Before its 2,000-plus videos had been viewed 8 billion times, TED was an annual conference for wealthy eggheads. Starting in February 1984, 1,000 people who could afford to pay $4,000 (and up) would gather in Monterey, California, to hear 18-minute […]
What a week. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against civilians in an attack killed 80 people, many of them children, and President Trump ordered an airstrike in retaliation. Representative Devin Nunes recused himself from the House investigation of […]
On Tuesday, nominees for speculative fiction's highest honor, the Hugo Awards, were announced—and while the shortlist has stoked some controversy recently, this year passed almost entirely without incident. The Best Novel category featured widely praised works by Ada Palmer, Cixin […]
The past year has been good to streaming music services. Spotify recently reached 50 million paying subscribers; Apple Music, while growing more slowly, has more than 20 million. And together, the two platforms have contributed to an unusually robust 2017 […]
Was it only just last week that folks were debating the quality of the first 100 days of the Trump administration? It seems so long ago. Remember those days when everyone wasn't talking about health care? Good times, people. Good […]
Initially, everything about Colossal seems inexplicably, gratuitously absurd. Dancing kaiju, for example. Or drunks controlling city-crushing monsters via psychic link. Or inexplicable portals between Seoul and a small American town. Or Anne Hathaway being involved with any of the above. […]
Syria Civil Defence is a volunteer corps of 3,300 first responders, fighting a losing battle in a devastated nation. You've likely seen its members—known as White Helmets—in photos on social media, carrying dusty, injured children out of bombsites. They've saved […]
I lived in the same house until I was 18. The same house with its faded blue garage door and the dining room window that faced the sun at the hottest part of the day. My family history feels like […]
Click:defoaming performance Listen up, America. You too, snowflakes. After being "banned permanently" from conservative media site The Blaze, Tomi Lahren could lose the very thing that elevated her from small-time PC-culture critic to an omnipresent conservative commentator: her 4.2 million […]
When Red vs. Blue first appeared, it hit the internet right in its sweet spot. Even more impressive was that in 2003, said sweet spot didn't even exist. Years before YouTube, the series of animated shorts— created by combining Halo […]