science fiction 13-year-old explains why he thinks we are living in a parallel universe Jennifer Sandlin

Funny Is Joe Rogan a multiversal constant? Thom Dunn

doppelgängers A 1950s TV show had a fear-mongering conman named Trump who wanted to build a wall Carla Sinclair

happy mutants Empire Games: Charlie Stross starts a new phase in the Merchant Princes series, blending spycraft, Leninist thought experiments, and parallel dimensions Cory Doctorow

News Noem's heartless puppy-slaying was a job audition for the cruelest U.S. President in history Yoy Luadha

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photo collages The powerful collage images of Uğur Gallenkuş Andrew Yi

Comic Books Talking The Rough Pearl with Xeric Award-winning Canadian cartoonist Kevin Mutch Jeffery Klaehn

tabloids The multiverse, universal wave function and quantum mechanics in this week's tawdry tabloids Peter Sheridan

movies Terminator: Dark Fate trailer Rob Beschizza

books Charles Stross's "Dark State": transdimensional, nuclear-tipped mutually assured destruction by way of a first-rate spy novel Cory Doctorow

Technology Quantum computing's terrifying promise Rob Reid

authors Grant Morrison interview: "Laughter can banish any and all demons" Propaganda Anonymous

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