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Some months bring exquisite meteor showers. Others bring planets and unique stars.

In his acceptance speech at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards, Korean director Bong Joon Ho said: “Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.”

After almost two weeks of saying "No, our workers definitely do NOT have to pee in bottles while at work!", Amazon has admitted that sometimes, its workers do have to pee in bottles. 

NFTs are all the money-making rage lately, but it seems a good ol' fashioned vintage video game will still make you big bucks at an auction. 

On day 37 of its Martian mission (known as "sol 37"), the Perseverance rover zapped a curious, holey rock with a laser 10 times. 

The upcoming Space Jam sequel, Space Jam: A New Legacy, is now occupying the very sensible spacejam.com URL. But that thankfully doesn't mean one of the internet's premiere destinations for more than 25 years is just dead now.

I don't know about you, but I've struggled to muster up much enthusiasm for Black Widow. Even loving all the Marvel Cinematic Universe things, this one just seems a little late. The title character is dead after the events of Endgame and the actor who plays her, Scarlett Johansson, has had her own image problems in recent years.

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Despite the Republican talking points that say otherwise, there's a massive difference between recognizing the role that racism and white supremacy played in shaping U.S. society and hating America, full stopThe Daily Show turned its attention to that history and how it helped fuel a modern resurgence of hateful beliefs in this new special, White Supremacy: The Rise and Spread in America.

Space Jam: A New Legacy is the unlikeliest sequel you can't wait to see.

Do you long for the days of Hot Girl Summer? Same.

If you fear we may be in for another Hot Girl Bummer if the coronavirus spread isn't under control by June, we feel you. We can't predict what the world will look like a few months from now, but we can cordially invite you to celebrate a new made-up season called Nap Dress Spring.

With rising temperatures and spring in the air comes an opportunity to shed your well-worn WFH sweats and slip into something more a bit more stylish and weather-appropriate: nap dresses. Читать дальше...

Welcome to Fix It, our ongoing series examining projects we love — save for one tiny change we wish we could make.

TL;DR: Make crafting easier on the eyes with the Cricut BrightPad, on sale for $59.99 — a 25% discount — as of April 3.

If you’ve been wanting to learn guitar — or you have a kid who has been begging — you have choices as to how you kick off that education. 

TL;DR: Use your screen time for intentional learning and entertainment with the Digital Daze app and e-learning bundle, which is on sale for $69 as of April 3.

If your toilet is still a plain old porcelain bowl, it’s time to upgrade and turn that baby into a throne with a bidet. 

TL;DR: Get a massage any time you want with the Thrive Heat Compression Leg Massager Sleeve, on sale for $76. Use code THRIVE11 to score $11 off as of April 3.

TL;DR: The QuantInsti: Quantitative Trading for Beginners Bundle is on sale for £36.32 as of April 3, saving you 90% on list price.

Working from home is the new normal, and for many people all around the world, it's the future. 

Watching a great movie feels like borrowing feelings from someone else, trying them on, and (sometimes) returning them when we're done. Some of those feelings are romantic, others are thrilling, and some are of the warm and fuzzy variety. These are not those movies. These are the movies we watch when the feeling we want to borrow is sadness, because a good, deliberate cry is a healthy and necessary part of anyone's emotional toolbox. 

April the giraffe, known for her viral (and seemingly eternal) pregnancy, has died at 20 years old. She passed away at Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York, where she gained an international following during her livestreamed pregnancy in 2017. 

Many of the boring and forgettable villains that plague Marvel movies suffer not from a lack of design or general interest, but a lack of screen time. It makes sense that superhero movies would focus on their titular heroes, but four phases into the MCU and we still only have a handful of villains who make sense beyond having an inexplicably evil or greedy agenda and going out in a blaze of CGI glory. With the expansion of the MCU into Disney+'s streaming television series, the franchise has an opportunity to correct their villain problem. Читать дальше...

We now have the digital receipts and it appears Florida GOP Congressman Matt Gaetz and his former tax collector friend don't understand the concepts of "consequences," "technology," "digital paper trails," the "laws of the United States of America," or, more generally, "ethics."