
The #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements have forced Hollywood and other artists and filmmakers to rethink their subject matter and casting practices. However, despite an increased sensitivity to gender and race representation in popular culture, disabled Americans are still awaiting their national (and international) movement. “Disability drag” – casting…

Breathing quickly in the thin mountain air, my colleagues and I set down our equipment. We’re at the base of a jagged outcrop that protrudes upwards out of a steep gravel slope. The muffled soundscape of the spectacular Himalayan wilderness is punctuated by a military convoy roaring along the Khardung-La…

Seems like just yesterday we were all adjusting to the concept of “lockdown,” but it’s now become a full-on lifestyle. Fortunately, the output of new sci-fi and fantasy books is one thing that hasn’t slowed down — and November is full of adventures in deep space, chaotic kingdoms, other dimensions,…

This weekend, highways from Texas to Kentucky to New Jersey were overrun with Trump-supporting caravans. They tried to run a Joe Biden campaign bus off the road, held up traffic, shut down a bridge, and generally pissed people off and intimidated them. It’s perfectly emblematic of the Trump era, particularly…

Surprise, Apple’s latest iPhone 12 models may have a hidden feature. Now that MagSafe has been introduced as a charging option for iPhones, it seems Apple may be looking further at the potential for reverse wireless charging. According to Forbes, a MagSafe feature hidden in Apple’s FCC filings has teased…

In trying to avoid accusations of anti-conservative bias, Facebook has reportedly been bending the rules for high-profile Republicans. Sources told the Washington Post that Facebook has held off on punishing President Donald Trump’s family members and other conservative groups and personalities who repeatedly violate its rules against misinformation, even removing strikes…

Behind that putrefying flesh, there’s a lot of hidden depth to the zombie. As humanities scholar Jeffery Cohen puts it in his book Monster Theory: Reading Culture, “monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them.” In 1918, with the Spanish Flu ravaging the U.S., we turned our…

When the U.S. federal government put the Department of Health and Human Services in charge of hospital data aggregation instead of its subsidiary, the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, critics feared that the Trump administration might be trying to stifle news to keep the public in the dark…

Study after study have suggested that Asian countries, particularly ones in Southeast Asia, are the biggest contributors to plastic pollution. This belief has informed policy, too — the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s recent plan for how to tackle the issue of plastic pollution, for instance, said that together, China, Indonesia,…