Science
Imagine stepping into a machine, travelling 50 years into the past and preventing your own birth. You now face the grandfather paradox. If you were never born, who travelled back in time? But suppose physics does not allow the contradiction to occur. Perhaps your attempt was always part of history.
Economics
A driver accepts a ride through an app. A designer in Bangladesh creates a logo for a company in London. A software engineer spends three months helping a startup launch a product. A delivery rider logs in for the evening after finishing another job. A video editor works for five
Entertainment
For an entire generation, Hilary Duff did not simply play a teenager growing up. She seemed to grow up alongside them. Middle-school embarrassment. Best friends. Crushes. Awkward family moments. Animated inner thoughts saying what you wished you could say out loud. Then came Rome. “What Dreams Are Made Of.
Entertainment
A loose necktie. A white tank top. Heavy black eyeliner. Baggy trousers. A skateboard. And a voice that sounded as if it had absolutely no interest in fitting neatly into the polished pop world surrounding it. When Avril Lavigne arrived in 2002, she did not simply introduce herself with a
Crime
Dennis Hope was broke. He was going through a divorce. He had been out of work. And then he looked at the Moon. Most people staring at the Moon see craters, reflected sunlight or something beautiful hanging in the night sky. Hope saw real estate. According to the story he
Humor
Avril Lavigne turned 42 on September 27, 2026. Unless, of course, you believe one of the internet's most gloriously ridiculous celebrity conspiracy theories. According to the legend, the Avril Lavigne who gave the world Let Go, “Complicated” and “Sk8er Boi” disappeared sometime around 2003. The woman who later
Crime
For more than two decades, the answer was sitting inside the evidence. Police had DNA from the man who killed Leslie Preer. They had found his biological material inside her Chevy Chase, Maryland, home. They had DNA associated with the struggle in which she fought for her life. What investigators
TV Shows
Clark Kent had already encountered plenty of strange things in Smallville. Meteor-infected killers. People with abilities nobody could explain. Enemies strong enough to physically hurt him. But Desiree Atkins presented a very different kind of threat. She did not need super strength. She did not need to outrun Clark.
Artificial Intelligence
Bill Gates has spent much of his career arguing that technology can improve human life. His latest warning about artificial intelligence is considerably darker. In an excerpt from an interview with NBC's Meet the Press, the Microsoft co-founder said AI is already powerful enough to contribute to
Entertainment
At only 24, Jenna Ortega has already lived through several versions of a Hollywood career. Child actor. Disney Channel lead. Teen drama performer. Horror breakout. Scream queen. Wednesday Addams. Producer. Tim Burton collaborator. And now one of the most recognizable young actors of her generation. Jenna Marie Ortega celebrates her
Sports
Fearless with the bat. Lightning behind the stumps. Relentless as a captain. That was Brendon McCullum. Born in Dunedin on September 27, 1981, the former New Zealand captain celebrates his 45th birthday today. His career produced bigger innings, faster hundreds and more spectacular sixes than most cricketers could dream of,
Personalities
Some actors become inseparable from an era. For anyone who spent the 1990s watching comedies, video-game adaptations, teen horror and Hollywood blockbusters, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras is one of those faces. Today, September 25, she celebrates her 53rd birthday. Born in Gold Beach, Oregon, on September 25, 1973, Wilson went