Here come the droids. Yukai Engineering This story is part of CES, where our editors will bring you the latest news and the hottest gadgets of the entirely virtual CES 2021. This year’s all-digital CES is going to be a tough one for everyone involved, but it may be even […]
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Recently returned to Adult Swim, the Afro-retro-futurist-absurdist “Lazor Wulf” was one my favorite shows of 2019, and it shows no signs of being less so in its second season. Arriving as if fully formed from the collective head of creator Henry Bonsu and his writers, animators and voice artists, it […]
Canon Wulf (Ettore “Big E” Ewen), Blazor Wulf (Quinta Brunson), Lazor Wulf (Vince Staples) and King Yeti (Andre Pascoe) get down to business at their favorite diner. (Adult Swim) Recently returned to Adult Swim, the Afro-retro-futurist-absurdist “Lazor Wulf” was one my favorite shows of 2019, and it shows no signs […]
In a public-health crisis that is killing more than 2,200 Americans a day, it is easy enough to meet that burden. It takes a bit more effort to see, as Dr. Srinivasan argues we should, how the very existence of such forced trade-offs constitutes a form of invisible injustice, “a […]
Enlarge / Luckily in 2020, there may be an at-home puzzle for everyone. A few weeks ago, my husband and I broke into a museum. Well, we didn’t break in, exactly. We had keys, so it was more like, you know, a little light trespassing. The keys came from some […]
Photo: Screenshot / VICE World News Damo and Neil both have day jobs. Damo works in an office and Neil is a mechanic. But for the last eight years they’ve been cultivating large amounts of cannabis, hidden in plain sight, next to some of the busiest motorways in England. The pair use […]
Chris Kiple, CEO of Ventec Life Systems, alongside one of the company’s ventilators. (Stuart Isett Photo) To rapidly increase a company’s production 8-fold is daunting. To ramp up 80-fold is almost unimaginable. It’s also what Chris Kiple had to do last spring as CEO of one of the nation’s few […]
“Animaniacs” had been off the air for about a decade when Jess Harnell got an offer to reprise his character for a popular TV series. For five seasons, the actor had voiced Wakko, the Liverpudlian middle child of the ’90s animated sibling trio of Yakko, Wakko and Dot, otherwise known […]
Trent Pheifer is on a mission to cook every Ina Garten recipe — and he’s already made over 1,000 of them. Trent Pheifer/@Storeboughtisfine/Instagram Trent Pheifer is on a mission to cook every single one of Ina Garten’s recipes — and he’s already made over 1,000 of them. Pheifer, who is […]
<p>Cayot’s epic 1983 journey launched a 40-year career devoted to conserving the <a href=”https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>Galápagos Islands</a>. She supervised giant tortoise and land iguana breeding programs; organized campaigns to eradicate invasive species; and coordinated repatriation of tortoises to their native islands. When she began working in the Galápagos, the […]
To the crowd counting down at Cherry Crest Adventure Farm, this weekend’s pumpkin drop was a 1,200-pound splat, a two-second video and a lot of squash guts. To Jim Gerhardt, this was the end for Daddy Pumpkin, a squash he’s nurtured since the early days of the coronavirus. He doesn’t […]
For the first time in four years, and in a move that restores a centuries-old tradition, the White House is set to gain a First Pet. Actually, two. Former Vice President Joe Biden, whose victory in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election was announced on Saturday, and wife Jill Biden have two […]
By Jack Tarrant and Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) – Gymnasts from four nations gathered in Tokyo on Sunday for a friendly meet aimed at helping to prove Japan can safely host the postponed 2020 Olympics even in an era of coronavirus. Thirty gymnasts from Japan, the United States, China and […]
Sacha Baron Cohen; Maria Bakalova Amazon Studios (screengrab) The full title of Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie is Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and it would be an understatement to say that this, his followup to his insane […]
Back in the late 80s, Wall Street trader and entrepreneur Mike “Zappy” Zapolin, sniffed out how potentially profitable registering internet domain names could be for scaling businesses. Except, most companies he approached with this idea thought he was simply crazy. “Oh, we have brochures,” they told him. “What do we […]