Geek Trivia: Coffee Was Originally Decaffeinated Using What Toxic Chemical?
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Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries
Two of the minds behind the nation’s largest pirate streaming services, iStreamItAll and Jetflicks, have pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement charges, federal officials said Friday....
Even J.J. Abrams Can’t Get Disney to Release ‘Unspecial’ Versions of the Star Wars Movies
The white whale of any Star Wars fan—besides my dream Ahsoka Tano video game—is an unmodified release of the original Star Wars trilogy. Forget the special...
UN Climate Summit Continues Spinning Its Wheels Into the Weekend, and Protestors Aren’t Having It
The UN’s climate summit in Madrid—dubbed COP25 in UN jargon—continued into the weekend as countries remained deadlocked on divisive environmental issues, chief of which is how...
Google Reveals Its Top Searches of the Year And, Yes, It’s Mostly Memes
The Game of Thrones Starbucks cup debacle. Watching Notre Dame go up in flames. The moment the world fell in love with Baby Yoda. Going through...
Trump and the Meaning of Impeachment: My Testimony Before Congress
I will begin by stating my conclusions: The framers provided for impeachment of the president because they wanted the president, unlike the king, to be controlled...
Portraits: Umberto Eco, Saul Steinberg, and Aldo Buzzi
Umberto Eco was one of the people I spent the most time with but knew the least. He deserves a lifetime record for never talking about...
The Drums of Cyberwar
In mid-October, a cybersecurity researcher in the Netherlands demonstrated, online, as a warning, the easy availability of the Internet protocol address and open, unsecured access points...
Making Shakespeare Sing
Giuseppe Verdi’s last two operas, the Shakespearean diptych of Otello and Falstaff, together constitute my favorite case study in what happens when a play is made...
The Gun Violence Epidemic Plaguing Arab-Israeli Society
The problem of gun violence in Israel’s Arab communities has become a national emergency. Even before the recent general election, a poll conducted among Arab Israelis...
