Month: August 2021

Photo by Megan (Markham) Bucknall / Unsplash It is easy to be a mother.Childbirth was nothing.Marriage and divorceonly crackthe plaster a littlelike when the S-traingoes by. It is easy to writeeasy to readyour own works out loudgood grounds forslipping away from home. What is difficultis the coffee hourafterward.The other adults there seeyour hands are shakingand
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Being James Bond, from MGM, will stream exclusively on the Apple TV app as a free rental ahead of the theatrical release of No Time To Die, the 25th installment of the storied franchise. The 45-minute retrospective features Daniel Craig reflecting on his 15 years playing Bond, with never-before-seen archival footage from his oeuvre and conversations with 07
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference announcing a class action lawsuit against big tech companies at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster on July 07, 2021 in Bedminster, New Jersey. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Several of the Republican Party’s biggest and most influential donors are signaling that they don’t
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News Lil Nas X Reveals Cover of New Album Montero The musician’s debut full-length arrives on September 17 via Columbia Records By Matthew Strauss August 31, 2021 Facebook Twitter Lil Nas X, image by Charlotte Rutherford Facebook Twitter Lil Nas X has revealed the cover artwork for his debut album Montero. Check out the colorful
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People are shopping like nobody’s business,” marvels Sherri McMullen. As the owner of McMullen, the buzzy Oakland, California, boutique, she would know. Her clients, she says, “are redoing their entire wardrobes.” Refrains she’s heard lately: “‘I don’t want anything in my closet’; ‘I want to redo everything’; ‘Everything’s too dark.’” (Bright colors and prints, she
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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. Suchitra Vijayan’s debut book, Midnight’s Borders, is a genre-bending book of nonfiction—made of stories, encounters, vignettes, and photographs—about home, belonging, and displacement.
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Follow the eyes: By identifying the patient’s eye corners, the VR system can utilize gaze tracking information to trigger interactions in the virtual world. (Courtesy: CC BY 4.0/Sci. Rep. 10.1038/s41598-021-95634-y) The gaze tracking system acts as the crux of the VR system, as it allows immersive control of the environment without bodily movement. First, the
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A handout photo of a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul. Handout | Getty Images News WASHINGTON — America’s longest war is over. The United States finished its withdrawal efforts from Kabul’s airport, the Pentagon said Monday, effectively ending a two-decade conflict that began not long after the terrorist attacks of
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Former defense official Mary Beth Long warned about the precarious state of the U.S. credibility after Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed there were less than 200 Americans still seeking evacuation from Afghanistan following the final U.S. military withdrawal from the Taliban-controlled country.  “Our credibility is rock-bottom, and it’s one thing to leave, but we
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