People & culture
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Fallout Hits the Road to New Vegas
[ad_1] Fallout is finally back for its second season, with a season 2 premiere that links somewhat seamlessly as a continuation of season 1. After a lengthy six-minute recap, “The Innovator” jumps right into its events with the expectation that you know what is going on, or will at least be able to pick the…
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Hunter S. Thompson Sets His Christmas Tree on Fire, Nearly B…
[ad_1] It was something of a Christmas ritual at Hunter S. Thompson’s Colorado cabin, Owl Farm. Every year, his secretary Deborah Fuller would take down the Christmas tree and leave it on the front porch rather than dispose of it entirely. That’s because Hunter, more often than not, wanted to set it on fire. In…
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Why people are flocking to experience the Titanic disaster
[ad_1] Immersive shows recreating the ocean liner’s fateful voyage are attracting audiences globally. But are they valuable historical experiences, or cynically turning tragedy into entertainment? The grand interior rooms of the Titanic are slowly filling up with water. Videos projected on to the floor, ceiling and walls of a warehouse in south London show fixtures…
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Kaiju Go Cosmic In New Godzilla: Infinity Roar Variant Cover…
[ad_1] This February, the stars quake before the King of Monsters in Godzilla: Infinity Roar the latest crossover comic book series from Marvel Comics and Toho International. Announced at New York Comic Con, the five-issue limited series will be written by Gerry Duggan and drawn by artists Javier Garrón and Ig Guara. Today, fans can…
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Göbekli Tepe: The 12,000-Year-Old Ruins That Rewrite the Sto…
[ad_1] We didn’t have civilization until we had cities, and we didn’t have cities until we had agriculture. So, at least, goes a widely accepted narrative in “big history” — a narrative somewhat troubled by the discovery of ruins on Göbekli Tepe, or “Potbelly Hill,” in southeastern Turkey. Apparently inhabited from around 9500 to 8000…
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Stranger Things Illustrates the Bible’s Vision of Spiritual …
[ad_1] Stranger Things’ fifth and final season is finally here! As I rewatched the show, I was struck by how profoundly it illustrates the biblical story of a spiritual battle that takes place in a realm beyond our senses and yet, right in our very midst. Netflix’s hit show begins in Hawkins, Indiana in 1980s…
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The 25 best books of 2025
[ad_1] Stag Dance by Torrey Peters The follow-up to Torrey Peters’ critically acclaimed debut Detransition, Baby is a collection of tales, each with an intriguing premise, ranging in genre from romantic to dystopian to historical. In The Masker, a young party-goer on a hedonistic Las Vegas weekend must choose between two guides, a mystery man…
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Looking at Colonial Photographs : Memory, Posture, & Place
[ad_1] Series: Open Knowledge Fellowship 2025 Show articles▼ Have archival photographs ever looked back at you? Dragged you into its frames? Made you pause not just to see, but to feel, to guess, to remember, or to imagine? There is a strange alchemy when one is looking at colonial photographs. A photograph can certainly freeze…