mind-twisting tale rompicapo

Creator:	Silvia Pellacani
Language pair:	English to Italian
Discipline:	-
Definition / notes:	KudoZ 21 Nov 2015 [Science - Poesia e Prosa / paleontology, evolution, dinosaurs] * "But there is a greater lesson in the dinosaur extinction. It is not just a mind-twisting tale of evolutionary contingency—another one of those events in the distant past that lets us play the what-if game. Simply put, what happened at the end of the Cretaceous tells us that even the most dominant groups of organisms can go extinct and quite suddenly at that." cf. "Mind-twisting or mind-fucing movies are movies with an unexplained main fable that CAN be explained in some way, movies where we don't know what's real and what isn't (only if it's important for the main fable!), movies where we have at least two explanations and theories, movies with more stories or endings which are different from one another and movies where we don't know WHAT is really happening, HOW and/or WHY." http://www.imdb.com/list/ls055521501/ "Per il paleontologo di Harvard i bestioni preistorici, oggi banalizzati nei cartoni animati e venduti come gadget nei grandi magazzini, sono essenzialmente un rompicapo, un'affascinante sfida intellettuale." http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/1992/dicembre/02/uno_strano_rompicapo_nome_brontosauro_co_0_92120217367.shtml cf. occorrenze: "rompicapo" "evoluzione" "dinosauri"
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