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Radio Talk Show Host Finds His Mojo Downtown
After eleven years in a windowless suburban studio, a late-night host moved his show into a downtown storefront where anyone can watch him work.…
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Setting Up a Team Brawler is More Complicated Than Many Realize
Four players, melee weapons and forty milliseconds of disagreement. Designers at three studios explain why the crowd-brawler genre keeps breaking in the same place:…
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Behind the Tourist Spots in Brussels
The Grand-Place takes nine minutes to photograph. What the coach tours skip, a Congolese high street, a working lambic brewery, a flea market that…
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Agencies Around the World Are Planning Their Next Lunar Trips
Nine landers, five agencies and one patch of cratered ground the size of a county. The hardest part of the new lunar decade is…
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The Solar Flare of 1859, and What It Would Mean Today
In 1859 a geomagnetic storm set telegraph paper alight and let operators send messages with the batteries disconnected. The modern equivalent would be a…
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The 80’s Influence Over Pop Culture Has Been Increasing
Fifteen years in, the eighties revival has outlived nostalgia. Most of the art directors and producers trading in sodium-vapour sunsets were born after the…
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Them Short Shorts in Planetary Orbit
Ninety metres of chilled tubing, a laundry bill measured in kilograms per year, and spines that grow three centimetres: the strange engineering behind what…
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Goal Line Technology Could be Introduced to College Sports
Optical tracking, chipped balls and magnetic goal lines are already routine in professional sport. The question in college athletics is not whether they work,…
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Tokyo Dining District Attracts Millions of Japanese Always
Shinbashi’s under-the-tracks izakaya run on office workers, not tourists. The threat to Tokyo’s loudest dining district is not the guidebooks but a lease that…
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Stranger Things Have Happened And Nobody Knew Anything
The county sheriff with a flashlight and no theory has become streaming’s most reliable employee. A look at how jurisdiction horror took over the…
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