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Super Bowl Sunday is one of the greatest days of the year — and not just because of football.It also serves as one of the best days for food and all-around entertainment. With well over a hundred million people watching the Super Bowl each year, companies have tried to bring their A-game for commercials throughout the last few decades.Many of those ads have delivered moments that are remembered as much as the games themselves. Ahead of Super Bowl LX, here are the 10 greatest Super Bowl commercials of all time.10 best Super Bowl commercials of all time10. Wendy’s: “Where’s the…

They say curiosity killed the cat, and for the humans in the films below, that’s definitely the case. But a cat has nine lives, so when a human dies, that’s usually it.  The characters in these movies are either too nosy or too intrepid for their own good, and once they realize it, the damage has already been done. If you want to see where any of these titles are streaming, check out JustWatch to see where. Candyman (1992) This classic horror movie explores a supernatural urban legend that makes an appearance after a nosy scholar decides to poke around where…

Do you remember The Six Million Dollar Man? It was a ’70s American science fiction television series based on the novel Cyborg, about a former astronaut Colonel Steve Austin. After being seriously injured in a NASA test flight crash, Austin is rebuilt with bionic implants that give him superhuman strength, speed and vision. Austin is then employed as a secret agent by a fictional U.S. government office OSI. What was a very creative fictional story 50 years ago is now becoming reality through the philosophical and scientific movement named transhumanism. What is transhumanism? In 1957, Julian Huxley summarized the term…

The Super Bowl is a staple family event for most households. While the main attraction is the game (ok, or maybe the half-time show), it also delivers some of the most talked-about ads in the world. Some ads make us laugh, some tug at our heartstrings, and now, many tout medications that promise people will finally feel “good” in their bodies. At first glance, these ads seem empowering. How could they not when they include superstar athletes? But there’s always a catch: these messages come from companies selling weight-loss drugs that reinforce the idea that people shouldn’t feel great in…

The original Heathers is cruel with intent. It knows exactly who it is mocking and why it deserves it. Every insult lands because it is aimed like a weapon, not tossed like confetti. The TV series tried to resurrect that energy and instead brought back the aesthetic without the brain. It wore the colors, quoted the attitude, and forgot the joke. This was not a case of a reboot existing when it should not. It was a case of a reboot not knowing what it wanted to kill. Satire Needs A Target Not A Megaphone The film skewered popularity, performative…

Later this month, Stephen R. Bissette (Saga of the Swamp Thing, Taboo, Aliens: Tribes, and much more!) and Lighthouse Comics will launch the Kickstarter for TYRANT, the never-before-collected dinosaur epic by the Eisner Hall of Fame legend: “Stephen’s four-issue brutal dinosaur masterpiece published between 1994 and 1996. Those issues were originally published under Bissette’s own Spiderbaby Graphix publishing operation and nominated for the 1995 Eisner for Best New Series.” The Kickstarter will present two versions of “the seminal series, about a Tyrannosaurus Rex’s struggle for survival in the late Cretaceous Period”: Stephen R. Bissette’s TYRANT: The Original Art Edition—an oversized…

This is the second post in a 2-part series. In Part 1, Dr. Joel Jin discussed the basics of chronic pain and some key misunderstandings about it. In this blog post, Dr. Joel Wong will discuss gratitude. Specifically, he will define gratitude and explain why “just be thankful” is not what we mean when we say gratitude is an important component of psychological coping in response to chronic pain. Paul Youngbin Kim: How might the expression of gratitude combat painful experiences? What are we not saying when we claim that gratitude is important and helpful for chronic pain? Joel Wong:…