Produced and directed by Corey Eisenstein. Transcript coming soon. (video link) Our previous episode of Edge of Knowledge peeped back in time a few billion years to explore the particular origins of life on Earth , but now we aim our lens in a different direction. Rather than looking at the distant past to see […]
Produced and directed by Corey Eisenstein. Click here for transcript. (video link) Of all the amazing and varied phenomena in the cosmological zoo, black holes are among the most mysterious. They are zombies—the all-devouring corpses of dead stars, made of trillions of tons of stellar ash compressed into an infinitely dense point called a “singularity.” […]
Produced and directed by Sean Dacanay. Click here for transcript . (video link) On Wednesday, Volkswagen used the South by Southwest festival to formally unveil the ID Buzz, the company’s forthcoming electric van. In the lead-up to that debut in Texas, VW gave Ars an hour with the gold-and-white show car to have a poke […]
Produced by Sean Dacanay. Click here for transcript. (video link) Valve’s portable Steam Deck has been released, and if you put in your preorder early enough, you might have one of the devices in your hot little hands this very minute. For the rest of us, though, we’re stuck waiting until inventory catches up to […]
Produced and directed by Corey Eisenstein. Click here for transcript. (video link) Welcome to the second episode of “Edge of Knowledge,” our science explainer series starring astrophysicist Paul Sutter. In part one, Paul took us on a journey to the edges of our galaxy and talked about dark matter, the strange stuff that appears to […]
Produced and directed by Corey Eisenstein. Click here for transcript. (video link) Greetings, Arsians! We have something special for you today: the premiere of a new science series we’re creating, called Edge of Knowledge. We’ve recruited physicist and author Dr. Paul Sutter (Google Scholar link) to be our host and guide on an eight-episode romp […]
Saturday Night Live returned for its first episode of 2022 – thankfully without another coronavirus outbreak amongst the cast members! Unfortunately, Miss. Rona did end up costing the late-night series its original musical guest Roddy Rich, who tested positive earlier this week. But as they say, the show must go on – and Jack Antonoff‘s […]
The LAPD is continuing to investigate Kanye West for allegedly punching an autograph seeker, and now, more details are coming to light about the late-night incident. As we reported earlier, the 44-year-old rapper has been named a suspect in a battery investigation after TMZ published video showing Ye allegedly involved in some type of disagreement or altercation […]
Directed by James Herron, edited by Sean Dacanay. Click here for transcript . (video link) Coming in under the wire here is our last video for 2021—and we tried to make it a fun one. If you play games, chances are you’ve played something that Warren Spector was involved in creating—with stints at Origin, Ion […]
More details in the shocking case of the missing woman Gabrielle Petito … If you’ ve been following the story, you know Gabby was reported missing by her family over the weekend when she stopped answering messages and calls during her cross-country road trip with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie . They’ d been documenting the trip […]