Many a scientific cloud on the horizon promises, or threatens, to revolutionize postwar living. One is the “microwave.” Microwaves lie in the largely uncharted area of the radio spectrum above the part now used for conventional sound and television broadcasting (upper limit: roughly 80 megacycles). Microwaves are used in radar, and most of the wartime discoveries about them are still military secrets. But radio engineers have found their potentialities dazzling. This week plain citizens were given a glimpse of what the engineers envision. Read More...
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from Episode 5 of “The Boys” Season 4, currently streaming on Amazon’s Prime Video.
While Homelander (Antony Starr) and the supes were away at Vought’s V52 fan event (not to be at all confused with Disney’s 23) on this week’s episode of “The Boys,” Butcher (Karl Urban), Frenchie (Tomer Capone) and company played with a group of crazy, vicious farm animals on a journey to find a supe-killing virus. Read More...
The Gap has pulled a tweet that referenced the 2020 U.S. presidential election, following backlash on social media.
On Wednesday morning after Election Day, the company tweeted a video of a blue and red hooded sweatshirt being zipped up the middle, along with the caption: “The one thing we know, is that together, we can move forward.”
The post was swiftly met with critique from Twitter users, who called out the brand for appearing to gloss over polarizing political divides—divides that were dramatically clear in the lead-up to the 2020 election—in service of marketing. Read More...