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Starfield’s new expansion isn’t likely to change your mind on the game
If you haven’t seen me for the past few days, don’t worry: I was just prowling the space lanes on a new Starfield character.
 • Grant St. Clair
How are crypto games doing in 2026?
Hey, do you remember crypto games?
 • Grant St. Clair
Celebrating 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes
April 13 may not mean much to most of you.
 • Grant St. Clair
The Pokémon Company is looking for an ecologist with a PhD
According to a job listing on Japanese recruitment site HRMOS, the Pokémon Company is hiring an ecologist, possibly to work on Pokémon Pokopia.
 • Gail P Sherman
This site supercharges your library card with reciprocal libraries
Voracious readers already know that Libby is a great way to borrow electronic books, audiobooks, and magazines for free from their local library.
 • Gail P Sherman
Vance, impressed with Iran’s “economic terrorism,” says the U.S. should try it too
As we're familiar with the Trump Administration's approach to diplomacy, “economic terrorism” sounds less like a warning and more like a policy…
 • Jason Weisberger
Virginia joins slow-motion plan to sidestep Electoral College
With dozens of electoral votes to go and lawsuits basically guaranteed, this is less “done deal” and more “check back in a few election cycles.”
 • Jason Weisberger
Grandpa Pudding Brains sure sees some weird doctors
"Had to do the Red Cross"
 • Jason Weisberger
Asimov’s 1980 review of 1984 called Orwell scientifically ignorant
In 1980, Isaac Asimov published a negative review of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in the New Yorker. His central complaint was that Orwell…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Anti-AI security expert tries Claude Code. It worked. He hated it
Jonathan Taggart runs The Taggart Institute and works as an AI security expert by day.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
1 in 750 trillion: the staged truck crashes of New Orleans East
Between 2004 and 2017, sideswipe accidents involving 18-wheelers on a 14-mile stretch of I-10 in New Orleans East tripled from 69 to nearly 200 per…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Caity Weaver ate her way across America to find the best free restaurant bread
After polling 555 people, logging 13,000 miles, and drinking what turned out to be an entire gallon of Diet Coke in one sitting at an Alabama…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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