He had a vision for the end of the world. Of course, it had to be a musical
Deep in a bunker, a family keeps on singing in the year's most nightmarish piece of future shock. Director Joshua Oppenheimer ...
'The End' review: Singing and dancing at the end of the world
"The End" is filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer's reckoning with the end times and humanity's last stand. As much as it's about the ...
The fall of Afghanistan’s horse power is a lesson to today’s petrostates: Power based on a strategic commodity is fleeting
Not so long ago, Afghanistan was the Saudi Arabia of horses. But technological change led to its rapid decline.
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Does the Fall of the Syrian Regime Signal the End of the World’s Largest Refugee Crisis?
A historic drama is beginning, as a refugee from Aleppo tells the Sun, ‘People are tired. They want to go home.’ ...
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The world’s next big environmental problem could come from space
To stop them from becoming space junk, satellite operators send spacecraft to burn up in the atmosphere at mission’s end. The ...
End of an era for Water Ski Capital of the World
The high-flying stunts and human pyramids that turned Winter Haven, Florida, into the Water Ski Capital of the World will ...
Will the world's fastest supercomputer please stand up?
It's getting harder to tell whose clusters are the biggest — and even harder to tell whose are the most powerful.
Review: It’s ‘The End’ but deep underground, a sheltered family keeps on singing in denial
Director Joshua Oppenheimer, previously a documentarian who has chronicled dark acts of self-delusion, shifts to a ...
What is birthright citizenship, and can Trump end the constitutional right in the U.S.?
President-elect Donald Trump says he'll end birthright citizenship, after years of criticizing the constitutional right.