“The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover”—Mary Shelley I skipped the day we discussed Frankenstein in my Romantics Literature seminar in my sophomore year of college. It was the late 90s, a time when email existed but was only used for the most urgent and timely emergencies, text messaging was
Month: October 2023
SDOTT: PAVING A NEW PATH IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY Introducing SDOTT, the rising star who is revolutionizing the zydeco genre and gaining popularity among listeners in Louisiana. Inspired by the smooth contemporary zydeco of Leon Chavis, SDOTT has carved out his own unique niche in the music industry. By blending blues, rhythm and blues,
While automation and machine-learning technologies hold great promise for radiation oncology programmes, speakers at the ASTRO Annual Meeting cautioned that significant challenges remain when it comes to clinical implementation. Joe McEntee reports Automation for the people The challenges around automated treatment planning proved to be a talking point for speakers and delegates at the ASTRO
Darrin Bell didn’t set out to write his much anticipated graphic memoir, The Talk. He’d initially sold another project delving into the lives of three generations of men in his family, all descendants of an enslaved man named Addison Bell, in a two book deal to Henry Holt and Co. But as he was working
You Can’t Raise a Daughter on Hope and Junk Food Alone Kristen Gentry Share article A New World by Kristen Gentry Parker stares at his niece Zaria’s stomach, covered by a stretched-out white tank top. Her belly is a dingy full moon creeping on the horizon of the kitchen table. She carries a whole new
Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their
Sweden-born, Los Angeles-based artist K3NN3DI is ready to take the music industry by storm with her unique retro futuristic style and infectious melodies. Having already made a name for herself as a supermodel, K3NN3DI is now ready to showcase her talents as a pop star, with plans to further pursue a career in film and
Mitigating skin tone bias Conventional (top rows) and SLSC (bottom rows) photoacoustic images of volunteer 1 (light skin tone) and volunteer 18 (dark skin tone) at 750, 810 and 870 nm. The green arrows indicate the radial artery location; the white arrows show a smaller blood vessel enhanced with SLSC imaging. (Courtesy: CC BY 4.0/G
Join the audience for a live webinar at 2 p.m. GMT/3 p.m. CET on 14 November 2023 exploring MRI-guided radiotherapy quality assurance Want to take part in this webinar? We will delve into the world of MRI-guided radiotherapy systems and the critical role of quality assurance in delivering precise, personalized cancer treatments. This webinar will address
From trees and mortality to colonialism and FaceTime sex, Charif Shanahan’s Trace Evidence investigates a restless range of subjects with a truth-finding precision that would be breathtaking for a single poem but is present here across an entire collection. What unites this book is the question of how to speak when one’s personhood or subjectivity
Multiple qubit platform: in this diagram, an STM tip coated with iron (top) operates the sensor spin qubit. Also shown are the remote spin qubits, which are aligned by the magnetic fields of nearby iron atoms. (Courtesy: Institute for Basic Science) A quantum computing platform that is capable of the simultaneous operation of multiple spin-based
Since Walt Whitman, the American sentence has shape-shifted in and out of forms, from race-car lyrical lines that drive off the page, to fields of hailstorm words floating in white space in a way that resembles visual art, and back to semi-formal stanzas that lilt and groove around a pentameter-like beat. I’ve designed my poetry
For thirty years, China has been building step by step toward a tipping point in the global balance of power. A tipping point that will allow it to take over. And to impose what it calls a New World Order. That tipping point may have come with the war in Gaza. Why? China’s Xi Jinping has been
We’re celebrating peak fall with this interactive choose-your-own-journey which will let you decide where the story goes, with book recommendations for each chapter! Apple picking or pumpkin picking? Haunted house or Halloween party? Make up or break up? The choice is yours and every answer leads to a different story. The full list of books
[embedded content] Earlier this year, the Institute of Physics (IOP), which publishes Physics World, launched a campaign to persuade journalists to stop using the outdated slang term “boffin” when referring to scientists. The initiative was aimed at the red-top tabloids such as The Sun as well as The Daily Star, who have a particular soft spot
In Myriam Gurba’s latest essay collection Creep, the Mexican American author interrogates both those who deceive, exploit, and oppress others as well as the culture that enables them. “People who hurt other people can be charming,” Gurba notes in the title essay. “It works in their favor.” In Creep, Gurba moves beyond the memoir she
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