Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
“Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.” STX Entertainment Director Luc Besson has been responsible for some of the most memorable movies ever made, including “La Femme Nikita,” “Léon: The Professional,” and “The Fifth Element,” but this summer he’s out with a movie that’s been on his mind most of his life. “Valerian and…
“If I knew I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.” – Mickey Mantle. Long Strange Trip We started The Deck in 2006 and for the first couple years it struggled. By 2008, it was an OK business and by 2009, it was a pretty good business….
Over the weekend Maxim Shipenkov took a photograph of a woman being arrested at the protests in Moscow. The photograph is striking in composition, its tension and poses almost classical, almost a grotesque recasting of a pietà. A series of visual juxtapositions inhabit the tight space of the photographic frame: her flying hair versus the…
Today’s Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer did a lot of things right, although it also kind of gave away the entirety of the film in doing so. But one of the best aspects of the trailer is that it set up the stakes of the film, including antagonists both internal and external. This is an area where…
As an Arctic researcher, I’m used to gaps in data. Just over 1% of US Arctic waters have been surveyed to modern standards. In truth, some of the maps we use today haven’t been updated since the second world war. Navigating uncharted waters can prove difficult, but it comes with the territory of working in…
The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you’ll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase. Amazon After offering their first unlocked phone through a partnership earlier this year, Amazon has started selling another. This time they’ve partnered with Motorola to offer the 4th generation…
EVE Online is about to get its biggest, most expensive warship ever: the Molok. A version of the game’s giant Titan spaceship that’s aligned with the Blood Raider pirate faction, it’s going to cost three to five times the price of an Avatar-class Titan. But all that cash outlay comes with serious benefits, like the…
During an appearance on Fox and Friends this morning, professional cliché and loofah enthusiast Bill O’Reilly shared some surely necessary and not-at-all-racist insights on a speech Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) gave Monday on the House floor. While addressing the House, Waters spoke about resistance and patriotism, arguing that Black people have refused to “turn a…
So you want to learn a second language to hep advance your career, but you have no idea which one would benefit you the most. If you were to ask an economist, this is probably what they’d tell you. Over at Quartz, Emily Oster, an associate professor of economics at Brown University, recommends two languages…
Dr. William Happer, a retired Princeton physicist and trusted Breitbart expert, met with then president-elect Donald Trump in early January, reportedly to discuss the role of science advisor; he told The Guardian last month that if offered the post he would accept it. On inauguration day, in a colorful demonstration of his personal brand of…