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SUPERGIRL SUPER POWERS (McFARLANE TOYS) “As the most powerful teenager on the planet, the Girl of Steel possesses all of Superman powers from superhuman strength, speed and invulnerability all the way down to his flight and enhanced...
There are brief moments in Kitchen Undercover that allow Antonia Lofaso's strengths and charm to shine. But this Food Network show is mostly interested in villainizing restaurant staff members.
The dumber you are, the more certain you are that you aren't. That's the Dunning-Kruger effect, and it's been used to explain everything from bad politicians to the state of social media. Now psychologists have gone back to the biggest...
By Marianne Lee, Wonderful Machine Each month, we analyze a recent cost estimate, contract, or purchase order and present it in the form of a Pricing & Negotiating article. Redacting the names of the photographer and client allows us to...
Nick Romano / Entertainment Weekly: For the very first time, the worlds of Star Wars and Marvel will collide with an official crossover event. Titled Star Wars/Marvel: Hope Assembles, the five-part limited comic book series will launch...
I’ve long wanted to walk up Clachnaben, the iconic 589-metre hill just south of Banchory in Aberdeenshire. It’s such a striking Aberdeenshire landmark, easily recognisable thanks to a massive granite outcrop at its peak. We finally...
Hello, loves! Tout le monde déteste l’IA. My moral principles were called into question yesterday. After cooling down, I think I should, well, think about them. Not sure I like the answer. I had tooted this little cri de cœur a bit ago:...
From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 29-31: The nineteenth century saw a sustained clash between the religious needs of the Filipinos and the...
While the OH’s coffee has them thinking of past coffees, and remembering other times, other places, and conversing with cats about the weather. I find it’s that first cup of tea that sparks my brain into life. Especially if it’s a cool...
China’s provinces and administrative territories; map from wikimedia, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Until about a decade or so ago, I bought the whole western line about China — that their governments were ideological and oppressive, that they kept...
[Chill out, orcas.] Humanity may deserve having killer whales sink our boats, but I don’t think sunfish deserve to be rammed so hard they explode.Link:...
With lots of competition, the argument that "nobody asked for AI" is probably the dumbest idea being talked about right now.Doctorow talks about it a lot, as if some douchey rich guys made up this giant lie and are selling it to everyone...
By Michael Grasso / August 11, 2026 The Unicorn’s Secret: Murder in the Age of Aquarius By Steven Levy Prentice Hall, 1988 This review is based on the first edition of the book. To interested observers in the 1970s, Ira Einhorn was the...
This is a great and wonderful contribution and you seem really nice and I’d like to show some appreciation but your comment is so complete and flawless that I can’t think of anything intelligent to say so I guess I won’t respond at all,...
The man behind the post office counter had a burn scar on the inside of his right wrist, shiny and about the size of a bottle cap, and Russ had watched that scar move over that wrist three days earlier while its owner wrapped two pounds...