The Rise of Skywalker is here, and it’s wild! For the Star Wars Blaster Canon podcast analysis this month, we have mixed opinions on the final installment of the main Star Wars saga with its surprising alliances and whether or not the story truly ends here. Saf and Paul enjoyed the film, while Megan has
Month: December 2019
What a century this last decade has been. Seriously, the pace of change over the last 10 years has been steadily rising, and has been somewhere between “dangerous” and “murderous” for the last 3, and that isn’t just about geopolitics: the comics world of today is certainly recognizable to a time traveller from 2010, but
What a difference 10 years make. We kicked off the 2010s with the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii, and we’re ending the decade at the twilight of another generation of platforms. The PC remains a constant in our lives, but we’ll soon be saying goodbye to the era of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox
Comedy television did a lot of growing up in the 2010s. As we kiss goodbye the decade, 2019 was another prime example that the genre continues to take bold creative risks, visually innovate, and push back on the inane idea that “edgy” material has been outlawed in contemporary comedy. This year we saw the fine
To cover and consume popular culture in this era of #PeakContent is to constantly be making choices. This means it is more important now than ever to reflect on the ways in which “best of” lists, just like pop culture itself, are subjective—shaped by a group of people with specific identities, interests, and storytelling sensibilities.
IMAGE: The only peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the field of bioelectricity, publishing ground-breaking research and advances in a multitude of related disciplines. view more Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 30, 2019–The delivery of ultrashort pulses of electrical energy represents a promising nonthermal, nonscarring method of inducing regulated cell death in common
Lost in Space Season 3 has yet to be officially confirmed by Netflix, but the executive producers may have learned something from spending so much time with the always prepared Maureen Robinson. The creative minds behind the show already have a roadmap for the third season planned out. *Caution: Season 2 spoilers ahead* “A big thing
Gene Luen Yang made our Best Comics of 2019 list for Superman Smashes the Klan, and it is an incredible Superman comic. It’s already one of my all-time favorites. I can’t wait for it to wrap and come out in a digest I can pass on to newer readers in my life. But if you factor
A team of scientists from the Research Center “Fundamental Problems of Thermophysics and Mechanics” of the Samara Polytech is engaged in the construction of new mathematical models and the search for methods for their study in relation to a wide range of locally nonequilibrium transport processes in various physical systems. An innovative approach developed not
This Shameless review contains spoilers. Shameless Season 10 Episode 8 “Why would you want to do good?” Shameless season 10 has been rife with change, but “Debbie Might Be A Prostitute” sees many characters wrestling with serious decisions about their futures as they also come to terms with their past. As the episode’s title indicates, Debbie
Van Helsing has been a hidden gem on Syfy for four seasons now, and our reviews over the years have been overwhelmingly positive for this vampire apocalypse show. Although Jonathan Lloyd Walker took over as showrunner in the recently concluded season 4, the series didn’t miss a beat despite a shift in focus to different
This Steven Universe Future review contains spoilers. Steven Universe Future Episode 10 Review Aha, you thought all those Watermelon Steven’s in earlier seasons of Steven Universe were pointless! No no, they were actually all just establishing his ability to create new versions of himself. I’m glad they did because Cactus Steven is without a doubt the show’s best
It’s tricky to pinpoint what would be considered the best Stan Lee stories, because he was a consummate collaborator. Lee was a writer, an idea man, and scripter who worked with some of the greatest storytellers in the business to bring characters to life in tales that were greater than the sum of their parts.
This Star Wars article contains spoilers for The Mandalorian. The Mandalorian ends its eight-episode run of excellent Western-inspired adventures with an action-packed episode that pits Mando and his friends against a new Imperial villain. Moff Gideon has arrived as the show’s big bad, a ruthless Imperial warlord who will stop at nothing to acquire “the asset” (aka Baby Yoda) for
The Mandalorian arrived like a ton of bricks on the heads of Star Wars fans who hoped that the show would fulfill all of their Boba Fett fantasies. What they received was more than even they could have expected. The first season wasted no time in revealing that this homage to spaghetti westerns and samurai
Not since the heyday of Baby Groot has a tiny version of a beloved character captured the hearts in the way that The Child from The Mandalorian has. Granted, he’s not actually a wee version of Yoda (at least, not that we know of yet…but hey, cloning is a thing in the Star Wars universe),
Editor’s Note: This post is updated monthly. Bookmark this page and come back to see what other little-seen classics get added to Amazon Prime. Updated for December 2019. You can see a complete list of Amazon new releases here. Streaming services like Amazon Prime have changed how we watch television forever. Thanks to Amazon and
IMAGE: FESEM images of Y2O3?MgO composite SPS ceramics sintered at 1100 (a), 1200 (b), 1250 (c) and 1300°C (d) view more Credit: FEFU press office Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) teamed up with colleagues from Institute of Chemistry (FEB RAS), Institute for Single Crystals (Ukraine), and Shanghai Institute of Ceramics (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
IMAGE: Researchers at Princeton University have made an important step forward in the quest to build a quantum computer using silicon components, which are prized for their low cost and versatility… view more Credit: Image by Felix Borjans, Princeton University Imagine a world where people could only talk to their next-door neighbor, and messages must be
This Lost in Space season 2 spoiler-free review is based on viewing of all ten episodes. If there’s one thing that can be said about the excellent storytelling in Lost in Space, it’s that it’s remarkably consistent in presenting a danger for the Robinsons to confront through ingenuity and cooperation, in highlighting the importance of
IMAGE: (a) Micrograph of the neuromorphic network fabricated by this research team. The network contains of numerous junctions between nanowires, which operate as synaptic elements. When voltage is applied to the… view more Credit: NIMS An international joint research team led by NIMS succeeded in fabricating a neuromorphic network composed of numerous metallic nanowires. Using this
Rodman Edward Serling (1924-1975), the creator and head writer of the legendary science fiction/fantasy/horror anthology TV series The Twilight Zone, was born in Syracuse, New York (but raised downstate in Binghamton), on Christmas Day. Though raised Jewish, and, according to his daughter Anne Serling (writing in her 2013 memoir, As I Knew Him: My Dad,
Lost in Space is no stranger to cliffhanger endings, and once again this year, the finale of season 2 finds most of the principal characters in dramatic limbo. In addition to the children of the Resolute failing to reach Alpha Centauri and being “lost in space” once again, the Robinson parents and Don West have
This article contains major The Witcher spoilers. You can read a spoiler-free review here instead. The Witcher‘s first season certainly wasn’t all it could be, but the series’ debut did offer a few fascinating moments and intriguing plot threads that suggest better adventures are ahead. It all leads up to an eventful finale filled with chronological confusion, emotional meetings,
IMAGE: Cross-sectional field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) images of the as-prepared Si anode composed of spray-deposited nanoparticles on stainless steel current collector and the anode in the fully charged state…. view more Credit: NIMS A new study led by NIMS researchers reveals that, in solid electrolytes, a Si anode composed only of commercial Si nanoparticles
This Star Wars article contains spoilers for The Mandalorian. The Mandalorian has featured no shortage of baddies for its armor-clad protagonist to contend with, but the season’s penultimate episode might present the Mando’s toughest challenge to date: Moff Gideon, who is played by Giancarlo Esposito. You might recognize Esposito as Gus Fring from Breaking Bad,
e stand at the end of a decade of massive change, and the comics industry is not immune to those shifts. There are more ways to read more comics about more things than ever before. That’s why the best comics of 2019 contains not one, but three Superman books. I’m joking. There are only two
Perhaps it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise, but it looks like the debut of The Witcher on Netflix has caused a large number of players to either return to The Witcher 3 or play it for the first time. A couple of popular websites that chart Steam players across nearly every game
IMAGE: Adam Shaw, Ivaylo Madjarov and Manuel Endres work on their laser-based apparatus at Caltech. view more Credit: Caltech Atomic clocks are used around the world to precisely tell time. Each “tick” of the clock depends on atomic vibrations and their effects on surrounding electromagnetic fields. Standard atomic clocks in use today, based on the atom
IMAGE: Each molecule can be separately addressed with a scanning tunneling microscope and switched between the states by applying a positive or negative voltage. view more Credit: © Jan-Simon von Glasenapp and Rainer Herges Spintronics or spin electronics in contrast to conventional electronics uses the spin of electrons for sensing, information storage, transport, and processing. Potential
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