Darth Vader Gone

from The Verge Darth Vader actor David Prowse has died at 85 The 6-foot-6 former bodybuilder played the Star Wars villain in the original trilogy By Kim Lyons David Prowse as the Green Cross Code Man in 1981 Photo by PA Images via Getty Images David Prowse, the actor...

Monolith Returned

from artnet A Mysterious Steel Monolith Was Discovered in the Utah Desert. Is It a Work of Art—or the Work of Aliens? Theories about who or what is behind the object have started circulating online. Cue Also sprach Zarathustra.  A mysterious steel monolith has been...

Maradona Gone

from GOAL Maradona: The making of a footballing legend by Daniel Edwards The Argentine hero celebrated his 60th birthday shortly before his untimely death on Wednesday, and Goal looks back on what made him such an icon  A legend, a man whose every word and...

Mushies Going Mainstream

from The Observer The Hunt For The Other Magic Ingredients In Magic Mushrooms By Chris Roberts Harvesting Mazatec psilocybin mushrooms from their growing tubs May 19, 2019 in Denver, Colorado. Joe Amon/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images In the late...

The Genius of M B-W

from Real Clear Politics Margaret Bourke-White’s True-to-Life Gift By Carl M. Cannon Eighty-four years ago today, a shiny and sophisticated pictorial publication hit the newsstands. The brainchild of Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, two prep school friends who ran...