Cannibalism

If you’ve made your way through our September picks and are looking for something new, this month’s streaming picks have something for everyone. There is a classic romantic comedy, some British crime drama and even some contemporary dance. The weather might be turning, and the sun might be shining – but these picks will have you wanting to spend some more time on the couch.

Yellowjackets season two

• In season one, a high-school girls’ soccer team survive a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness.
• Season two introduces Lauren Ambrose and Elijah Wood to the cast.
• Central to this season is the power Lottie (Courtney Eaton/Simone Kessell) has over the group.
• – Stuart Richards

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The Way Home

• The Way Home tells the story of three generations of women coming to terms with their trauma and how it has shaped their past and present.
• If you enjoy Christmas movies where a pretty, white heterosexual woman returns home to be conveniently reunited with a lost love, then The Way Home is for you.
• Ultimately, The Way Home is more enjoyable than the sum of its parts.

Am I

• The dancers are all in black with only their feet, arms and faces visible, accentuating the shapes made by their upper bodies.
• The backdrop is a wall of golden white light bulbs, which light in different patterns: at times a pixelated digital screen, other times an exploding sun.
• They move through sequences using silver rods to produce line drawings in two dimensions, then three-dimensional clusters and networks.

While the Men Are Away

• Well-meaning Gwen falls instantly for Frankie; the intense Esther is soon exchanging meaningful looks with Robert.
• The costumes and production design have a soft-focus, Women’s Weekly glamour – a far cry from rationing and making do.
• While the Men Are Away is a fantasy of queer visibility and acceptance, but the uneven script, churning plot and the often-didactic tone undermine its ambitions.

Annika season two

• Neon (New Zealand); season one is available in Australia on iView and BritBox The second season of offbeat BBC police procedural Annika stands apart in a genre that usually veers towards silliness or misanthropy.
• Season one followed the establishment of Glasgow’s specialist Maritime Homicide Unit, a small and unflappable team, which spends its time fishing bodies out of Scottish waterways and solving odd coastal crimes.
• This is all while Annika navigated the prickly relationship with her teen daughter Morgan.

• A provocative Channel 4 satirical programme, The British Miracle Meat, has led to hundreds of complaints to media regulator Ofcom.
• The show was inspired by Jonathan Swift’s satire A Modest Proposal (1726), in which the author of Gulliver’s Travels suggests poor Irish people sell their children for food.
• The Channel 4 show’s creators wanted to make viewers think about the effects of the cost of living crisis, as well as the future of food.

Repugnant markets

• Perhaps the most famous real-life example of a repugnant market is the French case of “dwarf-tossing” bans.
• There were no concerns about his safety – Wackenheim was using helmets and padded clothing.
• Underneath the initial shock about certain transactions, what people find repugnant in some markets seems to be what they reveal about poverty and the choices it forces people to make.
• But because they do not involve money directly changing hands, many people aren’t as immediately driven to call for action from the government.

The price of everything

• The same could be said for markets for pollution and environmental taxes, which put an explicit price on the right to pollute.
• The standard economic approach to fighting climate change is to put a price on carbon that corresponds to its social cost.
• Governments, businesses and individuals must then pay for the cost their pollution imposes on society.
• But the current price of carbon in the EU (around £80 per tonne of CO²) and in the UK (around £45/t) only applies to a small subset of industries.

• “Baby shark doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo, baby shark doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo …” If you’re the parent of a young child, you’re probably painfully familiar with this infectious song, which now has more than 13 billion views on YouTube.
• The Baby Shark song, released in 2016, has got hordes of us singing along, but how much do you really know about baby sharks?

How are baby sharks conceived and born?

• If successful, this is generally followed by even toothier bites to hold on during copulation.
• The male inserts its sexual organ, known as a “clasper”, into the female and releases sperm to fertilise the eggs.
• However, in extremely rare cases, sharks can reproduce asexually – in other words, embryos develop without being fertilised.

How big is a litter of shark pups?

• For example, the grey nurse shark starts with several embryos but only two are born.
• In contrast, other species such as the whale shark use a completely different strategy to ensure some of their offspring survive: having hundreds of pups in a single litter.

Where do baby sharks live?

• That’s why pregnant female sharks often give birth in shallow coastal waters known as “nurseries”.
• There, baby sharks are better protected from harsh environmental conditions and roaming predators, including other sharks.
• Although most types of sharks are confined to saltwater, the bull shark can live in freshwater habitats.

When are baby sharks born?

Sharks, like most animals in the wild, generally give birth during periods that provide favourable conditions for their offspring. In Australia, for example, scalloped hammerheads and bull sharks tend to breed in the wet summer months when nursery grounds are warmer and there are rich feeding opportunities.

How long do baby sharks take to grow up?

• Sharks grow remarkably slowly compared to other fish and remain juveniles for a long time.
• Although some species mature in a few years, most take considerably longer.

What threats do baby sharks face?

• While small, sharks must eat or be eaten – all the while enduring the elements and finding enough food to survive and grow.
• And because sharks grow so slowly, they are particularly to vulnerable to overfishing because when populations decline, they can take a long time to bounce back.

Much more to learn

• Scientists are still working to understand the life cycles of the 500-plus species of sharks in our oceans.
• Each time I hear the song Baby Shark, it reminds me there’s a lot more work to do.

• Scheduled to open Thursday, Feb. 17, tickets will go on sale to the public Wednesday, Nov. 3 at 10 a.m. at banksyexhibit.com.
• Banksy, whose identity is the art world's most closely guarded secret, is an enigmatic artist and world-recognized political activist.
• while TimeOut Toronto described The Art of Banksy as "a welcome reminder of the explosive impact of the artist's works, and of the powerful potential of street art."
• For more information about The Art of Banksy, visit banksyexhibit.com.Follow the exhibition on social media at@BanksyExhibiton Facebook , Instagram or Twitter .