Kier-La Janisse Moves Her Spectacular Optical Label Into Distribution

EXCLUSIVE: Spectacular Optical, the indie publishing imprint of Canadian genre veteran Kier-La Janisse, has expanded its remit to include theatrical, streaming, and home video distribution.  The new label will distribute a selection of films curated by Janisse with a focus on landscape and design, music and counterculture, and experimental genre works. The new distribution label…

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Bizarre ‘compleximers’ break the rules of both glass and plastic

“Compleximers”—materials that can be molded like window glass but that resist impacts like plastic does—shouldn’t exist, researchers say. Nevertheless, a few grams of one such substance sit in a laboratory at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. In Nature Communications, Wageningen physical chemist Jasper van der Gucht and his team describe what makes compleximers as meltable…

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