From The Brutalist to Conclave: what is the state of this year’s Oscar race? With most of the year’s awards-aiming films now premiered, potential nominees are starting to fall into place Without a cinema-shuttering pandemic or a production-pausing strike in the way, this year’s fall festival season should have felt like a grand return to normal. There were Oscar winners in the mix – Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, Adrien Brody, Ron Howard, Joaquin Phoenix – as well as a ho… |
A Fossilized Creature May Explain a Puzzling Painting on a Rock Wall The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western approaches to the field. |