People & culture
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Nico Minoru And The Scarlet Witch Deal With A TTRPG Night Go…
[ad_1] Well this is an unexpected combination of our interests! This October, some of Marvel’s magic users gather for a night of epic adventure and mystical mystery in Strange Tales, a four issue limited series by writer and recent Stonewall Honor Award winner Jeremy Whitley (Unstoppable Wasp, Navigating with You) and artist Bayleigh Underwood (Marvel United: A Pride…
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Watch The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne: A Free Documentary on…
[ad_1] “This is supposed to be my farewell tour,” says Ozzy Osbourne in a clip included in the Biography television documentary above. He then gives the finger and adds, “We’ll see.” The year was 1993, and indeed, there turned out to have been much more to come for the former frontman of Black Sabbath, the…
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Embracing Art Means Escaping Our Comfort Zones
[ad_1] I’ve loved horror movies since I was a little boy, but I never imagined a world in which I’d have the rough equivalent of a Mom-and-Pop video store at my disposal every night. Nor could I have hoped for an air-tight system of recommendations curated for my own peculiar tastes. Long gone are the…
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How a fatal accident ended Ted Kennedy’s presidential hopes
[ad_1] But several suspicious details served to fuel speculation. “There are so many things,” Arena told the BBC. “For instance, even the morning we were called about the accident, he was seen at the Shiretown Inn, where he was staying, sitting having breakfast in somewhat of a casual manner.” A newspaper, the Manchester Union Leader,…
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Extraterrestrial concepts of life | Eurozine
[ad_1] Sometimes it is almost impossible to escape a feeling of wonder for the abundance of life in our world. Especially on a summer’s day – when bumblebees buzz among flower petals, grasshoppers play in the dry grass, blue-winged butterflies flutter in the wind. Vegetation stretches from deep underground to the trembling aspen leaf crowns,…
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Operation Firewall Finds Community In The Electric State
[ad_1] What do you do when the world around you is in active collapse? How do you remain awake when the rest of the world would rather live in a dream world? The themes of isolation and societal collapse resonate in both the illustrated novel “Electric State” by Simon Stålenhag (2018) and “Operation Firewall,” the…
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How Jackie Chan Filmed the Best Fight Scene in Cinema Histor…
[ad_1] Though now in his seventies, Jackie Chan continues to appear on the big screen with regularity. For most world-famous actors, that’s hardly notable, but it’s not as if Sir John Gielgud, say, had spent decades filming scenes of hand-to-hand combat and sustaining severe injuries in the performance of elaborate stunts. Viewers of New Police…
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A Better Version of Yourself? Self-Obsession in The Substanc…
[ad_1] Note: This article contains heavy spoilers for The Substance. A Blood-and-Neon Drenched Spectacle “Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? Younger? More beautiful? More perfect?” I expect most women have, at least by the time they hit my age (forty-four). That question is the hook for The Substance (2024), a shocking…
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Why the ‘Virgin Queen’ never married
[ad_1] So she kept everyone waiting and wondering. She seems to have had an instinctive grasp of what we now call PR, and liked to present herself as wholly devoted to her realm. From early in her reign she cultivated the image of the Virgin Queen. In 1559 she declared, in response to MPs asking her to…
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The language that waited at the doorstep
[ad_1] Languages’ similarities are not rooted in a special genetics for language. They follow from culture and common information-processing solutions and have their own individual evolutionary stories. Daniel Everett, How Languages Began Nothing great can be expressed in Belarusian, it is a poor language. There are only two great languages in the world –…