On Wednesday, June 17, a class of 25 men will line up to collect the diplomas they’ve earned, in sociology, from UC Irvine. Then, after they’ve hugged family and finished some brief celebrations, ...

Now we know why so many leading California Democratic elected officials — notably Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta — made such a big deal out of the need for Golden State voters to ...

With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with confidence that every piece is correct. For some, this heralds a new area in ...

The 6th installment of learning Python. Last time, we learned the basics of functions. There are three basic structures that make up a program: "sequence," "branching," and "iteration." Up until now, ...

The quest to approximate irrational numbers with fractions reveals hidden patterns, surprising hierarchies and enduring mathematical mysteries ...

Last year, Taylor Stanberry caught 60 Burmese pythons with her bares hands—a state record. But this self-taught hunter says ...

The best films of 2026 so far include scrappy horror hits, ambitious first films, surreal daydreams, and at least one bicycle ...

Welcome to Crosstalk, wherein A.V. Club writers discuss their varied (or unvaried, as the case may be) perspectives on a pop-culture topic. This time, with the first half of 2026 firmly in the ...

ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.