Future Europe will be hot, dry, and on fire
Changing your mind about vaccines: People can do it, for a number of reasons
How to tell if someone is lying without even hearing them talk
Review for ‘Uncle Simon’
I want an action figure of Robby the Robot... but with a metallic face under his translucent dome, as opposed to the tubes, wires, spheres and flashing lights seen in the 1956 sci-fi film "Forbidden Planet." The reason for this is simple: Without that cold, cruel visage staring back at me, I wouldn't know for sure that I was holding a plastic statuette of Uncle Simon II. Uncle Simon II is the...
Empty words: How Bush and Giuliani failed to capture the moment on 9/11
A jab or your job: Biden issues a sweeping, unprecedented executive order on public health
From deer and dogs to rats and mink, COVID-19 has spread to the animal world
Review for ‘Paths of Glory’
The opening scene in "Paths of Glory" should appear in a dictionary next to the word "Machiavellian." It is World War I and a French military official, Major General Georges Broulard (Adolphe Menjou), has been given an impossible assignment. His superiors, who are grossly out of touch with the realities of battle, have ordered him to retake a key hill to turn the tide against Germany, which...
The dark side of anti-depressants for dogs
Only one presidential election has provoked civil war — at least until now
Everything we know about the mu variant, the latest coronavirus mutation
The spotted lanternfly is invading the Northeast. The consequences will be dire if they take over
How civilization thwart extinction in the face of existential crises
Overworked school superintendents are hesitant to take on the role of public health officer, too
Review for ‘The Borderlands’
Call it "Final Prayer," as they do in the USA, or call it "The Borderlands," as they do everywhere else. Just don't forget to call it the best found footage horror ever! The concept of found footage horror has, alas, usually been better than the execution. In theory, the found footage format — one in which a movie is created to seem like real-life that just happened to be taped by an observer —...