Tyson does drop a few worthy, lesser-known details, useful footnotes for his biographers.
But they do include a few useful footnotes for a film that has hardly dated at all.
The exhilarating, scary mutability of gender identity has recently inspired brilliant investigations like the Off Broadway musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and the film "Boys Don't Cry," but those are passionate and troubling works of art, to which "Gendernauts" might be seen as a useful set of footnotes.
In a system of financial transactions for the sake of financial transactions, in which performing a useful function becomes some accidental footnote, we're not talking about an economy, we're talking about a lottery.
These footnotes range from useful to pedantic, sometimes lending an air of authority, sometimes providing a map of the writer's path.
Footnotes, for example, would have been useful for occasional explanation of what is happening in a particular passage.
A footnote about loo roll would have been useful too: so many types, so much money!
(But footnotes are far superior: while hyperlinks can be highly useful, one never finds oneself looking at an error message at the bottom of the page where a footnote used to be).
Like a textbook for newcomers to Russian business, "Stag Hunting" has footnotes with real-life examples and a useful appendix detailing how the fictitious factory launders its money to avoid tax inspectors and, when necessary, bribe politicians.
However, if you find information that you find useful, that information may be cited in a more reputable footnote.
