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Has any person made as indelible an imprint on African American culture as Quincy Jones? This new bio-documentary makes a compelling case for the point, though that's the only compelling aspect of this paint-by-numbers film.

Directors Alan Hicks and Rashida Jones (one of the seven children Jones fathered across five celebrated loves) require two hours merely to account for his eclectic accomplishments. Now 85, Quincy Jones produced career-high records for greats such as Ray Charles and Michael Jackson, and recorded plenty of his own. In Hollywood, he composed the Oscar-nominated scores for In Cold Blood and The Wiz, and on TV, the immortal themes for Roots and Sanford and Son. He shepherded Steven Spielberg's adaptation of The Color Purple and Will Smith's launchpad The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air through production. He founded Vibe magazine, a publication that spearheaded the legitimisation of hip-hop as an art form. Judging from the large number of celebrity cameos, he is friends with everyone who has ever crossed the Grammy awards stage. And he's done incalculable good through charity work and other civic giving-back, bringing millions in aid to Africa through the We Are the World campaign.

The film dutifully catalogues his successes, from a fraught childhood on the South Side of Chicago to coordinating the 2016 opening of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Yet despite (or perhaps because of) Rashida Jones's closeness to her father, the mind behind the legendary profile never fully comes into focus. Her unparalleled level of access and intimate relationship to her subject should have cleared the way for an exceptionally frank appraisal of a complicated, flawed personality. Instead, it does the opposite, playing nice in a sanitised portrait that only fleetingly delves deeper than the average encyclopedia article.

Q, his ubiquity inherent in the one-letter nickname, hasn't quite lived a saintly life. The film doesn't quite ignore this fact, as much as it tries to hurry past it on the way to further hagiography. Early on, Rashida asks her dad if he thinks his drinking - the word "alcoholism" is never uttered, nor is any other form of recreational substance - has created problems in his life. He simply responds that it hasn't, having at that point gone a good handful of months without touching the bottle. His chronic philandering rates a single mention.

A general lack of self-examination plagues Quincy Jones's narration and the one-on-one face time the camera gets from him. He is a thoughtful enough person, reflecting on the constant barbs of racism he and his band had to endure when touring during the 1940s and 50s. But he seldom looks inward, challenges himself, or offers any fresh insight. The best footage sees Jones in repose, preparing to face down the Grim Reaper after a diabetic stroke. "Time is a bitch," he muses, either to God or nobody in particular. Later, while touring the museum's exhibition on black excellence in music, he mutters: "All of them, gone. That's frightening." It is the closest he gets to the confessional attitude that makes for a good celebrity doc.

How this could come from the voice of this year's most generously entertaining interview (in Vulture), only the film's directors can explain. Early on, Rashida Jones warns her father, "I'm not very good with the camera," and she's not simply being self-effacing. A bare minimum of visual competency matches their shortcomings as interrogators, continuing the slightness of Hicks's previous non-fiction effort Keep on Keepin' On (a chronicle of a jazz veteran's mentorship of a piano prodigy) and the misjudgment of the Rashida Jones-produced Hot Girls Wanted (an overly alarmist investigation of internet porn's underbelly). The result of their compromised perspective is unquestioning adulation, as unabashedly celebratory as the Academy Awards ceremonies over which Quincy used to preside as music director.

It's a victory lap, which will probably be enough for fans content to share Q's presence and nothing more. But this movie isa cataloguing of a man who lives in three dimensions. In sticking to recitation of well-known historical fact and flattery it has taken the easy way out.
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Has any person made as indelible an imprint on African American culture as Quincy Jones? This new bio-documentary makes a compelling case for the point, though that's the only compelling aspect of this paint-by-numbers film. Directors Alan Hicks and Rashida Jones (one of the seven children Jones fathered across five celebrated loves) require two hours merely to account for his eclectic accomplishments.

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you can get an Antarctic passport in other words you can be a citizen of Antarctica  

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Are you a citizen of Antarctica? The answer has to be unequivocally, "no"-Antarctica's not a country, it's a continent that will never be a nation. But no biggie, say artists Lucy and Jorge Orta. They're giving out passports to Antarctica, anyway, reports Allison Meier for Hyperallergic.

So far, 53 countries are privy to the Antarctic Treaty, which in 1959 stipulated that the southernmost continent "shall continue forever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene or object of international discord." But the Ortas don't see that as a barrier to issuing passports for the chilly, barren continent. Rather, their art is inspired by and centered around the peaceful possibilities of a continent devoted to scientific research and human accord.

Meier writes that the Ortas have developed a program called the Antarctica World Passport as "an advocacy tool to engage people around the world in the importance of a remote place most of us will never visit." People who commit to tenets of sustainability, peace and equality can request a virtual passport online or visit the couple's "Antarctic World Passport Delivery Bureau" at their exhibitions.

The couple was commissioned to create the passport program and their arts and awareness exhibition to the continent at the 2007 End of the World Biennial, an art event that brought artists from all over the world to celebrate Earth's southernmost climes. Later that year, the Ortas traveled to Antarctica to raise their "Antarctic Flag"-a kaleidoscopic flag combining the flags of all nations that represents the coexistence of all world identities. Their trip to Antarctica also included the construction of 50 handmade dwellings stitched from national flags, clothing and other objects that symbolize Antarctica's borderless possibilities.

So long as an official passport to Antarctica remains impossible, this passport-which the artists' website calls a "universal passport for a continent without borders, common good of humanity"-seems like a good alternative. So far, more than 12,000 people have received their own.

If the passport were hypothetically real, would it revoke an owner's United States citizenship? Perhaps-people who apply for foreign nationalities with the intention of giving up their U.S. nationality lose their rights as nationals. But for now, there's nothing keeping anyone from asserting their rights and responsibilities as an Antarctic citizen-and a citizen of the broader world.

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Are you a citizen of Antarctica? The answer has to be unequivocally, "no"-Antarctica's not a country, it's a continent that will never be a nation. But no biggie, say artists Lucy and Jorge Orta. They're giving out passports to Antarctica, anyway, reports Allison Meier for Hyperallergic.

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The stories seem as tall as the lake is deep - f`or hundreds of years, visitors to Scotland's Loch Ness have described seeing a monster that some believe lurks in the depths.

But now the legend of "Nessie" may have no place left to hide. A New Zealand scientist is leading an international team to the lake next month, where they will take samples of the murky waters and conduct DNA tests to determine what species live there.

University of Otago professor Neil Gemmell says he's no believer in Nessie, but he wants to take people on an adventure and communicate some science along the way. Besides, he says, his kids think it's one of the coolest things he's ever done.

One of the more far-fetched theories is that Nessie is a long-necked plesiosaur that somehow survived the period when dinosaurs became extinct and another theory is that the monster is actually a sturgeon or giant catfish. Many believe the sightings are hoaxes or can be explained by floating logs or strong winds.

Gemmell said that when creatures move about in water, they leave behind tiny fragments of DNA, coming from their skin, feathers, scales and urine.

He said his team will take 300 samples of water from different points around the lake and at different depths, filtering the organic material and extracting the DNA, and he said, sequencing it by using technology originally created for the human genome project.

He said the DNA results will then be compared against a database of known species and that they should have answers by the end of the year.

"I'm going into this thinking it's unlikely there is a monster, but I want to test that hypothesis," Gemmell said. "What we'll get is a really nice survey of the biodiversity of the Loch Ness."

He said the real discoveries may come in determining things like the prevalence of invasive species.

Gemmell, 51, said he first visited Loch Ness in his late 20s while on vacation and like thousands of tourists before him, he gazed out over the lake trying to catch sight of a monster. He said he first came up with the idea of testing DNA from the lake a couple of years ago and it resonated with many, including his children, aged 7 and 10.

Graeme Matheson, chief of the Scottish Society of New Zealand, said he, too, has visited Loch Ness and gazed out over the water, and that he wishes Gemmell all the best.

"I hope he and his cohorts find something, although I think they'll be battling," Matheson said. "Still, it's a good way to get a trip to Scotland."

Gemmell said that even if they don't find any monster DNA, it won't deter some Nessie believers who have already been offering him theories, like that Nessie might be on vacation after swimming to the sea via hidden underwater caves, or that the creature might be extraterrestrial and not leave behind any DNA.

"In our lives we want there still to be mysteries, some of which we will ultimately solve," Gemmell said. "That's part of the spirit of discovery. And sometimes, what you find may not be what you were expecting."

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The stories seem as tall as the lake is deep - f`or hundreds of years, visitors to Scotland's Loch Ness have described seeing a monster that some believe lurks in the depths. But now the legend of "Nessie" may have no place left to hide.

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Australian cartoonist makes a racist and sexist drawing of Tennis legend Serena Williams 

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The Wonky Donkey: viral video of grandmother makes picture book a bestseller

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A Scottish grandmother's reading of the 2009 children's book to her grandson has seen demand for it skyrocket around the world

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Sitting in thrones, brokering powerful alliances, engaging in pomp and circumstance, conducting pirate raids? One of these things may not seem like the others, but in fact all four were things that would have seemed familiar to Denmark's earliest kings. As ScienceNordic's Stine Rendrup Johansen reports - pirates actually founded Denmark.

Johansen writes that looting and piracy were the basis of the earliest Danish kings' power. After all, the years between 800 and 1400 were the time of the Vikings. Medieval historian Thomas Heebøll-Holm tells Johansen that pirate raids weren't just a method of robbing - they were also a means of "conventional warfare or revenge" for early Danish leaders.

"Essentially, Viking raids between 800 and 1000 CE funded the building of a Danish royal power," Heebøll-Holm tells Johansen. Viking pirates used expeditions and pirate-approved methods to struggle for power, unite their own warriors and fund their ongoing activity, Johansen reports. In the future, Heebøll-Holm hopes to gain a better understanding of just how piracy affected things like laws and norms around the monarchy.

In case you're still skeptical about the power of the pirate in days of yore, here's a sobering description of the impact of Viking pirate raids. Stefan Eklöf Amirell and Leos Müller write that Viking pirates acted "as catalysts for political change and dislocation across Europe." In ninth-century England, they write, "every kingdom but one was destroyed and up to half the country was occupied by Viking forces." The Kingdom of Frankia had it even worse, they write, with 14 percent of the entire economy surrendered to Vikings. "Whole regions are recorded as 'laid waste'," they write, "and thousands were killed and enslaved."

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Sitting in thrones, brokering powerful alliances, engaging in pomp and circumstance, conducting pirate raids? One of these things may not seem like the others, but in fact all four were things that would have seemed familiar to Denmark's earliest kings. As ScienceNordic's Stine Rendrup Johansen reports - pirates actually founded Denmark.

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Wallace and Gromit inspired trousers that help you walk

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Step into Scotland with immersive AR app

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Hawaii hurricanes rare, but getting less so.

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Hurricanes seldom get close to Hawaii. It's even rarer for one of the islands to take a direct hit.

Hurricane Lane already drenched and pummeled the island chain and even more rain could be on the way.

The last time a major hurricane hit Hawaii was in 1992. That's when Category 4 Hurricane Iniki hit. It caused billions in damage. The central Pacific hurricane region that includes Hawaii sees about four or five storms moving through. But that may be changing with global warming.

A look at the hurricane season in Hawaii:

WIND IS KEY

Usually wind is what keeps storms from threatening Hawaii. Most eastern Pacific hurricanes form in the warm waters off Mexico and head west. But before they get too far, wind currents usually cause them to circle back toward the coast. The storms that stay a bit further south are the rare ones. These make it to the central Pacific. That's according to Gabe Vecchi. He is a Princeton University climate scientist.

This year, those winds aren't quite steering storms back east. Add to that weaker than normal winds aloft that usually shred storms. Winds at that level would normally be 23 mph to 29 mph. Now, they are less than half as strong. This allows storms to stay alive. That's according to Phil Klotzbach. He is a Colorado State University hurricane scientist.

That also happened in 2014 and 2015. Those years were busier than normal years for storms getting close to Hawaii. There were four in 2015 and three in 2014. This included Iselle that hit the Big Island. But it was a weakened tropical storm.

But the central Pacific is a big area and the islands occupy a small area. So most storms aren't likely to come too close.

WARM WATER

Hurricanes are fueled by warm water. The water temperature in the region is about 2 to 3.5 degrees warmer than normal, according to Vecchi. That was also the case in 2014-2015. "We've come to learn that an unusually warm ocean in the subtropical Pacific will tend to increase the number of hurricanes around Hawaii," Vecchi said.

The Pacific has more storms during a strong El Nino. It is a weather event that warms the water. Meteorologists expect an El Nino to form in the next couple months. But right now El Nino conditions are still more neutral than hot. Vecchi and others attribute the warming to a natural cousin of El Nino, with help from climate change. Warming from that north-south weather pattern is much more connected to causing more storms than east-west El Nino. That's according to Vecchi.

THE SEASON

So far this year, the area is much more active with more storms. It has stronger ones and longer lasting ones than normal. That's according to Klotzbach. On average, the region gets 15 named storms for the total season. Lane formed Aug. 15 far off Mexico. It is already the 12th named storm and the second to get close to Hawaii.

In contrast, the Atlantic region is running around its average for this point in the season. In the Atlantic, stormy conditions have slowed down recently. Storms get named when winds reach 39 mph.

August is the biggest month for central Pacific hurricanes. September is the biggest month for the Atlantic. The central Pacific hurricane season runs from June through November. This is the same as the Atlantic. The eastern Pacific runs from May through October.

CLIMATE CHANGE

While climate scientists are reluctant to link individual weather events or even seasons to global warming, they can make the connections with detailed studies. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration climate scientist Hiro Murakami, Vecchi and others studied the 2014 hurricane season around Hawaii. They found it was "made substantially more likely" by climate change. This was caused by emissions from burning coal, oil and gas. These got a natural boost from El Nino.

In a study last year, they also connected global warming to 2015's record number of major storms in the region. This included three Category 4 hurricanes in the central and eastern Pacific at the same time. These studies are limited because of weak records of storms in the area before 1970, Vecchi said.

WHAT'S AHEAD

Many climate studies recently predict that as the world warms, the globe overall and the Atlantic region will have fewer named storms but more intense ones. However, the central Pacific bucks that prediction.

Several studies forecast that the central Pacific will become busier with more storms. These will be stronger storms and faster developing ones, Vecchi said. A Murakami study used computer simulations to predict a noticeable increase in storms around the Hawaiian Islands.

It's once again because of winds and water. The water in the region is predicted to warm faster than elsewhere around the globe because of a weakening of trade winds, Vecchi said.

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Hurricanes seldom get close to Hawaii. It's even rarer for one of the islands to take a direct hit. Hurricane Lane already drenched and pummeled the island chain and even more rain could be on the way. The last time a major hurricane hit Hawaii was in 1992.