Minimalist plotting for Python, inspired by Edward Tufte’s principles of data visualization. Maximising the data–ink ratio: remove non-essential lines, marks, and colours. Content-driven spines and ...

If you’ve ever watched a whitetail deer browse, you’ve seen them nonchalantly pick specific plants to devour while ignoring others. A fancy way of describing that behavior is to say that deer are ...

Nothing amplifies a popular trend more than a prominent critic making a noisy case against it. In her 2021 polemic, “The Case Against the Trauma Plot,” the literary critic Parul Sehgal argued that ...

Have you ever heard someone describe your favorite movie in a way that completely changed your perception of its story forever… or at least made you chuckle a little? Cinephiles have been coming up ...

Most screenplays use some form of a plot device. But a bad plot device can ruin an otherwise acceptable screenplay, so screenwriters must be careful to craft storytelling devices in a way that ...

"This type of situation is exactly why the FBI exists.” The FBI became aware on Tuesday of threats that were communicated involving two teenage girls, ages 15 and 16, plotting what the FBI called a ...

For a brief moment earlier this month, I thought an old acquaintance had passed away. I was still groggy one morning when I checked my phone to find a notification delivering the news. “Obituary ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Iran has emerged as a twofold concern for the United States as it nears the end of the presidential campaign. Prosecutors allege Tehran tried to hack figures ...

Iran is under suspicion of trying to hack figures associated with the upcoming U.S. presidential election and plotting the assassination of former President Donald Trump. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — ...