‘The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies’ To End Trilogy On A High Note?..
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Inquistr ^
It’s less than a week until The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies hits the theaters, putting an end to the six-part Middle Earth saga that began with The Lord Of The Rings trilogy in 2001, and continued with The Hobbit trilogy in 2012. So
does the series do a good job of tying up all the loose ends in the franchise? Early reviews seem to indicate the third Hobbit film to be not only the best in the trilogy, but on par with that of the original trilogy.
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Box Office: 'Hobbit: Five Armies' Crushes 'Museum,' 'Annie' With $90.6M
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Hollywood reporter ^
Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies opened to a massive $90.6 million in North America, while Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and Annie both suffered soft starts as the crucial year-end holidays got underway. Overseas,
the final Hobbit entry also dominated, grossing another $105.5 million for a 12-day international total of $265 million and early world haul of $355.6 million. Five Armies soared in its five-day domestic debut after earning an A- CinemaScore, including a weekend tally of $56.2 million. Box-office comparisons to the previous Hobbit films aren't exactly parallel as the first...
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New Fossils Hint 'Hobbit' Humans Are Older Than Thought
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National Geographic ^
| June 8, 2016 | Adam Hoffman
For the past decade, a fossil human relative about the size of a toddler has loomed large in the story of our evolutionary history. This
mysterious creature—found on the Indonesian island of Flores—has sparked a heated debate about its origins, including questions over its classification as a unique species. But now, a scattering of teeth and bone may at last unlock the mystery of the “hobbits,” also known as Homo floresiensis. The 700,000-year-old human remains are the first found outside Liang Bua cave, the site on Flores that yielded the original hobbit fossils. The much older samples show intriguing similarities...
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Billy Boyd's The Last Goodbye - closing song on The Hobbit 3
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Billy Boyd's The Last Goodbye - closing song on The Hobbit http://m.youtube.com
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies review - exactly what it promised to be (3-stars)
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The Guardian (UK) ^
| Tuesday 2 December 2014 03.02 EST
hortly after the climactic battle scene of this final instalment of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit series gets underway, an outsize troll-like monstrosity with a pointed stone headpiece runs full tilt into a fortress wall, making a breach through which a bunch of orcs and other malevolent nasties can pour through. The
troll, or whatever it is, lies full length on the ground, stunned; entirely disregarded as its compadres swarm past. Well, I can sympathise entirely; I reeled out of the cinema in bit of a daze myself after this extended dose of Jackson’s patented ye olde Middle Earth cranium-smashing.
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Ten years On, Scientists Still Debating The Origins Of Homo Floresiensis—The 'Hobbit'
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Phys.Org ^
| Bob Yirka
Oct 23, 2014Bob Yirka Homo floresiensis adult female - model of head. (Phys.org)
—It's been ten years since the bones of Homo floresiensis, aka, the "hobbit" were uncovered in Liang Bua, a cave, on the island of Flores in Indonesia, and scientists still can't agree on the diminutive hominin's origins. This month, the journal Nature has printed a comment piece by Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London and two pieces by Ewen Callaway, one a retrospective with interviews with the central players, and the other a podcast with the four principle scientists involved in the find—Bert Roberts,...
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No evidence of 'hobbit' ancestry in genomes of Flores Island pygmies
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The University of California Santa Cruz ^
| August 2, 2018 | Tim Stephens
Pygmy population near cave where Homo floresiensis fossils were found appears to have evolved short stature independently from the mysterious ancient hominins A fossil skeleton found in a cave on Flores Island, Indonesia, in 2004 turned out to be a previously unknown, very small species of human. Nicknamed
the "hobbit" (officially Homo floresiensis), it remains a mysterious species with an unknown relationship to modern humans. Intriguingly, the current inhabitants of Flores include a pygmy population living in a village near the Liang Bua cave where the fossils were found. An international team of scientists has now sequenced and analyzed the...
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Blu-ray review: ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ (Extended Edition) has more to love
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Celebrity Cafe ^
| 12.30.2015
Back on Nov. 17, Warner Bros. released the long-awaited, extended edition of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. The film adds just 20 extra minutes, but packs a lot of emotion into those minutes. By
now, most of us have seen the Hobbit movies and it can probably be agreed that Peter Jackson created amazing pieces of art. However, most of us wished for more in-depth scenes or more face time for a favorite character. With the extended edition, we get both, plus two full discs of bonus features. A few scenes were extended with just a couple...
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Blu-ray Review – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – The Extended Edition (2013)
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Flickering Myth ^
| November 5, 2014 by Gary Collinson
snip "Filmgoers and shire admirers have become as used to Peter Jackson and his J.R.R. Tolkien adaptations over the years as they have the obligatory “extended cuts” of every already long film. The
Hobbit films have been no different and now comes The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – The Extended Edition. The extended cut, like other Jackson extended cuts, is not a light one. It’s packed with 25 minutes of new footage. I debate to simply reveal said extended and new scenes, but one of the true pleasures of this extended cut is to go in cold and discover...
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Hobbit Author J.R.R. Tolkien's Anti-Socialist, Pro-Liberty Message
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CNS ^
| December 4, 2014 | Barbara Hollingsworth
J.R.R. Tolkien, the British author best known for The Hobbit and his epic trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, was an astute critic of socialism and utopianism and a passionate defender of liberty, says Jay Richards, co-author of The Hobbit Party, which he calls “a study of the political and economic implications
of Tolkien’s thought.” “Certainly anyone that’s seen The Lord of the Rings, for instance, at the movies knows that he was deeply concerned about the dangers and the temptations of absolute power. "The symbol of the one ring, of course. It’s not just a symbol of the sort...
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Julia Ecklar's "Walk Through the Nightside" for Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit
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YouTube ^
And if you loved Martin Freeman playing Bilbo, how about his Watson? Jane Oliver's "I Believe in You" for Sherlock's John Watson.
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Brain-Machine Interface Can Create Synthetic Speech Based on Brain Activity
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MedGadget ^
| 04/26/2019 | CONN HASTINGS
Researchers at UC San Francisco have a developed a brain-machine interface that may allow speech-impaired patients to “speak” through the device. The
researchers have described the system as a stepping stone to neural speech prostheses. The system monitors the brain activity of a user and then converts this to natural sounding speech using a virtual vocal tract. This computer simulation includes anatomically accurate representations of a larynx, tongue, lips, and jaw. Patients can lose the ability to speak because of a variety of factors, including neurodegenerative diseases, strokes, and brain injuries. Current assistive technologies can allow certain patients to spell...
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Dr David Perlmutter: Grain Brain, Eating Fat Makes You Smart, and Why (Brain) Size Matters
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YouTube ^
| Dec 19, 2013 | Abel James, The Fat Burning Man
Dr David Perlmutter: Grain Brain, Eating Fat Makes You Smart, and Why (Brain) Size Matters [VIDEO]
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Cannabinoids are easier on the brain than booze, study finds [no brain damage from long-term use].
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University of Colorado ^
| 2/2/2018 | Cay Leytham-Powell
"To combat this misconception in the existing literature, the researchers gave a fresh look at some existing neurological imaging data from the MRIs of both adolescents and adults to see how, using the same variables and controls, the influence of cannabinoids on the brain compared to or contrasted with alcohol. "With
alcohol, we’ve known it’s bad for the brain for decades," said Hutchison. "But for cannabis, we know so little." To see any potential difference, the researchers used the data to examine the most important neurological components: gray matter and white matter. Gray and white matter are the two main...
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' Release Date, Cast, Trailer and News
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latin post ^
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' Release Date, Cast, Trailer and News: Things We Know So Far In December, Warner Bros. will release "The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies", the final installment in "The Hobbit" series. Peter
Jackson returns to the helm in what promises to be an action-packed film. The new film continues Bilbo's journey in Middle Earth with Thorin's company and their attempt to recover the Dwarves home. The following is a list of things we know about the film:
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British Man Builds ‘Hobbit House’ in His Backyard to Fulfill Childhood Dream
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The Epoch Times ^
| August 8, 2021 | SWNS
An IKEA employee from Scotland has fulfilled his childhood dream of building a “Hobbit House” in his back garden. Ali
Hughson, 47, has been a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien since he was a teenager and loved the idea of having a Hobbit-themed workshop. Ali spent six months and 2,000 pounds (approx. US$2,800) building the 2-meter-tall shed, which even features the iconic round green door made famous in the Peter Jackson films. “When I was around 13 I read ‘The Hobbit’, and then watched ‘The Lord of the Rings’ movies when they got released,” Ali said. “I’ve been a fan of...
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Magic Hobbit Ring Suspension: Boy Wanted to Make Classmate 'Disappear'
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Newsmax ^
| February 2, 2015
A 9-year-old Texas boy was suspended from school after pretending to have the magic Hobbit ring from "The Lord of the Rings" and its prequel, telling a schoolmate that he would make him "disappear." Aiden
Steward had recently watched “The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies” with his family when he took his imagination to school in Kermit, Texas, his father, Jason Steward, told the New York Daily News. When he heard that his son was suspended for making terroristic threats — saying he’d make someone disappear — Steward told the Daily News it was "unbelievable."
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Older, fitter adults experience greater brain activity while learning (Physical and brain fitness)
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medicalxpress.com ^
| 1/13/17 | N/A
Older adults who experience good cardiac fitness may be also keeping their brains in good shape as well. In
what is believed to be the first study of its kind, older adults who scored high on cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) tests performed better on memory tasks than those who had low CRF. Further, the more fit older adults were, the more active their brain was during learning. These findings appear in the journal Cortex. Difficulty remembering new information represents one of the most common complaints in aging and decreased memory performance is one of the hallmark impairments in Alzheimer's disease. Healthy...
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Ideal blood pressure may remodel brain clearance pathways linked to brain health, dementia
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Medical Xpress / Am Heart Assoc / American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2023 ^
| Feb. 2, 2023 | Kyle Kern, M.D., M.S et al
Among people who received more intensive treatment for high blood pressure, evaluations of MRI scans indicated a positive change in brain structures involved in its ability to clear toxins and other byproducts. The
study is the first to examine whether intensive blood pressure treatment may slow, or reverse structural changes related to the volume of the brain's perivascular spaces, areas of the brain around the blood vessels that are involved in the clearance of toxins and other byproducts. "If the brain cannot properly clear toxins and metabolic byproducts, they will accumulate and may contribute to the development of dementia," said...
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College Senior Dies From Brain Tumor After Suffering from Brain Hemorrhage on Spring Break Trip
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People ^
| 4/30/23 | bray
Liza Burke returned to the U.S. weeks after recovering from a brain hemorrhage she suffered while in Cabo San Lucas with friends for spring break
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