Новости за 05.04.2021

A study out of Michigan State University that followed twins from birth has revealed that, in households where one twin received corporal punishment while the other did not, the twin who was hit fared worse in terms of socialization than the one who was not—something that should be fairly obvious, but I guess needed…

Two important cultural conversations have taken hold of the nation in recent weeks, and while they may seem disparate, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) has found the place where they intersect. Those questions are of course: 1. What is everyone wearing for vaccine summer after a year of sweatpantsed isolation, and 2. Is…

On Monday, in a rather surprising turn of events, Arkansas’s Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson vetoed HB 1570, a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for trans youth in the state, which sailed through Arkansas’s Republican-dominated legislature.

Dwindling down to the final four, RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13 stopped hinting at the idea that all of Drag Race is a stage with the queens merely players, reduced to efficient caricatures in service of the overarching story arc, and flat out stated it. In the main challenge, a film parody called Henny, I Shrunk the…

Today, the National Rifle Association begins six days of virtual hearings in its bankruptcy proceedings, the focus of which is expected to be whether cartoon villain Wayne LaPierre and other executives grossly mismanaged the organization’s finances for their own gain. Earlier this year, the non-profit filed for Chapter 11…

It’s Godzilla time! The greatest movie franchise in human existence, and our peak artistic achievement as a species, has birthed another glorious cinematic romp into theaters and living rooms everywhere: Godzilla vs. Kong. It’s a movie about... radiation... and lizards... and hollow earth conspiracy theories... and …

The philosopher Frank Ocean once asked a series of pertinent questions in the hit song, “No Church In the Wild.” It begins, as all philosophical endeavors do with an observation: “human beings in a mob.” Profound. He then leads us through the logical process, rhetorically wondering, “What’s a mob to a king/what’s a…

Here’s what I know about Godzilla vs. Kong: Two iconic monsters have beef for some reason, it made a lot of money in the box office over the weekend (by pandemic standards), and Millie Bobbie Brown plays an... ecoterrorist? OK, sure. I also know that these legendary mutants don’t kiss, not once.

I grew up in a Southern Baptist church, but it was a Southern Baptist church full of Asians. So while we waited eagerly to be Raptured and learned to hate gay people while on the earthly plane, we also generally believed in sound medical practices and doing our best to not die until God wanted us to die. My mom, one…

Good news: More people are getting vaccinated against covid-19, proving that there is some sort of light at the end of the longest tunnel in recent history. Bad news: Social media is still being inundated with annoying or overly dramatic videos of people getting their shots, such as this absolute mind-melter from …

“Conservative voices are being silenced,” said Lisa Kudrow’s conservative talking head character during Netflix’s year-end roast Death to 2020. “I said this on my YouTube channel, I’ve said it on Joe Rogan, on the Jordan Peterson Kayak Podcast, I said it on Tucker Carlson... twice, actually, and I said it in my New…

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After skipping the temperature screening required in order to enter Disney World, a man insisted that he couldn’t be arrested for trespassing because he’d paid $15,000 for his family’s vacation at “the most magical place on Earth.”

Some birds are beautiful, some birds are terrifying, and some birds are just downright ugly, but regardless of their outer appearance, I can’t help but be a bit suspicious of birds. Not only are they descended from dinosaurs—more specifically, from the group of dinosaurs that also includes the Tyrannosaurus rex and…

After being miscredited as “Thandie” in her first project—a mistake that has continued for the rest of her career—actress Thandiwe Newton is insisting people use her whole name. All of her future films will be credited with her full name, Thandiwe, which means beloved in Shona. 

As vaccine distribution continues to ramp up, health experts warn that we’re not out of the woods yet.