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A federal appeals court allowed convicted rapist Ma’lik Richmond to play in a college football game today (Sept. 16). His school, Youngstown State, had tried to ban Richmond from playing, after allowing him to join the team. Richmond sued Youngstown last week, and a district court sided with the 21-year-old, allowing him to play for […]

As the Toronto International Film Festival comes to a close, Oscar season begins. The popular festival, filled with bona fide awards contenders, marks the unofficial beginning of “Oscar season”—the final few months of each year when studios tend to release their most prestigious films in hopes of attracting award buzz. But only 10, at the […]

When this year’s Emmy nominations went public in July, and Issa Rae’s HBO comedy Insecure wasn’t on the list, critics and fans of the show’s acclaimed first season saw it as a major snub. Now that Insecure‘s second season has wrapped up, ending with the complicated, moving, and excellent Sept. 10 finale, it’s even more […]Read More

Driverless cars sound great in theory. They have the potential to save lives, because humans are erratic, distracted, and often bad drivers. Once the technology is perfected, machines will be far better at driving safely. But in practice, the notion of putting your lives into the hands of an autonomous machine—let alone facing one as […]

The Mindy Project is problematic. The show, which premiered its sixth and final season Sept. 12 on Hulu and streams a new episode every Tuesday, follows the antics of a 30-something gynecologist trying to find Mr. Right. Set in New York City, it sticks to the tried-and-true formula of a smart, goofy woman trying to […]

Every year, the biggest stars in television gather in a theater in Los Angeles and celebrate how great they all are. They wear expensive dresses and tuxedos, award each other big golden trophies, pat each other on the backs, and give sappy speeches about “making it.” This garish party is an exercise in narcissism, which […]

Commander Justin Kibbey flies planes into hurricanes for a living. Kibbey is a former Navy pilot and current aircraft commander for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Commissioned Officer Corps, one the seven federal uniformed services of the US. He is one of a handful of pilots, called “hurricane hunters,” who fly treacherous around-the-clock […]

Do our faces show the world clues to our sexuality? Last week, The Economist published a story around Stanford Graduate School of Business researchers Michal Kosinski and Yilun Wang’s claims that they had built artificial intelligence that could tell if we are gay or straight based on a few images of our faces. It seemed […]

Tom MacArthur’s town-hall meeting should have been uneventful. It was May and MacArthur, a Republican congressman, had come home to New Jersey to talk to constituents, having won re-election with a hefty majority less than a year earlier. Normally, at such an event, he might have expected to field a couple of dozen idiosyncratic questions, […]

Outrunning a T. rex might not have been too hard after all. Depictions of giant dinosaurs sprinting after their prey have been around for decades. But recently, researchers analyzing the creatures’ footprints and skeletons have started to question whether those representations are accurate. Of course, it’s difficult to fully understand an animal’s capabilities from bones […]Read More

Hurricane Irma started its path in the continental United States with the Florida Keys, a quiet archipelago connected by a single highway. Although Irma struck on Sept 10, some Keys residents still cannot return to their homes. FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, estimates that a quarter of homes in these islands were destroyed, according […]

Every day brings new details—and questions—about the Equifax breach that exposed the personal information of millions of customers to hackers. It can be hard to keep up with the firehose of information; that’s where we come in. Here’s everything you need to know about what’s going on, and what exactly you should be doing to […]Read More