybe 6 if you count knowing of the movie but having no recollection of what it was called.
Funny enough once you know the answer most of them make a ton of sense.
This is an interesting quiz idea, but thereâs waaaaay too many to be fun. I got 10 of the first 16, but Iâm already getting annoyed. Itâs mixing very, very famous and/or classic movies with some recent movies which Iâve not even heard of before, let alone seen enough to get the vibe or the clues. The Matrix, Wizard of Oz⊠sure, Iâm going to have a chance. But Call Me by Your Name? Is that well known enough to be a fair example movie? Uncut Gems?!?!?
Okay, letâs carry on anywayâŠ
I got 23 out of 42. Juliane got 16 out of 42.
Movies I guessed in the order I guessed them:
Summary
Snowpiercer (2013)
Oceanâs Eleven (2001)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Back to the Future (1985)
Field of Dreams (1989)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Cast Away (2000)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
The Matrix (1999)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
WALL-E (2008)
Black Swan (2010)
Point Break (1991)
Office Space (1999) â I guessed this for a previous picture and was wrong
Rear Window (1954)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Space Jam (1996)
Star Wars (1977)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
National Treasure (2004)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3
We present evidence that in ~ 1650 BCE (~ 3600 years ago), a cosmic airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, a Middle-Bronze-Age city in the southern Jordan Valley northeast of the Dead Sea. The proposed airburst was larger than the 1908 explosion over Tunguska, Russia, where a ~ 50-m-wide bolide detonated with ~ 1000Ă more energy than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. A city-wide ~ 1.5-m-thick carbon-and-ash-rich destruction layer contains peak concentrations of shocked quartz (~ 5â10 GPa); melted pottery and mudbricks; diamond-like carbon; soot; Fe- and Si-rich spherules; CaCO3 spherules from melted plaster; and melted platinum, iridium, nickel, gold, silver, zircon, chromite, and quartz. Heating experiments indicate temperatures exceeded 2000 °C. Amid city-side devastation, the airburst demolished 12+ m of the 4-to-5-story palace complex and the massive 4-m-thick mudbrick rampart, while causing extreme disarticulation and skeletal fragmentation in nearby humans. An airburst-related influx of salt (~ 4 wt.%) produced hypersalinity, inhibited agriculture, and caused a ~ 300â600-year-long abandonment of ~ 120 regional settlements within a > 25-km radius. Tall el-Hammam may be the second oldest city/town destroyed by a cosmic airburst/impact, after Abu Hureyra, Syria, and possibly the earliest site with an oral tradition that was written down (Genesis). Tunguska-scale airbursts can devastate entire cities/regions and thus, pose a severe modern-day hazard.
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Paging @lukeburrage and/or Christopher Nolan:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qfi9JpgMc2U
Aww, itâs his last one? 
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He says itâs his last one every time. I wonât believe it until a Sept. 21 comes and goes without a video.
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I was wondering if that was a bit. But not enough to go watch last yearâs.
He said last yearâs was the last UNLESS he hit a charity fundraising goal(Which he did, and then some), a condition heâs not added this time. Itâs not really mentioned in the others, IIRC.
Heâs been interviewed about these videos before and he expressed 2 things I remember a few years ago:
- It was challenging one upping himself every year
- He wanted to take it in a wierder direction but that itâd gotten too big for that so he had to keep it lighter than he preferred
He clearly got it a bit weirder this year, but I can also see these things being enough to want to put an end to it. It was fun when it was an art project and became lame when it became an obligation with a deadline.
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Many of us recall the famous selective attention experiment, where subjects watch a clip of students passing a basketball to each other [3, 4]. If you have not seen it, we recommend watching it before continuing to read [5].
Figure 1 is quite the payoff.
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figure 1 is funny, but I view this as basically a test of whether or not any of the students took the time to actually plot the data. Seems 100% of students who did saw the gorilla (at least if they plotted the male and female data on the same graph)
My first thought was âfishing?â And this was acknowledged but not really addressed in the article.
âProvided that a dataset is carefully designed to be rich in information relevant to a specific field, initially hypothesis-free night science explorations are a systematic way to generate hypotheses, a way that is not only powerful, but, in our opinion, also beautiful.â
Unfortunately, the authors used an entirely faked dataset, poor in all forms of information except the purpose for which it was designed, and then used in only a single way to confirm the hypothesis they themselves posited.
Itâs an epic own goal.
If this is a parody editorial, I wouldnât be surprised.
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I wish I could tell the narrator what âhoweverâ means. It doesnât mean what I think he thinks it means.
Haha, I just watched that last night!
This is a WTF of the day. Old Arnold Schwarzenegger Japanese ads. For beer? Also on a video platform I havenât heard of - it autoplayed after a video from boingboing.
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