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M.I.A. and director Romain Gavras had already proven that they could make an unforgettable video with 2010’s highly controversial “Born Free" — and two years later, they did it again with “Bad Girls.” Shot in Morocco, the video depicts Saudi drifting, where cars ride on their sides on only two wheels. Scenes of stunt men and women sitting on the outside of the tilted rides are juxtaposed with shots of M.I.A. and a glam posse of women covered in animal prints and metallic fabrics. Not one to be a bystander, M.I.A. even gets in on the drifting action, as she’s filmed lounging on the passenger door of a white BMW, filing her nails as the car cruises along sideways. How could the duo top that? “The next video needs to be shot on the moon,” Gavras mused in a behind-the-scenes video. “With hookers.”   

They added that the new system would be tested over a period of nine months before the old chimney stack was demolished.

(And if you’ll pardon my mixing animal metaphors, your closing joke about the talking snake is really a red herring!) Thanks.

The first Portuguese explorers came searching for gold and diamonds in the state of Minas Gerais, whose name means “general mines.” It remains the hub of Brazil’s mining industry, producing 53 percent of the country’s output, with more mines and tailings dams than any other Brazilian state. Here, critics say, the laws are written by the mining companies, not for them.

Christine and the Queens, one of France’s finest exports, released the lauded sophomore album Chris this year. The singer born Héloïse Letissier has called standout track “Doesn’t Matter” her "crisis" song, explaining that it is "a cathedral, with a rhythm as unalterable as white stone.” Atop a hypnotic "Mickey”-esque beat, Chris — the evolution of Letissier’s Christine stage character — questions whether a higher power exists (“If I believe in God, and if God does exist”) and hints at unbridled pain (“’Cause the suicidal thoughts that are still in my head/Give her that awful side-smile when I lay in bed"). Things get even more interesting on the bridge, when she introduces a complex character known as a “sun stealer." As she explained on the Song Exploder podcast, Chris wants that creature, who represents hope, to run away with the sun and never come back, because she’d like to wallow alone in her despair for just one moment, please. — G.G.

Now THAT felt a tad off. That particular piece of insight was supposed to be conceived at the end of Spock’s journey with his TOS friends, not prior to his departure for Starfleet. Sometimes those references can be overdone and missplaced.

Yes and after the Starfleet “follow up” team gets back from checking on New Eden, the next scheduled stop is to check on Ceti Alpha V.

I read it not so much as about saving the planet, but letting the native population see the Enterprise in the process.

Yep. You would think I stopped reading circa 2012 if you looked at my bookshelf. I HATE clutter and dust, and ebooks solve both; plus, I can search my notes on books if I want to source something I read a few years ago.

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Stevens & Bony 2013: ”Recent research also shows that clouds directly mediate the response of the atmosphere to an external forcing, and they do so on time scales as short as a few hours.¹⁸”

Yeah, I agree somewhat, but many people actually said they wanted a show to reflect a less advance time when you didn’t know if the engines were going to give out or not after warp 8 and not have mcguffins like a spore drive flashing you out of danger to another part of the galaxy in literally seconds.