Days ago, the Syrian Army, with Russian aid, encircled the crucial city of Aleppo. Aleppo has for some time been a stronghold for Syrian and non-Syrian militias, rebels and terrorists fighting to topple the Syrian state. If Aleppo is restored to government control, it represents a major turning point in the devastating war that has […]
One hundred years ago Albert Einstein, in his General Theory of Relativity, predicted the existence of a Dark Side of the Force to the cosmos. He postulated the presence of invisible “gravitational waves” – ripples in space-time produced by some of the most violent events in our vast cosmic timeline; exploding stars, black hole collisions, and […]
There are few modern actors or famous entertainers who have as much effortless charisma as Alan Rickman. There aren’t many people who could narrate about a tortoise munching a strawberry and make it entertaining. But Alan Rickman can pull that off, as he did when he lent his voice to this video just last month, […]
It’s really weird when someone like David Bowie dies, because he’s one of those people who seems immortal, like they’ll be around forever; like he’s such a permanent part of the cultural landscape that he couldn’t possibly not be there anymore. It’s as if the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty were suddenly gone […]
