
The ingenious idea of using the studs on top of Lego bricks to spell out words in braille has been around for some years now, originally spearheaded by ad agency Lew’LaraTBWA for the Dorina Nowill Foundation for the Blind in Brazil. Lego finally announced early last year that it’d be making its own official…

Ray Fisher Says WB Is Officially Investigating Abuse Allegations on Joss Whedon’s Justice League Set
Last month — in the wake of announced plans to release a new version of Justice League recreated by original director Zack Snyder — Cyborg actor Ray Fisher took to social media to denounce Joss Whedon’s handling of the film. Among other things, he accused the director of fostering a…

Here’s the most depressing map you’re likely to see this week, courtesy of Anthony Fauci, head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The map, packaged in a recent paper co-written by Fauci, showcases the many other emerging diseases besides covid-19 that pose a threat to our…

Derek Waters and Jeremy Konner’s Drunk History has been cancelled at Comedy Central after six seasons. It’s strange that the comedy-meets-history series was axed after it had already been renewed for season seven, but it looks to be a casualty of ViacomCBS’s new head Chris McCarthy’s drive for a top-to-bottom…

A day after announcing it’s taking formal steps to issue an initial public offering, Airbnb is doing some housekeeping. The home-sharing network decided on Thursday that it’s had enough of all these stories about irresponsible patrons throwing parties in a pandemic, and it’s implementing a worldwide ban on large gatherings…

U.S. federal prosecutors announced Thursday morning that four men have been indicted for their roles in a crowdfunding scheme to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former right-hand man, was among those indicted this morning and is already in federal custody, according to MSNBC.

An official with U.S. Border Patrol sent out a tweet on Tuesday, claiming the agency had arrested ten “illegal aliens” in El Centro, California after some were allegedly caught with fake Social Security numbers. Strangely, the Border Patrol official said the suspects had claimed to be firefighters who were certified…

Early COVID-19 images of swabbing from Wuhan, China, looked more like an Ebola news story — health-care workers fully encased in personal protective equipment (PPE), inserting swabs so deeply that brain injury seemed imminent. As COVID-19 (and testing) spread around the world, there were reports of “brain scraping”, “brain stabbing”…

Ten years on from its release, and hitting cinemas again, Christopher Nolan’s Inception still puzzles and intrigues. It is one of those films in which you discover something new each time you watch it. Or, more likely, it makes you reinterpret what you thought you already knew. Nolan’s oeuvre builds…

On Wednesday, the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives released the legislation in response to controversial administrative changes at the U.S. Postal Service. As more Americans have become concerned that the changes at the USPS pose a threat to the presidential election in November, the House has outlined a number of…

Tuesday night, former Vice President Joe Biden officially clinched the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Big news, to be sure. But let’s be real, the biggest moment of Tuesday night’s Democratic National Convention was the delightful roll call vote that took us on a tour of 57 states and territories, including…