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During the 18th century the denizens of the Prussian city of Königsberg wrestled with a puzzle: How could they find a walking path through the city that crossed each of its storied seven bridges exactly once?The bridges spanned a river containing two large islands. No matter how much they strategized their routes, they couldn’t avoid repeating a bridge.The problem stymied local thinkers, who eventually wrote a letter to famed mathematician Leonhard Euler (pronounced “oiler”) begging him to lay their curiosity to rest.…

Co-writer/director Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving took quite a while to become a reality. Debuting as a fake trailer with Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse double feature, Roth and his vision for a Turkey Day-themed slasher came from a personal place. Stretching all the way back to Roth's childhood, and now emerging onto the 2023 movie release schedule, here’s the story behind how Thanksgiving finally carved a path into theaters.(Image credit: Dimension)How Thanksgiving’s Original Trailer Came To BeDuring…

Apologies in advance to anyone of a certain generation who immediately falls to their knees and cries out in despair when they hear this, but today marks exactly 20 years since Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl sailed into theaters on July 9, 2003. Yep, it really has been that long since Johnny Depp stole our hearts as Captain Jack Sparrow, the instant cinematic icon etched into pop culture forevermore that landed the star the first Academy Award nomination of his career and launched both a…

The Food and Drug Administration is warning people to stay away from suspect sources of semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs Wegovy and Ozempic. The agency has received reports of adverse effects from people using semaglutide created by compounding pharmacies. Additionally, some of these pharmacies are producing different forms of semaglutide that haven’t been tested for their safety and effectiveness.Mental Health Apps Are a Privacy NightmareSemaglutide is a synthetic and longer-lasting…

The super-sized horror genre is synonymous with a variety of smaller sub-genres that undoubtedly have a large impact on the overall cinematic landscape. Although found-footage classics like The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Paranormal Activity (2007) have persistently been regarded as the cream of the crop, a handful of other chilling features certainly match the caliber of the classics. This is precisely the case for 2007’s , which has definitely made its impression in the horror bubble. Over 15 years later, the…

Ever since the beginning of the year, Earth has been riddled with solar storms. But why has the Sun suddenly turned much more violent than usual? Find out. With three unstable sunspots currently facing the Earth, there is a 70 percent chance that either one of them can explode and spew out an X-class solar flare that sends a solar storm towards our planet. But this is not an isolated event. Since the beginning of 2023, Earth has suffered multiple solar storms caused by coronal mass ejections (CME) and solar flare…

Love them or hate them, and a cursory glance at the internet on any given day highlights that both sides of the divide are just as vocal, the headline-grabbing power couple of Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly would likely have never ended up together were it not for the diabolical serial killer thriller Midnight in the Switchgrass. Even if you can’t stand the pair’s attention-seeking antics that’s seen them introduce brand new levels of cringe into the public consciousness on a worrying regular basis, there is an air of…

The Marvel rumor mill is a fickle beast. Some of the tidbits of information that the fandom receives from various sources gives us enough to chew on, debate, discuss, and ponder over for days on end while we wait for official answers from Kevin Feige and the Disney powers that be. Others seem so far-fetched that they just become something for fans to poke fun at. In this case, the latter has occurred. Twitter handle @marvel_updat3s has shared an uncorroborated rumor that Scarlett Johannson will be reprising her role as…

One of the most intriguing sub-genres in the massive horror catalog belongs to the alluring blend of fear and humor. Truthfully, horror and comedy colliding often results in a knockout hit — whether it to be a film or television series — that fans can’t seem to get enough of. This has precisely been the case for the What We Do in the Shadows franchise, which has easily become one of the hottest horror-comedy byproducts in the genre. Over on the r/horror subreddit, user u/carlynaner unapologetically expressed excitement…

A dinosaur skeleton at auction.Photo: ANGELA WEISS / AFP (Getty Images)A team modeling the aftermath of the asteroid impact that doomed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago say that the collision also created a global tsunami that devastated coastlines from North America to New Zealand.The researchers studied ancient sediments from over 100 sites around the world, to see how extreme waves resulting from the impact may have disrupted the geological record. Their workwas presented at a meeting of the American Geophysical…