Refugee crisis, terror attacks, british separation… rings a bell?

Director Alfonso Cuarón revisits Children of Men, his overlooked 2006 masterpiece, which might be the most relevant film of 2016.

A guide to giving your cats their annual performance review.

“Skittles, when I was sleeping and you jumped on the bed and meowed in my face at 4am, it woke me up and that made me feel angry and tired all day. One way you can have more positive impact is to STFU and sleep until at least 8am.”

How Apps Gentrified and Diminished the Open Web.

(…) many apps are to the Web what bottled water is to tap: an inventive and proprietary new way of decanting, packaging, and pricing something that could be had for free.

“What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists.”

Science writers should be more careful to point out when we are using metaphors.

JFDI!

The farmer who built her own broadband.

7 bad science and health ideas that should die with 2016.

I have done the deed.

Didst thou not hear a noise?

Superintelligence – The Idea That Eats Smart People.

What kind of person does sincerely believing this stuff turn you into? The answer is not pretty.

World War Three, by Mistake.

During the Cold War, false alarms were also triggered by the moon rising over Norway, the launch of a weather rocket from Norway, a solar storm, sunlight reflecting off high-altitude clouds, and a faulty A.T. & T. telephone switch in Black Forest, Colorado.

The OA and what's going on with bad philosophical tv.