Month: August 2021

One Lotto Ticket Away From Living the Dream 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. WHEN MY DAD CALLS Set for Life I’m scratching tickets right now I won
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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. Campus novels are nostalgic. The historic brick buildings, the quiet libraries, and the green quads create a romantic setting, one that’s usually
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It’s fascinating to watch local governments — New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans — rush to enact Covid vaccine requirements for entry to the publicly accessible spaces of private business, including, yes, movie theaters. I’m not equipped to judge the ultimate propriety or efficacy of such mandates. Frankly, the complexities posed by breakthroughs,
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UPDATE, writethru: Disney/20th Century Studios’ Free Guy led the game at global turnstiles this session with a $51M worldwide debut. That includes domestic’s over-performance of $28.4M, and a $22.5M start in 41 material markets at the international box office — the latter in line with pre-weekend expectations. The offshore debut on the Shawn Levy-directed pic
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WASHINGTON — The Government Accountability Office offered more details about its decision to reject protests filed by two companies of NASA’s Human Landing System (HLS) award to SpaceX. The GAO released Aug. 10 a 76-page decision denying protests filed in April by Blue Origin and Dynetics of NASA’s decision to make a single HLS award,
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The Poly Network logo displayed on a phone screen with a physical representation of some cryptocurrencies. Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto via Getty Images Nearly all of the $600 million stolen in one of the biggest cryptocurrency heists ever has now been returned by hackers, according to the platform targeted in the hack. Poly Network said
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Ed Yardeni believes the U.S. economy is on the cusp of “nirvana.” Despite uncertainty surrounding inflation and Covid-19 variants, the longtime bull believes the pandemic is significantly accelerating corporate America’s adoption of cutting-edge technology designed to expand productivity. According to Yardeni, the move is ushering in a modern roaring ’20s on Wall Street. “Buy a
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Residents walk through disinfectant spray as their residential community lifts epidemic-control lockdown on August 14, 2021, in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China. Ruan Zhong | Visual China Group | Getty Images BEIJING — China released economic data for July that showed slower-than-expected growth as the world’s second-largest economy battled floods and a resurgence of Covid-19.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell adjusts his tie as he arrives to testify before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress” on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 15, 2021. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Shifting policy views amid unexpected economic data have opened the door
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Taken from the 2021 issue of Physics World Instrumentation and Vacuum Briefing. You can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app. Vacuum specialists are working closely with production engineers to make lithium-ion battery manufacturing more efficient – reducing costs and cutting carbon emissions, as Susan Curtis reports
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