On Dec. 30, Dawn Wells, star of Gilligan's Island, died in Los Angeles of complications from the coronavirus, her representative confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. She was 82. Wells...
Paul J. Saunders
Politics, Americas
Productively channeling populism in this manner is the only way to dissipate it.
THE UNITED States faces immense challenges, both foreign and domestic. The litany is fairly well-known; it includes (but is not limited to) great power competition with China and Russia, regional tensions with Iran and North Korea, instability in the Middle East, the ongoing threats of terrorism and climate change, and frayed relations with U.S. allies, all within the context of hyper-partisanship... Читать дальше...
The consensus against school openings is starting to crack. First, Biden’s selection for Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, is openly for restarting school. From a report by the Las Vegas Review Journal: Mr. Cardona has expressed support for opening classrooms to ensure that students who can least afford it don’t fall further behind thanks to […]
Gov. Cuomo said Wednesday that state officials and team leadership worked out a test-heavy plan that could be replicated for other large gatherings as COVID vaccinations continue.
Our critic considers why F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic inspires and withstands so much interpretation.
Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister MP for Mt Albert PĀNUI PĀPĀHO MEDIA STATEMENT Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has added her warm congratulations to the New Zealanders recognised for their contributions to their communities and the country in the New ...
Explosion in Nashville: Bei der Detonation eines Wohnmobils ist dessen Besitzer ums Leben gekommen. Die Polizei wurde schon im Jahr 2019 auf den Bombenbauer aufmerksam gemacht.
Kevin Swanepoel, CEO of the One Club for Creativity, thinks the organization he leads has a bit of an image problem. Despite being behind events such as Where Are All The Black People, an annual multicultural career fair that's run for more than 10 years, Swanepoel said he still believes many in the industry solely...
The coronavirus and the new, stay-at-home economy have been a boon for tech companies, including Apple. The tech giant is expected to set a new record in 2021 for MacBook sales, increasing by 10 percent to 17.1 million computers shipped, Cult of Mac reported Wednesday (Dec. 30), citing data from Finaria. That is on top […]
MONTREAL (AP) - Corey Perry had to set the record straight.
Most hockey resources list his birthplace as Peterborough, Ontario, but the veteran winger actually spent the first 10 years of his life in New Liskeard, a community near the Quebec border while his father, Geoff, worked with the Ontario ...
The opening-night games on TNT were the most-watched opening-night games on the channel since 2017.
On Tuesday, Colorado health officials confirmed the nation's first case of a new and potentially more infectious strain of Covid-19.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A Florida prosecutor asked a judge to preserve video that allegedly shows New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft paying for massage parlor sex, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
Читать дальше...Two-term Red Wing Republican emerging as face of House GOP effort to end COVID emergency powers.
Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Dec 22, 2020 - A paper on research conducted by Meirielen Caetano de Sousa, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sao Paulo's Physics Institute (IF-USP) in Brazil, is highlighted as Editor's Pick in the September issue of Physics of Plasmas, published by the American Institute of Physics with the cooperation of The American Physical Society.
The paper, entitled "Wave-particle interactions in a long traveling wave tube with upgraded helix", is signed by Sousa, Ibere Caldas... Читать дальше...
Hefei, China (SPX) Dec 23, 2020 - Other than a spicy night snack, the crayfish has been endowed with greater significance. Prof. ZHU Xifeng's team from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) made it possible to use crayfish shell as the biological template for high-performance supercapacitors. This work was published in Carbon.
Compared with other high-performance materials, biomass has long been regarded as a promising one for its environmental-friendliness and extensive resources. Читать дальше...
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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said offenders "endangered the lives, livelihoods and health of not only their parishioners but their entire communities."
Leeds have come under fire for a tweet featuring Karen Carney which has led to the former England international receiving abuse on social media
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 22, 2020 - Researchers at the George Washington University, together with researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the deep-tech venture startup Optelligence LLC, have developed an optical convolutional neural network accelerator capable of processing large amounts of information, on the order of petabytes, per second.
This innovation, which harnesses the massive parallelism of light, heralds a new era of optical signal processing for machine learning with numerous applications... Читать дальше...
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 30, 2020 - NASA has approved two heliophysics missions to explore the Sun and the system that drives space weather near Earth. Together, NASA's contribution to the Extreme Ultraviolet High-Throughput Spectroscopic Telescope Epsilon Mission, or EUVST, and the Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer, or EZIE, will help us understand the Sun and Earth as an interconnected system.
Understanding the physics that drive the solar wind and solar explosions - including solar flares... Читать дальше...
Quiñones, whose stage name was Shabba-Doo, rose to popularity in the 1980s becoming one of the most popular breakdancers on the West Coast.