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  • Aaron Rodgers Has More on His Mind Than Football. A Lot More.

    Aaron Rodgers, perhaps the most gifted N.F.L. quarterback of his generation, spent a week last month in Costa Rica with a handful of fellow pro football players in search of transformation. At a mountain retreat with views of the Pacific Ocean, they drank a psychedelic brew under the watchful eyes of a Yawanawa shaman and a documentary film crew. Soon a news flash from back home — and then another — pierced the vibe. First, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent candidate for president, said...

  • No duh, Fallout has been renewed for a season 2

    In news practically as inevitable as humanity’s innate impulse to annihilate itself in a burst of cleansing nuclear fire, Amazon has confirmed today that it’s renewing Fallout for a second season of post-apocalyptic Prime Video TV. This is not a shock, in so far as the series (executive produced by Westworld’s Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, and show-run by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet) has a) built up a pretty healthy buzz around itself in the week or so since it came out, and b)—we...