We Know the Photo. We Never Knew His Name. Not This Time
Artemis crew splashdown is at 8:07 Eastern tomorrow and before they come home there is one thing worth sitting with. The Earthrise photograph from Apollo 8 in 1968 is probably one of the most importan...
10 Apr 9min
Athletes Can't Leave the Arena Anymore. It Follows Them Home
Athlete social media pressure has changed what it means to be a professional. It used to stop at the rink doors. Now there are dedicated accounts tracking every NHL player's follows and likes in real ...
10 Apr 10min
The Last Year Nobody Had Their Phone Out at a Concert
2011 was the last normal year. That's not nostalgia. That's what historians who study decades for a living actually call it. Go find concert footage from that year. Everyone is holding up a drink or a...
10 Apr 9min
You're Not Imagining It. Movies Have Gotten Longer
Movies getting longer is not a feeling. A researcher named Steven Follows checked the runtimes of 36,000 theatrically released films from 1980 to 2025. Average wide release length went from 106 minute...
10 Apr 9min
To Be or Not to Be. Also, What Are We Drinking?
Riz Ahmed's Hamlet sets Shakespeare's tragedy inside London's South Asian community, keeps the original language almost entirely intact, and puts the most famous soliloquy in theatre history inside a ...
10 Apr 9min
NEW - Nobody Expects Much Anymore. That's Exactly the Problem
Above and beyond customer service has gotten so rare that when it happens, people put it on the internet and send a stranger a hundred thousand dollars. A pizza delivery driver. A missing Diet Coke. T...
9 Apr 9min
NEW - Smart Speakers: The MP Who Said Never. Then Did It Anyway
Customer service above and beyond has a hundred-thousand-dollar price tag on it tonight, and so does crossing a conservative floor to the Liberals. Both decisions landed this week. Neither one is easy...
9 Apr 19min
SHIFTHEADS: Dan McTeague Has Never Seen Diesel Fall This Far This Fast
Gas prices dropping thirteen cents a liter in one day is news. Diesel falling twenty-eight cents a liter is something Dan McTeague says he has genuinely never seen before. Friday is the day to fill up...
9 Apr 8min
