Anniversary depicts a rightwing takeover of the US inspired by a book of essays. But it’s fuzzy on the bits in between As we all know from history and the current news cycle, autocracy is bad. But it ...

Callum is a seasoned gaming managing editor for a number of publications and a gamer who will always try to shine a spotlight on indie games before giving AAA titles the time of day. He loves nothing ...

In video games, non-playable characters can be somewhat clueless. An NPC might wander across a city block and face-plant into a streetlamp, and then maybe vanish the next block over. NPCs leap into ...

Tourists are frequently amazed by the sparkling golden domes of Russian churches and their dark, cozy mysteries inside. But some rituals and features may not be clear to a foreigner. Christianity was ...

OK, another somewhat misleading title – but an attention grabber perhaps. The truth is, when we are dealing with the most exalted, complex and mind-boggling reality there is – the God who is there – ...

Although IS is certainly an Islamic movement, it is neither typical nor mired in the distant past, because its roots are in Wahhabism, a form of Islam practised in Saudi Arabia that developed only in ...

P. Aspinwall: D-Branes on Calabi-Yau Manifolds hep-th/0403166 (2004). For my own good here I’ll try to review a couple of key ideas. Corrections are welcome. First of all: what is a derived category ...