Time is impassive, more animal than human. Time would not care if you fell out of it. It would continue on without you. It cannot see you; it has always been blind to the human and the things we do to stave it off, the taxonomies, the cleaning, the arranging, the ordering. —Lauren Groff And […]
Of all the many British and American spies who served the Soviet Union, George Blake was arguably the most intriguing and certainly one of the most effective: he betrayed hundreds of agents in the 1950s, including many working for the West in East Germany. Sentenced to forty-two years behind bars after his exposure in 1961, […]
The clock hangs in room 509, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s glittering new British Galleries, which reopened in March 2020 after four years of renovation and reinstallation. Elegant and expensive, crafted of oak, ebony, and brass, the clock shows the date as well as the time. It is also illuminating about other things. […]
Of our favorite writers, we say we would read even their shopping lists. I’ve never heard anyone say such a thing about translators, and yet there are translators to whom I am similarly devoted—not simply because they can take a book written in one language and render it beautifully into mine, but because I’ve come […]
On June 13, as police in Managua, the hot and dusty Nicaraguan capital, were surrounding his house and preparing to arrest him, Hugo Torres made a farewell video. “These are desperate acts by a dying regime that has no legal standing,” he said. “I never thought that at this stage in my life, I would […]
Peter and Elka Schumann’s Bread and Puppet Theater, the anticapitalist troupe founded in 1963, occupies several buildings on the former Dopp Farm in a remote corner of Vermont. Shanties built from scrap metal and timber dot the landscape, along with some beached flowerchild school buses. When you approach the property through dense forest on a […]
Asus’s new ProArt Studiobook and Studiobook Pro series just reinvented the wheel. These laptops literally feature an embedded wheel embedded for content creators who need to quickly scrub through media or make quick adjustments.
Читать дальше...August was a month that saw the bats run hot while the pitching went a bit cold. Even with 14 regulars posting an OPS over .850, Nick Yorke still blew away the competition on the position player front. Raynel Espinal saw his great month culminate with a cup of coffee with the Red Sox as the 29-year-old right-hander made his major league debut.
MANSFIELD, Mass. - The National Esports Collegiate Conference (NECC) announced today that tickets for players to compete at the conference's upcoming Hometown Series event in Davenport, Iowa have officially gone on sale. The two-day scholastic LAN event will take place Saturday, October 23 and Sunday, October 24 at the beautiful Rhythm City Casino Resort in Davenport, Iowa. The LAN is being co-hosted by St. Ambrose University and the NECC.
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In the Rothbardian-Hoppean school of libertarianism, all legal disputes come down to property rights and contractual obligations. Therefore, there is much discussion about originary property rights (stemming from homesteading unowned land) and about who has rights to places that people claim to have been displaced from long ago when those areas have been inhabited by many groups, often simultaneously, both pre- and postdispossession.
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State police at Clearfield State police reported a DUI occurred Aug. 13 on Interstate 80 westbound in Bradford Township. During a traffic stop, it was found that a New Jersey man was allegedly driving a commercial vehicle erratically while under the influence. Charges will be filed through the district court. State police received a report […]
In June, Niantic announced they were intending to start reversing some of Pokémon Go’s measures put in place to make the game safer to play in the midst of a global pandemic. At the beginning of August, they stunned everyone by going through with it, reducing key distances from 80 meters to 40, despite huge fan…
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The most anticipated dinner of the social season finally took place on Wednesday night’s episode of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, featuring the southern belle smackdown fans have been lusting after since the previews first rolled out. The evening had everything: Baccarat crystals, caviar pie, tiny food on silver…
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This is the Asus Zenbook 14X. | Asus
Asus’s Zenbooks are known for being quite lightweight and quite affordable. But the company is adding another calling card to the line: OLED display technology.
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Here’s the new ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED. | Image: Asus
Asus has announced the ProArt StudioBook 16 OLED and the ProArt StudioBook 16 Pro OLED, two of the first 16-inch laptops to include 4K OLED HDR displays. Per Asus, the displays will cover 100 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut and deliver a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio (neither of which is uncommon among 4K OLED panels). The laptops target creative professionals who work in “color-critical” applications.
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Apple TV+ comedy “Dickinson” will end with the previously announced third season, the streaming service revealed on Thursday. We also now have a debut date for Season 3 — and a first-look teaser.
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Things are looking grim for Locast, a streaming service that once provided free online access to broadcast TV stations. A federal judge just sided with the Big Four broadcast networks in a lawsuit that accused the nonprofit of copyright infringement.
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IMMAF President Kerrith Brown presents Kyrgyzstan president Sadyr Japarov with a certificate appointing him Honorary President of the MMA Federation of Kyrgyzstan. | IMMAF
Karim Zidan delves into the IMMAF’s decision to appoint Kyrgyz president Sadyr Japarov as the Honorary President of the MMA Federation of Kyrgyzstan despite a range of human rights concerns.
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