Science The Incredible Shrinking Man would need to eat his body weight daily just to survive Ellsworth Toohey

Food This German cheese is ripened by live mites, which you then eat Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction The man who built the spaceships for 2001, Alien, and Empire has died Séamus Bellamy

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Science Down the Rabbit Hole profiles pseudoscience's most reasonable-sounding perpetual motion crank Grant St. Clair

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Disney The six weird Firefly teasers Jason Weisberger

books John Shirley's guide to wrecking your career in science fiction John Shirley

Space Dying star lights up the Helix Nebula Rob Beschizza

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trailers Trailer for Christopher Nolan's film The Odyssey Rob Beschizza

like and subscribe Academy Awards moving to YouTube because streaming is king Jason Weisberger

detroit RoboCop statue finally installed in Detroit Rob Beschizza

deaths Playwright Tom Stoppard dead at 88 Rob Beschizza

Happy Mutants "Gretapocalypse" is a Greta Thunberg-themed art car made from the "shredded remnants of the very tools of the American dream" Jennifer Sandlin

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media Warner Bros. Discovery is up for sale. Anyone got $44bn? Rob Beschizza

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