“Hotel Transylvania” is a hilarious must-see movie from start to finish. With an all star cast consisting of Adam Sandler as Dracula, Andy Samberg as Jonathan, Selena Gomez as Mavis, Kevin James as Frankenstein, Steve Buscemi as Wayne the werewolf, David Spade as Griffin the Invisible Man, and CeeLo Green as Murray the mummy, the movie is an absolute treat for all ages.

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The movie defies “monster” expectations by having humans be the villains and the “monsters” be the victims. The story revolves around Count Dracula building a hotel to be a safe haven for monsters (and his infant daughter, Mavis) in 1895. Dracula’s wife was killed by humans, so he is adamant that nothing will happen to their precious daughter.

The movie jumps forward to the present and is now Mavis’s 118^th birthday. Despite her age, Mavis is, for all intents and purposes, a teenager. As typical teenagers who have overprotective parents, Mavis is eager to explore the outside world, particularly the human world. After Dracula allows her to go to the nearby village, which he has constructed and filled with zombies impersonating humans, Mavis decides that humans are terrible and she never wants to leave the safety of the hotel again. Dracula is now content with the knowledge that humans will never harm Mavis…or at least he is until a human named Jonathan stumbles into the hotel.

Jonathan is the typical young backpacker who wants to see the world while living out of his backpack. He is spontaneous and carefree, which instantly attracts Mavis, who is unaware he is a human. Dracula disguises Jonathan as a monster so his hotel’s reputation will not be harmed by the fact that a human was able to invade their territory. Jonathan takes the monsters on a wild ride to rediscovering the concept of fun and freedom, and ultimately challenges every misconception they have about humans.

Perhaps what makes this movie so great, besides the all-star cast, is the believable and relatable storyline of a father trying to protect his daughter because he loves her so much, while the daughter wants nothing more than to be free. The movie clearly portrays what a parent will do for their child in the name of love, and it shows the sometimes painful side of letting your child make their own mistakes. The movie also challenges against making judgments about others who you do not understand, which is a very important lesson for kids to learn.

“Hotel Transylvania” is a heartwarming, hilarious story that instills important life lessons into kids, which makes this movie an absolute must-see.

Rating: 4.5/5

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Last month, a team of scientists from Italy and Germany found intact red blood cells, using nanotechnology, in the wounds of Ötzi the 5,300 year old “iceman” mummy.

“Up to now there had been uncertainty about how long blood could survive – let alone what human blood cells from the Chalcolithic period, the Copper Stone Age, might look like,” Albert Zink – who is a part of the team and Head of the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman European Academy Bozen-Bolzano (EURAC) – states in the EURAC news release.

Ötzi, the oldest European mummy, was discovered naturally preserved in a glacier at the Ötzal Alps on the Austrian-Italian border in 1991. The cause of his death has been a mystery. Considering the location, scientists deduced that he may have died from the cold, fatigue, and starvation.

However, other speculations express that he was murdered or had been a part of a ritual sacrifice. The bruises on his head indicate that he was hit on the head with a rock, there is an arrowhead wound on the back of his left shoulder, and a wound on the back of his right hand. Furthermore, he was found lying in a rather strange posture. It has been considered that Ötzi specifically died from the arrow wound, immediately.

According to the team’s research paper, head-authored by Merek Janko, “Blood can indicate the general health status of a[n] individual and it can be analyzed to detect pathological conditions or to provide valuable information in forensic crime scene investigations,” further providing more information about Ötzi, his state of health when he died, and the manner of his death.

Scientists in the past attempted to find blood cells before, in Ötzi’s aorta, but were unsuccessful. With his colleagues Janko and Robert Stark, both of whom work at the Center of Smart Interfaces at Darmstadt Technical University, Zink studied layers of tissue from the arrowhead wound and the right hand laceration with an atomic force microscope. Through scanning the tissue with a fine probe, the team created a three dimensional image, which showed the familiar torus shape of the red blood cell.

The team further confirmed their findings by conducting a follow-up study with a method that allows one to recognize molecules. They took a Raman spectroscopy sample of the tissue by illuminating it with a laser beam, and found that the shapes of the cells corresponded with those of the present day samples of human blood cells. In addition, whilst the team was examining the arrowhead wound, they found the tissue fibrin, a protein involved with blood clotting.

“Because fibrin is present in fresh wounds and then degrades, the theory that Ötzi died some days after he had been injured by the arrow, as had once been mooted, can no longer be upheld,” Zink says.

For more information about Ötzi, visit the South Tyrol Museum of Archeology’s webpage.

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