Does eating Mexican fast-casual food trigger your allergies and have you reaching for an ITCH POLE? Contestants must guess the popular restaurant chain based on anagrams of their names.
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Restaurant Scrambles
Breadway Bound
In this music parody game, we took a classic Broadway musical, changed one letter in the title, and rewrote one of its songs to reflect that change. Read it slowly—you have to be more Into the Words.
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Food Trends With Greta Lee And Leslye Headland
Anyone up for some… birthday chicken? In this game, Russian Doll actor Greta Lee and co-creator Leslye Headland team up to play a multiple-choice quiz on food trends.
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Greta Lee And Leslye Headland: Valley Of The Russian Dolls
Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland and actor Greta Lee discuss sex scene storyboards, wackadoodle costumes, and their interpretation of the Netflix series’ deeper meaning.
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Damaging Sichuan earthquakes linked to fracking operations
Two moderate-sized earthquakes that struck the southern Sichuan Province of China last December and January were probably caused by nearby fracking operations, according to a new study.
Social insecurity also stresses chimpanzees
Researchers conducted behavioral observations and collected urine samples for cortisol analysis of male chimpanzees of the Tai National Park, Ivory Coast, during periods of intense male-male competition. They showed that all males had higher stress levels during periods of increased male-male competition while aggression rates were actually lower during this time. This may indicate that in times of social instability animals refrain from aggressive actions to avoid escalation of conflicts and to promote group cohesion.
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‘Richard’s Valley’ Is Worth A Visit — But You Might Not Be Welcome There
Artist Michael DeForge’s enigmatic new graphic novel is all about ambivalence — belonging, displacement, escape and return. Also, strangely charming, blobby animals with all-too-human feelings.
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Brie Larson’s Directorial Debut Glitters With The Charming ‘Unicorn Store’
Brie Larson stars opposite Samuel L. Jackson, her Captain Marvel compatriot, in the oddball magical-realism comedy Unicorn Store on Netflix.
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How Google Is Cramming More Data Into Its New Atlantic Cable
Google says its planned Dunant cable from Virginia to France will transmit 250 terabits per second, enough to zap the Library of Congress through it three times a second.