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In the spring, with permission from staff, patients and their families, we shadowed one doctor for a day to get a sense of what it is like on the front lines of the pandemic.

If you picked up a pair of Apple's swanky new over-ear noise-canceling headphones -- or are thinking about it -- here are some answers to frequently asked questions.

Rooftop rallies, frisbee golf and alpacas: alternative clips of the year The Guardian

The strangest PGA Tour stats from the strangest year in golf GolfDigest.com

Right now, you're probably seeing ads for all the stuff you already bought for Christmas. Curious why that happens? We did some digging to find out.

Let's talk about shoes.

More specifically, let's talk about Wonder Woman's wedge heels. Almost exactly one year ago, fans got their first look at Wonder Woman 1984, the sequel to the 2017 smash hit Wonder Woman, with the trailer confirming that Gal Gadot's character still preferred donning impractical footwear when saving the world. The whole thing rekindled a minor controversy over her costume: Yes, Diana Prince is a made-up character — a literal Amazon who doesn't have to worry about twisted ankles like the rest of us mere mortals ... Читать дальше...

Trump's tangled relationship with the Saudi royal family now includes extensive cover-ups for multiple murders

In December, the Vatican became one of the latest entities to unveil a plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, joining far less pious actors like BP, Shell, and President-elect Joe Biden. Net-zero plans have become all the rage as public concern about the climate crisis has grown. But approving coverage of these wide-ranging announcements rarely question what the “net” of net-zero actually means. 

It’s democracy’s death knell: The feeling that the future is beyond us, the sensation that we’ve lost, as citizens, the ability to direct our lives together in a meaningful way. Sometimes it feels as though that power has been stolen. In other instances, it’s the sheer scale or complexity of a problem that outstrips our democratic capacity to manage it. Climate change, globalization, inequality, and now a pandemic—these challenges are dangerous for democracy because they make us feel less sovereign. Читать дальше...

Would you like to give your friends and loved ones the gift of surveillance this holiday season? Your options abound. The market for “smart” devices is booming: There are smart toothbrushes that monitor your dental hygiene, smart beds that measure how you sleep, and smart forks that watch your every bite. This intimate data can be helpful, steering you toward a healthier and more productive life. But it is also deeply interesting to others listening in.

Sexual violence and misogyny have for so long provided mainstream film and television with a wellspring of entertaining tropes, that when writers and directors set out to examine their workings directly, they mistrust flamboyance. Some of the most successful recent treatments of the subject are characterized by a restraint that borders on austere: Unbelievable wrestles crime drama into a rigorous, sensitive feminist form; Kitty Green’s tense, miniaturist The Assistant restricts itself to the perspective... Читать дальше...

When President-elect Joe Biden takes office in January, he’ll inherit a country that’s riven with divisions along ethnic and socio-economic lines. The central tenets of his “Build Back Better” plan suggest that his administration will confront these divisions head on and seek to ameliorate them in a variety of ways. One of the guiding principles involves fostering a stronger sense of race equity—a goal that’s as large and amorphous as it is ambitious. But there are short, sharp steps the president can take to get his arms around the task. Читать дальше...

In 2018, Sam Cole, a reporter at Motherboard, discovered a new and disturbing corner of the internet. A Reddit user by the name of “deepfakes” was posting nonconsensual fake porn videos using an AI algorithm to swap celebrities’ faces into real porn. Cole sounded the alarm on the phenomenon, right as the technology was about…

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We check in with Kasperi Kapanen’s video coach from the AHL to get some information on his game

These were the best cord-cutting services, devices, and developments in 2020.

Cocktail made while sheltering in place, using whatever’s available: ten letters.

Here are the films that stood out during this pandemic year, in the face of a moviemaking standstill and a streaming revolution.

And, while I have you, Mason also believes that whole-grain spelt wafers are “cookies.”

As a source of at-home entertainment and an antidote to the mind-numbing effects of lockdown, crosswords became a staple of many quarantine diets.

“Since there’s nothing else to do, want to ransack the place and clean it all over again?”

For the novelist, imprisonment wasn’t just a stain on society; it was an aspect of the self.

Yes, Santa Claus is real. This columnist explains that Christmas without Santa Claus would be ahistorical, a ship of dreams with no wind in its sails.

The ritual of having the mariachi community come together to play at the funeral or wake of a musician who has died has become a common practice and it is a sign of respect and camaraderie, said Leon, leader of Mariachi Mexico Vivo.

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I guess something else is on the calendar tomorrow, too.