'Shop Contest: Summer Sports

June 24th, 2018 12:00 PM

Mario Tennis Aces is slamming into Switches everywhere this weekend, so I think it’s time for us to get video games ready for summer sports.

This Video Explores the Shinto Spirituality of Hayao Miyazaki's Films

June 24th, 2018 12:15 PM

Like any prolific director, anime legend Hayao Miyazaki has a few preoccupations in his writing. Particularly, he’s fascinated by the natural world, and the conflict between man’s desires and nature’s power.

Supreme Court surveillance opinion nudges us to think nationally, act locally

June 24th, 2018 09:00 AM

Enlarge / The Supreme Court of the United States, as seen in 2017. (credit: Phil Roeder / Flickr) Christmas came on Friday, June 22 this year—that is, if you’re a privacy and surveillance law nerd. After deliberating the decision for months, the Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Carpenter v. United States, a case in which the court was asked to answer the question: is it OK for police to obtain 127-days worth of someone’s cell-site location information (CSLI) without a warrant? In a...

World of Outlaws driver Jason Johnson dies after crash

June 24th, 2018 01:05 PM

World of Outlaws sprint car series driver Jason Johnson dies following crash at Beaver Dam Raceway

16-year-old Hailie Deegan got her high school diploma, then raced in NASCAR

June 24th, 2018 01:27 PM

Best graduation day ever! Hailie Deegan joins a very short list of high schoolers who have accepted their diploma and immediately jumped in a race car to compete in NASCAR. Most people cross a stage to receive a high school diploma. They just don't do it in a fire suit and immediately hop in a @NASCARHomeTrack race car to race. Congrats @HailieDeegan! #Carneros200 pic.twitter.com/YyQdRT92hW— Sonoma Raceway (@RaceSonoma) June 23, 2018 Hailie, daughter of driver and X-Games star Brian...

VW electric racer smashes Pikes Peak's overall record

June 24th, 2018 02:31 PM

VW may have been overly cautious when it hoped to beat Pikes Peak's electric vehicle record with its purpose-built racer. Official lap time data has confirmed that Romain Dumas' I.D. R Pikes Peak made it up the legendary hill in just over 7 minutes...

Donald Hall, a Poet Laureate of the Rural Life, Is Dead at 89

June 24th, 2018 01:40 PM

The prolific Mr. Hall was also a memoirist, an essayist and a children’s book author, not to mention a passionate Red Sox fan who wrote two books on baseball.

Season 3 of Preacher takes an unusual approach to horror and humor

June 24th, 2018 01:00 PM

Spoilers for seasons 1 and 2 of Preacher ahead. Early in season 3 of the AMC series Preacher, Tulip (Ruth Negga) has a vision. She’s running down the road to the rural town of Angelville when she sees a man in a black-and-white spotted dog suit. The man-dog is ridiculous, but also eerie — particularly when it tells Tulip she’s been chosen for a divine purpose. It gestures with its floppy paws and stares at her with black, shiny, empty eyes. Many television shows and movies use horror tropes...

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom takes $150 million opening weekend

June 24th, 2018 02:00 PM

Still well short of top 10 premiere weekends, thanks to Disney Continue reading…