Snubs

from IGN Oscar Snubs 2020: All the Major Nominations Missing From the Academy This Year Knives Out, Hustlers, Rocketman and more big snubs. By Jesse Schedeen The 2020 Oscar Nominations have been revealed. While we’re excited to see terrific films like The...

Mining Marianas

from The Atlantic History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable. by  Wil S. Hylton A 3-D model of the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on Earth. Most of what we know about its topography has been gathered...

No More Cowbell – Neil Peart Gone

from The New Yorker THE MISFIT AWESOMENESS OF NEIL PEART AND RUSH By Amanda Petrusich Neil Peart, the lyricist and virtuosic drummer of the Canadian progressive-rock band Rush, died on Tuesday, in Santa Monica, California. He was sixty-seven, and had been fighting...

Medication Nation

from BBC The medications that change who we are By Zaria Gorvett They’ve been linked to road rage, pathological gambling, and complicated acts of fraud. Some make us less neurotic, and others may even shape our social relationships. It turns out many ordinary...

Buck Henry Gone

from DEADLINE Remembering Buck Henry: Al Franken, Judd Apatow, Sarah Silverman, Albert Brooks Join In Praise For Comedy Legend By Bruce Haring UPDATE, with additional reactions Genius, a giant, legendary – those are just some of the words that writers strained to come...