Miscommunication has often led to disaster. Take the famous Charge of the Light Brigade, for example. In 1854 during the Crimean War, a brigade of British horsemen was ordered to attack Russian soldiers who were removing artillery pieces from captured Ottoman positions. This was a suitable mission for the brigade, which could travel fast and […]

You never know what you will see at the water hole in Gondwana Namib Park in the middle of the Namib Desert in Namibia. At this moment (it’s nine in the morning in Maine and three in the afternoon there), three ostriches have shown up to drink. They have large fluffy bodies, ridiculously long legs, […]

Nobody is going to mistake cut-rate biopic “Reagan” for a great movie. At best, it’s a pretty standard greatest-hits collection of important moments in the former President’s life. At worst, it’s a laughably underfunded production made by people who, for whatever reason, want to sell America on Ronald Reagan in 2024. But the movie is […]

In 2009, a writer took information from a government report and wrote about it, calling it “this grim statistic.” Her article was referenced time and again on website after website. Some places began citing, not that first article, but articles that had been written about it, getting further and further away from the original source. […]

“Alien: Romulus” started out at a disadvantage with me because I haven’t liked any of the “Alien” films that came before it. I’m not just talking about the heavily-maligned third and fourth installments from the 90’s, the “Predator” crossovers from the 2000’s, or the uneven Michael Fassbender arc of the 2010’s. I mean that even […]