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The Fossil Fuel Industry Is Racist Photo: David McNew (Getty Images) There’s a scientific consensus that coal, oil, and gas are frying the planet and will have to be phased out completely to secure a livable future. It’s also clear that each of the three fossil-based energy sources creates deadly, toxic pollution, providing yet another reason to retire the industry. A new report—released by Greenpeace, the Movement for Black Lives, and Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy on Tuesday morni...

Watch This o ffers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: movies in space copy. This week: WithVoyagers now in theaters and Stowaway on Netflix next week, we’re looking to the stars for five days of space movies. Advertisement The Wandering Earth (2019) “You might say that each and every one of us is a crew member, here on Spaceship Earth.” So declares the astrophysicist played by David Hyde Pi...

Alerts Floodwaters from the Mississippi River rise around a home on June 1, 2019 in West Alton, Missouri. Photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images) Having been a “climate person” for the past decade-plus has been pretty damn exhausting. Every single choice I make has involved agonizing over the environmental ramifications. But as the climate crisis has become impossible to ignore, more and more people are doing the same, including making decisions to move based on sea level rise and extreme heat. W...

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images) Roblox, the online game platform pretty much every kid is glued to right now, is advertised with the tagline, “Powering Imagination.” This seems to bear out for at least one user, whose imagination was powered up well enough that they decided to fake press credentials in order to ask questions during recent White House press briefings. Advertisement The story of the citizen journalist in question, who uses the screen name Kacey “Lego” Montagu, was det...

How to Fix Someones Computer When You Cant Visit Them While the global pandemic may not have changed your status as the go-to free tech support consultant for your family and group of friends, it’s probably limited how often you can visit them to fix laptops, phones, wifi networks, printers, and other gadgets. Fortunately for them, if not for you, it’s not that difficult to set up a remote troubleshooting session. Advertisement Arguably the best option for this is Chrome Remote Desktop. It�...

How Much Money Can You Really Make on Substack? Photo: Undrey (Shutterstock) Considering Substack’s low-entry costs, a paid subscriber base that’s nearly doubled over the past 12 months, and the news that its top writers make up to a million dollars a year, you might be wondering: Can I really make a living publishing on the newsletter publishing platform? If you have an established audience willing to pony up for your content, then yes—but the fees are no joke, either. Here’s a look at...

Alerts Screenshot: The Simpsons The Simpsons, even one as pored over as “22 Short Films About Springfield.” But as former Simpsons writers and executive producers Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein tell The A.V. Club ahead of that episode’s 25th anniversary, there’s at least one question they’d never been asked about “22 Short Films.” Advertisement “22 Short Films” was born of the efforts to beef up season four’s “The Front,” which came up a minute short of the minimum run...

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MIT engineering professor Markus Buehler has turned the vibrations of spiderwebs into music that attempts to replicate how spiders perceive the world.

What You Need to Know About the J&J Vaccine Blood Clot Risk Photo: ROB ENGELAAR/ANP/AFP (Getty Images) Six people, out of over 6 million who have received the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen COVID vaccine, have developed a rare type of blood clot. As a result, the FDA and CDC have announced a pause in the use of this vaccine. The pause is likely to last just a few days. Advertisement The reason for the pause, spokespeople for the FDA and CDC said, is to allow time to get the word out to healthcare p...