Nothing rankles some Star Wars fans more than mentioning The Prequels. Derided when George Lucas started releasing them in 1999, The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith have been a sore spot from the beginning, a cartoonish blemish given to an otherwise perfect franchise. In the intervening years, critics have […]
Antarctica’s summer season is about to begin, which means hundreds of scientists are preparing to head south to conduct experiments on melting glaciers, migrating penguins, and elusive neutrinos. But so, too, will the support staff of the United States Antarctic base, McMurdo Station, population 1,100. McMurdo is a company town of sorts: It has its […]
Westworld, faithful watchers, has come galloping back to life. Now that you've persevered through several episodes of Leaky Brain Bernard staggering around in a daze, the endless build-up of Maeve’s quest for her daughter, and Dolores as an indomitable but ho-hum ice queen, you have finally been given an episode with some real blood in […]
Click:my giftcardmall com mygift Every year, 5 million people die from causes associated with one of the most mundane scourges of the modern era: sitting around. That’s like losing one Norway-sized country every 365 days to the likes of heart disease, diabetes, and bowel cancer—illnesses linked to a lack of exercise. Norwegians though, aren’t falling […]
What should a superhero movie be? What can it be? With Black Panther, we finally have an answer worthy of our time. In the last decade alone—where the promise of progress in Hollywood read first as fantasy, then as farce—America’s cathedral of heroes offered little access to depictions that fell outside the mechanisms of the […]
During a solar eclipse, the moon slides in front of the sun, blocking it perfectly, and a swath of the world goes dark. And on August 21, that darkness will pass from west to east, from Oregon to South Carolina. For the millions watching, it will be an awe-inspiring event, as the moon blocks an […]
This was a slow week in gaming, but here at Replay we've still got some news for you. For one, fans finally know how Disney feels about its relationship with Electronic Arts—and it's not bad! Also, sales numbers are in for the hottest new battle royale title around and there's a Halo theme park in […]
The Tsimane’ people of the Amazon (pronounced chee-MAH-nay, roughly) hunt, farm, and forage. They don’t have a lot of technology. And if you talk to them about the colors they see in the world, they say some pretty interesting things. For objects that are what an English speaker would probably describe as white, black, or […]
On the first Friday of SXSW, a warm, sunny afternoon in Austin, I walked up to a large hangar across from a half-built luxury condo. A line snaked down the block, all hopeful visitors to one of the festival’s many “experientials.” This one was meant to gin up excitement for Game of Thrones’ final season […]
Like many thrifty business owners, officials at the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina, were banking on reducing their carbon footprint and saving money when they installed rooftop solar panels during a big expansion in 2015. In fact, since the panels went up, the zoo has saved more than $8,500 on its electric bill by […]