It was mid-October 1796 when Alexander Hamilton released the first in a string of scathing essays about political opponent Thomas Jefferson. By this point in early United States history, George Washington had announced his retirement, refusing to seek a third term as president, and the race of self-styled great men hoping to take his place
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The following contains spoilers for Search Party season 3. Search Party season 3 finds its core characters in a place they probably expected to be ever since the violent events of the show’s first season finale: on trial for their lives. Yes, after a tragic case of mistaken intentions winds up with Keith (Ron Livingston)
Great Scott! Two blockbuster 1980s properties are teaming up for the first time ever! To paraphrase Doc Brown, you’re going to see some serious shit when Back to the Future meets the Transformers. And plans for such a mind-blowing crossover have just been unwrapped! It’s been 35 years since Back to the Future premiered in
This Doom Patrol review contains spoilers. Doom Patrol Season 2 Episode 4 The theme of families is a constant one in Doom Patrol, but this week the show leans heavily into the notion that our loved ones, especially parents, are the reason we’re all so screwed up. In a 1960s flashback, we see Danny The
Early on, the PlayStation VR brought us Batman Arkham VR, which allowed us to be the Dark Knight. It was cool that you could play with those wonderful toys, but if you were going to take over for a DC hero using virtual reality, the real deal should really be someone like Superman or Green
Leading up to the fateful morning of July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were incredibly secretive about the rendezvous they’d scheduled in Weekhawken, New Jersey. Only a small circle was aware that the pair, who shared the same banquet table during a Fourth of July dinner earlier that month, were planning to fire
This Hanna article contains MAJOR spoilers for the end of Season 2. There’s nothing quite like Amazon spy drama Hanna on TV right now. It is reminiscent of great spy shows of yesteryear—The CW’s vastly underrated Nikita, comes to mind—but with a budget and sense of cinematic style that sets it apart from similarly-themed series
Imagine the experience of being one of the first individuals to see Lin-Manuel Miranda’s now-classic Hamilton: An American Musical live. The first thing you notice is the spartan, largely empty stage. Then as Leslie Odom Jr. takes the stage as Aaron Burr followed by Miranda’s Hamilton, you realize that this production about America’s founding fathers
This The Twilight Zone review contains spoilers. The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 10 The Twilight Zone was always a little bit hokey and that is a part of its charm. It was often stylized, sometimes funny, frequently heightened and not always realistic. We can’t criticize it for that. But season 2 episode 10 ‘You
The mock-documentary Skyman doesn’t tell the usual UFO encounter story. Director Daniel Myrick, who broke on the scene with the groundbreaking horror thriller The Blair Witch Project, does not put this together using found footage. The film examines the aftermath of an alien visitation, and the story is told by a witness and survivor. Carl
WWE and AEW have taken some veiled shots at each other since Dynamite debuted last fall and NXT hit the airwaves on USA Network about one month earlier. However, the companies seem to be taking their shots up a notch in recent weeks. There have been one ongoing news story that intertwined both companies together.
Take-Two Interactive has revealed that the MSRP for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X versions of NBA 2K21 will be $69.99 while the base, current-gen versions of the game are still listed for $59.99. That announcement was made via a press release for the upcoming title, but if you head over to the NBA
Amazon Studios and Bethesda are teasing a Fallout project. We don’t know the details yet. So far, the studios have just dropped a teaser video on Twitter for something being made by independent film production company Kilter Films. Here’s the brief (and very cryptic teaser): This is a developing story…
Wasp Network, written and directed by Olivier Assayas based on the book The Last Soldiers of the Cold War by Fernando Morais, has landed on Netflix. It stars Penélope Cruz, Edgar Ramírez, Gael García Bernal and Ana de Armas and is based on the true story of the ‘Cuban Five’ (aka Miami Five) who were
IMAGE: A sample of the electromagnetic shielding material made by Empa – a composite of cellulose nanofibres and silver nanowires. view more Credit: Empa Electric motors and electronic devices generate electromagnetic fields that sometimes have to be shielded in order not to affect neighboring electronic components or the transmission of signals. High-frequency electromagnetic fields can only
Researchers in the ERATO Saitoh Spin Quantum Rectification Project in the JST Strategic Basic Research Programs have elucidated the mechanism of the hydrodynamic power generation using spin currents(1) in micrometer-scale channels, finding that power generation efficiency improves drastically as the size of the flow is made smaller. In a microchannel, the flow takes on a
Carl Reiner had a particular genius for comedy. While some of his seminal works, The Dick Van Dyke Show and his directorial debut Enter Laughing, were autobiographical, Reiner was amazingly versatile. Two of his most contrasting pieces, Where’s Poppa? (1970) and Oh, God! (1977) will be included on the bill as Turner Classic Movies celebrates
This THE 100 review contains spoilers The 100 Season 7 Episode 7 Lindsey Morgan (who plays Raven Rayes) directed a crackling episode of The 100 that treats us to a heaping pile of wonderful character moments and more mysteries than you can shake a stick at. Sheidheda continues to prove why he had a reputation as a
This review contains spoilers for Agents of SHIELD. Agents of SHIELD Season 7 Episode 6 Failure is such a powerful narrative tool, mostly because viewers don’t expect things to go so spectacularly wrong even when the heroes are technically winning. Such is the case with this week’s Agents of SHIELD which has Daisy barely escaping
IMAGE: Artificial enzymes made of treated charcoal, seen in this atomic force microscope image, could have the power to curtail damaging levels of superoxides, toxic radical oxygen ions that appear at… view more Credit: Tour Group/Rice University HOUSTON – (July 1, 2020) – Artificial enzymes made of treated charcoal could have the power to curtail damaging
IMAGE: Researchers at The University of Tokyo and Fudan University use confocal microscopy to observe polymorphic crystallization in unprecedented detail view more Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan – A team of researchers at The University of Tokyo and Fudan University studied the process of crystallization when more than one structural
ORLANDO, July 1, 2020 – A University of Central Florida researcher is developing new technology to make sure people are getting the food they think they’re eating. The work is funded by a recent $490,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative grant to create an easy-to-use
An all-female crew will visit the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah aiming to fill the data gap on women’s performance in space exploration. Six engineers, geologists and scientists, all under 28-years-old, will be going to the Mars simulation centre for a two-week mission in February 2021. Marta Ferran Marques is one of the crew
This Unsolved Mysteries review contains no spoilers. Unsolved Mysteries Season 1 The Netflix rebooted series Unsolved Mysteries could really use someone like Robert Stack to lead audiences through these mysterious cold cases. He may not have been the biggest named crime-fighting icon, but he brought his Elliot Ness from the original The Untouchables to the
The final season of The 100 has been a smorgasbord of science fiction storytelling centered around the exploration of an interplanetary transit system known as The Anomaly (or The Bridge). A group of planet Bardo-based people called The Disciples organize their society around The Anomaly, and don’t take kindly to anyone who gets in their
The DCEU’s Cyborg, Ray Fisher, just took a major shot at Joss Whedon and the theatrical cut of Justice League. Fisher who appeared (very briefly) as Vic “Cyborg” Stone in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and (more substantially) in Justice League offered a sharp critique of that latter film’s co-director Joss Whedon and presumably
Northwestern University researchers have cracked one of the secrets of tooth decay. In a new study of human enamel, the materials scientists are the first to identify a small number of impurity atoms that may contribute to the enamel’s strength but also make the material more soluble. They also are the first to determine the
IMAGE: Geometric structure of pentadiamond. White and black balls indicate C atoms with four and three adjacent C atoms, respectively. view more Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan – Researchers at the University of Tsukuba used computer calculations to design a new carbon-based material even harder than diamond. This structure, dubbed “pentadiamond” by its creators, may
IMAGE: In order for mRNA vaccine to function, it is required not only to efficiently introduce mRNA into antigen-presenting cells but also to activate them for effective antibody production. Substances that… view more Credit: 2020 Innovation Center of NanoMedicine June 4, 2020 – Kawasaki / Japan: The Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (President: Prof. Kazunori Kataoka, location:
Ozark Season 4 has been ordered by Netflix. However, the fourth frame will serve as the final one for the acclaimed crime series and its tale of the Byrde family’s bonanza of bad choices. Netflix’s order for Ozark Season 4 will yield a slightly expanded home stretch for the series, manifesting with 14 episodes compared