MOVIE MONSTER SCIENCE

Posted on Sunday 30 July 2006

As J.B.S. Haldane put it in his classic essay, “On Being the Right Size,” “You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving on the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. …A rat is killed, a man broken, a horse splashes.” Haldane was being quite literal.

King Kong

The Biology of B-Movie Monsters (Fathom Archive, via Coudal Fresh Signals)

Bonus: On Being the Right Size (J.B.S. Haldane)


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