Stop the presses: Klingon foreheads were based on dinosaur vertebrae!
Promoting this to a post of its own, because dang, it deserves it. Frequent commenter Warren just brought to our attention this video, in which legendary* make-up artist Michael Westmore reveals that he based the design of the Klingon foreheads in Star Trek: The Next Generation on dinosaur vertebrae.
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Dpr10 and Nocte are required for Drosophila motor axon pathfinding. [PDF]
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Un análisis lingüístico de la lengua Klingon (Star Trek)
En este trabajo presentamos un estudio del klingon, lengua artificial creada con propósitos artísticos para el universo ficticio de la serie Star Trek. Primeramente, proponemos una introducción al proceso de creación de este diseño, prestando atención a cómo pasa de una fase de xenolalia o habla extranjera inestructurada a una xenoglosia o auténtica ...
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Trust in the Digital World The Return of the Kings of Old [PDF]
Drawing principally on examples and literature from the Anglosphere, the author argues that the high salience given to "trust" and "trustworthiness" in recent scholarly literature, and which (notably in Putnam's work) attributes declining trust to a ...
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Measuring individual differences in cognitive abilities in the lab and on the web. [PDF]
Ruiz S, Chen X, Rebuschat P, Meurers D.
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Radar signal categorization using a neural network [PDF]
Neural networks were used to analyze a complex simulated radar environment which contains noisy radar pulses generated by many different emitters.
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Constructed languages are processed by the same brain mechanisms as natural languages. [PDF]
Malik-Moraleda S +11 more
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Does Orkish Sound Evil? Perception of Fantasy Languages and Their Phonetic and Phonological Characteristics. [PDF]
Mooshammer C +6 more
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The Klingon batbugs: Morphological adaptations in the primitive bat bugs, Bucimex chilensis and Primicimex cavernis, including updated phylogeny of Cimicidae. [PDF]
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