Online dating has become a hobby, one that is often not even that fun
Dec 23, 2015 10:40 am UTC| Entertainment
The scene described in Nancy Jo Saless huge Tinder report published in Vanity Fair magazine featured groups of twenty-something friends and colleagues in a Manhattan bar relaxing after work. But rather than socialising...
Death Stars are a waste of time - here's the best way to take over the galaxy
Dec 22, 2015 00:54 am UTC| Entertainment
The Star Wars films raise lots of pressing questions. Why is there sound in space? How did George Lucas lose his way? And, of course, Did Han shoot first? (thats an easy one). There are innumerable variants on the How...
Could a truth commission have saved the Star Wars universe from another conflict?
Dec 21, 2015 00:21 am UTC| Law Entertainment
A brutal regime is at last brought to its knees, its key leaders start fighting among themselves, and the old tyrant is killed without trial. Libya in 2011? No: the world of Star Wars at the close of Return of the...
A force awakened: why so many find meaning in Star Wars
Dec 18, 2015 00:52 am UTC| Entertainment
After witnessing the overwhelming popularity of Star Wars, director Francis Ford Coppola told George Lucas he should start his own religion. Lucas laughed him off, but Coppola may have been onto something. Indeed,...
Star Wars: these could be the droids we're looking for in real life
Dec 18, 2015 00:32 am UTC| Entertainment Technology
The latest episode of Star Wars is now upon us and has unleashed a new era of science fantasy robots, or droids as they are known. One of the heroes of the new movie The Force Awakens is BB-8, a cute but capable...
Dec 17, 2015 05:10 am UTC| Entertainment
Unless you are C3-PO, fluent in more than six million forms of communication, you may not understand every Star Wars language. Im not talking about the languages spoken in the saga such as Shyriiwook, Huttese, Bocce or...
Latest Star Wars film may be 'biggest movie of all time' – just not at the box office
Dec 17, 2015 01:01 am UTC| Entertainment
This weekend, the newest Star Wars movie will start playing in cinemas throughout the world. Pundits in places like Forbes and the International Business Times are already predicting it will be the biggest movie of all...
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