In the film Ex Machina, the robot Ava has few if any interests in common with Caleb. She deceives him into believing she has feelings for him but in the end, betrays him, and she escapes from the ...

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Daniel Radcliffe is making his Broadway return less than two years after winning his very first Tony award, in the new Broadway debut of Duncan Macmillan's play Every Brilliant Thing. The 36-year-old ...

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After writing a book about how using psychedelics in a therapeutic setting can change your consciousness, that's the question journalist Michael Pollan found himself struggling to answer. "There's ...

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