‘Wallace and Gromit’ return, ‘Paddington’ heads south, and the ‘Wolf Man’ goes on the prowl
Happy New Year! Also, welcome to Align Movie Guide. This is an easy-to-follow guide to what's worth seeing on the big screen. One of the better movies of 2024 was “The Apprentice,” which depicts the early years of a young Donald Trump (an excellent Sebastian Stan). The film, touted as “the movie President Trump doesn't […]
Did you solve it? The knotty problem of Paddington in Peru | Science
Earlier today I gave you a puzzle about quipu, the Inca method of recording numbers with knots on a thread, practiced in Paddington, Peru. Here's the answer again. The Incas used quipus to record dates, taxes, and measurements, among other things. Knowledge of how quipus represented numbers was lost after the Spanish conquest until 1912, […]
