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Every Universes Beyond Set

If you're new to Magic, chances are you became interested after one of your favorite non-Magic IPs was given the Universes Beyond treatment. Universes ...
Hindustan Times

Akshay Kumar shares wife Twinkle Khanna's secret trick to show she's angry with him: ‘Meri side ka bed geela hota hai’

Actor Akshay Kumar is set to return to television as the host of the brand-new reality show The Wheel of Fortune. The opening episode promises plenty of entertainment, with Riteish Deshmukh, Genelia ...
Hosted on MSN

What’s the secret behind this wheel?

A strange little magic puzzle that looks completely impossible. The sword links and unlinks in a way that shouldn’t be possible—yet the secret is hiding in plain sight. A fun visual mystery that will ...
NPR

Let 'The Secret Agent' fill you in on what it's like to live under a dictatorship

If you've spent any time in a dictatorship — I've had that happy experience — you understand why your high school teachers were always praising democracy. You quickly learn that authoritarian states ...
The New York Times

‘The Secret Agent’ Review: Carnival in the Face of Carnage

Wagner Moura takes cover in this knockout from the filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho that is largely set in 1977 during Brazil’s military dictatorship. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for ...
Mongabay

Botanists decode secret life of rare plants to ensure reintroduction success

Working with South African daisies, Colombian magnolias and Philippine coffee trees, botanists the world over are discovering the secrets to bringing extremely rare and threatened plants back from the ...
EurekAlert!

UH astronomers decode a star’s secret past

Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have uncovered the turbulent past of a distant red giant by listening to its celestial “song.” Subtle variations in the star’s ...
The New York Times

Anonymous Bidder Pays Nearly $1 Million for Secret to Decode C.I.A. Sculpture

The creator of the Kryptos panels, Jim Sanborn, sought to unburden himself of the puzzle, and then discovered before an auction he had archived its solution in the Smithsonian. By John Schwartz John ...
Seattle Times

Anonymous bidder pays nearly $1 million for secret to decode CIA sculpture

A price has been set for one of the biggest secrets kept by the United States’ top spy agency: $962,500. That was the price reached at a Thursday auction of the solution to the last bit of the ...