The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team.
Читать дальше...Warframe: 1999 actor Ben Starr to talk about his role in the upcoming game, Veep, and his emerging role as gaming's best class clown.
Star Catcher Industries just snagged $12.25 million to develop its planned constellation of power-beaming satellites, which will service other orbiting spacecraft.
Even Mark Zuckerberg admits that Meta and its rivals might be spending too much money on AI chips.
Just as Wall Street created products to participate in the housing boom (subprime mortgages, mortgage backed securities, credit derivatives), the industry now has triple leveraged ETFs to satisfy the public’s gambling appetite.
This week, we learn about the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, and how the failure of this critical ocean current could throw the world’s climate even further into crisis.
During her thousands of hours of training and her marathon open-water crossings, the American swimmer Diana Nyad sang songs in her head. She did this to help pace her strokes, monitor distance, and pass the time while “trapped in the solitary confinement of that protracted monotony.” By Nyad’s count, 210 repetitions of “Ticket to Ride” […]
The Chicago artist Christina Ramberg recontextualized things made for another purpose, transforming the unremarkable into funny, stately, and transgressive forms.
In Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost, an intrepid group of Palestinians stages Shakespeare’s tale of usurpation, suspicion, and revenge.
Labour’s landslide victory in the British elections was achieved with only a third of the popular vote. Will the new government be able to steer Britain out of crisis after fourteen years of failed Tory policies?
And then underneath the black strip on the canvas isa small light. I used to think the black strip was the actual painting. Now I think it’s what the black stripis covering. The covering is impossible. No matter how wide the strip is, light shines through. Somevistas just do. Barnett Newman threw most of his […]
In 2002 a newly published and soon-to-be best-selling novel made front-page headlines—and no wonder. Acerbic and witty, nuanced and astute, The Bondwoman’s Narrative by “Hannah Crafts, A Fugitive Slave Recently Escaped from North Carolina,” was evidently the first novel by a Black woman to provide a chronicle of slavery from the inside. Years earlier the […]
On entering “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” at the Met last year, I was at first reduced to nouns and adjectives. I was overcome with description. An ensemble of an overdress and underdress for Chanel Autumn/Winter 2002–2003. The overdress, in a dark gray cashmere knit, is as formally cinched as a suit jacket. The […]
Kingsley Ben-Adir’s performance as Bob Marley in One Love is seductive, but but in treating the singer as a savior, the film loses sight of his complexity.
running lines. He tries out emphasisas if dropping stones in a rockpool(I sink. I sink. I sink.) and plays alongwith a smoky grin or countermanding fist. Imagine him walking his soliloquyover the bar of the man-made poolpast cue-card, prompter, stage markand off, quite simply, off into the wings. Just ripples of applause, he thinks,nothing to […]
In literature as in life, significant birthdays are occasions for both celebration and reassessment. Herman Melville’s two hundredth birthday happened to just precede the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. The house arrest of so many readers for an indeterminate period resulted in many social changes, among them the sudden proliferation of book groups meeting on […]
For the last century and a half the American female journalist has existed in a state of double consciousness. She could never report the news without her existence as a reporter being regarded as newsworthy, either an emblem of the profession’s progress or proof of its fall. In a gendered version of what W.E.B. Du […]
On July 13, after Thomas Matthew Crooks fired multiple shots at Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the world saw the difference between presence of mind and absence of mind. Trump, who was shot in the right ear, gave an extraordinary demonstration of the first of these qualities. He flinched as he felt the bullet. […]
Dogs can smell when people are stressed, and it seems to make them feel downhearted
Sorry, everybody, I hate to be that guy, but what’s going on with the apocalypse orgy? It’s happening, right? Do we have any more details about it, or are we just going into this whole doomsday orgy thing completely off the cuff?
Читать дальше...When municipalities embrace new technologies, people often refer to them as “smart cities.” However, all too often these technological “revenue enhancers” are nothing more than shakedowns of local citizens.
Just as Wall Street created products to participate in the housing boom (subprime mortgages, mortgage backed securities, credit derivatives), the industry now has triple leveraged ETFs to satisfy the public’s gambling appetite.
U.S. Lawmakers Delivers Standing Ovations for War Criminal Netanyahu; 100+ Democrats Skip Speech, Thousands of Protesters Condemn U.S. Support for Israeli Genocide Outside Netanyahu Address, “Everyone in Gaza Is Sick, Injured, or Both”: U.S. Doctors Demand Biden Admin Stop Arming Israel, “She Wanted to Bring Life Back to Our Home”: Gazan Mourns Daughter Murdered at 9 Months Pregnant, Biden Returns to D.C., Addresses Decision to Drop Reelection Bid and Back Harris for President, Kamala Harris Vows... Читать дальше...
Everything we have learned so far about Southampton from joining the team on their pre-season tour in Girona, Spain ahead of the 2024/25 season
Learn how to craft a robust digital marketing plan using the START framework to stay focused and adaptable.
