Thailand, Monk, 100, Voodoo, Stories
Thailand's political instability, music advice from Thelonious Monk, a laborious lasagna recipe, the demonization of voodoo, and six-word stories.
Bridge, Hollywood, Food, Sweden, Theater
The anatomy of a bridge, a typecast actor, culturally appropriated cuisine, Sweden's "Dagen H," and a revival of a Beirut theater.
Graph, Ski, Menshevik, Origin, Stellar
Learning to read graphs, skiing through Siberia, the Russian Revolution, the auteur theory of cinema, and a cosmic collage.
Shark, Vote, Nuke, Avenue, Dialogue
Shark-centric horror, the American voting system, a Cold War near-catastrophe, civil unrest in Athens, and bad exposition.
Kill, Chappelle, Churchill, Web, Turbine
A traumatised war veteran, Dave Chappelle's resurrection, the legacy of Winston Churchill, internet anarchists, and a Kafkaesque nightmare.
Nostalgia, Idiom, Space, Monster, Line
Modern-age nostalgia, shaky idioms, the past and future of space tourism, b-movie miracles, and a new method of music consumption.
Picasso, Crow, Hoop, Water, Boots
Picasso's childlike art, a video game mystery, a robotic basketball hoop, the ocean's plastics, and the pains of ageing.
Samurai, Tower, Autotune, Cosmic, Sword
Akira Kurosawa's cinematic techniques, a diving board dilemma, autotune in the music industry, an awkward second date, and a serpentine magic trick.
Huckleberry, Price, Pool, Plague, Car
Reinterpreting Huckleberry Finn, the tangled modern banking system, swimming pools in movies, America's coronavirus response, and a surrealist car trip through the country.
Flight, Property, Network, Devil, September
A troubling flight simulator, the ethics of property, a "Social Network" retrospective, the dangers of sulphur mining, and a September celebration.
Solar, Earth, Dream, Sample, Ship
A dive into flat-Earthism, dream sequences on film, how to flip a sample into a beat, Constantine's conversion, and an awkward airborne confrontation.
Cut, Noise, Sheriff, Steal, Fire
Cutting as a visual effect, how to accurately transmit data, a Florida sheriff's "precrime" investigations, Wes Anderson's homages, and the San Francisco sky.
How To Zoom Like Your Favourite Directors
If you Kubrick Stare the camera hard enough, the camera also stares into you.
Tweet, King, Photo, Light, Geese
A viral bird-tweet, a psychedelic regicide, judging photographs, Caravaggio's lighting, and the diary of a goose.
Magic, Tycoon, Dominoes, Courtroom, Cave
The magic of conspiracy theories, a fictional Walt Disney, the universe as dominoes, courtroom cinematography, and Plato's allegory of the cave.
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