"We'll leave it out there." Steve Smith was coy when asked straight after Australia's victory over England in the second Ashes Test in Brisbane exactly what he had said to Jofra Archer during their ...

It’s been nearly a decade since Zootopia‘s buddy-cop metaphor for prejudice and racism ignited a firestorm of thinkpieces about the limits of allegory. In the years since, Disney seems to have ...

Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

Neon is demanding a Chinese distributor stop releasing the version being shown in theaters, but the weirdness doesn't stop there. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: a restrictive and repressive ...

This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org. In September 2021, high school student Lauryn ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Busy Beaver number, or BB(n), represents a mathematical problem that tries to calculate the longest possible run-time of a Turing machine ...

Eric Pearson has opened up about Thunderbolts* in a new interview, revealing behind-the-scenes changes to the original script. One key change was the removal of a subplot involving Taskmaster. While ...

Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial remains a nearly perfect film decades after it hit theaters. But there was almost a subplot included that would have drastically changed the tone for ...