reader comments 47 with 38 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Latest trailer for Space Force. Netflix must be feeling pretty good about Space Force, its forthcoming sci-fi comedy series starring Steve Carell (The Office), because it just released an entertaining second trailer, with over three minutes of mostly new footage. The show marks Carell’s first ..
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reader comments 39 with 31 posters participating, including story author Share this story As sports fans clamor for something—anything—to watch in the wake of public safety closures, video game publishers like EA Sports have enjoyed increased exposure on cable stations like ESPN—where virtual sports are better than no sports at all. This weekend, that didn’t ..
reader comments 2 with 2 posters participating Share this story Entrance to the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy. Jennifer Ouellette “And yet it moves”: Galileo’s index and middle fingers, lovingly preserved. Sean Carroll A closer look at Galileo’s middle finger. Sean Carroll Collection of early telescopes. Sean Carroll A large armillary sphere (1588-1593) built for ..
Enlarge / Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans, circa 1640. reader comments 33 with 21 posters participating Share this story Galileo Galilei famously stood trial for his insistence—based on astronomical observations through his telescopes—that the Copernican model of the Solar System was correct. The Earth revolved around the Sun, not the other way around, ..
Enlarge / This is not an article about Daft Punk remixing or mashing up Jay-Z classics. It’s a photo illustration about machine learning models being applied to famous people’s voices. (But, hey, we’re ready for that Daft Punk + Jay-Z collab over here.) reader comments 55 with 41 posters participating Share this story In late ..
reader comments 27 with 21 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] The trailer for Tooning Out the News The creators of the surreal animated series Tooning Out the News had Rudy Guiliani on the show multiple times during their first week on air. They also had a six-year-old hang up on the former New ..
reader comments 9 with 9 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Sting, Sarah Silverman, Ben Stiller, and the late Carrie Fisher and Anthony Bourdain are among the celebrities interviewed for the new Netflix documentary Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics. Carrie Fisher had a psychedelic-induced encounter with a talking acorn. Grateful Dead drummer ..
reader comments 29 with 24 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] All the relevant tech bits of “The Serenity Now,” translated with Romanian subtitles because that country also loves some good computing. Frank Costanza had always been a visionary: bras for men, holidays for the perpetually annoyed, old TV Guides for hoarders. Maybe you ..
reader comments 22 with 22 posters participating Share this story [embedded content] Teaser for Mythic Quest: Quarantine dropping next week on Apple TV+. With production temporarily halted on so many films and television shows, casts and crews are getting creative about bringing new content to all the people fighting off ennui while sheltering in place. ..
Epic Games reader comments 53 with 34 posters participating, including story author Share this story As longtime users of every PC gaming storefront imaginable, we have opinions about the good, the bad, and the ugly of Epic Games Store. High on our list of “good” is its frequent offers of free and heavily discounted games, ..


