Barely Related: The Rock is Black Adam, telepathy exists

Today, let's take a moment to stop and revel in how amazing, terrifying and grand the world is. Our lives are composed of dark, light and every shade in between. That's why, when we get serious shade thrown our way, we can absorb it and move on.

Welcome to Barely Related, a conversational Friday column that presents the non-gaming news stories that we, the Joystiq staff, have been talking about over the past week. And no, we're not stopping our focus on industry and gaming news. Think of this as your casual weekly recap of interesting (and mostly geeky) news, presented just in time to fill your brain with things to discuss at all of those weekend shindigs.

Grab a fresh drink, lean back in your armchair, and get ready to talk nerdy with us.

The Rock is obviously Black Adam

The Rock, known by the normal-people name of Dwayne Johnson, will play Shazam's adversary and noted antihero Black Adam in DC and Warner Bros' coming Shazam film. Mr. Rock tweeted the news, including the quote, "Kneel at his feet or get crushed by his boot." He said it was his "honor to become" Black Adam.

Darren Lemke, author of Turbo and Jack the Giant Slayer scripts, is set to write the screenplay for Shazam.

Telepathy is a thing now

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Oh, you didn't receive this story in your mind bank? OK, we'll write it out (like peasants): Two people telepathically communicated the words "ciao" and "hola" to each other across a distance of 5,000 miles, with one participant in India and the other in France. They were hooked up to robotic emitters and receivers, and the words were translated into binary over the internet before making it to the recipients.

That's obviously a very pared down explanation of the procedure, but the whole thing is outlined on PLOS One.

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Barely Related: The Rock is Black Adam, telepathy exists