Reading

There are a ton of reasons to be excited about Doctor Who, but Disney+ viewers might need a reality check regarding what they're getting.

Watch how hundreds of thousands of bats choreograph jam-packed nightly migrations with surprising grace.

The post A Spooktacular Bat Ballet appeared first on Nautilus.

In an open letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the groups warn that the “communities and workers most affected by AI have been marginalised by the Summit” while a select few corporations seek to shape the rules. The letter has been coordinated by the TUC, Connected by Data and Open Rights Group and is released […]

“At the end of the day, the problem is the human heart. It’s not guns. It’s not the weapons.” — Speaker of the House Mike Johnson

The problem is the human finger. Fingers are too well-engineered to fit around the trigger of an assault weapon. On other planets, life forms have fingers with no joints that are only straight. You don’t hear about gun violence on any of those planets.

The problem is the human hand. If hands did not have four fingers and a thumb, you would not be able to put a gun into the human hand. And more importantly, no one could use a phone to call for help, so we would never have to hear about all this unpleasantness.

The problem is the human arm. Humans could probably get by just fine with a big cupholder in the front instead of arms. Cupholder-humans would be a superior life-form, and guns would exist in abstract space, harming absolutely no one.

In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: SNL, Rick and Morty, Fear TWD, Jujutsu Kaisen, SAG-AFTRA, Ghosts, Doctor Who, Barry Manilow/NBC, Loki & more!

The Lever explores the recent corporatization of the online music platform Bandcamp, amid a sale to Songtradr, and what it means for the music industry.

"It acts as a platform where people in the media world can talk, work together, and resolve any issues that come up."

Henry VIII’s mighty codpiece proclaimed his sexual, political and spiritual power, at a time when all three were in question

- by Aeon Video

Watch at Aeon

Modern life subjects us to all-consuming demands. That’s why we should reflect on what it means to step away from it all

- by David J Siegel

Read at Aeon

True crime podcasts turn violence against women into a form of entertainment. Why do so many female listeners enjoy them?

- by Amelia Anthony

Read at Psyche

So in what sense is this “dynamic stochastic general equilibrium” model firmly grounded in the principles of economic theory? I do not want to be misunderstood. Friends have reminded me that much of the effort of “modern macro” goes into the incorporation of important deviations from the Panglossian assumptions that underlie the simplistic application of […]