Month: April 2021

U.S. Treasury yields fell on Thursday morning, ahead of the release of weekly jobless claims data. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note dipped to 1.552% at 4 a.m. ET. The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond dipped to 2.244%. Yields move inversely to prices. Treasurys The number of new unemployment insurance claims filed
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“Patience” ended up being a high-stakes episode for many. Nicky and Henry made significant progress with the Zhilan case, and more was revealed about the personal lives of the Shens. Zhilan made headway and obtained another weapon, which begs the question: can she be stopped? Thankfully, Zhilan got a lot of screentime on Kung Fu
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If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. We often behave as if there’s something inherently shameful about reading and writing fanfiction. I remember compulsively clearing my browser history as
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Visualizing subcellular structures deep inside the brains of living animals could improve our understanding of how neurons function in their native environment. Thanks to an improved super-resolution microscopy technique developed at Yale University, that dream is now one step closer to reality. Writing in Optica, the researchers combined stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy with two-photon
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We first told you about the Neil Burger-directed thriller The Marsh King’s Daughter, starring Daisy Ridley, which Black Bear Pictures, Anonymous Content and STX International were selling at EFM. Today, STXfilms is taking U.S. rights to the feature, putting them back in business with Burger who directed the $100M-plus B.O. hit for them, The Upside, which the studio
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News Eric Andre Says He Was Racially Profiled at Atlanta Airport Andre tweeted that he was stopped by plain clothes police for a “‘random’ search” for drugs at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport By Madison Bloom April 21, 2021 Facebook Twitter Eric Andre in 2016 (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images). Facebook Twitter Eric Andre has made allegations that
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By Allison Kubo Hutchison Graphs are the bread and butter of scientists. We love them. Lines plots, bar graphs, line plots. Visual representations of data are the default on science. However, sonification, the transformation of data into sound rather than images has been gaining interest. One reason is that our ears actually have better time
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Win a Round Trip to Complete Oblivion Izumi Suzuki  Share article If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. “That Old Seaside Club” by Izumi Suzuki  Sunlight floods the bay.
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Photo © Matika Wilbur For the 44th Annual Writers Week, the University of California, Riverside Department of Creative Writing, in partnership with the LA Review of Books, honored three US Poets Laureate with Lifetime Achievement Awards: Rita Dove (1993–95), Juan Felipe Herrera (2015–16), and Joy Harjo (2019–present). As part of honoring these poetry luminaries—three visionaries representing
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WASHINGTON — Six months after including it on the team that was a NASA technology contract, Lockheed Martin has quietly dropped in-space transportation company Momentus from that project. Lockheed was one of 14 companies that received Tipping Point awards from NASA in October 2020 to demonstrate key technologies needed for sustainable lunar exploration. Lockheed’s award
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