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This past year, Hollywood gave us enough true highs to make sitting next to random strangers a thing again. In 2023, directors Martin Scorsese, Christopher Nolan, Greta Gerwig, and Denis Villeneuve will lure us back into the dark. Two dolls, Barbie and M3gan, will burst to life, one of whom, from a distance, seems a … Read the rest
There is a lot you don’t know about me, but for starters, you should know that I have an insatiable fruity candy lust that is rivaled only by my lusty feelings about cannabis.
This inclination toward fruity candy certainly stems from the lack of fruit in my diet and my body’s natural craving for colorful, … Read the rest
The flowy, figurative words in a poem tell a story. But beneath the descriptive language, the mechanics of a poem dictate how it should be read. Scansion breaks down the anatomy of a poem. It’s a method of deciphering the metrical pattern that propels the words.
Scansion marks the metrical pattern of
Once again, it’s time to pop champagne and look back on the most expensive celebrity real estate transactions of the year. In 2022, celebrities invested even more money in real estate than they did in 2021, when Calvin Klein’s East Hampton pad fetched $85 million and topped our list of the 10 priciest properties. One … Read the rest
Each year, child protective services agencies inspect the homes of roughly 3.5 million children, opening refrigerators and closets without a warrant. Only about 5% of these kids are ultimately found to have been physically or sexually abused.
The banging on Ronisha Ferguson’s apartment door in the Bronx started on a Thursday afternoon as she waited … Read the rest
Did you know humans are now consuming 400% more clothing compared to 20 years ago? & that the average American generates 82 pounds of textile waste every single year? We are buying more clothes than ever, but we’re wearing them a lot less. We can mainly explain this by the explosive growth fast fashion has … Read the rest
Investigating cybercrime was supposed to be the FBI’s third-highest priority, behind terrorism and counterintelligence. Yet, in 2015, FBI Director James Comey realized that his Cyber Division faced a brain drain that was hamstringing its investigations.
Retention in the division had been a chronic problem, but in the spring of that year, it became acute. About … Read the rest
Researchers at MIT have proven Leonardo da Vinci correct yet again, this time involving his design for what would have been at the time a revolutionary bridge design. Although clients rejected da Vinci’s work at the time, over 500 years later, the researchers have proven that his bridge would have worked.
The famed Renaissance Man … Read the rest
While a green-painted man with cutoff jeans, a bad wig, and occasionally visible slippers wouldn’t cut it in today’s era of highly sophisticated special effects, the landmark television show led the way for comic book heroes to be seen in a new, more serious, light. [Source: Inverse]
The Incredible Hulk starred Lou Ferrigno as
It sounds like the plot of a science fiction movie: humans are destroying the Earth, gouging huge scars in its crust, and polluting the air and the ground as they mine and refine a key element essential for technological advance. One day, scientists examining an alien meteorite discover a unique metal that negates the need