Comments on: Darwin, Microbes, Whales, and Pop Parasites: More Talks! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/02/04/darwin-microbes-whales-and-pop-parasites-more-talks/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Sat, 26 May 2012 01:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Owlmirror http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/02/04/darwin-microbes-whales-and-pop-parasites-more-talks/comment-page-1/#comment-5994 Owlmirror Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:40:26 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/02/04/darwin-microbes-whales-and-pop-parasites-more-talks/#comment-5994 (Trying again...) Some useful resources for parasites in recent films might be:   <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_parasites" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_parasites</a> and   <a href="http://www.imdb.com/keyword/parasite/" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/keyword/parasite/</a> (Trying again…)

Some useful resources for parasites in recent films might be:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_parasites

and

  http://www.imdb.com/keyword/parasite/

]]> By: Owlmirror http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/02/04/darwin-microbes-whales-and-pop-parasites-more-talks/comment-page-1/#comment-5993 Owlmirror Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:10:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/02/04/darwin-microbes-whales-and-pop-parasites-more-talks/#comment-5993 <blockquote>I'm also gathering examples of parasites in recent films,</blockquote>   <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439815/" rel="nofollow">Slither</a>! Interestingly, the IMDB has a "Parasite" keyword...   <a href="http://www.imdb.com/keyword/parasite/" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/keyword/parasite/" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/keyword/parasite/</a></a> Although I don't know how complete it is. It has the older "Alien" movies, but not the more recent "Alien vs Predator" ones. "The Faculty" and "The Puppet Masters" are also lacking the "Parasite" tag. Hm. Wikipedia actually has a "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fictional_parasites" rel="nofollow">Fictional parasites</a>" Category.

I’m also gathering examples of parasites in recent films,

  Slither!

Interestingly, the IMDB has a “Parasite” keyword…

  http://www.imdb.com/keyword/parasite/

Although I don’t know how complete it is. It has the older “Alien” movies, but not the more recent “Alien vs Predator” ones. “The Faculty” and “The Puppet Masters” are also lacking the “Parasite” tag.

Hm. Wikipedia actually has a “Fictional parasites” Category.

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