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Metal Gear Solid Delta review: modern visuals with old-school frustrations

Metal Gear Solid Delta review: modern visuals with old-school frustrations

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater seemed to be designed specifically for me, at first. I’ve played and loved nearly every entry of the Metal Gear Solid series, and the original MGS is one of my favorite games of all time. These weird, third-person stealth action games feature bizarre characters and scenarios that have lingered in my memories through a …

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‘What is Starfleet?’ Modern ‘Star Trek’ is still trying to work that out, but ‘Strange New Worlds” latest episode might have the answer

‘What is Starfleet?’ Modern ‘Star Trek’ is still trying to work that out, but ‘Strange New Worlds” latest episode might have the answer

“What is Starfleet?” asks the latest episode of “Strange New Worlds“. It’s a question the “Star Trek” franchise has been getting to grips with for the best part of 60 years. The answer was simple back in “The Next Generation” era, because Jean-Luc Picard was never in it for the money. Instead, noble ideals such as exploration, self-improvement, and the …

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Enzyme unique to modern humans may have given us an evolutionary edge, research finds

Enzyme unique to modern humans may have given us an evolutionary edge, research finds

Facebook Tweet Email Link Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more efficient water seekers than our closest extinct relatives. About 600,000 years ago, modern humans genetically diverged from the lineage that produced …

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Australian Paleontologists Discover Weird ‘Pokémon’ Ancestor of Modern Whales

Australian Paleontologists Discover Weird ‘Pokémon’ Ancestor of Modern Whales

Researchers have named a bizarre, prehistoric species of whale discovered on a beach in Australia. Janjucetus dullardi “might have looked for all the world like some weird kind of mash-up between a whale, a seal, and a Pokémon,” according to Erich Fitzgerald, a senior paleontologist at Museums Victoria Research Institute who co-authored the paper on the discovery. Measuring less than …

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Why Dodgers-Padres has become baseball’s most heated modern rivalry

Why Dodgers-Padres has become baseball’s most heated modern rivalry

Three years later, the quote still resonates. When it comes to the Dodgers and the San Diego Padres, late Padres owner Peter Seidler framed the dynamic best. “The Dodgers are the dragon up the freeway we’re trying to slay,” Seidler said back in August 2022, during an in-game interview with ESPN as the two teams played a Sunday Night Baseball …

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New fossil discovery reveals tiny ancestor of modern whales

New fossil discovery reveals tiny ancestor of modern whales

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25 million-year-old fossil on an Australian beach has allowed paleontologists to identify a rare, entirely new species that could unlock mysteries of whale evolution. Researchers this week officially named Janjucetus dullardi, a cartoonish …

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Modern Family star Aubrey Anderson-Emmons changes her name

Modern Family star Aubrey Anderson-Emmons changes her name

Allow Frances Anderson to reintroduce herself. The actress formerly known as Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, who broke out for her role as adoptee Lily on the Emmy-winning sitcom Modern Family, has changed her name to Frances Anderson. Anderson has adopted the new moniker to coincide with her pivot to a career in music. Her debut indie pop EP, “Drown,” is out now. …

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Bill Gates’ $645 million superyacht, the first ever to be powered by hydrogen, is for sale. A yachtie calls it ‘a modern engineering marvel, period’

Bill Gates’ 5 million superyacht, the first ever to be powered by hydrogen, is for sale. A yachtie calls it ‘a modern engineering marvel, period’

If you’re looking to cruise in style à la Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, now might be your chance.  The $645 million, 390-foot “Breakthrough” superyacht that’s long been linked to the billionaire and philanthropist is up for sale by yacht broker Edmiston.  Jamie Edmiston, CEO of his namesake company, said in a statement it’s “the most extraordinary yacht ever built [and] …

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