Tom McKay

The Week of May 3, 2021  FYI: Science Policy News

Prepare for things to get spooky in The Emperor’s Own, a story-driven adventure game set in an alternate-19th-century Russian Empire.

Filming starts on series two of Jerk - Tim Renkow’s BBC comedy is coming back

If you’re in Texas, it sure would be nice to get away. One of state’s senators appeared to do just that; Ted Cruz was photographed flying to Cancún on Wednesday. After the pics went viral, Cruz explained that he wasn’t on vacation, though—he was just a “good dad.”

A collection of useful tools, gauges, widgets, and curated articles. If you set the time machine correctly, today should be . TODAY — Increasing clouds, with a high near 72. South wind 3 to 7 mph.TONIGHT — Mostly cloudy, with a low around 49. South wind 3 to 5 mph.MAÑANA — Mostly sunny, with a high …

Dolph Lundgren, Danny Trejo and Charlie Sheen are all cited in a recent report

It’s not exactly a secret that Elon Musk, billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, self-proclaimed Thai pedophilia expert, and designer of death race trucks, doesn’t give a flying fuck what other people think about his actions.

Also, is Howard Stern heading to Spotify?

As the sun shines around Southcentral Alaska (sorry Southeast) we are all trying hard to enjoy the tail end of summer. The 2020 primary election is just two days away! Make sure to tune into our virtual Election Central Tuesday

It’s almost August, which means the August 18 primary is just over three weeks away. Because of COVID, a lot of Alaskans will be voting by absentee this year. The weather today in Anchorage has been amazing, but not so

The Flowbee, a home hair-cutting gadget from the ’90s is making a comeback mid-pandemic. Tom McKay, a staff writer at Gizmodo, told As It Happens that a pair of hair-clippers attached to a vacuum cleaner is probably not going to give people the quarantine-look they’re after.

When Joe is released on license for a crime he didn’t commit, he strikes up a romance with Lisa - for it to be cut short. Read more.

Sleep deprivation is a prevalent problem in modern America, with most people experiencing some level of regular disruption to their sleep schedule. A combination of highly demanding jobs, constant stimulation and 24/7 everything has made skipped…

Virginia State Police arrested a soldier from the National Guard base at Fort Pickett in Blackstone on Tuesday after they fled in a stolen armored vehicle, WTVR reports, leading cops on what appears to have been about as close to a high-speed chase the trooper could achieve at the vehicle’s maximum …

2018 has been a stellar year for video games so far, and there have been some impressive performances to go along with that. Here are the best voice actors of Q1 2018.

Kalashnikov Concern, the Russian arms manufacturer best known for its eponymous line of rifles used by militaries and militants alike the world over, has developed a new riot control vehicle which looks like something straight out of a dystopian hellscape, but is unfortunately extremely real.

A team of civilian researchers has discovered the wreck of the USS Indianapolis, a US Navy cruiser which Imperial Japanese forces sunk in July 1945 to the loss of nearly three quarters of its crew.

Alan Futerfas, the lawyer secured by Donald Trump Jr. to defend himself after the New York Times reported he met with a Russian to obtain Kremlin dirt on Hillary Clinton, boasts among his prior clients members of organized crime…

Before it made it to President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, a version of the now-infamous video of the leader beating a man with the CNN logo transplanted over his face wound its way through Reddit. A slightly different edit of the GIF was…

Tens of thousands jubilant marchers and an even greater number of onlookers took to the streets of New York Sunday for the 48th NYC LGBTQ Pride March, celebrating their identities and protesting attacks on LGBTQ rights. Here are eight of the biggest…