Name a holiday when evil spirits are all around you and magic and mysticism is celebrated. Not Halloween, but Midsummer. In the Northern Hemisphere, the longest day of the year falls around June 21, when the suns rays are perpendicular to the Tropic of Ca...
A mega-hit, that has now gained popularity in Europe, is a very useful tool if you are looking for a fast, clean, easy and effective way of applying foundation or other creamy cosmetics. We’re talking about a tiny egg-shaped sponge – beauty bl...
There’s reading for pleasure—but there’s also reading for treasure.If you want to do the latter, you can pick up one of several books that contain hidden clues that lead to a buried treasure or cash prize. The genre is sometimes called “armchair treasure ...
The shimmering torsos of the Club Xquisite dancers from Magic Mike (2012) might be indelibly burned into your consciousness, but how well do you really know the movie? Steven Soderbergh’s dance dramedy—which sold tickets, burnished careers, and elevated m...
Witches, goblins, and spirits lurking in the shadows ruled the medieval worldview. They were supposedly banished by the Enlightenment as science bloomed, and religious institutions dismissed superstitions. But even as the empirical method advanced the cau...
Magic and superstition have been present in human societies since the dawn of our species, and ancient Rome was no exception. Some of us would like to believe that the advancement of education and scientific knowledge should be enough to keep superstitiou...
Even today, horoscopes can be found in most newspapers, fortune tellers are present in every town and city, and many of us avoid walking under ladders (just in case). The rational Greeks were as superstitious as we are, and perhaps even more so. They left...
The Middle Ages are an enduring staple of our popular culture; many films, books, and television series draw on the medieval period as a backdrop for their plots and characters. These fictional works often represent a view of magic in medieval Europe that...
Magic mushrooms, mushies, booms, and shrooms are all nicknames for the psychedelic mushrooms that can be found worldwide, which contain hallucinogenic active ingredients, particularly psilocybin, a powerful hallucinogen with various other properties. In a...
When it comes to food, we all have certain guilty pleasures. Whether it's a basket full of crispy fries or a bucket of hot wings, some dishes are just worth it, no matter how many calories are potentially at stake. Enter air fryers, which are almost l...
HISTORYBased on a True StoryTheHistory Behind Robert Eggers’ ‘The Northman’The revenge saga blends traditional accounts with the supernatural to convey the lived experience of the Viking age Alexander Skarsgrd stars as Amleth, a Vik...
HISTORYBased on a True StoryTheHistory Behind Robert Eggers’ ‘The Northman’The revenge saga blends traditional accounts with the supernatural to convey the lived experience of the Viking age Alexander Skarsgrd stars as Amleth, a Vik...
HISTORYThe Ancient Origins of the Easter BunnyA scholar traces the folk figure’s history from the Neolithic era to todayIn 51 B.C.E., Julius Caesar noted that people in Britain did not eat hares due to their religious significance.Getty ImagesT...
HISTORYThe Ancient Origins of the Easter BunnyA scholar traces the folk figure’s history from the Neolithic era to todayIn 51 B.C.E., Julius Caesar noted that people in Britain did not eat hares due to their religious significance.Getty ImagesT...
SMART NEWSScotland Issues Formal Apology to Thousands Accused of WitchcraftAn estimated 2,500 Scots were executed as witches between the 16th and 18th centuries A 14th-century illustration depicts accused witches being burned at the stake. More than...
Rintrah the Magical Minotaur is rumored to appear in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. It has already been teased that the highly anticipated sequel was going to get weird, but this latest rumor will likely have Marvel Comics fans pretty e...
Courtesy of Lionsgate / Paramount / Apple TV+SXSW got off to an uncharacteristically chilly start last week. As the annual ode to movies, music and tech kicked off on March 11 in Austin, the Texas winds blew a cold front into the downtown streets. Be...
When audiences sit down to watch Tom Holland's latest adventure, this time as Nathan Drake in Uncharted, they will first lay their eyes upon an iconic video game sequence being brought to live-action life. Uncharted starts off by giving moviegoers a...
Channing Tatum previously revealed that he's making Magic Mike 3, and now the actor has teased some details about the forthcoming movie. The first two Magic Mike films were both big hits with critics and fans alike, leaving many eager for more of the...
Image: Marvel StudiosSince Iron Man 2 in 2010, pretty much all of Marvel’s movies have been team-up films in some form or fashion, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is no exception. The sequel, picking up after the events of Spider-Man...
Performing Magic With A Little High-Tech Help
Doing magic with cards involves a lot of precise dexterity to know which card is where. For plenty of tricks, this is often knowledge and control of a single card or a small number of cards. But kn…
Hasbro Board of Directors Re-Elected, Defeats Attempt to Spin Out Wizards of the Coast
Hasbro announced that its shareholders had re-elected its full board of directors, defeating an attempt by an activist investor to install a new board member and bring other changes to the toy company. Hasbro announced that a preliminary tally of votes showed that the board was re-elected 'with a [...]
Coronavirus and covid-19: Your questions answered
Why do some healthy people develop severe symptoms? Do people who recover from covid-19 become immune to the coronavirus? Our answers to readers’ questions
What’s next for Event Horizon Telescope after its black hole pictures?
Now that the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has released its image of the Milky Way's black hole, the team is focusing on making movies of the two photographed black holes and finding other distant black holes large enough to study
