Whitby at night, John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893) (Public Domain) How far back can you go before English stops feeling like… English? The Dead Language Society created a fascinating experiment: a fictional travel blog that rewinds the English language by 100 years at a time. It begins in modern, early-2000s blog style, then gradually shifts into […]
If you’ve ever looked at your old comics and thought, “Am I sitting on a retirement fund… or just emotional baggage?” this one’s for you. In this video, Vincent Zurzolo, president of Metropolis Collectibles, dives into the Internet’s biggest nerd questions and casually drops numbers that will make your wallet cry. He’s held a copy […]
Love was in the air this weekend… and so was the smell of foam armor and fresh 3D prints! For the third year in a row, the team behind Quebec Comiccon brought back the Winter Carnival edition of their event, this year landing on Valentine’s Day weekend. And honestly? There’s no better way to celebrate […]
On May 16, 1990, the world woke up to unthinkable news: Jim Henson was gone. He was only 53. For millions, it felt like losing a friend. For the entertainment industry, it felt like losing the future. In The Day the Future Ended, filmmaker Dodford explores the moment everything changed. Henson wasn’t slowing down, he […]
Generative AI is enabling people to swamp all manner of institutions with documents, forms and messages. sekulicn/E+ via Getty Images Bruce Schneier, Harvard Kennedy School and Nathan Sanders, Harvard University In 2023, the science fiction literary magazine Clarkesworld stopped accepting new submissions because so many were generated by artificial intelligence. Near as the editors could […]
When you hear “Vikings,” your brain probably auto-loads horned helmets, flaming funerals, and someone drinking mead out of a skull while yelling at the ocean. I’m sorry geeks, but history would like a word. This video slices straight through the longboat-sized pile of Viking myths and breaks down what life in the Viking Age was […]
Ever stare at the news and think, “I should understand this, but my brain refuses to”? Perfect. Casually Explained is here to explain everything to you. In his latest video on global military superpowers, he zooms out so far on the world map that individual humans become irrelevant pixels and explains geopolitics like a badly […]
For years, gamers have watched entire games vanish overnight. Servers shut down. Installers stop working. Purchases quietly turn into digital paperweights. It’s frustrating, it’s wasteful, and it feels fundamentally wrong. Now, for the first time, there’s genuine reason for hope. The Stop Killing Games movement has officially surpassed 1.29 million verified signatures, triggering a formal […]