The ‘Rick and Morty’ Thanksgiving Episode Takes a Delightfully Cynical Jab at American Values

The 2021 episode cheekily titled ‘Rick and Morty’s Thanksploitation Spectacular’ taps into Rick’s White House feud as well as ...

Drones, physics and rats: Studies show how the people of Rapa Nui made and moved the giant statues – and what caused the island’s deforestation

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The rationale is clear: The tiny, ...

Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk?

Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one ...
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Man dies in horrifying accident after getting trapped in giant dinosaur statue

The man was found dead inside a huge dinosaur statue after he was reported missing by his loved ones - and it was all a ...
Benzinga.com

The New Status Symbol For Silicon Valley Tech Elites? Building Giant Statues

If Ross Calvin, a crypto investor and the founder of Parhelion Digital, gets his way, the U.S. will soon have a new monument. The tech leader is currently working to get permission to build a massive ...
Houston Chronicle

One Austin tech bro's improbable plan to build a giant statue of George Washington

After Donald Trump's victory last November vaulted America's far-right wing to new heights, his wealthy fans in the tech space are eager to erect new monuments to American history and might. Trump ...
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Easter Island statues may have 'walked' to present locations, scientists say

HANGA ROA, Easter Island – Scientists may have solved the mystery of how the giant statues of Easter Island moved to their present locations. Located in the South Pacific, Easter Island is home to ...
Sacramento Bee

Crypto bro wants giant Prometheus in SF Bay — as if California needed more fire | Opinion

Despite the 8.8 million, or 1 in 5, Californians that live with food insecurity, the nearly 200,000 who are homeless and the state’s crumbling infrastructure, what we really need now — according to ...
Bloomberg L.P.

America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues

While visiting friends in San Francisco in 2018, investor Ross Calvin watched golden hour shine across the Bay and found it was missing one thing: a Statue of Liberty. Seven years later, Calvin is ...
Artnet

Did Easter Island’s Giant Statues ‘Walk’ Into Place? New Evidence Says Yes

When the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen landed on Easter Island in 1722, he was puzzled by how the indigenous islanders could have transported the hundreds of colossal stone statues he found studding ...
Newsweek

Fact Check: Is Trump Building Giant Jesus Statue on White House Lawn?

Two posts have gone viral on the social media platform X, suggesting President Trump is considering installing a giant statue of Jesus on the White House lawn, receiving over 2.3 million views between ...
Ars Technica

How Easter Island’s giant statues “walked” to their final platforms

Genuinely uncertain if this is a joke or not. If it's not: your hang-up is that an early civilization never bothered to think about rope? You know, because no one in olden times ever had any need to ...