Next Ferris Bueller still delights teenagers in 2020 for good reason. But coronavirus stay-at-home constraints provided a rare chance to stray from current TV to the most important genre of movies ever. Shows like Upload(very underrated and worthy of watch beyond its Greg Daniels parentage), Homecoming (it’s hard to beat a Sam Esmail conspiracy even without Julia Roberts and the criminally underrated Shea Whigham in Season 2) and Westworld Season 3 (my son enjoys it - I’m still not sure how many Doloreses there are or what timeline we’re on now). I already do most of my TV watching with my son. There is just something about a good ’80s flick that vaults them into a whole other category. The best movies rightly ever made, of course.
The coronavirus pandemic changed all that and presented one great opportunity - a chance to educate him on ’80s movies.
It became a sometimes seemingly endless list, requiring plenty of shuttling about. Baseball practice, baseball games, study groups, after school meetings, sleepovers, video game tournaments at friends’ houses, etc, etc, etc.
Although, really, it's clear that it's using three organs: its larynx, its pharynx.and its heart.My 14-year-old son usually has a busier schedule than I do. This research is a big deal: it means the male koala is now the only land mammal we know of that uses an organ other than the larynx to produce sound. Which it's important for them to do, because it makes their calls louder - and female koalas seem to really dig a baritone. These folds stretch when the male koala inhales, enabling it to really hit the low notes. Those super-sexy, come-hither squawks are made with the help of fleshy folds in the koala's pharynx, which extend from its soft palate to its throat. And now, biologists have discovered that it doesn't - at least, not on its own. And to scientists, it's also mysterious: how, they wondered, does such a small animal make such a low-frequency sound? Anatomically speaking, a male koala's larynx should not be able to produce such deep grunts. To a female koala, apparently that's haunting and stirring, instead of scary and kind of nauseating.
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