It’s not just your imagination. The world is literally louder right now than it’s been at any time in known history.
Even if COVID shelter-in-place orders brought a fleeting decline in decibel levels, the arc of modern life seems inescapable: more cars, helicopters, buzzing drones, pinging gadgets, ringing hospital monitors, blaring TVs in waiting rooms, and constant conversation in open-plan offices. Because emergency vehicles have to be loud enough to cut through the surrounding sounds, the decibels of their sirens are a useful measure of the loudness of our overall landscapes. Read More...
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Madame Web.
Three Spider-Man movies are hitting theaters in 2024, but none of those three movies are actually about Spider-Man—or even feature the friendly neighborhood web-slinger as a character at all. Madame Web, which is now in theaters, is an entry in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, a collection of films that take full advantage of the studio’s ownership of Spidey film rights even as the main character is primarily making live-action appearances in the Disney-owned Marvel Cinematic Universe where Tom Holland plays him. Read More...
And just like every other army, the Nigerian Army is made up of ranks. These ranks do not only suggest the sternness of hierarchy within the force, they also have specific duties attached to them. Fact: There are seventeen ranks within the Nigerian Army, only sixteen have been so far attained since the birthing of the force, in 1960. Here are the ranks of the Nigerian Army, starting from bottom to top ADVERTISEMENT Read More...