Founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the annual Munich Security Conference on February 15, 2020. Kuhlmann | Munich Security Conference Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday told employees that the company’s failure to remove the page and event for a militia group before two people were killed at a protest in Kenosha,
Month: August 2020
New York Fashion Week will go forward, but with a new format. The Council of Fashion Designers of America has released the official lineup for the spring 2021 season, along with a digital initiative that will allow designers to present their collections to both industry professionals and the general public. Titled Runway360, the platform is
Snakes on a Plane 2: Snakes in a Toilet? That could be the title of a new Samuel L. Jackson sequel as an Australian woman found snakes inside her clogged toilet tank after it wouldn’t flush. Snakes apparently like to chill in toilets when it’s warm outside. Though, this isn’t exactly something anyone wants to
The truth is still out there … and it might be found in animated form. An animated comedy series is officially in development at FOX. Series creator Chris Carter is attached to executive produce, but he will not be writing or serving as a showrunner, it has been announced. Titled The X-Files: Albuquerque, the series
By Allison Kubo Graphene is a comprised of a one-atom-thick layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb structure. This sheet can be wrapped into fullerenes, rolled into nanotubes, or stacked to form graphite the same thing uses ing pencils. All of these are made of carbon: diamonds, graphite, graphene are all different arrangements of
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . Though you’ve probably only learned Mieko Kawakami’s name recently, with the release of Breasts and Eggs from renowned indie press Europa Editions,
Brainchild of the rising Latin band Juliana, John Stewart and his writing partner and bandmate Madeleine Kaye have just released a vibrant new track called “Tu Sabor”, translated meaning “Your Flavor.” A project masterminded by Stewart, Juliana is an all-American Latin band including lead vocalist Madeleine Kaye, drums/percussionist Bob Ross, and John Stewart playing rhythm
Dr. Scott Bauer normally treats veterans at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. But when the internist heard about an opportunity to volunteer at San Quentin State Prison during the coronavirus outbreak, he raised his hand. San Quentin, a Bay Area-based prison for men and the oldest institution of its kind in California, has
Of all the calamity exhibition needs right now as the industry tries to reopen during a pandemic is a hurricane. Box office analysts are divided on Hurricane Laura’s impact as new fare including 20th Century Studios/Disney’s The New Mutants, Searchlight’s The Personal History of David Copperfield, UAR/Orion’s Bill & Ted Face the Music and Picturehouse’s Fatima
WASHINGTON — While NASA seeks to eventually transition from the International Space Station to commercial stations in low Earth orbit, the agency is putting on hold a solicitation to support development of such a free-flying platform. One element of NASA’s LEO commercialization strategy, announced in June 2019, was to fund development of commercial platforms, including
WASHINGTON – It was a very grand setting for what turned out to be a very common speech. President Donald Trump formally accepted his party’s nomination for president Thursday night on the South Lawn of the White House, flanked by dozens of American flags and cheered by more than a thousand invited guests. Trump emerged from
Exclusive New mom Katy Perry‘s got sushi-on-the-brain now, but she effectively booted it from her diet during her pregnancy by adding a few new faves to her takeout orders. KP called on the good folks at Postmates 25 times while she was carrying Daisy Dove and almost half of those orders included some sort of
U.S. government debt prices slipped lower early Friday, as markets responded to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s announcement of a major policy shift when it comes to inflation. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 0.7638%, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond ticked higher to 1.5369. Bond yields move inversely to prices. It comes after Powell said
Michelle Obama spoke candidly about experiencing racism as a Black woman in America, both in and out of the White House, on the latest episode of The Michelle Obama Podcast. On the episode, she also spoke with her longtime pals—Kelly Dibble, Denielle Pemberton-Heard, and Dr. Sharon Malone—about the power of their friendships. When the recent
Hulu has released the trailer for The Binge, which premieres this Friday. The footage is booze and drug-fueled spoof of The Purge with some hints of Superbad for good measure. In the movie, the not-so-distant future finds that the world is sober and the United States is thriving, due to its sobriety. However, one day
If you’ve been worrying that The Masked Singer would not make its planned fall return on FOX, we have some good news. A Season 4 premiere date has been revealed. The beloved series will return Wednesday, Sept. 23 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT), on FOX. If you can’t wait until then, the network is offering an advanced
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . I have been asked a lot about autofiction with my latest novel, which is about a Korean American adoptee named Matt who
A grasshopper lands at a random location on a patch of lawn and then jumps a fixed distance in a random direction. What shape of lawn has the highest probability of retaining the grasshopper after its jump? In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, we talk to a quartet of physicists and mathematicians
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