Based on the popular novel, Ridley Scott’s film adaptation of The Martian is grounded, funny, visually stunning, and brilliantly acted. The film’s setting invokes curiosity, and its box office numbers prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that Americans are enamored with space travel.
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Apple started off the month on a good note with El Capitan (OS X 10.11), the successor to Yosemite, after months of successful and positive beta feedback.
Okay I admit it: I’m one of those crazy people who starts thinking about upcoming holidays months in advance. I mean, Christmas is only three months away, right?
I just attended a meeting of scholars, journalists, activists and others on polarization in politics and science. I was asked to kick off a discussion of “what is settled and what is contested” in the climate-change debate.
A few steps from Washington Street is a no-frills, family-owned café serving up home-style Italian comfort food. Having passed Café Michelina on the corner of 5th and Bloomfield Street on multiple occasions, I finally decided the time had come to step through the beaded curtain into the dimly lit restaurant.
Diverging from my usual search for fine cuisine, I was craving good old Americanized Chinese takeout but not necessarily the unhealthy, bloated, “what did I just put in my body” feeling that usually accompanies such cuisine.
- Oh my god, it’s been ten years.
- We’re pretty sure the titles of these songs were the first recorded instances of subtweeting.
This year, physicists are celebrating the 100th anniversary of general relativity, Einstein’s theory of gravity. Although I’m an Einstein fan, I feel compelled to deplore one aspect of his legacy: the widespread belief that science and common sense are incompatible.
You’re about to be up to your chin in fashion—literally. Recurring 70s styles have brought back the turtleneck, and it just happens to be one of the most functional wardrobe pieces for fall.
Blackberry announced a new Android slider (yes, you read that right) called the BlackBerry Priv last week, a surprising comeback into public relevance.