KYFP:Pandorum – Keep Your Fork There's Podcast

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KYFP:Pandorum

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“Pandorum – Our First Episode”
It’s not our first recording, but it’s the first time we felt like we might be figuring things out. We don’t stick to the media story line (a pattern that quickly became our MO), but we do lay a lot of groundwork about who we are and how we relate to media. If you decide to listen—thanks for learning alongside us.

Show Notes:

Pandorum on Rotten Tomatoes
Sword Fight class.
Mrs. Hoff Sioux City West, Girls Basketball
West High Wolverines stuffed Wolverine

Doin’ the butt. Watch it. Study it. It will serve you well.
Lady in Red
Red Dawn
Batman and the Outsiders.

Check out ‘Looker’ – her power was pink hot-ness.

clauses: a unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate.
run-on sentence – noun : a sentence containing two or more clauses not connected by the correct conjunction or punctuation
Conjunction Junction
Caves of Lascaux

Time travel, aging and space -from the Matt Damon movie -Interstellar
Wool by Hugh Cowey
Polly Loves Valerie. RIP

The Certificate -26! No, 27 books!

Academic Decathlon
The reading list from the 1991 United States Academic Decathlon (USAD), focused on Space Exploration with an emphasis on Science Fiction literature. David N. Samuelson, who curated the Language and Literature section that year, detailed the selected works in his article “Adventures in Paraliterature“, published by DePauw University _{^{←I found it!}}
The reading list included:
- “The Martian Way“ by Isaac Asimov
- “2001: A Space Odyssey“ by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick
  - The iconic film that delves into human evolution, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life.
- “Universe“ by Robert A. Heinlein aka “Orphans In The Sky“ _{^{←this is the one that’s like Pandorum!}}
  - A novella depicting a generation ship’s inhabitants who have forgotten their origins and mission.
- “Crucifixus Etiam“ by Walter M. Miller Jr.
  - A short story about a worker’s experiences on Mars, highlighting themes of sacrifice and adaptation.
- “Vaster than Empires and More Slow“ by Ursula K. Le Guin
- “Solaris” by Stanisław Lem
- “Nova” by Samuel R. Delany
A fine example on how to manage women From Orphans in the Sky: