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Netflix is justing giving DVDs away now

Netflix founder Reed Hastings holds up a few dozen DVDs headed to eager households in 2002, when the company had…

8 months ago

BRICS, the economic group of America’s rivals and friends alike, explained

Prior to the BRICS summit, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Pretoria on August…

8 months ago

The one big thing about Trump’s Georgia arraignment that could be different

Donald Trump is expected to turn himself in this Thursday in Georgia. | Brandon Bell/Getty Images Unlike the other cases,…

8 months ago

Hurricane Hilary soaked an already wet California. Is the drought over?

Tropical Storm Hilary dumped rain on desert regions of Southern California like Cathedral City, pictured here, where a car is…

9 months ago

The case for reimagining the nuclear family

Getty Images/CSA Images RF You can learn a lot from utopias, even though you (probably) don’t live in one. When…

9 months ago

“Going shopping” is dead

Hoi Chan for Vox How stores sucked the fun out of an American pastime Whether it was spritzing on perfumes…

9 months ago

Meditation is more than either stress relief or enlightenment

Pete Gamlen for Vox Exploring the wider range of meditation is no longer reserved for the monasteries. The new science…

9 months ago

It’s not just famous actors and big-name writers the Hollywood strikes are hurting

People picket outside of Paramount Pictures studios during the Hollywood writers strike on May 4, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.…

9 months ago

Ecuador’s kind-of-normal elections weeks after a political assassination

Two candidates have advanced to a runoff in the Ecuadorian elections, including leftist Luisa Gonzalez. | Getty Images The country’s…

9 months ago

Why Hurricane Hilary is so strange — and how it has impacted California

A wind-swept street in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico, on August 19, 2023, as Hurricane Hilary neared the…

9 months ago