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There’s no doubt that if we’re going to stop or even slow down climate change, we have to get our collective shit together. But collective action starts with. Four children (the Swallows) on holiday in the Lake District sail on their own to an island and start a war with rival children (the Amazons). In the meantime, a.

• Critics Consensus: Swallows and Amazons honors its source material with a beautifully shot drama whose nostalgic glow is enhanced by winning performances and a.
• BBC Films movies (47 titles): Victoria and Abdul (2017), Swallows and Amazons (2017), Their Finest (2017), The Sense of an Ending (2017), Florence Foster Jenkins.
• Directed by Terence Young. With Alena Johnston, Sabine Sun, Rosanna Yanni, Malisa Longo. A story of a tribe of Amazons in the age of swords and chariots.
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• This episode has more horror-movie elements than usual, as the team pokes around in an abandoned hotel looking for rats that have developed a taste for human flesh.

Zoo's 1. 9 Craziest Moments, Including That Time Ants Tried to Blow Up the Hadron Collider. CBS’s Zoo—about a team of globe- trotting experts battling a catastrophic animal uprising and its aftermath—might be the most insane show on network TV, and it’s only gotten crazier in its current third season. Here are Zoo’s most WTF moments.. But, that said, this show is so gloriously weird and off- the- wall nuts that, even if you hadn’t watched Zoo, you should read this list and see what you have been missing. Wolf jailbreak (Season 1, Episode 3)Biologist turned psycho Evan Lee Hartley stabs an entire hunting party to death because the animals told him to—not exactly a defense that holds up in a court of law, especially since at this point in the show, nearly everyone is still in denial that something funky is going on with the world’s animals. Luckily for Evan Lee, he’s sprung from prison by a pack of helpful/vicious wolves, who rip out the throats of guards and prisoners alike, and set the place on fire for good measure. Kitchen bear (season 1, episode 6)Imagine this scenario: home from a long day at work, you pour yourself a glass of wine and start preparing a meal, until..

BEAR IN THE KITCHEN! And, by the way, you don’t live in a cabin in the mountains. No, you live in a tr. Where the hell did that bear even come from?

We learn more in the next episode, but Zoo is totally fine with letting the bizarre encounter weave throughout this episode without any explanation. Rat queen (season 1, episode 8)This episode has more horror- movie elements than usual, as the team pokes around in an abandoned hotel looking for rats that have developed a taste for human flesh. There are homages to Jaws, The Shining, Willard, and The Thing, as well as the absolutely bonkers sight of a “rat queen,” the giant rodent equivalent of a queen bee that can only be exterminated using a flamethrower backpack. Zoo loves to acknowledge its influences—other season one episodes wink at movies like The Birds and Deep Blue Sea—but the hat tips in the rat episode are by far the best. Elephant pursuit (season 2, episode 2)Season one of Zoo always kept one foot in the real world. But in season two, which picks up a year after the animal uprising began, the show began to truly embrace its batshit craziness. While the world’s governments plot mass animal murder (with an iffy plan for rebirth) via the poison gas- dropping “Noah Initiative,” the Zoo team becomes ever- more obsessed with finding a cure, a quest that gets them into many, many tight spots.

Like, say, battling the world’s first human mutant—or having to outrun a very pissed- off stampeding elephant and drive into the cargo hold of a plane as it’s about to take off. Electric ants (season 2, episode 3)The Zoo crew’s crucial government ally, Eleanor, meets a horrible end in her Geneva hotel room when she’s scorched from within by a horde of electrified ants. This is a highly unpleasant way to die, but these very determined Swiss ants have a much bigger plan in mind: making the nearby Large Hadron Collider go boom. In thwarting that attack, a Zoo crew member accidentally swallows one of the little buggers (how? Earthquake sloth (season 2, episode 4)In the world of Zoo, there’s a cute li’l sloth capable of emitting a potent sound that’s just the right frequency to cause earthquakes.

As with all things Zoo, you must accept this at face value and move on.) Somehow, this turns into the team crawling through tunnels carved by cunningly coordinated teams of moles—only to come face- to- face with the snapping jaws of an alligator, because of course there’s also an angry alligator roaming around for no apparent reason. Snake invasion (season 2, episode 5)“Hi! I’m a snake who seems to have lost its way, popping out of this otherwise kindly character’s windpipe to provide Zoo’s most terrifying image to date!” 1. Back from the dead (season 2, episode 6)Though this episode contains an extremely creepy- crawly sequence in which the team battles a barrage of highly venomous spiders (after striking a deal with a sleazy “venom dealer,” as you do), its most shocking moment comes at the very end. Zoo team member Jackson Oz’s father, Dr. Robert Oz—a brilliant- yet- mad scientist who had a big hand in the animal uprising, and whom everyone believes committed suicide two years ago—is alive.

And he’s been working up some even weirder science in his absence. Mama drama (season 2, episode 9)Soon after we learn that Jackson’s dad has been continuing his morally murky research after faking his death, we learn the fate of Jackson’s mother: she’s become a bloodthirsty mutant. Though Zoo first showed us a human mutant in season two’s second episode, this instance is far more sinister, foreshadowing what’ll also happen to Jackson unless the team can find a way to cure him.

Also, the show makes the (formerly kindly) Dr. Elizabeth Oz look and act way scarier than the dude we met in episode two. She’s basically a superhuman zombie, with apex predator vibes so powerful that entire prides of lions sprint to get out of her way. Canary chase (season 2, episode 1. In which Zoo crew members Abraham Kenyatta and Mitch Morgan track down the increasingly erratic Jackson, by, uh, speeding the way they think he went and making hairpin turns based on the directional squawks of a freaked- out pet canary. Of course it does. Gorilla rampage (season 2, episode 1.

At this point in the show, rogue animal attacks have become pretty uncommon as humankind has gotten wiser about what it’s up against. But all bets are off when a sinister military leader needs to sabotage a crucial vote by unleashing a furious beast that’s only slightly smaller than King Kong. Cult Movie Clips Citizen Jane (2017) there. Because Wolverine is a mutant!” and everyone thought that was a terribly clever idea.)6. Under his eye (season 2, episode 1. In the exposition- heavy season finale, the team endures some massive ups and downs.

Mostly downs. Though they’ve managed to formulate a cure (saving Jackson from his mother’s fate), they fail to prevent the Noah Initiative gas from being released. The cure saves the beasts from mass extinction just in time, but there are still a pair of “fuck yous” from beyond the grave from Dr. Robert Oz—who’s really dead this time—and his scientific posse, known as the Shepherds. First, they’ve created a population of hulking, venomous hybrid animals seemingly bred only to kill humans. Back from the dead again (season 3, episode 1)We learned at the very end of season two that Zoo’s sarcastic scientist (and, let’s face it, best character) Mitch may have survived the hybrid attack he suffered while being a hero and saving the rest of the team amid all that Noah Initiative crap. In this episode—which picks up right where season two left off, 1.

North America—we get proof. He’s alive, but barely, and his circumstances are rather grim: he’s in Siberia floating in a stasis tank, covered in scars, and rocking a seriously epic beard. Kiddie round- up (season 3, episode 2)Turns out the brave new terrifying world still has a place for biotech company Reiden Global, the key foe of season one, which somehow made it through the PR disaster of nearly causing the apocalypse. And it hasn’t gotten any less evil over the past decade; its latest scheme involves trying to cure the world’s fertility crisis by rounding up the few remaining children—including Abe’s son, Isaac, one of the last babies born in the wake of the mass sterilization. What is Reiden gonna do to the kids? It’s safe to say nothing good. DIY brain surgery (season 3, episode 3)After he’s rescued by his now- adult daughter Clementine and his sorta- flame Jamie, Mitch can tell something’s not right in his head—so he guides the women through a little in- flight DIY brain surgery.

What You Can Actually Do to Fight Climate Change, According to Science. There’s no doubt that if we’re going to stop or even slow down climate change, we have to get our collective shit together. But collective action starts with individual choices, and for all the data- driven decision makers out there, the path forward just got a bit more lucid. A new study in Environmental Research Letters has determined exactly which life choices reduce our carbon footprints the most. Many folks concerned about the climate advocate for national and international policies to reduce humanity’s collective carbon exhale. But a pair of researchers at Lund University in Sweden felt that this high- level policy focus overlooks a critical carbon- cutting opportunity: individuals in the developed world. So, the researchers took it upon themselves to rank a series of actions—from having fewer kids to eating a plant- based diet—that can empower ordinary folks to become the Captain Planets of their own personal narratives.

The researchers took a “life cycle” approach, where, for instance, the carbon cost of car ownership includes the greenhouse gases produced during the manufacturing of the vehicle. Ultimately, they identified a dozen individual carbon- cutting actions, including four recommended ones “that are of substantial magnitude throughout the developed world.” Those actions are eating a plant- based diet (average savings of 0. CO2 saved per year), taking one fewer transatlantic flight (1. CO2 saved per year), living car free (2.

CO2 per year), and having fewer carbon- spewing kiddos (6. CO2 per year). Two additional actions that the researchers thought would make the list—not owning a dog, and purchasing green energy—were found to be of “questionable merit,” averaged across all the countries in the study, although in Canada, Australia, and the US, going green resulted in some hefty carbon savings. A study published in 2. Celsius, the average individual carbon footprint needs to be brought down to 2. CO2 per year by 2. The average American’s carbon footprint is currently estimated around 1. Unsurprisingly, the new study found we could be doing much more to communicate about impactful lifestyle choices.

Analyzing 2. 16 individual recommended actions in Canadian high school textbooks, the researchers found that the best actions for reducing carbon pollution were “mostly presented in a less effective form, or not at all,” while lower- impact choices, like recycling, were front- and- center. An emphasis on lower- impact lifestyle choices was also found in government guides from the United States, Australia, Canada, and the EU.“The surprise was, those two sources of information,” textbooks and government recommendations, “focused on low or moderate impact actions,” Nicholas said. But I’ve also found it pretty easy to give up driving in a city, and now that I know exactly how bad air travel is, I’ll feel an irksome pang of guilt every time I purchase tickets.

And if you’re more worried about paying the bills than saving the planet, that’s okay. But Nicholas points out that many of the choices outlined in the paper can have personal benefits, too.“I’ve found in my own life that making these changes to reduce emissions has been really positive,” she said, explaining how she’s ditched airlines in favor of train rides when traveling within Europe, and had lots of unexpected adventures as a result.