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"The Walking Dead" #83 isn't just the end of the Anderson family's story; it features one of the most violently game-changing moments for Carl Grimes. In the wake of experiencing the Andersons' deaths, Douglas Monroe pulls out a gun amid the chaos of the swarming zombies. In a poor decision, he chooses to fire on them, believing he's protecting his fellow survivors. However, the noise just directs the zombies back in the group's direction, and Douglas is eaten as he fires wildly into the air. Unfortunately…

Photo: AP Photo/Stocktrek Images (AP)Right now, the Mars rover Curiosity is trudging through the dusty terrain of the red planet, where it’s been hard at work for over ten years. Among its many onboard devices, the car-sized robot has a machine on its belly called the “sample-analysis unit.” Curiosity uses its mechanical arm to put soil in the sample-analysis unit, which then vibrates at different frequencies to sort the dirt into different little cups. Then the cups heat up to release gasses, which are studied in…

On a Wednesday night in a basement karaoke bar in east London, Irish singer Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, who performs as CMAT, is kneeling on a small stage performing a dramatic rendition of Shakespears Sister’s gothic ballad Stay. Lying in front of her is a friend pretending to be dead (as in the original music video), while the pianist from her band, Colm, provides backing vocals. It’s a display of brilliant theatricality, exaggerated, camp and chaotic. In other words, it’s pure CMAT.Skills like these don’t arrive…

Fresh off winning the Academy Award in 1998 for his performance in “Good Will Hunting,” Robin Williams had reached a new apex of his career. He enjoyed respect as an artist, was a top box-office draw in movies and appeared to be happily married to his second wife and loved being the father of three children. Yet, he appeared to actor star Sam Neill, Williams’ then co-star in the 1999 film “Bicentennial Man,” to be “inconsolably solitary and deeply depressed.” Sam Neill attends the world premiere of “The Portable Door” at…

Martha Wainwright, 46, is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter, daughter of folk musicians Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle and sister of singer-composer Rufus Wainwright. She has had to work throughout her life to come confidently into her own with piercingly honest songs that tell it like it is – and how it was. Her disarming page-turner of a memoir, Stories I Might Regret Telling You, mixes steadiness with vulnerability.Throughout your life, your career has been talked about within your family context – is…

“The tapes are the real man — mean, vindictive, panicky, striking first in anticipation of being struck, trying to lift his own friable self-esteem by shoving others down,” Gary Wills wrote of Richard Nixon in the 2017 preface to his book, “Nixon Agonistes.” Wills added, perhaps unfairly, that “Nixon’s real tragedy is that he never had the stature to be a tragic hero. He is the stuff of sad (almost heartbreaking) comedy.”The passage comes to mind as we close out Donald Trump’s annus horribilis, during which he supplanted…

Remember us Everyone plays video games for different reasons. For some, it’s stress relief. For others, it’s community. I can’t pin my own tastes down, but I do know that if a game made me cry, I probably liked it a lot. To me, video games have unique opportunities to tug at the heart strings. It is wonderful to learn about a world and its characters for 20, 50, or even 100 hours. If done right, a game can use this space to tell evocative stories that wouldn’t work in other media. As I was making this list, I realized…

Image via Lucasfilm When it comes to the hierarchy of pop culture, you simply don’t rocket to the heights that Star Wars has without capturing the hearts of countless fans across the globe. Indeed, George Lucas’ flagship space opera has long prided itself on unforgettable characters, a setting that captures the most untamed imaginations, and its claim to some of the most historic moments in cinematic history. And when you’ve managed to capture all of these hearts, it’s customary that you give them a hearty wring…

Ham the juvenile chimp with trainers at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 31, 1961.Photo: NASAHam the chimpanzee is famous for being the first great ape in space, earning this distinction on January 31, 1961. A key goal of this NASA Mercury-Redstone mission was to determine if animals could perform tasks in space. To that end, Ham, who was only 2 years old when the training began, was taught to move levers, both to receive awards in the form of banana pellets and to avoid punishment in the form of electric shocks to his…

Image via 20th Century Studios Professor Xavier is one of the most beloved Marvel characters there is and has appeared on-screen more than most. Sadly, many of these appearances haven’t resulted in a good time for the X-Man. Given the multiple deaths that Professor X has faced over the years, Marvel Studios fans are debating which of these hit them the hardest. Professor X faced his first on-screen death during X-Men 3: The Last Stand, and most recently during Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness when…