Here's Why These Characters Weren't in Daredevil Season 3
We may as well get this out of the way now.
Sunday's Best Deals: LEGO Star Wars, Amazon Essentials Clothes, Mini Skillet, and More
20% off already-affordable Amazon Essentials clothing, Bill Clinton’s first novel, and LEGO’s Star Wars advent calendar lead off Sunday’s best deals from around the web.
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Naughty or Nice? Jedi Or Sith? LEGO's Star Wars Advent Calendar Is A Wonderful Gift - Now $6 Off
LEGO’s Star Wars advent calendar only just went on sale for 2018, but Walmart and Amazon are already taking $6 off its $40 price tag. As always, it features 24 tiny Star Wars-themed LEGO gifts, including brand new ones for 2018 like a snowman in a Rebellion helmet, a Rose minifig, and tons of miniaturized spaceships…
Trump: What We Really Need Right Now Is a Lot More Nukes
The U.S. has had a brief respite from nuclear apocalypticism after that brief period when Donald Trump seemed pretty likely to start a war with North Korea via Twitter. But this being Trump, the power of the U.S. nuclear arsenal has never seemed very far from his mind, and on Saturday he announced the country will be…
Report: Tech-Loving Saudi Prince Suspected in Jamal Khashoggi's Death Has Twitter Troll Army
Saudi crown prince and heir to the throne Mohammed bin Salman is big on PR. He’s fond of selling himself as a Silicon Valley-style disruptor eager to take Saudi Arabia into the future as a regional tech and logistics hub, trying to ink big deals with international tech giants that could help solidify his claim to the…
Large Steel Balls Wreak Havoc on Seattle Neighborhood After Driver Fails to Secure His Load
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) was forced to shut down a road in West Seattle on Wednesday after a semi-truck unleashed its massive load of steel balls onto its streets. The 2-pound grinding balls, ultimately totaling a dumped load of 44,000 pounds of steel, wreaked havoc on the neighborhood and damaged several…
Daredevil's Bullseye Was Very Nearly Captain America Instead
Wilson Bethel, the man cast as Bullseye in the third season of Daredevil, had another chance at the Marvel universe in the past. It was a big one.
A Southwest Flight Made an Emergency Landing After an In-Flight Case of Non-Consensual Footsie Got Out of Hand
If you’ve ever flown before, you know the feeling: as you hunt down your seat, you’re hoping and praying that the person next to you won’t be some weirdo who doesn’t understand the concept of personal space. Normally, we’re pretty lucky. But on Tuesday, a Southwest flight had to make an emergency landing because of…
Watch These Serene Elephants Smash the Shit Out of Some Gourds
Every year leading up to its annual Halloween festivities, the Oregon Zoo kicks the party off with a grand display of gourd-smashing, officially titled the Squishing of the Squash. But lest you thought it was children or even people squashing the gourds, you would be mistaken. Instead, the zoo unleashes its resident…
WhatsApp Bans 100,000 Accounts Before Brazilian Election, Which Is Still a Real Mess
Facebook subsidiary and encrypted chat service WhatsApp has banned more than 100,000 accounts ahead of the upcoming federal elections in Brazil, where leftist Workers’ Party candidate Fernando Haddad will face down far-right populist Jair Bolsonaro, Bloomberg reported on Friday.
This Artist Turns She-Ra Into a Powerful Heroine of Color
This is a fantastic She-Ra.
Over 90 Percent of Table Salts May Contain Microplastics, Study Finds
New reports of microplastics turning up in just about everything from our bottled water to our beer pop up often to remind us just how widespread plastic pollution has become. New research now reports finding microplastics in over 90 percent of table salts, with sea salt unsurprisingly serving up the highest levels of…
Disney Wouldn't Let Wreck-It Ralph 2 Joke About Kylo Ren
Wreck-it Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks the Internet traffics is an irreverent sort of film. To collide a bunch of properties together, stir them up in the wide seas of the internet, and throw them out into an animated comedy requires a willingness to not take things too seriously. But there are still some things the movie…
Environmental Regulation Has Helped Cut Deaths From Air Pollution in Half, Study Finds
There are plenty of reasons to be worried about air quality these days, from the Environmental Protection Agency killing an expert panel on dangerous particulate matter to the Trump administration’s plan to scrap mercury regulations. But today, we got some good news to remind everyone about the value of environmental…
It's a Great Day to Buy the Reader-Favorite Google Wifi Mesh Router System
Update: Now up to $254
Curiosity Rover Is Back to Limited Science Operations on Mars
NASA has had quite a bit on its plate recently between its Hubble Space Telescope entering safe mode, the prolonged silence from its Opportunity rover, and a technical issue with its Curiosity rover on Mars. But one bright spot appears to be the return of some science operations by Curiosity following a memory anomaly…
Sweet Christmas, Netflix and Marvel Just Canceled Luke Cage, Too
Just a week after it shockingly put an end to Iron Fist after a promising second season, Netflix and Marvel have pulled the plug on another of their superhero shows. The streaming service has confirmed that after two seasons, Luke Cage is canceled.
Fake Products From Movies Become Awesome Pop Culture Posters
The best kind pop culture art isn’t obvious. It’s subtle, winks its eye, and takes a certain amount of knowledge to understand. “Product Placement,” the latest art exhibit at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles, is all that and then some.
Ticks Are Killing an Alarming Number of Moose Thanks to Climate Change
The horrifying effects of climate change are evident seemingly everywhere you look. Now, a report from researchers at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) suggests that climate change favorable to a parasite is impacting the moose population in New England. According to their findings, winter ticks that gorge…
