Women are often seen as threatening, dangerous or subversive in patriarchal societies. Villainesses embody fears about women misusing their power to tear apart families, challenge social conventions and cause physical harm or even death. From fairy tales to literature, history to myth, the greatest villainesses are those who not only do bad things, but inspire…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
It’s a sad truth: Home fires kill about 2,500 people every year, and injure 12,600 more. A fire can get out of control in just 30 seconds, and once a room is engulfed, the air at eye level is heated to a scorching 600 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s hot enough to burn your lungs when inhaling….
If you were a sentient being during the early 1970s, you couldn’t miss “Chariots of the Gods” by Erich von Daniken, in either book or movie form. This documentary intrigued a whole generation, spurring the most adventurous to brave long, cramped flights, unfamiliar bacteria and temperature extremes to see the world’s most mysterious places for…
Apple today updated its list of vintage and obsolete products to add the iPhone 6 because it has now been more than five years since the device was last offered for sale. The iPhone 6 has something of a unique launch situation, so the timing of its addition to the list is a little bit…
The Ava Remote smart home controller | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Last week, I visited the world of the professionally installed smart home. This is the promised land. Everything just works, your voice assistant doesn’t try to sell you toilet paper, and you can control your whole home with just one…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hulu’s raising its prices on October 10th. First announced in August, the price increase means you’ll have to pay $7.99 / month instead of $6.99 / month (or $79.99 / year) for the ad-supported version of Hulu and $14.99 / month instead of $12.99 / month for the…
The original Horizon Zero Dawn released on the PS4 just five years ago. | Image: Sony Next up on the list of remasters that nobody really asked for, Sony Interactive Entertainment might be working on a remastered version of Horizon Forbidden West for the PlayStation 5. An unnamed source within Sony cited by MP1ST and…
On September 26, Licensing Executives Society (LES) USA and Canada published the LES High Tech Sector Royalty Rates & Deal Terms Survey Report 2021. In May of this year, the 2021 Global Life Sciences Royalty Rates and Deal Terms Survey results were released. Together, the releases culminated the intense efforts by LES during the COVID-19…
Remember that PlayStation 4 game you really liked just a few, short years ago? Well, maybe you can buy it again soon! Only a month after releasing a full remake of the less-than-10-years-old The Last of Us, PlayStation is reportedly back at it again. The gaming blog MP1st reported over the weekend that a remake…
Pre-toilet paper shortage, bidets had never really caught on in America. When people hear bidet, they either think Europe or extra as hell: Really nice foreign hotels, rich people’s houses in movies, or Marie Antoinette’s chambers featuring, like, a sponge on a stick, or whatever the practice was before TP and running water. But when…