InGame of Thrones, Jon Snow’s direwolf Ghost was more than a pet. He was the embodiment of loyalty, survival, and bone-crunching badassery. When Colossal Biosciences said they had brought back direwolves, people got excited. Ghost is back! The North remembers! Science wins!Well… no.What Colossal did was sort of like bringing back the direwolf — if…
Exceptionalism comes in various forms. There’s the art-form exclusionist, who disregards Oscar Wilde to think they are a superior life form because they watch Game of Thronesinstead of Jersey Shore. There’s the sport exclusionist, who believes that following a football team from a country that once colonized us is a modern form of tribalism. Then…
A UK woman’s excitement for a long-awaited family holiday was crushed when her six-year-old daughter’s passport application was rejected due to her name, Khaleesi, inspired by the popular TV series Game of Thrones.Lucy, 39, from Wiltshire, England, was left “devastated” after receiving a rejection letter from the UK Passport Office. Officials claimed they couldn’t issue…
