In research described as "terrifying" by an independent expert, scientists predict the future for frogs, toads, newts and salamanders is even more bleak than conservationists had realised.
Frida is a fantastic creation; and her relationship with Ruth, a messy combination of big lies and small, important truths in which the power dynamic shifts by the second, is touching and terrifying by turns.
As smooth-faced and initially unthreatening as Chuckie, the horror-movie doll, Ms. Egtvedt made Bertha terrifying by injecting the faintest hint of human perturbation into the machine's crude impassivity.
For a classic example, go to Joy Division's Closer, made utterly terrifying by Martin Hannett's tiny details – the soft whoosh at the start of The Eternal; the harsh knock of metal at the beginning of Decades, each of them emerging perfectly into the blankness.
The robot, which looks terrifying by the way, is being used to hold supplies such as water canisters.
Years after the game was released, the cut scenes have become a subject of criticism among video game websites, and were called "outright terrifying" by 1UP.com.
