War Games: Real Conflicts is a UK exhibition exploring “what video games tell us about conflict”

Imperial War Museum London’s new exhibition wants to challenge “perceptions of how video games interpret stories about war and conflict”. Entitled War Games: Real Conflicts | Virtual Worlds | Extreme Entertainment, the exhibition is running from now until May 2023 and seeks to “delve into one of today’s most popular storytelling mediums and ask how…

The FDA just approved a new drug funded by the infamous Ice Bucket Challenge

Remember the viral ice bucket challenge? Normal folks and celebs dumped huge buckets of ice-cold water on their heads in 2014, donated money to the ALS Association, and challenged others to join in, too. Mark Zuckerberg challenged Bill Gates, Gates challenged Ryan Seacrest, and Seacrest chucked a tiny hotel room ice bucket over his head,…

Lidl ordered to destroy copycat chocolate bunnies after Swiss court ruled they were too similar to Lindt’s

A giant gold-wrapped Easter bunnies at Lindt’s Zurich headquarters. Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters Lidl was ordered to destroy its chocolate bunnies after a lawsuit from Lindt. Switzerland’s supreme court said it was likely that customers could confuse the two items. The court suggested Lidl could melt down the chocolate and reuse it in other products. Lidl has…

Russian soldiers accused of kidnapping the director general of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

Overview of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on August 29, 2022. Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies. Ukraine has accused the Russian military of kidnapping the director general of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.  Russian forces allegedly blindfolded Ihor Murashov on Friday and forced him into a car.  This comes one day after Putin filed to annex…