The First Eco-Horror Film

User-Friendly Self-Deception: Philosopher Amélie Rorty on the Value of Our Delusions and the Antidote to the Self-Defeating Ones

Judge VanDyke: "This is a case about swinging dicks."

In Space, Regulators Seek To Boldly Go Where No Bureaucrat Has Gone Before

The Great American Condo Crisis

Here’s How Snakes Defy Gravity to Stand Up

The Spheres-of-Influence Illusion

The First Opinion From Justice Hawkins on the Supreme Court of Texas

The Travels of Straight-Tusked Elephants in Europe, Written in Their Teeth

Facing a Budget Squeeze, New Jersey Decides To Go After Big Tech

What Doomsday Prophecies Say About Us

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

No First Amendment Right to Film Others' Party in Public Park, Even to Try to Document Alleged Ordinance Violations

The film critic A.S. Hamrah has no use for plot description, boosterism, or takedowns. He focuses, instead, on continuities and contradictions

Bloom: A Touching Animated Short Film about Depression and What It Takes to Recover the Light of Being

In a first, researchers film treetops glowing during thunderstorms

At a film screening Salvador Dalí, in a fit of envy, turned on the director: “Joseph Cornell, you are a plagiarist of my unconscious mind!”

Walking “a fine line between principled opposition and crankdom,” the film critic A.S. Hamrah rails against Rotten Tomatoes, texting at the movies, and digital projection

Perceptions

Tracing the California lineage of Charles Bukowski’s publisher

Shutdown Showdown

Personalization features can make LLMs more agreeable