16 Oscar-Nominated Movies You Can Stream Right Now
From Avengers: Infinity War to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 2018 was a game-changing year for comic book movies. Not only did superheroes continue to dominate at the box office, but they also, for the first time ever, found their way into the Best Picture Oscar race—thanks to the massively successful Black Panther. Last year was…
This Mutation Math Shows How Life Keeps on Evolving
Natural selection has been a cornerstone of evolutionary theory ever since Darwin. Yet mathematical models of natural selection have often been dogged by an awkward problem that seemed to make evolution harder than biologists understood it to be. In a new paper appearing in Communications Biology, a multidisciplinary team of scientists in Austria and the…
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Reveals the Hero's Future
Nothing has followed Spider-Man's long and varied character history quite like one single phrase: "With great power comes great responsibility." Generally attributed to Peter Parker's Uncle Ben, it long ago left the world of Marvel Comics to become a general-purpose exhortation, deployed by everyone from heads of state to the Supreme Court. At this point,…
How to Interact With Robots Without Embarrassing Yourself
Few things in this world are as exhausting as interacting with humans. You’ve got to maintain eye contact (ugh) and watch for subtle body language (ugh) and pay attention the whole time (ugh). And if you think that’s tough, wait until you start interacting with robots, which aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer just…
Everything You Need to Know About the Avengers: Infinity War Heroes
How many times did you see Avengers: Infinity War? Once, twice, three times, a-maybe? No matter how many viewings it warranted, chances are there's something you missed—an Easter egg, a character flaw, a long-forgotten scene from a past film. (Did you remember Ayo had a face-off with Black Widow in Captain America: Civil War? We…
The Science Behind the Pursuit of Youth
Ask the internet for antiaging tips and you’ll find advice ranging from Goop-y frivolities to dangerous shams. “Aging has always been a target for charlatans and snake oil salemen,” says John Newman, a geriatrics researcher at UC San Francisco and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. But as researchers begin to understand how aging…
Byeeeee, Logan Paul: Brands Prefer 'Micro Influencers' Now
Brand-influencer relationships used to be as simple as a YouTuber standing next to a man dressed as a giant tongue. At the very first Vidcon, in 2010, the tongue-scraper company Orabrush sent a bumpy pink mascot to the convention center to strike up quasi-impromptu interactions with early influencers like iJustine. When you fast-forward to the…
Climate Change Will Not Make Us Nicer
This story originally appeared on CityLab and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1748, the French philosopher Montesquieu published The Spirit of the Laws, a survey of political systems that argued for the separation of powers and citizens’ rights to due process. It was quickly translated into multiple languages, and Montesquieu’s ideas about liberty had a strong…
The Ever-Evolving Art of the Coming-Out Video
About halfway through the nearly 5-minute-long YouTube video, the camera cuts between shots of Elle Mills' friends, each of them sitting at a table with a pad of paper and some colored pencils in front of them. “I’m gonna explain to you my crush, and you have to draw out what you think they look…
The Struggle to Predict—and Prevent—Toxic Masculinity
Click:国内 発送 スーパー コピー Terrie Moffitt has been trying to figure out why men are terrible for more than 25 years. Or, to calibrate: Why some men are really terrible—violent, criminal, dangerous—but most men are not. And, while she’s at it, how to tell which man is going to become which. A small number of…