Dylan Callaghan

Scholar Peer — Robert Boatright reads the Showa era Godzilla films of 1954 to 1975 against the first Trump presidency and its aftermath, mapping Liz Cheney onto Mothra and Ron DeSantis onto Mechagodzilla, and calls the exercise exploratory rather than settled.

Scholar Peer — An Echelon/Rockefeller survey of 2,000 voters found eight in ten prefer fixing foreign aid to killing it - including the survey's most skeptical Trump-aligned voters. What most opposition rested on, the data suggest, was a wild overestimate of the cost: people guess 20 percent; it's one.

Written By — Screenwriting team Alfred Gough and Miles Millar discuss their journey from Wednesday to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

Scholar Peer — Thirty years after a study on proportions, Barbie Doll's Body has become more average, while Ken's waist has barely changed.

Written By — Journalist-turned-showrunner Amy Chozick writes without fear.

University of Southern California — The USC Street Medicine program has hit multiple new milestones to start 2024, notching 1,000 patient visits in January for the first time ever while also expanding from what was once a nascent program, with only one full-time employee, to one that now deploys five fully-staffed teams providing health care to people who are unhoused throughout the city of Los Angeles.

Simon and Schuster — Script Tease by Dylan Callaghan - The Newest Screenwriting Secrets. What do an erstwhile stripper, an ex-gambling addict, and a stoned Canadian teenager have in common?

Scholar Peer — Across 13 experiments and nearly 8,000 trials, four leading AI models read character from faces the way humans do, favoring competent-looking candidates for real jobs and casting suspicion on untrustworthy-looking strangers. Newer models showed more bias, not less.