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As box office success brought renewed interest this week, here,s what our Pop Culture crew advise you to check out this weekend.

Earth Mama

It’s a small, quiet film directed by Savanah Leaf, a former Olympian turned filmmaker. It stars Tia Nomore as Gia, a young single woman trying to regain guarding of her two children.Yia is fantastic in her first acting role. This movie also features the great Erika, who plays a small role as Gia's friend. It's a thoughtful film on what makes life hard for single black women.

flyanu Boss

The movie is about two young women—Folayan and Bobbi. They met in music school and ed filming lyric videos for the song "You Wish". It's turned into a whole thing where they're their fans tell them where to go filming next—so they've run at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Disneyland, a grocery store, a gym, and a McDonald's.

Mystery Menu

It's a Cooking YouTube series done by Sohla and her husband Ham, both chefs and well-matched experts. They are brought a common grocery bag containing a secret ingredient and they ÑÒve one hour to make dinner and dessert. What you see between the two of them is this great creativity.

The Alarmist

Each part of The Alarmist podcast£¨²¥¿Í£©looks at a historical event, a pop culture moment,  and asks the question£º Who is to blame for this? Also on The Alarmist they present a number of theories, a lot of them totally absurd, and then they laugh about them as they come up with a judgment.

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A. Mystery Menu. B. The Alarmist. C. Flyana Boss.

10.                              Who can create wonderful food out of a common grocery bag?

A. An alarmist. B. Sohla and Ham.

C. Folayan and Bobbi. D. Tia Nomore and Erika.

11.                              What can one leam after watching The Alarmist podcast?

A. Think seriously about a historical event. B. Reflect on the hard life of black people.

C. Leam some theories of making judgment. D. Get a knowledge of some destinations.

During the 20th century, an estimated 3 million great whales were hunted to provide humans with oil, meat and rose fertiliser. Roger Payne, a biologist and environmentalist, spurred£¨Íƶ¯£©a worldwide environmental conservation movement with his discovery that whales could sing.

This discovery was made in 1967 during his research trip to Bermuda£¨°ÙĽ´ó£©when a navy engineer provided him with a recording of curious underwater sounds documented. Payne identified the tones as songs whales sing to one another and he was conscious from the start that whale song was to get the public interested in protecting an animal previously considered little more than a resource, curiosity or nuisance.

Payne saw the discovery of whale song as a chance to spur interest in saving the giant animals, who were disappearing from the planet. In 1970, Payne released the album Songs of the Humpback Whale. The record, a surprise hit, fueled a global movement to end the practice of commercial whale hunting and save the whales from extinction. It remains the bestselling environmental album in history.

The impact of the whale song discovery on the early environmental movement was immense. Many antiwar protesters of the day took on saving animals and the environment as a new cause. The humpback whale became the icon of a new environmental awareness. And the whales entered pop culture, no longer the fearsome beasts. In 1977, the whale calls were loaded on to the Voyager probes and sent into outer space.

Payne, graduating from Harvard University and Cornell University with a doctor's degree, authored or co-authored dozens of scientific papers, gave hundreds of lectures, made countless television programmes and films, and led 100 oceanic expeditions. Payne had started an ambitious new project: CETI, a combination of scientists using new technology to interpret what whales might be ¹¹ saying".