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Why Is There No ‘Proper’ Olympics Video Game in 2016?

We get Mario and Sonic cavorting around Rio, but no game in which we can play as Usain Bolt. After decades of realistic Olympic tie-ins, what's up with that?
Mike Diver
7.29.16
Art

Ceramic Sausages and Crowns Show the Playful Power of Clay

Four artists show the vastly different directions ceramics can go at Jane Hartsook Gallery.
Francesca Capossela
7.29.16
Selfies

Programmers Made a Selfie Filter To Make You Look More Like You, Sorry

For anyone who’s feeling selfie-conscious.
Sarah Emerson
7.29.16
gender-coded physiques

Why Are Female Athletes Criticised For Developing a "Masculine" Physique?

In becoming strong and muscular through sport, women prove that anatomy is not destiny, and that gender is not a determinant of ability or power. But society doesn't always see that as a good thing.
Emilia Bona
7.29.16
Film

Take a Hyperlapse Trip Down The Floating Piers of Lake Iseo

Filmmaker Dorian Iribarren's hyperlapse video of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s massive art installation gives viewers a sense of its scale.
DJ Pangburn
7.29.16
americas

In photos: Wildfires rage through Central and Southern California

A series of photos from the two wildfires that have blazed through Southern and Central California since last Friday.
Adam Hamze
7.29.16
Premieres

Love and Death Are Intertwined in Charlotte Cardin's Video for "Like It Doesn't Hurt"

Love hurts.
7.29.16
Essays

This 1960 Jazz Film Shaped Concert Documentaries as We Know Them

With Newport Jazz Festival this weekend, we look back at 'Jazz on a Summer's Day' and the documentary's influence.
Philip Eil
7.29.16
bautista bat flip

The Jose Bautista Bat Flip Is a Goal Celebration in NHL 17

That's flippin' good.
Chris Toman
7.29.16
copa libertadores

Four Killed Amidst Copa Libertadores Celebrations

Most people involved in Wednesday night's celebrations were predominantly cheering for the same side.
Liam Daniel Pierce
7.29.16
Op-Eds

Toronto Is a Long Way from Sharing a Cultural Space with Caribana

For an event that brings millions of dollars into Toronto, attempts to truly understand the parade itself have fallen short.
Sajae Elder
7.29.16
global health

Laziness isn't just killing us, it's costing us billions

Sedentary lifestyles worldwide cost a total of $67.5 billion, 40 percent of which in the USA, according to a study that also fingers Type 2 diabetes as the biggest problem.
Ruby Samuels
7.29.16
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