Climate change has made the world’s deadliest lake way more dangerous – CNET
Inside the epic, decades-long battle to tame a lake so swollen it threatens to wipe out an entire city center.
The best holiday deals you can get right now: Nintendo Switch, Xbox, Bose headphones and more – CNET
There are some awesome Black Friday-like deals on all sorts of electronics. Save $70 on Bose noise-canceling headphones or get $80 off the latest iPad.
No matter how Watchmen ends, it’s already done more than enough
It was the Rorschach mask in the glove box that sold me. Watchmen, HBO’s sequel / reinvention of the comic of the same name by Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore, came out the gate swinging with a prologue set during the 1921 Tulsa race riot. But it was the next scene that got me fully on board, one that showed that Rorschach, the original comic’s most popular character, was a hero to white supremacists. It felt transgressive but also right — and then I flipped back to the comic and you know what? It was right. The TV Watchmen sold me on its relevance by resurfacing something incredibly obvious about its source material that years of fan culture had scrubbed away, mostly because the character looked cool.
8 new trailers you should watch this week
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I recently saw Motherless Brooklyn, Edward Norton’s adaptation of the two-decade-old Jonathan Lethem novel about a private investigator with Tourette syndrome. I’ve never read the book, but from what I gather, the movie is an almost complete departure from the text outside of its core conceit.
Departing from the book isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Norton’s instinct to play up the noir elements makes for a fun, slapstick twist on the genre at points, and 1950s New York is a lot of fun to explore.
But the movie also feels a little hollowed out. Norton basically jams a tour through The Power Broker (the famously thorough 1975 biography of Robert Moses, which has nothing to do with Motherless Brooklyn) into the core of his adaptation,…
Not My Job: We Quiz Baseball Pitcher Sean Doolittle On Real-World Saves
As a relief pitcher for the Washington Nationals Doolittle saves baseball games, but how much does he know about real-world saves? We’ll find out.
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Will the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra get an independent rear suspension? – Roadshow
Now that the Tahoe and Suburban SUVs have given their live axles the heave-ho, could GM’s popular pickup trucks be next?
The Ducati Memorabilia program brings ex-MotoGP engine parts to your living room – Roadshow
Want an ex-Cal Crutchlow crankshaft for your bookshelf or an ex-Dovizioso piston for your parlor?
Senate Recognizes Armenian Genocide
In a move likely to infuriate the Turkish government, the Senate passed a bipartisan resolution led by Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) recognizing the Armenian Genocide that began more than a century ago, with Cruz stating that the resolution was “an achievement for truth, an achievement for speaking the truth…
Fresh Air Weekend: The Afterlife Of Donated Stuff; ‘Maisel’ Actor Alex Borstein
Secondhand author Adam Minter talks about what happens to stuff the thrift store can’t sell. Justin Chang reviews Uncut Gems. Borstein plays a street-wise talent agent on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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