<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Pop Culture on MacWorks</title><link>https://macworks.dev/tags/pop-culture/</link><description>Recent content in Pop Culture on MacWorks</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><atom:link href="https://macworks.dev/tags/pop-culture/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>YouTube</title><link>https://macworks.dev/docs/today/youtube-2026-04-19/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://macworks.dev/docs/today/youtube-2026-04-19/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="youtube--2026-04-19"&gt;YouTube — 2026-04-19&lt;a class="anchor" href="#youtube--2026-04-19"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZIeAVrgs4o"&gt;I Taught Rats to Drive. They Taught Me to Enjoy the Ride | Kelly Lambert | TED&lt;/a&gt;
Neuroscientist Kelly Lambert&amp;rsquo;s delightful TED talk reveals that rats trained to drive tiny vehicles experience a measurable joy in the anticipation of a reward, teaching us a profound lesson about &amp;ldquo;behaviorceuticals&amp;rdquo; and the mental health benefits of physical effort.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="highlights-by-theme"&gt;Highlights by Theme&lt;a class="anchor" href="#highlights-by-theme"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h3 id="news--business"&gt;News &amp;amp; Business&lt;a class="anchor" href="#news--business"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CNBC investigates two major systemic issues: the &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vgcmCOrPRw"&gt;European jet fuel shortage&lt;/a&gt; threatening summer travel schedules and prices, and the massive, Silicon Valley-tied fortune of &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ERSPyiA3aI"&gt;Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh&lt;/a&gt;. The New York Times offers a vital look into the origins of the &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3e0Xl5NTeQ"&gt;Supreme Court’s &amp;ldquo;shadow docket&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;, revealing how an unprecedented 2016 stay against the Obama administration&amp;rsquo;s environmental plan sparked this rushed, secretive judicial process. On the Chinese-language side, &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcibeCh1aZ4"&gt;美投讲美股&lt;/a&gt; delivers a highly bullish macro analysis of the US stock market, arguing that fears over Middle East conflicts and inflation are overblown and that corporate earnings are signaling a massive bull run.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Gaming News</title><link>https://macworks.dev/docs/today/games-2026-04-19/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://macworks.dev/docs/today/games-2026-04-19/</guid><description>&lt;h1 id="gaming-news--2026-04-19"&gt;Gaming News — 2026-04-19&lt;a class="anchor" href="#gaming-news--2026-04-19"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;h2 id="top-story"&gt;Top Story&lt;a class="anchor" href="#top-story"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bandai Namco has officially announced &lt;em&gt;Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3&lt;/em&gt; for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S, nearly a decade after the release of its predecessor. Set in a vibrant new world known as &amp;ldquo;AGE 1000&amp;rdquo;, the action-RPG promises an epic story-driven journey with exciting new mysteries and characters for the legendary anime franchise.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 id="news--reviews"&gt;News &amp;amp; Reviews&lt;a class="anchor" href="#news--reviews"&gt;#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Windrose Celebrates 1 Million Copies Sold as Player Counts Climb&lt;/strong&gt; · &lt;a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/windrose-celebrates-1-million-copies-sold-as-player-counts-climb"&gt;IGN&lt;/a&gt;
The cooperative pirate survival game &lt;em&gt;Windrose&lt;/em&gt; is dominating Early Access, sailing past 1 million copies sold in less than a week on PC. The title is seeing massive engagement, peaking at over 211,000 concurrent players on Steam, and is already earning praise for its stellar exploration and progression systems.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>