Tag: Cosmos: Possible Worlds
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‘Cosmos: Possible Worlds’: How the ‘Anomalisa’ Team Advanced Stop-Motion for Humanizing ‘Vavilov’
One of the highlights of Nat Geo’s “Cosmos: Possible Worlds” was how stop-motion animation helped humanize the tragic career of pioneering Russian botanist/geneticist Nikolai Vavilov in Episode 4: “Vavilov.” Indeed, the way in which Josef Stalin politicized pseudo-science to debunk Vavilov’s revolutionary discoveries to end hunger (he starved to death in prison), serves as a…