If you read that headline and thought, “Wait, London Fields was adapted into a movie?”, you’re not the only one. A film version starring Billy Bob Thornton, Amber Heard, and Jim Sturgess was released in theaters this past weekend, made only $ 168,575, and received a rare 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes. That puts it in […]
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Take a Spectacular Drive Through Rwanda's Tea Fields
Rwanda’s sprawling tea fields are a particular shade of green. Not exactly emerald, a hair lighter than jade, but still green. Tea green. The Kivu Belt road, situated between the towns of Gisenyi and Cyangugu, stretches 190 kilometers through the iridescent plantations as well as other terraced farmlands, making for a spectacular drive along sparkling […]
The Overlooked Children Working America’s Tobacco Fields
KINSTON, North Carolina—They would wake up at five or six in the morning. They didn’t know where they were going, but they knew how far it was, what time the day had to start. Yesenia Cuello’s mother would fix breakfast, or if the girls were up early they would do it themselves to help her […]
Lexus exec says he still fields complaints about the spindle grille
When Lexus debuted its spindle grille on the GS sedan and trademarked the design back in 2012, it was a sure sign the look was here to stay, and it started making its way through the lineup in the 2013 model year. Five model years later, it’s on all Lexus vehicles. The one thing everyone […]
HBO’s ‘Paterno’ Trailer: A Weary Al Pacino Fields Questions About Jerry Sandusky
“Did you know about Jerry?” The implicit accusation in those words resound through the short teaser trailer for Paterno, HBO’s movie about the disgraced Penn State football coach whose shining legacy was tainted in the wake of a horrific child sex abuse convictions of his assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky. Al Pacino plays the titular Joe Paterno, a […]
The Physics of Plastic Sheets … and Their Invisible Force Fields?
Can fast-moving plastic sheets create an invisible wall? Maybe, maybe not. But you can definitely explore the electric effects of plastic on your own. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a4bdd0edd6e67710f587286/master/pass/plastictape-200019041-001.jpg Feed: All Latest
Children In Need 2017: Katie Melua’s Fields of Gold SOARS up charts after performance
Fields of Gold – a cover of a track by Sting – did not chart in this week’s official Top 100, revealed earlier today. However at time of writing it is racing back towards the Top 10 on iTunes; at No14 at around 10pm, around the time Melua performed. It is set to race higher […]
Team Xbox dishes on the new One X, fields our ridiculous requests
(video link) REDMOND, Wash.—Ahead of Xbox One X‘s November 7 launch, Ars Technica was invited to hang out at the company’s Xbox campus and chat with one of the console’s leading managers. With this opportunity in mind, we grabbed a camera crew and asked as many questions of Kevin Gammill, the Xbox division’s “core platform […]
Archaeologists are mystified by ancient “gates” in Saudi lava fields
Google Earth For almost a century, aerial photographers have been documenting mysterious, millennia-old structures built from low walls of stone in the rocky lava fields, known as harrat, in Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. This desert region, blistered with volcanic mounds, is nearly devoid of life. But seen from above, the barren ground is covered […]
US on collision course with Syrian forces in ‘race for Deir ez-Zor’s oil fields’
The race between legitimate Syrian government forces and the US-backed SDF umbrella group to control the oil rich Deir ez-Zor province has intensified following the lifting of the blockade by Syrian troops last week and risks turning into direct confrontation. Last Tuesday, the Syrian military backed by the Russian air force finally broke the IS […]