Children of Men.

Clive Owen's understated performance in this overlooked 2006 film was to say the least noteworthy. Based on P.D. Jame's novel the title is taken from psalm 90(89):3 in The King James Bible. It is set in a world on the border of choas in 1992 England. At this time for reason not fully understood all are infertile. The people alive are the last generation on the planet. The film opens with the last peron born on record being killed in a barfight in South America. It moves on from there with a quick and coherent story line. The scene where Clive's character walks out during a pause in a firefight is spellbinding.
Take the time. It's worth it....

A tail worth telling.

Toward the end of the Civil War. The South was so befret of supplies due to the blockades and overall cost of the effort that everything was in short supply. The silk thread used for surgery had almost disappeared.  Enterprising Southern surgeons had took to boiling hair from horses tails to make it supple enough to use. The boiling had a two fold effect. It made the hair easier to handle as well as to make it sterile. This cut post op infections and caught the attentions of the physicians who then made the jump between boiling material and lack of infections. Which lead to sterilization of surgery tools.
                                                                  Think of that........