Behind most every tech billionaire is a sci-fi novel they read as a teenager. For Bill Gates it was Stranger in a Strange Land, the 1960s epic detailing the culture clashes that arise when a Martian visits Earth. Google’s Sergey Brin has said it was Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, the cyberpunk classic about hackers and computer viruses set in an Orwellian Los Angeles. Jeff Bezos cites Iain M. Banks’ Culture series, which unreel in an utopian society of humanoids and artificial intelligences,...
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It’s easy to get lost among the thousands of videos offering “can’t-fail garden tips.”
One consistent aspect of President Joe Biden‘s time in the White House has been his tendency to exaggerate stories about his past. Biden’s tendency to exaggerate, which goes back decades, typically involves stories with an element of truth that get stretched with new and often hard-to-believe details. Biden sometimes gets called out via fact checks, […]
Nearly three decades after the release of “Pulp Fiction,” the stars of the iconic movie reunited to celebrate its milestone. Bruce Willis did not attend the event due to health issues, but his wife, Emma, and daughter Tallulah stepped out in his place.
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Before the publication of her debut novel "A Good Happy Girl," author Marissa Higgins told us why the book's protagonist isn't an easy sell.
During a 30th anniversary screening of 'Pulp Fiction' at the TCM Classic Film Festival, Samuel L. Jackson said the film changed his life: 'People started thinking I was the coolest mother f-er on the planet.'