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Interviews

An Interview With The Self-Published Author Who Is Trying To Destroy Twitter By Selling Books

Maitreyi Anantharaman

A BOMBSHELL Interview With HOTSHOT Debut Novelist Kelsey McKinney

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Chris Thompson

A Cryptocurrency Expert Introduces Me To The Dystopian Nightmare Of Art As A Financial Instrument

Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including Point B. Handsomest man in the world.

Drew Magary

WASHINGTON - MARCH 4: DeMaurice Smith (R), NFLPA executive director, arrives with NFL Players Association Spokesman George Atallah (L) and Kansas City Chiefs player Brian Waters (C) for an extra day of negotiations at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service building March 4, 2011 in Washington, DC. Representatives from the National Football League (NFL) and National Football League Players' Association (NFLPA) continue to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement between players and owners during a 24 hour extension in negotiations. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

Let’s Talk About The State Of Football, With The NFLPA’s George Atallah

Samuel Lam

Curling

Yes, You Can Build A Curling Simulator In The Comfort Of Your Own Home

Jason England

A still from the movie Judas and the Black Messiah.

Defector At The Movies

Shaka King, Director Of ‘Judas And The Black Messiah,’ Talks Radical Politics, How To Make Black Movie Stars, And The Black Excellence Industrial Complex

An Interview With A ‘Survivor’ Super Fan Who Lived The Dream

A patient receives a COVID-19 vaccination on February 4, 2021 in Federal Way, Washington. Swedish Medical Center held a mobile vaccination clinic at the Pacific Islander Community Association of Washington to serve racial and ethnic minority groups disproportionately affected by COVID-19.

An Epidemiologist Explains The Challenges Of Vaccinating A Neurotic Nation

Magazine covers with Cyberpunk characters are seen in the headquarter of CD PROJECT - the most important polish game developer company, poses for a photo on December 4, 20202 before the expected release of Cyberpunk 2077 game, in Warsaw, Poland.

A Former Video Game Journalist Lays Out The Power Dynamics In The Review Process

Patrick Redford

The Himalayan Mount Everest (C-L) and other mounts ranges are pictured from Namche Bazar in the Everest region, some 140 kms northeast of Kathmandu on March 26, 2020. (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP) (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images)

A Geologist Rocks My World On Why Earth’s Tallest Mountain Isn’t So Obvious

A graduating student wears a money lei, a necklace made of US dollar bills, at the Pasadena City College graduation ceremony, June 14, 2019, in Pasadena, California. - With 45 million borrowers owing $1.5 trillion, the student debt crisis in the United States has exploded in recent years and has become a key electoral issue in the run-up to the 2020 presidential elections. "Somebody who graduates from a public university this year is expected to have over $35,000 in student loan debt on average," said Cody Hounanian, program director of Student Debt Crisis, a California NGO that assists students and is fighting for reforms.

A Student-Debt Researcher Fucks Me Up With America’s Broken Promises

Giri Nathan

Derrick Favors of the Utah Jazz grabs a rebound as Damian Lillard, Meyers Leonard, and C.J. McCollum of the Portland Trail Blazers look on

An Interview With The Creators Of A Bot That Spits Out A Random NBA Play Every Three Hours

A human cadaver positioned as if throwing a baseball at "Bodies...The Exhibition".

An Astrophysicist Explains The Challenges Of De-Juicing The Baseball

A Medieval Historian Explains Why The Magna Carta Has Nothing To Do With COVID-19

Disgusting cockroaches cover a paper structure.

Life's Rich Pageant

An Interview With The Professional Exterminator Who Defeated My Accursèd Roach Trunk

ESPN’s Tony Reali Tells Us About Helping Rescue A Downed Peregrine Falcon

Rendering of SPARC, a compact, high-field, DT burning tokamak, currently under design by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Its mission is to create and confine a plasma that produces net fusion energy.

Science

Two Fusion Researchers Explain The Tokamak Reactor That I Want To Be Hurled Into

Medwyn and Gwenda Williams pose in front of their award-winning display at the 2019 Chelsea Flower Show