The Grand Jury award for this year’s SXSW went to The Fallout, a film that takes your typical coming-of-age story and re-tells it through a traumatic lens. With Jenna Ortega carrying the entire weight of the story on her shoulders,…
While many may expect the zombie apocalypse to emerge through an unexplainable virus at the borders of CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta, GA, Witness Infection, from Andy Palmer, is here to make you think otherwise. And not only does it cause…
The year 2021 marked the 50-year anniversary since principal filming began on the seminal movie, The Wicker Man, a celluloid picture that would go on to help define a genre known as folk horror. Actor and screenwriter Mark Gatiss popularized…
Traditionally, the village of Moor Green was known as a hub of small, private quarries that mined and then sold its stones all over the country. However, as visitors drive through the center of the village, there’s something that catches…
This story was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. How scary are cow burps, exactly? Measured by their planet-warming power, methane-filled livestock belches are the equivalent of 850 coal plants burning year-round.…
Today’s brave, bold journalists often let Twitter serve as their editor’s desk. If they see something on social media they want to embrace, no matter how large or small the movement, they pounce on it. Far-left entertainment sites like TheWrap.com…
From his office on the edge of Mānoa Valley in Honolulu, University of Hawaiʻi meteorologist Steven Businger often sees rainbows, some that last all day. According to Hawaiian legend, these heavenly arcs embody the presence of Kahalapuna, the daughter of…
A one million ton concrete dome constructed on the side of a chalk quarry with underground storage for the rockets, fuel supply, a liquid oxygen production facility, electricity generators and housing for the garrison. This is La Coupole, a massive remnant…
One day, from outside his office window in North Philadelphia, Ricky Staub saw a cowboy on horseback, galloping along the concrete as if the boulevards and avenues beneath him were still made of dirt and grass-root. A few questions traced…
One of the world’s oldest sciences is on full display in the rafters and rooftops above Saint Catherine’s Church, the oldest church in Gdańsk, Poland. Horology, the science of measuring time, has a place in this ancient city thanks to…