"The Diving Bell and The Butterfly" is a movie based on a highly-unusual real-life story. David Edelstein gives us his take. You'd imagine a film set partly inside the head of a stroke victim who can ...

The diving bell spider (Argyroneta aquatica) is the only spider species known to live almost entirely underwater. This is ...

DULUTH — Mysteries about Glensheen Mansion are continuously being discovered. On Thursday, July 11, one of those mysteries, a diving bell, was recovered from beneath the old boathouse where it had ...

Anyone who has read Jean-Dominique Bauby’s slim, extraordinary 1997 memoir “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” is likely to wonder how it could possibly be made into a movie. In 1995 Bauby, then 43 ...

Imagine sitting on a narrow bench inside a dark room. Your feet are dangling into a floor of water. You’re vaguely aware of the room moving. Your ears start ringing. If you move too much, you feel the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Quick, think of every place you’ve seen a spider. A forest ...

Why are we drawn to films about people with horrible afflictions? Is it sympathy, or merely relief? Better your incurable illness, your pitiable paralysis, than mine? Does a hero suffering from a ...

MARTIN GROVE talks with "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, pictured, about the contributions a cinematographer makes to a movie and the different collaborative styles ...

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Chestatee River Diving Bell. Hancock Park, one block north of the Dahlonega square, off Park and Warwick streets. 800-231-5543, www.dahlonega.org. While there, visit the Dahlonega Gold Museum Historic ...

CANNES -- Taking a very different approach to "The Sea Inside," in which Javier Bardem played a suicidal quadriplegic, the movie boasts an equally fine lead performance, by Mathieu Amalric, and ...