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Science! Chemistry plus mummies means new thinking about building materials and the pyramids, mice may cure MD, baldies may soon have more options than just Rogaine, and fish smoothies may help the environment. All in a day’s work for city researchers.

Time to gear up, people: the 16th Philadelphia Film Festival starts tomorrow! As we did last year, Phillyist is planning plenty of coverage, mostly taking the form of film festival diary entries from various staff members (including, of course, yours truly, whose schedule can be seen here, in case you're interested). But what's going on this year, and what should you look forward to? Well, we're glad you asked. Let's pick through the overview press release, shall we?

Who doesn't love cartoons? We know we do. We particularly love rare and vintage toons. On the other hand, we're not a big fan of doctors and medicine, but we're still pretty jazzed about The Cartoon Medicine Show, a little event going down at the Mütter Museum Thursday and Friday night this week. The museum will be open for special evening hours beginning at 5:30PM, with a reduced entrance fee, and the screenings will begin at 8PM. Featured will be "a rich sampling of rarely screened animated medical cartoons from the 1920s to the 1960s," consisting of 10 to 15 shorts "by animators both obscure and well known, including Walt Disney, Friz Freleng, Zack Schwartz, Walter Lantz, and Shamus Culhane." A couple of medical historians will even be on hand to provide expert commentary, and that's bound to be interesting. This definitely sounds like a fun time! Plus, if you're into that kind of thing, you can stroll the museum before hand and check out all the creepy oddities they have on display.

It'll soon be film festival time again in Philly - the 12th Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (PIGLFF to its friends), to be precise. The website has just been launched and tickets go on sale for Philadelphia Film Society Members today, with sale to the general public starting on Monday 6/26 at 10AM, so it's time to make your schedule! The festival will run from July 13th through July 26th, and here are some of the highlights: the "hilariously raunchy" opening night film, Another Gay Movie, looks to be a parody of American Pie, with a bunch of teens trying desperately to lose their anal virginity before summer's out; comedian and performer Sandra Bernhard is being honored Friday, July 14th with an Artistic Achievement Award; a free screening of John Waters's Cry-Baby, complete with a Drag King/Johnny Depp look-a-like contest, is going down at Penn's Landing on Thursday, July 20th; there'll be outdoor screenings of other "classics," as well, such as Barbarella and The Bad Seed; Creatures from the Pink Lagoon (preceded by short Mars Needs Bibles, no less) is a wacky spoof of '60s zombie flicks featuring a swamp "teeming with flesh-eating queers!" - which sounds like a conservative nightmare if we've ever heard one. And of course that little list only just scratches the surface of the huge number of films (141 from 23 countries) being screened this year - many of them being shown in Philly for the first time, and some even having their national or world premieres - so be sure to check out the site for more information. PIGLFF is here, and it's awesomely queer!