How are your Zoom meetings going? Are they all for things that could have been an email? Do people keep derailing to talk about how much they miss going out to eat? It’s hard to stay focused when you’ve been staring at the same grid of coworkers for the past seven months. So keep reading …
Welcome to your weekly Oddee horoscope. Last week ended up being a weird one. A priest peed on a woman during a flight from Vegas to Detroit. A man survived a brush with an angry cougar mom (the cat kind). And the US Army is making virtual reality goggles for dogs, despite 42 million Americans …
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I grew up in during Disney’s Renaissance when the animation studio turned world domination force, set about ingratiating itself to a new generation of kids. We got Rescuers Down Under, Lion King, Aladdin, and Hercules, just to name a few. Inspired by Disney’s push for critical acclaim, other animation studios turned out equally compelling films, …
If you count Reddit among your daily must-read publications, then you’re familiar with the AITA thread. There, people who think they’re behaving properly but aren’t getting positive feedback ask for perspective from the most objective people in the world—the internet. And boy, does the internet deliver timely judgments, decreeing through a popular vote if the …
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How are you doing? Retrograde starting to get you down? It’s kind of nice to schedule time for rest and reflection during these retrogrades–practice being pensive. You have an opportunity to learn coping skills that are worthwhile when all the planets are back to their everyday movements. In the meantime, there’s plenty of cool stuff …
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Our relationship with dinosaurs is…complicated. We love them; we want them back, but we understand why that’s a bad idea. But we also love seeing what would happen if they did come back. The first Jurassic Park movie came out in 1993, and it was a revolution. The CGI was mind-blowing back then. Spoiler: it …
Tightrope walking is a holdover from a different age—one where circuses were the height of entertainment and wonder. But maybe we should bring high-wire acts back. It’s all about balance, focus on a singular goal, and not making a single tiny mistake lest you plummet to your demise. Okay, maybe not that third thing, but …
The Celestial Events for October 5 to October 11 Monday Comet Howell is passing through Scorpio and Sagittarius tonight before the moon rises. It’s the perfect time to throw yourself into a new hobby you’ll abandon within two weeks. You’ll shove all evidence of it into your hall closet or beneath your bed, and it’ll …
Why do we love car chases in movies so much? Maybe they’re a catharsis for our road rage or a way to process the time we (used to) spend commuting or a natural evolution of all those car commercials we see. Regardless of why we love them, there’s no denying the depth of our passion …
There are probably more paleontologists out there than you’d expect. In my mind, it’s Dr. Grant, Dr. Satler, and whoever got off Isla Nubar before the storm hit, and everything went sideways. There’s not that many more of them in the actual world. A 2008 issue of Palaeontologia Electronica places the number of paleontologists at …
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