Here’s this week’s Top Stuff

Scientists have documented a male orangutan named Rakus using a plant with known medicinal properties to help heal his facial wound.

NYPD was able to spin out a hype video in less than 24 hours, which is notable because New York City has been horrendously slow to producing public records they are obligated by law to provide to the taxpayers who fund them.

For the second time this year, a critic of safety practices related to the powerful aviation company has died.

Universal Music Group and TikTok have reached a new licensing agreement, ending the months-long dispute that took the label’s music off platform.

Technology will be used to store wind and solar energy for use later.

The recently discovered marine sinkhole, the Taam Ja’ blue hole, likely contains caves and tunnels, according to new research.

Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Created by Guillermo del Toro. With Lize Johnston, Kevin Keppy, Tim Blake Nelson, F. Murray Abraham. Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in a visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro. Considered by many as one of the best curators of horror and suspense, Read the full article…

University presidents are calling the cops on pro-Gaza protesters, and students, journalists, and professors are paying the price.

“Free Sasha & Mocha” stickers have popped up all over Park City as locals appear to rally in support of the dogs.

Lawmakers in Louisiana may soon add mifepristone and misoprostol to the state’s list of controlled substances.

Alien: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton. The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin. My local AMC had this back in theater for the 45th anniversary and as I wasn’t even alive yet when it was Read the full article…

In Pennsylvania, a man’s alligator, Was his emotional support navigator. But it slipped out one day, Now he’s in disarray, For a gator’s not your usual equator!

Your insurer is spying on your home.

Out today: “Star Trek: Sons of Star Trek #2“, by Morgan Hampton. Jake, Nog, and Alexander find themselves stuck in a never-ending loop of being blown to smithereens aboard the U.S.S. Avery and then revived by Q Jr.-who insists he’s helping them learn some lesson unbeknownst to them. Amid the attack from the Breen, the Read the full article…

Boy Kills World: Directed by Moritz Mohr. With Bill Skarsgård, Jessica Rothe, Michelle Dockery, Brett Gelman. A fever dream action film that follows Boy, a deaf person with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death. I’m Read the full article…

In schedules, there once was a dank weed, From one to two, it found its lead. No longer confined, To the shadows, confined, Now it’s 420, a blossoming seed!

Knuckles: With Adam Pally, Idris Elba, Stockard Channing, Edi Patterson. Knuckles the Echidna teaches deputy Wade Whipple the techniques of the Echidna warrior. The first two episodes of this “streaming event” are pretty ok but after that point the series drifts off into some pretty mediocre content with storylines involving a vaguely racist Jewish dinner, Read the full article…

Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Created by Jennifer Corbett, Dave Filoni. With Dee Bradley Baker, Michelle Ang, Noshir Dalal, Ben Diskin. The “Bad Batch” of elite and experimental clones make their way through an ever-changing galaxy. The final episode aired today and while it was a bittersweet ending, this series has had one hell of Read the full article…

The first “Star Trek” comic book sold at an auction for a record-breaking price of $46,500, according to Certified Guaranty Company, a Florida-based comic book grading service. 

Here’s a preview of Star Trek: Sons of Star Trek #2 by Morgan Hampton which is due to be released this Wednesday on May 1, 2024 at your local comic shop and digital retailers: Jake, Nog, and Alexander find themselves stuck in a never-ending loop of being blown to smithereens aboard the U.S.S. Avery and Read the full article…

The adult webcam site now conducts age verification while other porn sites have opted to block Texas.

There once were some fascists so sly, On campuses, they’d amplify Their power to stifle The truth with a rifle, While students dared not speak, but comply. They silenced the voices that cried For justice, their rights swept aside. But truth cannot hide For long, as with pride, The silenced will rise, undenied.

There once were rock stars so bold, Who aged but refused to be old, On stage with their walker, Singing tunes, what a shocker, Same songs for fifty years, we’re told!