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☆ Hollywood's secret weapon is an independent animation studio called Titmouse
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Amazon Prime Video's "The Legend of Vox Machina" is one of the many shows using animation from independent studio Titmouse Animation. Amazon StudiosThere's a powerhouse in the entertainment industry that remains unknown to many casual cartoon viewers — it's called Titmouse Animation. Titmouse worked on Disney's "Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures," a series of animated shorts set in the Star Wars universe. "When we were looking at animation studios, Chris [Prynoski] made it really clear that Titmouse wanted to get into prime-time-style adult animation and that their No. Netflix's "Big Mouth" was produced through Titmouse's animation studio.

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☆ Opinion | A Few Words About Nests
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Margaret Renkl | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Spring is proceeding apace in this yard, despite my worst fears. After my neighbor’s death last year, a backhoe demolished the house and nearly all the old trees along with it. In most ways, it’s been a glorious spring anyway, despite the ceaseless hammering next door. The spring beauties and woodland violets are nearly bloomed out now, but already other flowers have taken their place. And yet, all spring, our yard has been bereft of nests.

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☆ The Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with an Mi-8 helicopter was shot to death in Spain
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewThe Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with a Mi-8 helicopter in August was found shot to death in Spain last week, according to media reports in Ukraine and Spain. According to the outlet, Russian media reported Kuzminov had been found dead with at least five bullet wounds in an underground parking lot in southern Spain, near Alicante. AdvertisementSpecial Operation 'Titmouse'Kuzminov, a former captain in Russia's 319th separate helicopter regiment, defected to Ukraine in August when he landed a Russian Mi-8 AMTSh on a Ukrainian air base in Kharkiv. Ukrainian military officials said they would not surrender and were "eliminated." Advertisement"What is happening now is simply genocide of the Ukrainian people: both Ukrainian and Russian," he said in an interview released by Ukraine Defense Intelligence.

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As climate change intensifies extreme heat, farms are becoming less hospitable to nesting birds, a new study found. Political Cartoons View All 1211 ImagesThe study concluded that species of higher conservation concern in the U.S. — those closer to being listed as federally threatened or endangered — were more vulnerable to extreme heat events in agricultural settings. But across the board, birds in forests were 14% more likely to achieve reproductive success in times of extreme heat. However, Rosenberg cautioned that more data might be needed to confirm that species of higher conservation concern were more vulnerable, since the overwhelming majority of the data involved species of low conservation concern. The researchers predicted how different bird species might fare in each landscape during extreme heat events.

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☆ ‘Birds Are My Eyesight’
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Alexandra Marvar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

‘Birds Are My Eyesight’ For some blind birders, avian soundscapes are a way to map the world around them. Cheer up, cheer, cheer. Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty.” Northern Cardinal Watch here! Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty. To some, the Northern cardinal sounds like it’s saying “pretty, pretty, pretty.” Audubon Vermont compares its call to a Star Wars light saber.

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☆ Furby, Is That You?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Maggie Lange | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Not long after Furby’s release, the F.A.A. urged against using the toy on flights during takeoff and landing because there were concerns it would interfere with planes’ computer systems. In 1999, the National Security Agency banned Furby at its headquarters to prevent the toy, which could record and repeat audio, from capturing state secrets. “But people thought that Furby was weird because it encroached on being human,” Ms. Boyd said. Though the toy may have been unsettling to some, it found an audience: According to Hasbro, some 58 million Furbys have been sold since its release.

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☆ 'Kenan & Kel' actor Kel Mitchell on the upcoming 'Good Burger' sequel, mentoring new child stars as 'Uncle Kel,' and the controversial producer Dan Schneider
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( William Antonelli | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

Nickelodeon legend Kel Mitchell spoke to Insider this week about his career and the upcoming sequel to "Good Burger." The two also co-starred in "Good Burger," a 1997 comedy film that's become a cult classic among millennials and Gen Zers. Scholastic/PBS; Titmouse/Disney Television AnimationSpeaking of animated work, last year, Brian Robbins [director of "Good Burger" and Paramount Pictures CEO] said that he wanted to create a "Good Burger" animated series. I met a couple that said that [seeing "Good Burger"] was their first date, and then they got married, and now every anniversary they go and see "Good Burger" because it's part of their life, so it's so deep to me. Ex-Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider (top-left) posing for a photo with Kel Mitchell and the cast of the show "Game Shakers."

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