Month: October 2025

Like a raving alchemist who one day wakes at the frigid ends of the Earth, Guillermo del Toro has pursued the ghost of Frankenstein all his life. The chase to…

The Dude abides. Those three words encompass an entire worldview, a whole system of belief about how to cope with in an incredibly difficult world, one—in the case of one…

The Sopranos has one of the most perfect opening title sequences in television history. The opener follows protagonist Tony Soprano as he drives through the Lincoln Tunnel into New Jersey,…

It seems like an age ago now, but back in 2021, we were obsessed with season 1 of Loki. Marvel’s Disney+ series about the God of Mischief was must-watch stuff,…

In a career that spans 40 years, Grant Morrison has written the definitive take on numerous comic book characters. Their runs on Animal Man and Doom Patrol set the model…

Our 2025 cosplay wrap is presented by Disney Lorcana! The term “cosplay” was coined in the 1980s to describe the act of dressing up and embodying a character in pop…

I’m not sure when I first heard this quote, but it’s something that has stayed with me over the years. How do you create services for situations you can’t imagine?…

We’ve been having conversations for thousands of years. Whether to convey information, conduct transactions, or simply to check in on one another, people have yammered away, chattering and gesticulating, through…

In the 1950s, many in the elite running community had begun to believe it wasn’t possible to run a mile in less than four minutes. Runners had been attempting it…

Antiracist economist Kim Crayton says that “intention without strategy is chaos.” We’ve discussed how our biases, assumptions, and inattention toward marginalized and vulnerable groups lead to dangerous and unethical tech—but…