All posts tagged: remarkably

The Remarkably Bright Creatures Trailer and Its Narrating Giant Octopus

The Remarkably Bright Creatures Trailer and Its Narrating Giant Octopus

Published by Jenni Sidey

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. The Trailer for Remarkably Bright Creatures Has Dropped At first, I thought the deep voice narrating the trailer for Remarkably Bright Creatures was just the generic Hollywood narrator guy. But as the trailer continued, I realized that it actually belonged to Marcellus, the giant Pacific octopus at the center of the story. He seems to have a vested interest in the lady who cleans his tank finding her son, who disappeared years ago. Since its 2022 release, the book the movie was adapted from has gone mega platinum. It currently has more than 1 million ratings on Goodreads, and was on everyone’s bestselling list forever, so I suppose it’s no surprise it got an adaptation—starring Sally Field, no less—so quickly. The general vibe of the trailer is very heartwarming and ultimately feel-good, which makes its Mother’s Day weekend release on Netflix (May 8) understandable. Paramount Launches New Imprint Three years after selling Simon & Schuster, …

Remembering Ai, a remarkably intelligent chimpanzee : NPR

Remembering Ai, a remarkably intelligent chimpanzee : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

23-year-old chimpanzee Ai, known for her ability to recognize some letters and numbers, holds her 35-centimetre-tall newborn male chimp Ayumu, 25 April 2000, at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University in Inuyama, central Japan. AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption toggle caption AFP via Getty Images/AFP The death of a possible genius was reported this week. Ai, a chimpanzee who was born in West Africa and came to the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University in Japan when she was a year old, has died of natural causes at the age of 49. They say she was surrounded by the staff who have known her. Ai, by the way, means love in Japanese. She was remarkable. “She was the first chimpanzee to successfully label numbers,” Tetsuro Matsuzawa, a primatologist and former director of the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto, wrote in 2021 for the international journal Inference. That was when she was five. At six and a half, she began learning the alphabet, and soon, Matsuzawa says, she “was able to discriminate between all 26 uppercase …