At four o'clock on a recent Friday, Kevin McCullough found himself staring at a line of text on a poster in the Graham Avenue subway station, in Williamsburg. "Prompt: What comes first, the chicken or the egg?" The poster was an ad for the School of Visual Arts. Beneath the prompt was a crude painting--of an oval-shaped chick, or was it an egg with feet and a beak?--that seemed agnostic on the issue. Something of a literalist, he had always disliked the question, believing it unworthy of endless debate.

Emmanuel Acho, LeSean McCoy, James Jones and Chase Daniel react to the NFL's announcement of the Philadelphia Eagles hosting the Dallas Cowboys to kick off the 2025 NFL season. The Indianapolis Colts came under fire on Wednesday night for a since-deleted social media video that was intended to creatively reveal the team's 2025 game schedule. The clip, which was animated in the style of the Microsoft-owned video game Minecraft, opened with a segment previewing the team's Week 1 game against the Miami Dolphins. In it, Dolphins star Tyreek Hill was depicted as a dolphin and was then approached by a Coast Guard boat blaring a police siren, with a police officer glaring at Hill. Hill was arrested in September in a widely publicized controversy that featured bodycam footage of the wide receiver being pinned to the ground by police while put in handcuffs.

We hope Alexa, Siri, and Echo are doing well. Research shows that feeding fish only once a day is not sufficient, but that is your choice. We love to read your writing. Your choose-your-own-adventure stories are almost worthy of a compliment from a twelve-year-old. Your cello music is impressive.

No, it's'super jelly' -- a bizarre new material that can survive being run over by a car even though it's composed of 80 per cent water. The'glass-like hydrogel' may look and feel like a squishy jelly, but when compressed it acts like shatterproof glass, its University of Cambridge developers said. It is formed using a network of polymers held together by a series of reversible chemical interactions that can be tailored to control the gel's mechanical properties. This is the first time that a soft material has been produced that is capable of such significant resistance to compressive forces. Super jelly could find various applications, the team added, from use for building soft robotics and bioelectronics through to replacement for damaged cartilage.

A notorious runaway robot - that has escaped from its lab twice - has been arrested by police at a political rally. Promobot was supporting Russian Parliament candidate Valery Kalachev in Moscow when authorities attempted to handcuff it and take it away. It is believed that the arrest occurred after a member of public called police as Promobots were recording the opinions of voters on a variety of topics "for further processing and analysis by the candidate's team." A company spokesman told Inverse magazine: "Police asked to remove the robot away from the crowded area, and even tried to handcuff him. "According to eyewitnesses, the robot did not put up any resistance."