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If you’ve ever pondered what you would say to an alien, you may get that chance between 7:30 and 8 p.m. PT tonight. Tweets in Space is a project to capture 30 minutes worth of tweets with the hashtag #tweetsinspace to beam toward an exoplanet in hopes of messaging any aliens that live there.
over 11 years ago
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So I rewind Netflix, one of life’s more torturous little rituals. Then I squeeze my eyes shut—the better, I believe, to open my ears. Don’t anyone move, I mind-command the empty room. When Stallone speaks again, I’m prepared, my breath held tight. This is what I hear: “In Santo which is warmer but I ain’t got married and I said let me oh I know the girl.”
Goddammit.
Stallone’s a special kind of mumbler, obviously. But this is not some rando-Rambo exception. I find myself rewinding constantly in…
almost 6 years ago
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In the midst of a global pandemic, the genre got a lot more real.
over 3 years ago
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You’ve never heard of him, but your favorite writers have, and his mad-drunk prose will knock you sideways.
about 3 years ago
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This year’s Oscar nominees for best animated feature are safe and childish. But
The Willoughbys—not nominated—will mess you up.
about 3 years ago
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The only people who absolutely disagree are, well, scientists. They need to get over themselves and join the fun.
about 2 years ago
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He’s the biggest fantasy writer in the world. He’s also very Mormon. These things are profoundly related.
about 1 year ago
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God help the babies! Or, absent God, a fertility startup called Orchid. It offers prospective parents a fantastical choice: Have a regular baby or have an Orchid baby. A regular baby might grow up and get cancer. Or be born with a severe intellectual disability. Or go blind. Or become obese. A regular baby might not even make it to childbirth. Any of those things could still happen to an Orchid baby, yes, but the risk, says 29-year-old Noor Siddiqui, plummets if you choose her method. It’s often…
17 days ago