Photo: Reinhard Krull / EyeEm/Getty Images This essay contains graphic descriptions of murder, sexual violence, and racist language used online. When I graduated from college, I moved to Taipei to tea
Participation in physical activity is important for all students. However, common school sports such as football, volleyball and soccer can sideline students who aren’t interested in or passionate abo
It seems counterintuitive. That in a country as rich as ours, and with a world-class health system, 50 per cent of Australians now live with chronic disease. Now, it's easy to think this is a failure of individual will power, on a macro scale, but consider this. If I had a class of 30 students and…
Watch a recording of the web event from January 14, 2021 for a discussion about Gilman’s experiences on St. Matthew Island. St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska. Marooned in the Bering Sea halfway to Siberia, it is well over 300 kilometers and a 24-hour ship ride from the…
This story was originally published on the Hobby Drama subreddit. We commissioned the author to republish it here with minor edits. “Unto you is charged the great task of keeping the purity of time. Know that there is only one true timeline, though there are those who would have it otherwise. You…
How PlayStation and club culture forever changed gaming’s image The story of how a sustained PlayStation marketing campaign would forever shift the public perception of gaming. 24 Jun 2022 Culture Ima
By Virginia Hughes In 2013, Bill Gates admitted ctrl+alt+del was a mistake and blamed IBM. Here's the story of how the key combination became famous in the first place. In the spring of 1981, David Bradley was part of a select team working from a nondescript office building in Boca Raton, Fla. His…
The New Yorker Interview The director on conquering fear, ignoring his critics, and the pleasures of rebooting “Halloween.” August 28, 2022 Illustration by Nicholas Konrad / The New Yorker “Sir, please put the phone down I beg you,” Jordan Peele tweeted this past July, at a fan who’d suggested that…
The chaos of authenticity 'The conditions under which storytelling exists in so-called Australia is dismal. Very little funding trickles down to marginalised communities.' 17 Nov 2022 14:01 All Screen Naavikaran. Image: supplied. Content note: This article consists of some explicit mentions of First…
To listen to this profile, click the play button below: After James Cameron’s Avatar came out in 2009 and made $2.7 billion, the director found the deepest point that exists in all of earth’s oceans and, in time, he dove to it. When Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, a couple of…
We are living, we’re told, through a “mental health crisis”. Mental health services cannot cope with the explosion of demand over the past two years: 1.6 million people are on waiting lists, while another 8 million need help but can’t even get on these lists. Even children are showing up at A&E in…
1. I am currently, somewhat embarrassedly, fascinated by two recent modes of stylized proselytizing that are, despite some surface differences, both alike in how they each operate. Both come out of a traditionally religious view of existential struggle. Both are (paradoxically) contrarian by design.…
In a fit of nostalgia, I recently watched Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001). Though I’d seen the film years before, I noticed this time that the plot turns on an Asian woman: Mark’s Japanese ex-wife, the thorny source of his and Daniel’s decades-long conflict. Yet she is both nameless and faceless: The…
[Editor’s note: This article has drawn global attention and stirred debate. The author has written a followup, providing additional context and addressing critics.] “If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft…
Spock: “Youare proposing I better balance my Human and Vulcan natures?” Dr Aspen: “I’msaying, maybe you’re neither.” Spock: “Thatis nonsensical. If I’m not Human or Vulcan, what am I?” Dr Aspen: “Imea
KNITTING A flying saucer, a malevolent creature swallowing humans while hardly sighted, a monster whose fatal weakness is discovered almost by chance and then exploited to great effect. Nope has, with
News By some measures, it’s boom time in Australia’s film industry. But claims of inconsistency and lack of transparency around how Screen Australia administers its producer offset are undermining sma
Remember when former Morrison government minister Stuart Robert lashed out at “dud” teachers? In March, the then acting education minister said the “bottom 10%” of teachers “can’t read and write” and blamed them for declining academic results. This is more than just a sensational headline or…
Maybe you’ve heard that people are mad about Black actors being cast in Lord of the Rings. Or Game of Thrones. Or maybe it was Star Wars. Or perhaps Thor. Wait, maybe it was Titans, or Superman. The Witcher? Or maybe you heard that people are angry that Black Panther got made in the first place,…
Last month I found myself thinking, as one does, about lightsabres — my lightsabre, more specifically; well, one of my lightsabres, to be more specific still, since I’ve owned several. Those who rolled around with me back when the prequel trilogy was coming out — an era of peace unrivalled in Star…
People might be confused about how a Republican Party that once worried about government overreach now seeks to control medical care for transgender children and retaliate against a corporation for ob
During the winter of 1944, the Nazis blocked food supplies to the western Netherlands, creating a period of widespread famine and devastation. The impact of starvation on expectant mothers produced one of the first known epigenetic "experiments" -- changes resulting from external rather than genetic…
Andrew Serazin 5 min read· Feb 25, 2020 -- Funders and researchers should embrace open science principles in their pursuit of scientific breakthroughs. This article was written in collaboration with Dawid Potgieter. One of the best known social science experiments is the “Stanford marshmallow…
Not only that, but the streaming giant also cancelled many in-house animated projects, including an adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Twits. A highly-anticipated animated series based on Jeff Smith's beloved comic book series Bone, plus Lauren Faust's Toil and Trouble, were other productions…
” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Click here to listen to the trailer for his new podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life. As an economist, I’ve heard plenty of complex explanations for Karl Marx’s famous opposition to…
Red Dead Online is the kind of multiplayer experience that was screaming for a role-playing community from day one. Rockstar's open world western is all about soaking up the minute details of the frontiersman lifestyle, right down to the nitty gritty of sharpening every bullet with your knife at a…
I don't react well to being told what to say and what not to say. I think a lot of my personal choices have come out of an immature response to those stimuli. But it's a reflexive action I'm reluctant to train myself out of. Firstly: Happy new year. 2022, we made it, etc etc. Actually, scratch that.…
Star System With Right-Angled Planets Surprises Astronomers Two planets orbit the poles while another revolves around the star’s equator, suggesting a mysterious, undetected force. An artist’s concept
It’s deja vu, yet again. The pandemic first hit Europe in March 2020, and Americans were in denial, thinking it wouldn’t happen here. Then, later in the year, the Alpha variant wave took hold in the United Kingdom and the United States was unprepared. This recurred with Delta in the summer of 2021.…
Dear friend, You ask about the ceremony. It was last week. I wore a pretty white cotton dress – my sister’s Lavinia’s. (You understand how the mind dawdles on the path of time, how I must run to catch up with “now”.) I woke before dawn – lazy girl, this cruel, white spring – and washed myself…
Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 masterpiece (that I, embarrassingly, had not seen until recently) is just under three and a half hours long. But it doesn’t feel long. And this is something I’ve been noticing more and more over the last year and a half – to the point I’ve been having trouble…
Animals Getty Stock Images The study paired cats with their owners to test their attachment styles. A new study shows that cats may be just as affectionate as dogs. The study, which was published in Current Biology, found that pet cats also have distinct attachment styles toward their owners in the…
In the current mainstream movie environment, auteurs wanting to scale up—such as ‘Eternals’ director Chloé Zhao—have little recourse but to find ways to fit into this world, however constrictive By • - There’s something askew in Thor, the 2011 film that introduced Marvel Comics’ long-running Norse…
There are no goodies in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. None. Especially not the Imperium of Man. Its numberless legions of soldiers and zealots bludgeon their way across the galaxy, delivering death to anyone and anything that doesn’t adhere to their blinkered view of purity. Almost every man and…
The need for a longer-term recovery strategy from the Covid-19 pandemic provided a critical opportunity for genuine reform of key areas of public policy that have been neglected and left to drift, in some cases for decades, by the short-term pointscoring and blame-shifting game we call our politics.…
Claudia*, a sailor from Lichfield in her late 30s, is not Italian. She has never been to Italy. She has no Italian family or friends. And she has no idea why a belligerent Italian couple have taken over her inner voice, duking it out in Claudia’s brain while she sits back and listens. “I have no…
Brazil, the world’s largest coffee producer, was hit by a historic frost in July 2021. Temperatures in coffee fields dropped below zero and the beans became encased in ice. The cold snap came right after the worst drought the country had seen in almost a century, which had already weakened the…
Credit...Photo illustration by Pablo Delcan The Great Read Art often draws inspiration from life — but what happens when it’s your life? Inside the curious case of Dawn Dorland v. Sonya Larson. Credit...Photo illustration by Pablo Delcan By Published Oct. 5, 2021Updated June 15, 2023 Listen to This…
Enlarge / Scientists tracked cat genetics partly by studying the evolution of the "blotched tabby," pictured here in excruciatingly cute detail. Anne People who live with cats like to joke about how t
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