Nurse Ratched, the nurse at the heart of the Academy-Award winning One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, is one of cinemas most notorious villains. Ryan Murphy found the character compelling enough to create Ratched, which casts Sarah Paulson in Louise Fletchers original role. But oddly enough, the new Netflix series…

Thunderbolts are traditionally the weapon of the gods, but in 1967 the CIA were wondering whether they too could call down bolts of lightning from the heavens at will. The idea is contained in a proposal from a scientist, sent to the CIAs Deputy for Research Special Activities and passed…

Google is great many things, but few people see it as a smartphone brand. Even fewer actually own a Google smartphone. But even fewer will find any value in half a dozen Pixel 4a how-tos the company just released on YouTube. We’re looking at quite an oddly specific bunch of…

Just two games into the season, the New York Giants have been hit with a blow that might be too much to recover from. After sustaining a knee injury in the Week 2 matchup against the Chicago Bears, Saquon Barkley is feared to have suffered a torn ACL, according to NFL…

Time froze for girls and women across the nation Friday night as millions learned that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg  the second woman in U.S. history to sit on the high court  had died of complications from pancreatic cancer. For many, it was the loss of a hero, an icon and…

I recently traveled from New York City to Prague for a family matter during the coronavirus pandemic. It was my first time traveling internationally since the start of the outbreak, and unfortunately right at the start of the “second wave” of infections in the Czech Republic. When I traveled, the…

There are many wondrous geologic formations in nature, from Giant’s Causeway in Ireland to Castleton Tower in Utah, and the various processes by which such structures form is of longstanding interest for scientists. A team of applied mathematicians from New York University has turned its attention to the so-called “stone…

For weeks now, I’ve been the unpopular parent on the playground predicting with certainty for anyone who cared to listen that our children would not enter a public-school building in New York City this year. And sadly, I may be proved right. For the second time this month, Mayor Bill…

One of the companies importing N-95 masks from China was 3M, which was also manufacturing in the … [+] United States and exporting the masks, drawing the ire of President Trump in April. Getty Images China is now accounting for more than 85% of all U.S. imports in the category…

One of the features of iOS 14 is that the company is finally bringing support for picture-in-picture mode when it comes to videos. Apps, of course, need to be updated to take advantage of the new feature. YouTube was discovered to be testing this out in their app back in…