Sands of the Kalahari – Trailers From Hell
Cy Endfield’s intense African survival adventure purports to teach lessons about the Territorial Imperative and the easy slide…
NASA’s Psyche captures images of Earth and the Moon from 180 million miles away
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Book Review: Quicksilver | BookClub
“I read for the plot. The plot is chaos. I am thriving.”
If you’ve spent more than five…
First Google Pixel 10 Pro camera reviews: Much criticism, poor Pro Res zoom but a few improvements
In the example above, the user first zooms from 1x to 5x, and later to 30x and 100x.…
Critic’s Picks: Books of the Summer
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Book review: The Remnants of Rebellion is a saga of grief, inheritance and the ghosts of revolution
A colonial-era estate sits deep in Kerala’s rubber plantations, heavy with secrets and memory. Into this house, bequeathed…
Vindicator – Whispers of Death Review
New thrash doesn’t hit my ears as much as it used to, and more than any other metal…
Mehrwertsteuer – Krone der Schöpfung Review
Black metal is, traditionally, an angry style of music. That’s not controversial, right? The early pioneers of the…
Yet another planet ruled out as potentially habitable like Earth
Recent observation of TRAPPIST-1 d using James Webb’s NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) tool did not show any sign of…
Ashen – Leave the Flesh Behind Review
Australian death metal troupe Ashen impressed me back in 2023, but not because their debut record Ritual of…
Small Rain by Garth Greenwell review – reflections from a hospital bed
Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain garnered worldwide praise on its release last year. Its paperback release should do wonders…
Smartwatch tech fails to measure stress in new study
An ever-increasing number of smart wearables claim to be able to tell how well the user is sleeping…