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Why Are We Still Putting Little People in R2-D2?

A little person activist, a droid expert and Jimmy Vee himself — the man currently inside R2 — weigh in

Colby Covington’s Broken Jaw Is a Metaphor for Trump’s America

A notorious UFC trash-talker got KO’d on Saturday, but his racist antics fit into a history of white fighters exploiting our worst impulses

The Unsung Heroes Making It Snow in Sunny California

Winter is coming — but not without brilliant engineers, state-of-the-art tech and even a little magic

What I’ve Kinda, Sorta Learned Convincing the World to ‘Buy It for Life’

As the moderators of r/BuyItForLife (or BIFL), we devote countless hours to researching and recommending products that, theoretically, last a lifetime