[Editor’s note: This is a recap of Fallout episode five. The recap of episode six publishes April 17.] War never changes. It’s the first line of almost every Fallout video game, a weary reminder—voiced, more often than not, by the great Ron Perlman—that while the circumstances of annihilation might change, the impulses driving humanity toward it probably won’t. It’s an idea Fallout the TV show has mostly only danced around so far, illustrating self-destructive impulses on the part of the...
Delmarva- The Blood Bank of Delmarva announced a blood emergency following a period of low donor turnout stemming from holidays and school breaks. According to the blood bank they currrently only have a 2 to 3 day supply of O negative blood and are also suffering a shortage of platelets. However all donation types are needed. “O-Negative is very
Jonathan Nolan has shared some thoughts about how The Dark Knight came together, and how Riddler was thought about for The Dark Knight Rises. Nolan is out promoting the upcoming Fallout series and
Dundee Football Club are continually having to postpone home games because their pitch is waterlogged. They managed to get it dried out by Wednesday morning just in time for another deluge, turning it back into a pond and forcing the referee to call off that evening’s game. I’m sure I’m not the only person in the country who has not been able to use their lawnmower in 2024. Even when we do get a dry sunny day, the grass is still absolutely sodden underfoot. While we don’t expect to be sunbathing...
You may have noticed over the last few days that the political world is in an uproar over President Biden's dispensing of student debt relief. It's not so much that Biden implemented the relief program at all; what got politicians and pundits in a tizzy was that he called out the GOP naysayers in the House by pointing out that many of them had received business loans via the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, that had never been paid back. The White House tweeted out the forgiven...
“I was shocked to learn that medical debt was the number one cause of personal bankruptcy. This, along with the desire to help our neighbors across Hawaii, convinced our group that eliminating the medical debt hanging over many of them."
Pink Floyd’s classic 1973 album, The Dark Side Of The Moon, was basically milkshake-ducked in 48 hours this week, which is an impressive way to spend a 51st birthday. Yesterday, album closer “Eclipse” proudly rang out amongst the sick-of-Bonnie-Tyler crowd in parks and Instagram stories across the nation (for obvious reasons). Today, the band is in the news for selecting an AI-generated video as one of the ten winners of the album’s 50th-anniversary animation contest. Hello, Pink Floyd’s...
Please wear protective eyewear when looking at this enormous object.
Humans are increasingly pushing into space: NASA’s Artemis program plans to return astronauts to the moon and establish a permanent orbiting lab in the next few years, and private companies like Blue Origin and Space X plan to ferry tourists beyond Earth for a price. And where humanity goes, so goes human conflict. “We are by nature, unfortunately, kind of a violent species,” says Zackery Kowalske, a Ph.D. researcher with Staffordshire University in the United Kingdom, who is completing his...
Admit it: You’d also murder to help your kid’s tennis career.
Zaldarriaga credited this “bayanihan spirit” of the ILP in abating a much serious power supply shortage problem since Meralco started it ten years ago.
Traditional societies usually had restrictions to prevent self-support land from being alienated outside of the family or clan. By holding that the essence of private property is its ability to be sold or forfeited irreversibly, Roman law removed the archaic checks to foreclosure that prevented property from being concentrated in the hands of the few. This Roman concept of property is essentially creditor-oriented, and quickly became predatory. More