Michael Bay Poised for Comeback with Ambulance

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People have strong opinions about Michael Bay. The director of Armageddon, The Rock, Pain and Gain, and about a dozen Transformers movies (give or take) is reviled by some for his ultra-macho style of huge explosions and quick cuts, but revered by others as a modern master of a very specific type of contemporary action film. His new movie, Ambulance, hits theaters this weekend, and film critic Adam Nayman has this look back at Bay?s career on The Ringer this week, and suggests that the controversial filmmaker might be deserving of a reevaluation by critics who have pelted him with negative reviews for years.

Hubble Discovers Farthest Object Ever Observed
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We had news this week of a dramatic discovery from an international team of astronomers affiliated with Harvard and the Smithsonian: the discovery of what is being referred to as the most distant astronomical object ever observed, a galaxy that is a staggering 13.5 billion light years away. Something so far away offers astronomers a chance to study something that is nearly as old as the universe itself, and much of the work that will ensue will be determining what exactly the object is. Two possibilities have emerged: it could be a galaxy that?s home to some of the oldest stars in the universe, among the first formed. Or it could be a supermassive black hole, 100 million times the mass of our sun. It?s a fascinat...