Best Supporting City

from the Los Angeles Times How L.A. stopped being Hollywood’s leading star by Stacy Perman It was a television show tailor made for Los Angeles: a highly anticipated Netflix crime drama about a team of ex-special forces operators who outsource their skills to...

Mo’ Veggies

from Science Alert The World’s Vegetables Are Vanishing, And It’s Quietly Wrecking Our Diets By JESS COCKERILL Most of us aren’t eating anywhere near enough vegetables, and we’re suffering the health consequences. Meanwhile, we’re also...

Double Nickels On the Dime

from PASTE Magazine Minutemen proved destined for punk-rock greatness on Double Nickels On the Dime Time Capsule: The San Pedro trio’s classic 1984 double album is among the genre’s greatest feats, one that’s impossible to replicate or overrate.  By Abby...

GD01

from TIME Magazine The Robots Cometh by Charlie Campbell Spectators typically leave a UFC fight with ringing ears and a sheepish resolve to get back to the gym. Wang Xingxing went straight to his laboratory.  “I thought I could make a bigger robot for boxing...

Bye-bye Books?

from The Atlantic THE END OF READING IS HERE Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history. By Rose Horowitch Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Wordsworth Editions....