Megan Fox is set to play an astronaut in upcoming suspense thriller Aurora. The film was announced in Berlin by Arclight Films, which has joined forces with Jordan Gertner (Spring Breakers, The Virgin Suicides) and Toby Gibson (The Lego Movie franchise) to produce and finance the film, directed by…

Fifteen years ago, as I sat in my childhood bedroom in Jerusalem, desperately trying to fit everything I could into two suitcases, my mother (the good Palestinian mother that she is) walked in carryin

From its adoption first by white nationalists, and then by 4chan trolls intent on ‘triggering the libs,’ the well-known hand signal’s use points to deeper concerns. The smirk that almost inevitably accompanies the “OK” sign, that simplest of hand signals, is the dead giveaway in the shroud of…

My day was completely ruined yesterday when I stumbled upon a fun fact that absolutely obliterated my mind. I saw this tweet yesterday that said that not everyone has an internal monologue in their head. All my life, I could hear my voice in my head and speak in full sentences as if I was talking…

It took a while for Gregory Mele to get around to watching The Witcher on Netflix. That’s because, as the founder of Chicago’s only full-time European martial arts school, he spends a lot of time hitting people with heavy metal objects. Now that he’s finally made it to the end of season 1, Polygon…

1. Okay. I wasn’t going to write anything for one simple reason: I know way too many of the Johnson clan at this point for this to be anything but biased blatherings. So there it is. I have no idea wh

My father was forty-five or forty-six when he had a heart attack. This trouble with his heart was surprising, since for all the years we had known him as children his trouble was his stomach and his i

Image by Zappys via Flickr Genetics Chris Long is an IT worker in the Washoe County Sheriff’s Department in Reno, Nevada. But all the DNA in his semen belongs to a German man he's never met. That's because Long received a bone marrow transplant from the European stranger four years ago — and the…

I did not intend to be single in the rural village where I live. I’d moved there with my fiance after taking a good job at the local university. We’d bought a house with room enough for children. Then the wedding was off and I found myself single in a town where the non-student population is 1,236…

I had lived thirty good years before enduring my first food poisoning — odds quite fortunate in the grand scheme of things, but miserably unfortunate in the immediate experience of it. I found myself completely incapacitated to erect the pillars of my daily life — too cognitively foggy to read and…

A growing body of research has discredited the “Queen Bee” myth and even the researchers who coined the term in the 1970’s say they now regret it. All hail the rise of “Otters” (did you know that fema

Midway through the 17th century, Dutch whalers bound for the Arctic noticed that the climate was changing. For decades, they had waited for the retreat of sea ice in late spring, then pursued bowhead whales in bays off the Arctic Ocean islands of Jan Mayen and Spitsbergen. They had set up whaling…

Five thousand miles west of Los Angeles and 500 miles north of the equator, on a far-flung spit of white coral sand in the central Pacific, a massive, aging and weathered concrete dome bobs up and down with the tide. Here in the Marshall Islands, Runit Dome holds more than 3.1 million cubic feet —…

Updated at 9:30 p.m. ET on December 20, 2019. I knew nothing about Cole before meeting him; he was just a name on a list of boys at a private school outside Boston who had volunteered to talk with me

Nearly every mother in Hollywood has a horror story. There was the time screenwriter and showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna was 8½ months pregnant and a studio executive joked, “I guess today would be a bad day to punch you in the stomach.” There was the time Nisha Ganatra, director of the upcoming…

Astrology is a meme, and it’s spreading in that blooming, unfurling way that memes do. On social media, astrologers and astrology-meme machines amass tens or hundreds of thousands of followers, people

When David Fincher’s Fight Club was released 20 years ago, it was a crystal ball that was mistaken for a cultural crisis, much like Do the Right Thing had been a decade earlier and perhaps Joker is now. Film-makers who were trying to identify a violence nesting in the culture were accused of trying…

This is one of those places you go for Instagram. The Manhattan Bridge looms, immediate and substantial, over a cobblestone street, framed on either side by a pair of old brick buildings; if you’re st

By Anonymous November 2, 2019 — 12.00am , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I met Chris* in the pub when I was 17 and he was 24. We chatted all night and when he offered me a lift home, we ended…

Ahead of next week’s Screen Forever conference, Emmy & AACTA award-winning producer turned screen sector executive coach Ellenor Cox summarises her key pitching and networking tips. There’s a famous s

How to Feel Nothing Now, in Order to Feel More Later A day of dopamine fasting in San Francisco. James Sinka, a dopamine faster. This could also be you. Credit... Peter Prato for The New York Times By

September 13, 2019 — 12.00am , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There are eight steps to murder, eight stages that lead to the death of a woman at the hands of her partner. This year alone in…

Phys Ed How Weight Training Changes the Brain In animals, weight training appeared to promote the creation of new neurons in the memory centers of the brain. By July 24, 2019 Weight training may have

I’ve spent almost five years investigating domestic abuse in Australia. Nothing has left me more shocked – or more disturbed – than seeing the harm done to victims by the family law system. I’ll never forget sitting across from Lucy, an 18-year-old who, aged eight, had the courage to tell her school…

Editor's note: This story on weight loss in chess was originally published on Sept. 13, 2019. ONE WEEK IN early March, on a blustery, windswept day, Fabiano Caruana decides to get away. He drives three hours west from his St. Louis apartment over winding gravel roads to reach his destination, a…

Here’s a simple question. It’s Sunday. You order coffee and a simple breakfast—eggs, bacon, toast—at a local diner. The service is efficient, but not memorable. The bill comes, and it’s $10. What’s the tip? $1.50, according to typical online guides for foreign travelers in America $2.00 at least,…

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Last month I texted a friend to ask if she wanted to start a book club with me. “What about a club where we talk about our favourite TikTok memes and viral dances instead?” she suggested. “I always ba

It is 35 years since Sarah Connor and the Terminator’s eyes first met across a dark 80s nightclub, shortly followed by his red laser sight meeting her forehead. They have had their ups and down since: attempting to destroy each other in the first movie; teaming up again seven years later to avert…

A significant Australian proponent of the QAnon conspiracy theory is a family friend of Scott Morrison, and his wife is on the prime minister’s staff. The sprawling, disjointed and incoherent QAnon conspiracy variously claims that Donald Trump is leading a behind-the-scenes fight against a shadowy…

I’m lucky enough to have lived an unencumbered-by-an-offensive-nickname life. That’s not to say that I’ve never had a nickname: I have, but as nicknames go, mine — Sweet Drew — was pretty sweet. As su

In April 1996, Jeffrey R. Smith moved from Florida into my apartment above the Old Print Shop on Lexington Avenue in New York City. I had lived alone for almost 10 years at that point. I cannot say I was living the Carrie Bradshaw life, but I was an independent woman. I loved my job at ABC News, I…

As technology continues to rapidly advance, the state of our privacy is a concern. Going beyond tracking your web browsing, facial recognition algorithms and social surveillance in public places also give privacy advocates pause. Polish designer Ewa Nowak has created a solution for this type of Big…

I should have never gone out with Greg based on how he texted. He sent a message to confirm plans — 8 p.m. at a dive called Birdy’s — and expected a prompt reply. When I was unable to provide one in t

Updated at 4:38 p.m. ET on September 4, 2019. This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Fr

It must be tough to be Ivanka Trump. As the favored daughter of an openly racist president, and as a woman with a nebulous, nepotistic, and unpaid job as a senior adviser to that man, she is uniquely ill-equipped to condemn white supremacy, the very system that has fueled her unlikely rise to power.…

Edmon de Haro Inside a serene natural grocery store in Mill Valley, California, Dr. Jen Gunter is scowling at the women’s health aisle. “What’s wrong with the way the vagina smells?” she scoffs, looki

Val and Martika, in a photo from Michele Pearson Clarke’s “It’s Good to Be Needed” photography project. When Jay MacGillivray was critically ill and in intensive care last year, her daily companions and caregivers in the hospital were mostly her exes – including Joyce Brown, her closest friend and,…

real life Helen Vnuk Contributor - News and Parenting August 18, 2019 Share In 2013, Edith Casas married the man convicted of murdering her identical twin sister. It was not exactly a dream wedding. One of the witnesses was a jail guard. The bride was pelted with rocks and eggs immediately…