The Chimaera Mythology Became Reality

The impossible Three headed monster of Greek Mythology, The Chimaera may have started off as a fantasy, but today the word Chimaera can used to refer anything that is impossible. This includes the real-life, interspecie animals, humans have successfully created. Watch to find out how Myth directly influenced science,not only in language but how we approach the possibility of an interspecies in the future.

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Godzilla and Mothra: King and Queen of Kaiju

Godzilla and Mothra. Why did these two arise in Japan when they did, and what was their global appeal? Films made kaijū world famous. We can't even start talking about them without looking at the movie that started the genre 'daikaiju eiga' or 'giant monster movie' - the 1954 black and white Gojira classic. The film directed by Ishirō Honda shows the modern discovery of a 50 meter tall dinosaur with atomic respiration that lives its best life in the depths of the ocean. At least until an atomic bomb test destroys its natural habitat, and the monster rises to terrorize Japan. Many people took Godzilla as an obvious metaphor for the continuing horrors of the nuclear attacks used against Japan by the United States during World War II. Honda saw firsthand the destruction of war as a soldier in China. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 arose in the minds of the Japanese. The film itself is a social commentary. So much so that a main character in the fi...

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This Cannibal monster hunts during the coldest time of the year, travelling with the snow to terrorise humans with its insatiable hunger. Armed with sharp claws and teeth and capable of running with incredible speed, the Wendigo is a lesson in excess and a manifestation of the anxieties that emerge in the harsh realities of Winter - And how to survive it. The Wendigo is a mythological creature or evil spirit from the folkloreof the First Nations Algoquian tribes based in the northern forests of Nova Scotia, the East Coast of Canada and Great Lakes Region of Canada and the United States. The wendigo is described as a monster with some characteristics of a human or as a spirit who has possessed a human being and made them become monstrous. Its influence is said to invoke acts of murder, insatiable greed,cannibalism and cultural taboos against such behaviours. The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tightly over its bones. With its bones...

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