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Pixar gave Bonnie a tablet and then refused to make it the bad guy. Jeff Haecker, Tom Grelinger, and Patrick Mason dig into Toy Story 5’s screen-time message, Jessie’s promotion to lead, and the sleepover scene every parent will recognize.
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A drone attack cuts off a mission mid-crossing, and Camille learns the water’s laced with a memory-erasing drug. In Silo S3E7, Dom Bettinelli, Jeff Haecker, and Alix Murray weigh a trillionaire’s hubris against a thousand-life choice.
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He couldn’t stand the sight of a leper. The smell made him physically sick. Then one afternoon he got down off his horse and kissed one, and that was the day Francis of Assisi became a saint. Dom Bettinelli tells the story without the birdbath.
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Tolkien wrote books of elven genealogy, then waved a hand at where hobbits came from. On Hobbit Day, the panel takes up the three kindreds, the Shire’s missing economy, and a calendar with a day belonging to no week.
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A shadow self is the part you hide, not the evil twin — which gives Season 4, Episode 9 away a mile off. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler on the fairy tale, the Rukiya payoff that never lands, and whether Pike commands like a captain.
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Beeswax, a wick, and a flame you can share without losing any of it. Alix Murray and Kathryn Laffrey take the Paschal candle apart, then paint their own: transfer paper, underpainting, and a paring knife that fixes almost anything.
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Smile at your dog, and its brain may register a reward. Caroline Knight, Lindsay Sant, and Lino Saubolle unpack a new brain-scan study showing dogs’ brains separate happy faces from sad, fearful, and angry ones.
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A Replicator that can’t replicate is loose on Earth, and Atlantis S4E15 spends the hour at a funeral instead. Jeff Haecker, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams argue whether backstory without consequence earns its keep.
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A man with no heartbeat knew where the nurse put his dentures. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at near-death experiences that came back with facts the patient had no way to know, and ask how they got them.
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Is waving your card at a register riskier than swiping it? Dom Bettinelli, Thomas Sanjurjo, and Jack Baruzzini explain how NFC and RFID work, where the real weak spots are, and which fears to drop.
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Grounded spycraft, a booby-trapped briefcase, and a villain plan too clever for its own good. Dom Bettinelli, Patrick Mason, and Jeff Haecker argue 1963’s From Russia with Love is the truest spy movie of the Connery Bond era.
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Juliette’s bold “I remember everything” gambit sets up a rescue that’s really a race against a countdown clock. Dom Bettinelli, Jeff Haecker, and Alix Murray break down Silo S3E6, “The Drive,” and its cold-algorithm-vs-human-love divide.
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He walked out of Rome at 17 and hid in a cave for three years. Dom Bettinelli traces Benedict of Nursia from Subiaco to Monte Cassino, where he wrote 73 chapters that have outlived the empire, the Lombards, the Saracens, and Allied bombs.
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A holo recording flips the story: Reno Tsutara drew first. In Episode 3 of The Ninth Jedi, Thomas Salerno, Jeff Haecker, and Kathryn Laffrey weigh a Jedi master who froze his rivals in carbonite.
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A grieving admiral wants 5,000 people killed to be sure of one cloaked ship, and only Kirk objects. Dom Bettinelli, Jimmy Akin, and Fr. Jason Tyler take on Strange New Worlds S4E8, and ask why nobody calls it an illegal order.
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AI can imitate empathy, but it can’t love you back. Lindsay Sant, Caroline Knight, and Lino Saubolle unpack Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas, then find out what happens in a dog’s brain when you smile.
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A 13-year-old heir, a day’s hike, and a forest full of Genii assassins. Victor Lams, Jeff Haecker, and Lisa Jones take on Atlantis S4E14 “Harmony” — the bottle episode that gave the franchise its funniest painting.
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An EgyptAir 767 fell out of a clear sky off Nantucket in 1999, and two governments read the same black boxes and reached opposite verdicts. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli weigh four theories and one Arabic prayer.
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Can revenge ever be justice? Kara Zor-El hunts the brigand who murdered a girl’s family, and Rob Leonardi, Jeff Haecker, and Patrick Mason argue over mercy, Lobo, Krypto, and a soundtrack trying too hard to be James Gunn.
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A $1,999 phone that unfolds into a tablet-sized screen — Apple’s foldable is real, and it’s the iPhone Duo. Dom Bettinelli and Joanne Mercier react to Apple’s September event, from the Duo’s three screens to the Watch’s new Health Age.
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