Sam Miller

“Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat” and Age of the Prestige Prank Show

“Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat” and Age of the Prestige Prank Show

Three years ago, the quasi-scripted comedy “Jury Duty,” an unassuming offering on the now defunct streaming service Freevee, became a social-media sensation through its particular brand of gentle brazenness. Its creators, Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, Frankensteined the series by stitching together two moribund TV genres—the mockumentary sitcom and the prank show—to construct something new,…

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‘Major disruption in Neanderthal history’: 65,000 years ago, all Neanderthals in Europe died out except for one lineage

Before Neanderthals went extinct, they experienced a major upheaval that resulted in just one of their genetic lineages surviving in Europe and then expanding across the continent, a new study shows. The findings, published March 23 in the journal PNAS, may shed light on what ultimately doomed the Neanderthals. Neanderthals were among the closest relatives…

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