In 2007, Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote an influential book called The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Taleb argued that Black Swan events (e.g., 9/11 or the development of Google) share three criteria: they are extremely rare, extremely impactful, and—in spite of being outliers—explainable and even predictable after the fact. Both Donald Trump’s
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Todd Phillips explains why a Joker: Folie à Deux scene with Lady Gaga‘s Harley Quinn kissing another woman didn’t make the final cut. Paparazzi photos from the set of the Warner Bros. film in New York City from March 2023 featured the singer locking lips with a woman. The scene happens when Harley arrives at the courthouse to
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Tom Holland has some big news! On Sunday (October 13), the 28-year-old Spider-Man actor took to social media to reveal that he was launching a new line of non-alcoholic beer called Bero. The news comes over a year after Tom opened up about his journey to sobriety. Keep reading to find out more… Tom announced
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Liam Gallagher has mocked Saturday Night Live for a sketch parodying he and brother Noel Gallagher. During Weekend Update on the latest episode of SNL, Sarah Sherman and James Austin Johnson portrayed the Oasis co-founders as they discussed their upcoming reunion and whether they’ll be able to avoid breaking up before the tour officially kicks
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The bestseller lists are not playing nice together this week: there is not one book that all of them agree is a top ten bestseller. While most of these books will be familiar titles, we have a few new titles this week: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney, The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon, and Counting Miracles by Nicholas Sparks. Among
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It’s a Smallville reunion! Erica Durance guest stars as one of Cassandra’s (Kristin Kreuk) childhood friends as they work on a fundraiser on Murder in a Small Town Season 1 Episode 4. Durance guest-stars as Emma O’Brea, whose husband has disappeared, and the spoilers hint that the case becomes complicated. Cassandra feels torn between her
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We’re getting at this fall thing from all angles. There are cozy books by BIPOC authors, dead boos in ghost romances, and a new book — The Complete Book of Origami: A Beginner’s Guide to the Most Popular Folded Paper Models by Shufunotomo — to help you learn a craft that I suspect will be great for when you’re listening
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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for the Pachinko Season 2 finale. Pachinko is both sprawling epic and emotional rollercoaster – and nothing captures that better than the season 2 finale that just dropped on Apple TV+. The series follows a Korean family across four generations and takes in historical events and family drama as the resolute Sunja
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Jason Kelce has apparently had it with Taylor Swift’s fans. The retired NFL player accused the billionaire singer’s fanbase of election interference this week, saying that they’re responsible for forcing him into an “agonizing review” of the 2005 coming-of-age film Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. But just a few days after Kelce’s grumpy announcement, his
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Neil Young has endorsed Kamala Harris for president. In a new blog post on the Neil Young Archives, the legendary rockstar highlighted the reasons why he “loves” the vice president, writing, “She is an honest, forthright truth teller who is experienced in the White House, free from ambiguity or evasiveness, who goes straight to the
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Nobel week is always a big week. South Korean Novelist Han Kang Awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature Han Kang’s Nobel Prize is unusual in a couple of ways. First, she is considerably younger than most winners and has a long time ahead of her in which to enjoy the unique glow this award provides. Second,
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Now streaming on Shudder is V/H/S/BEYOND, which pushes the popular anthology franchise firmly into sci-fi territory with new bloodcurdling tapes that explore everything from aliens to horrific science experiments run amok. Among them is Justin Martinez’s high-octane skydiving horror segment with an alien twist, “Live and Let Dive.” Martinez, one of the founders of the
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