In the past seven days New York decided it didn't want Cynthia Nixon as its governor, Amazon's owner elected to get into the education business, and a series of gas-line explosions hit north of Boston. But on the plus side, we also had Mark Wahlberg’s schedule to look at and a new Dolly Patron/Sia collaboration […]
I like to spend time outside when possible. On a recent adventure I took a couple of the kids to check out some trails near my mother's house. This particular place was pretty nice. It had a lake with some cliffs you could walk along. Note: Do not jump off the cliffs into the water—there […]
Click:ecolchi haircare Before our conversation even begins, Barry Jenkins coughs up an apology. It’s the day before his latest film opens in theaters—If Beale Street Could Talk, an adaptation of the 1974 James Baldwin novel—and he’s in Philadelphia on business. It’s just past 10am, and the last corners of the city are rousing from slumber. […]
Nick Papadopoulos tracks down tumors for a living. Not with X-rays or CT scans, but with DNA. The oncologist and director of translational genetics at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center has spent decades uncovering the unique sets of mutations that define cancers—the kind of genetic signals that not only drive tumor formation and metastasis, […]
It's here, it's here! It's finally here! The trailer for the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones dropped this morning and hoo boy is it a doozy. So many fights, so many stare-downs, so much talk of death! Related Stories Opening on a terrified-looking Arya Stark, the whole 100-second clip is a dark-hued […]
Occasionally there are physics lab demonstrations that I think are pretty awesome but that my students just think are "meh." This is one of those cases. The basic idea in this demo, which I used in my class at Southeastern Louisiana University, is to swing a mass around in a horizontal circle. But wait! There's […]
I haven't played Anthem as much as I've wanted to. I find it difficult to play. Not because it's a challenging game; it's not, really. It just bothers me. Something about it rubs me wrong. It feels thin and dull, in a way that personally frustrates me. Anthem, BioWare's newest, is a lot of things. […]
It's hard not to like BattleBots. It is essentially a modern technology-based sporting event in which teams build remote controlled robot-like things that fight in an arena. Two robots enter, one robot leaves—and on May 11, the eighth season of the showdown begins. Of course, there are many engineering aspects of these bots—but underlying every […]
In 2014, chemist Floyd Romesberg, of the Scripps Research Institute, synthesized a new pair of artificial nucleotides and got a cell to accept them as part of its genetic code. In metaphorical terms, he extended the alphabet of life. To review, the DNA molecule is built from four nucleotides, or “letters”: adenine (A), thymine (T), […]
Of all the weird, blood-soaked thriller-horror flicks Italian director Dario Argento ever made, Suspiria is the one cinephiles most often like to name-drop. With good reason: It looks somewhat ham-fisted now, but it’s a brilliant piece, full of twisted witchcraft themes and an electric color palette that’s still eye-catching four decades later. With director Luca […]