Chad Powers becomes the show it was meant to be

Chad Powers has one of the most ridiculous concepts on TV right now: Disgraced college quarterback Russ Holliday (Glen Powell) dons prosthetics and a bad wig to become Chad Powers, unlikely walk-on star player for the South Georgia Catfish. Oh, and the whole thing is based off an Eli Manning prank video. (Eli and Peyton…

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Welcome to the age of credential catfishing

Catfishing used to mean pretending to be someone else online, usually to pursue a romantic relationship with someone who might eventually spend several episodes of an MTV show waiting in a suspiciously empty parking lot. But the newest breed of catfish does not need to steal another person’s face. Welcome to what I call “credential…

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What one tiny signal can and cant tell us about dark matter

Scientists running an underground detector in South Dakota say they have seen a mysterious tiny burst of energy that does not look like normal background noise. The experiment, called LUX‑ZEPLIN, recorded a signal that stood out as a potential dark matter particle striking an atom in a tank, which is filled with ultra‑pure liquid xenon….

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