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Can You Get Actually Swallowed By A Whale? Here’s The Real Science Behind Whalefall
Austin Abrams is having a challenging year. After stumbling into this September’s Raccoon City outbreak, he’s now been swallowed alive by a whale. Whalefall, based on Daniel Kraus’ 2023 novel, sees a young man named Jay Gardiner go scuba diving to recover his father’s body, only to get entangled with a giant squid as it’s eaten by a sperm whale. Trapped in the whale’s stomach, Gardiner must find a way out before he asphyxiates.
Can You Get Actually Swallowed By A Whale? Here’s The Real Science Behind Whalefall
Now By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN El Niño is coming — and likely a record-breaking “super” version at that. But what, exactly, does the weather phenomenon’s arrival mean? These are the six things about El Niño that meteorologists and climate scientists want you to know. Here’s what else you need …
A Half-Century Later, Marathon Man Is Still More Than Its Most Infamous Quote
Only a handful of movies are iconic enough to not only be known for a single line, but for a line that can instantly place us back in a moment that inspired awe, hilarity, or terror. “Use the Force,” “You’re gonna need a bigger boat,” “They’re here,” “It’s Morbin’ time”… even though we probably first heard them out of context, we still know where we were and what we felt when we witnessed them on screen.
An American Werewolf In London Just Got A 4K Upgrade
It was considered newsworthy when Zach Cregger revealed he’d cut jokes from Resident Evil after test screenings, even though the film’s final version isn’t exactly lacking for gags. Horror and comedy are natural bedfellows, and their relationship has become so committed that it’s unusual to see horror in theaters without at least a couple of lighter moments easing the tension.
Blue Jays, Maple Leafs eliminated from playoffs
TORONTO — With the 2026 MLB season nearly over and the 2026-27 NHL season about to begin, the Toronto Blue Jays and Toronto Maple Leafs have been eliminated from playoff contention. “It’s sad to see the Blue Jays bow out, but at least now I can turn my full attention to the hope and optimism that a fresh Maple Leafs season brings,” said one Toronto sports fan.
FDECo launches applied AI consultancy built around Forward Deployed Engineers
FDECo launches applied AI consultancy built around Forward Deployed Engineers New applied AI consultancy combines embedded Forward Deployed Engineers with end-to-end delivery to help organizations turn AI investment into measurable value.
5 Years Later, Foundation Is Apple’s Most Important TV Show
Like the television channels that preceded them, today’s streaming platforms have earned reputations based on the content they host and create. Disney+ is for Marvel and Star Wars fans, HBO is Thrones-town, and Paramount+ is where you go if you need to watch Star Trek and Taylor Sheridan shows for the rest of your life. And if you like sci-fi but are too hip for Jedi and Klingons, then Apple TV is probably your best bet.
Reflections on collective consciousness; Remembering the mental health impact of 9/11
The recent celebration of the 25th anniversary of 9/11 gave many of us the opportunity to recall where you were and how this major community trauma was shared by the entire world. For me, it was watching live with a group of teenagers and staff as the second plane crashed into the twin towers. It literally shook me to my core and changed our whole planet especially as it applied to air travel and world security.
15 Years Later, Drive Is Still Gorgeous, Subversive, And Brutal
Most action heroes don’t have much of an inner life, as moviegoers aren’t paying good money to watch James Bond contemplate the nature of his existence beyond concluding which secret base he needs to blow up to perpetuate it. Sure, John Wick misses his wife and dog, and Ethan Hunt likes a little recreational mountain climbing, but it’s hard to separate any of these people from their raison d’etre of piling up bodies for our amusement.
The Weirdest Horror Sci-Fi Of The 2010s Just Got A Huge Upgrade
Alex Garland is fresh off writing back-to-back acclaimed horror movies in 28 Years Later and its follow-up, The Bone Temple, and his near quarter-century of experience in genre film has earned him the director’s chair for 2028’s Elden Ring.
The Weirdest Horror Sci-Fi Of The 2010s Just Got A Huge Upgrade
Money 3 hours ago Woman Racks Up $40K in Credit Card Debt After Losing Job on Vacation, Then Takes Risky Approach to Pay it Off (Exclusive) People - Tereza Shkurtaj • 3h When Hailey Wilson left for a months-long trip through Europe in May 2025, she had no idea the journey would eventually force her to rethink everything she knew about money.
5 Star Trek technologies that came true
According to everything from Blade Runner to A Space Odyssey , we should already be zooming home from work in our flying cars, where robot butlers will serve us as we plan our next getaway to an orbiting Hilton. Trying to seriously predict the future is a losing battle, and for every supposedly eerie prophecy in fiction, dozens of stories have portrayed technological miracles or all-consuming apocalypses that never came to pass.
5 Star Trek Technologies That Predicted The Future
According to everything from Blade Runner to A Space Odyssey, we should already be zooming home from work in our flying cars, where robot butlers will serve us as we plan our next getaway to an orbiting Hilton. Trying to seriously predict the future is a losing battle, and for every supposedly eerie prophecy in fiction, dozens of stories have portrayed technological miracles or all-consuming apocalypses that never came to pass.
5 Years Later, The Card Counter Remains Crucially Insightful
IMDb’s “World War II Movies: The Ultimate List” offers impressive breadth across its 179 films, yet it still only represents a vanishing fraction of the thousands of WWII movies that have been made. The moral quagmire that was Vietnam inspired a good hundred or so notable movies, and even Korea, supposedly America’s forgotten war, gave us a steady stream of dramas in the 1950s and ‘60s, to say nothing of the cultural institution that was M*A*S*H.
5 Years Later, The Card Counter Remains Crucially Insightful
entertainment news 19 hours ago Paul Schrader Clarifies He’s Using AI for Next Film Because No ‘Bankable’ Actors Would Sign On MovieMaker Magazine - Tim Molloy • 19h After he was criticized for a report that he plans to use AI for a new film because “no Black actors” would sign on, Paul Schrader is clarifying that … entertainment news 1 day ago Paul Schrader just going to let AI do his racist movie for him The A.V. Club - Matt Schimkowitz • 1d Bemoaning that "no Black actors" wanted to be in...
The 60 Most Important Star Trek Stories Of All Time
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The following is not another “best of” list ranking the absolute greatest Star Trek episodes and movies of all time. No, there are plenty of those. Instead, this is a list ranking the 60 most important Star Trek stories ever. But what, exactly, defines importance? Briefly, this is the thinking: If any one episode changed science fiction on TV, it’s important. If a movie or book changed the history of Star Trek itself, it’s important. If a piece of fanfic changed culture at large, it’s important.
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The 60 Most Important Star Trek Stories Of All Time
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2 hours ago "It's a bolder shape than we usually see her reach for," Nilesh Rakholia tells 'Marie Claire.' September 8 marked Prince George's first day at Eton College, but it was also a major milestone for Prince William and Princess Kate, who are sending their first child off to boarding school. What do you …
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The Infamously Confusing Big Sleep Is Still An All-Time Classic
Directors and fans alike dream of seeing their passion projects made with unlimited budgets, but constraints often place valuable boundaries on creative minds that otherwise threaten to run off the rails. Knowing what you can’t do lets you focus on what you can accomplish — and would Star Trek be quite as iconic if it hadn’t invented the transporter to save time and money? The Big Sleep wasn’t limited by money when it hit theaters 80 years ago today, but it did have a strict moral budget.
The Infamously Confusing Big Sleep Is Still An All-Time Classic
5 days ago Would-be writers are always advised to “write what you know.” But when what you know is informed by a lifetime of living life adjacent to a city’s roughest gangs, of promising starts and heartbreaking stops, crushing losses and amazing recoveries, what comes out on the page could be a mess. Or a …
Multiverse Stories Are All The Rage. The Theoretical Science Behind Them Is Even Stranger
In Season 1 of Dark Matter, college physics professor Jason Dessen encounters a surprising nemesis: himself. Apple’s sci-fi series sees Dessen kidnapped and sent to an alternate reality, one where he’s a famous but lonely research lab co-founder rather than a family man stuck in a dead-end job. Dark Matter Season 2 is now underway on Apple TV, and that multiverse is expanding in surprising ways.
Multiverse Stories Are All The Rage. The Theoretical Science Behind Them Is Even Stranger
5 hours ago NASA’s newest flagship space observatory is finally on its way. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off at 7:26am EDT on Sunday, Aug. 30, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, beginning a mission astronomers hope will transform our understanding of the …
The retention problem nobody's watching in a recovery
Every carrier right now is fighting the same battle: Costs are climbing, rates are finally moving in your favor, and the math only works if you execute cleanly. Chase the better loads. Tighten dispatch. Squeeze every point of margin back out of freight that's finally worth hauling. Here's what most fleet owners are missing while they're locked onto that fight: The fastest way to lose margin right now isn't a bad lane decision. It's a driver walking out the door. That should sound wrong.
Steven Spielberg’s Wild New Sci-Fi Movie Just Got A Huge Upgrade
After a long and mysterious marketing campaign that revolved around Emily Blunt’s meteorologist making guttural noises, Disclosure Day has come and gone from theaters. And whether you missed it amid a crowded summer release schedule or liked it so much that you want to see it again, Steven Spielberg’s latest already has a 4K Blu-ray release from Universal Pictures.
30 years ago, an infamous sci-fi debacle ended two legendary careers
Mark Hill While The Odyssey just reminded us that some stories are timeless, it's very much an exception to the rule. The work of nearly every writer, actor, and director has a lifespan, and most of those lifespans aren't much longer than those of their creators. Even Christopher Nolan had to reimagine The Odyssey for a contemporary audience , and one day, his approach will look old-fashioned too.
30 Years Ago, The Island Of Dr. Moreau Ended Two Legendary Careers
While The Odyssey just reminded us that some stories are timeless, it’s very much an exception to the rule. The work of nearly every writer, actor, and director has a lifespan, and most of those lifespans aren’t much longer than those of their creators. Even Christopher Nolan had to reimagine The Odyssey for a contemporary audience, and one day, his approach will look old-fashioned too.
30 Years Ago, The Island Of Dr. Moreau Ended Two Legendary Careers
Caribbean Travel 6 hours ago A Teen Was Attacked by a Barracuda in Shallow Water on a Caribbean Vacation—and Experts Say This May Have Triggered It Travel + Leisure • 6h Claire Macdonel, a 13-year-old aspiring marine biologist, told local news she isn’t letting the incident detract from her career goals. In July, Claire Macdonel, 13, was splashing in clear-blue ocean water on a family trip to Turks and Caicos when a barracuda bit her left hand. The teen—from Sugar …
Tariff talks that you assumed already collapsed collapse
OTTAWA — Minutes before President Trump’s midnight deadline, tariff talks between Canada and the United States that you assumed failed weeks ago failed. Prime Minister Carney addressed the nation this morning, explaining how the trade talks that all Canadians had understandably assumed were concluded “way back before the new Spider-Man was in theatres” had in fact only been torpedoed by the Trump Administration late last night.
35 Years Later, Barton Fink Has Freakish New Relevance
More than any other subject matter, writers writing about writing can veer off into navel-gazing irrelevance. The world doesn’t need more stories about 20-something Brooklynites trying to make it with only a pen and a dream, unless those stories are bold enough to throw some evil robots in at the halfway mark.
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EDMONTON - Academics studying Alberta separatism are concerned that the province's upcoming referendum could be swayed by other countries, or anything else capable of capturing the half-second attention span of separatist voters.
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes Remains The Century’s Strangest Franchise Starter
The Planet of the Apes is simultaneously a classic of science fiction and a relic of the decade that produced it. While influential and well-regarded, the 1968 film is likely better known to at least one generation as the source material of a Simpsons parody that mocked its hokey premise and overwrought acting. That the franchise had last produced a lousy fourth sequel in 1973 and a bizarre 2001 reboot made the decision to not only re-reboot it, but start with a prequel, tolerable — even logical.
15 Years Later, Every Blockbuster Is Playing Cowboys & Aliens Now
The Mandalorian and Grogu’s inability to make an impact at the box office has raised all sorts of questions. Is Star Wars no longer a tentpole franchise? What does its failure mean for franchise filmmaking as a whole? Why did all of Jeremy Allen White’s lines sound like they were recorded while he was half-asleep? These are big questions, but we should have seen this debacle coming long before we started asking them.
15 Years Later, Every Blockbuster Is Playing Cowboys & Aliens Now
2 hours ago Size, space and utility have made the three-row SUV a mainstay of American family life. But with more than dozen mainstream models on the market, choosing one can feel daunting. Thankfully, Edmunds has tested them all and identified the five best midsize three-row SUVs. From the top-ranked Hyundai …
40 Years Later, Maximum Overdrive Has Aged Like Fine Milk
Sarah J. Maas has sold over 75 million books, yet no one has offered the romantasy stalwart $27 million to make the movie of her dreams while she gets trashed out of her mind on wine coolers. That may sound obvious, given that Hollywood studios should laugh you out of the room for suggesting that someone with no directing experience be given that kind of budget no matter how popular they are on TikTok.
Star Trek Just Murdered The Dinosaurs, But What’s The Real Science?
The Season 4 premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds opens with a new take on a very old event. After a mishap sends the Enterprise 65 million years into the past, the crew tries to mediate a conflict between two species who call our solar system home. But time travel is a funny thing, and our heroes can’t stop the affair from escalating until one species has been annihilated and a chunk of their planet is hurdling towards the Earth.
Star Trek Just Murdered The Dinosaurs, But What’s The Real Science?
Science Now DNA on the Shroud of Turin reveals plant, animal and human contaminants chemistryworld.com - Philip Ball • 21m Maybe the Shroud of Turin fascinates me so much because I was an editor at Nature when the journal published the supposedly definitive radiocarbon … Culture 5 hours ago Map of the Magellan–Elcano Voyage, 1519–1522: The First Recorded Circumnavigation of the World worldhistory.org - Simeon Netchev • 5h Simeon Netchev Simeon is a freelance visual designer and history...
15 Years Later, Another Earth Still Offers A Clever Twist On The Parallel Universe
We’ve been speculating about extraterrestrial life for nearly as long as we’ve been studying the stars, so it would certainly be convenient if proof suddenly appeared out of thin air. When this happens in a movie, it’s usually dramatic and definitive — aliens appear to conquer us, or work with us, or maybe just seek our help getting home. But every now and then, science fiction uses alien life to further muddy the waters and question our assumptions about our little place in the cosmos.
15 Years Later, Another Earth Still Offers A Clever Twist On The Parallel Universe
World News 13 hours ago Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in Miami, US Marshals Service tells AP Associated Press - By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER • 13h Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, whose social media empire promoting wealth, male dominance and misogyny has made them among the world’s most polarizing internet personalities, were arrested Saturday in Miami as British authorities sought their extradition on rape and sex trafficking …
Small creatures tell big stories about stream health
STARKVILLE — On a hot July day, a shallow creek can look quiet from the bank. Water moves over rocks and around roots, stirring patches of sand and leaves. But just under the surface, there is often a whole world going about its business. Turn over a submerged rock, sift through a wad of leaves, or look closely along the streambed, and you may find small insects, snails, worms, crawfish and other animals moving through the water. Some may be familiar.
Small creatures tell big stories about stream health
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Small creatures tell big stories about stream health
STARKVILLE – On a hot July day, a shallow creek can look quiet from the bank. Water moves over rocks and around roots, stirring patches of sand and leaves. But just under the surface, there is often a whole world going about its business. Turn over a submerged rock, sift through a wad of leaves, or look closely along the streambed, and you may find small insects, snails, worms, crawfish and other animals moving through the water. Some may be familiar.
25 Years Ago, The Spirits Within Banked On The Wrong Gimmick
Thanks to a fusillade of PR gibberish, major media outlets will spend the coming months pretending that so-called “AI actress” Tilly Norwood is a real phenomenon, not an exhausting stunt that will flame out after no one wants to watch a rom-com starring a dead-eyed automaton. And while the production company beyond Norwood is trying to present its creation as cutting-edge, it's actually a quarter-century behind the times.
25 Years Ago, The Spirits Within Banked On The Wrong Gimmick
25 Years Ago, The Spirits Within Banked On The Wrong Gimmick Pour one out for Aki Ross. Thanks to a fusillade of PR gibberish, major media outlets will spend the coming months pretending that so-called “AI …
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
This past Fourth of July extended celebration of our nation’s 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, has given me pause to reflect on the key words of the decree – “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal with certain inalienable rights that include Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Think what that means over the past 2.5 centuries for those with severe mental health challenges and how they were treated.
The Most Underrated Phillip K. Dick Thriller Remains Eerily Timely
It’s become so trite to point out Philip K. Dick’s legendary impact on Hollywood sci-fi that it’s easy to forget just how remarkable it really was. From Blade Runnerand The Man in the High Castleto Minority Report and the legendary Cortical Impasse, Dick’s prolific fiction output put his fingerprints all over modern media. And for a man who’s been dead for nearly half a century, his ideas sometimes feel remarkably prescient.
Amazon Should Learn From The Most Mediocre Bond Movie
It’s a long-running joke that a franchise starved for ideas should go to space, but that meme didn’t emerge from a, well, vacuum. Fast 9 did it, Jason X did it, and Moonraker, the 11th canonical James Bond movie, did it all the way back in 1979. Apparently, a franchise’s 10th installment is around when the midlife crisis develops. Moonraker was an expensive special effects bonanza that made money hand over fist, but it divided critics and has enjoyed precious little reevaluation since its release.
Danielle Smith offers Albertans $100 rebates after spinning giant policy wheel again
EDMONTON — Premier Danielle Smith has announced that many Albertans will receive a $100 energy rebate after listening to her closest advisor, a big wheel of policy ideas she keeps in her office closet. “Albertans are financially stressed, politically divided, and dissatisfied with my leadership, so I spun the wheel and decided that you should all go out and buy yourselves a little something,” Smith said.
30 Years Later, This Deep Space Nine Season Finale Remains A Brilliant Gut Punch
When Star Trek: Strange New Worlds debuted in 2022, it was sold as a delightful throwback to the days when one week’s adventure had little bearing on what happened next. Once the standard method of storytelling for most television, the streaming era’s move to shorter seasons and the binge-watching model has made serialized stories the norm.
30 Years Later, This Deep Space Nine Season Finale Remains A Brilliant Gut Punch
Bunnie Xo 4 hours ago Bunnie Xo Says Jelly Roll Had 'Low Sperm Count' During IVF, Medication Turned Him 'into a Freaking Nightmare' People - Ingrid Vasquez • 4h Bunnie Xo is sharing new details about her IVF journey with Jelly Roll after news of their divorce was made public.
Disclosure Day Wouldn’t Exist Without The Infamous Roswell Incident
The marketing for Disclosure Day has been unusually cagey, and if you haven’t had the chance to catch Steven Spielberg’s new alien movie yet, we won’t spoil it here. As the name implies, though, Spielberg’s latest sci-fi involves American officials keeping secrets about extraterrestrial life, and those secrets date back to the 1947 Roswell incident. Roswell wasn’t modern America’s first UFO claim, but it’s the one now woven into the country’s mythos.
Disclosure Day Wouldn’t Exist Without The Infamous Roswell Incident
7 hours ago “He comes to a fitting, almost like a student,” says Jason Bolden of his client, Josh O’Connor. The British actor has been steadily rolling out hit after hit of looks across the press tour for his sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day, buoyed by all the colors and louche shapes summer has to offer—plus a …
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