Jiordan Castle’s memoir-in-verse Disappearing Act follows the teen-version of herself as she lives through the arrest, court proceedings, and subsequent incarceration of her father while navigating the fraught years of the transition from girlhood to adolescence. Through mostly narrative poems‚ Castle invites us into her world as it’s changing faster than her mind can keep
Month: November 2023
The SpaceX Starship has launched its second orbital test flight. Which means that America now is about to have two mega-rockets, two of the biggest rockets ever to take to the skies. One is SpaceX’s Starship. The other is NASA’s Artemis Moon Rocket. How do the two stack up against each other? The Artemis Moon Rocket’s engines generate
“It was an uncertain spring,” begins The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez, which takes place during the peak of the Covid lockdown in New York. As the pandemic rages, a group is haphazardly forced to shelter in one Manhattan apartment together: a parrot without its owners, a young man estranged from his parents, and the narrator,
Our guest in this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast is the biomedical ethicist Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, who along with colleagues has called for the commercial space industry to adopt ethical policies and best practices for research done on humans during space flights. Rahimzadeh, who is at Baylor College of Medicine in the US, explains
An enduring battle between book lovers is that of hardcovers versus paperbacks. Ultimately, your preference might come down to many factors. Hardcover fans insist on the book’s durability and quality and being among the first to purchase a long-awaited release, while paperback lovers advocate for the cheaper price and lightweight design. But in addition to
If you are a person on social media, then my guess is you have at least one person you hate-follow—you know the type, the person you simultaneously envy and eye roll at every post. They are dating the person you want to date or wearing the clothes you want to wear or working the job
Siemens Healthineers explains how bringing more innovation on the imaging as well as the treatment side can enhance patient outcomes In this short video, filmed at the ASTRO 2023 conference, Elena Nioutsikou, global programme director for MRI in RT, explains how Siemens Healthineers can make an impact on patient outcomes across the whole continuum of
On 22nd November 2023, Singer/Songwriter Tony Moore Will Release A Song Called “Blood And Roses” Which Documents The Experience Of The Artist Meat Loaf Who, When He Was A Teenager, Got Caught Up In Events Surrounding The Tragic Assassination Of John F Kennedy In Dallas. Singer/Songwriter Tony Moore will release a new single titled “Blood
This American Dream Tastes Like Government Cheese Dear Irreverence, We were raised on food stamps that looked like British pounds and dead-end jobs where bodies slung over crates and cans and cam shafts or pouches with pennies and coupons and a giant magnet sign wearing the paint off the car was just another insult. This
Since the early aughts, the cultural phenomenon known as the Korean Wave has expanded from a tiny homegrown ripple to a global tsunami of trends and merchandise encompassing pop music, gaming, cosmetics, cuisine, film and TV, and literature. K-pop bands now top the music charts, kimchi and gochujang are sold in most supermarkets, and Gen-Z
Across the world, varying factions of society seem to be angrier and more divided than ever. But as Anna Demming explains, physicists are doing their best to shed light on what has gone wrong Divided society Can physics help us to understand why society is increasingly politically polarized? (Courtesy: iStock/Mariya Bondarenko) Aeroplane contrails are being
On March 20th, 2020, Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released. Just a few days after the majority of the world shut down, marking the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people fell into a virtual world in which sickness was not rampant and you could pay back the construction costs on your home at
Farah Ali’s debut novel The River, The Town is a haunting portrait of lives relegated to the margins by capitalism and its resulting byproduct: the inequitable distribution of resources. The world of the novel centers two places, the Town and the City, and the narrative focus, in typical Farah-Ali-fashion, is on people. Farah tells me
Certified entangled: In this entanglement certification scheme involving weak certification and reversal measurements, two parties (traditionally known as Alice and Bob) sitting in their respective laboratories share a potentially entangled pair of systems in the shared state |Ψi⟩. In the certification step, they subject their local systems to weak certification measurements to obtain statistics. In
Performing on Stage for an Audience of One Sarah Blakley-Cartwright Share article An excerpt from Alice Sadie Celine by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright Check out the audiobook edition of this excerpt, read by award-winning actress Chloë Sevigny, from Simon & Schuster Audio. AliceFRIDAY Opening night and, as soon as they could get Leontes’s detachable sleeves Velcroed on—the
This is the first year that IOP has recognised North America, having already published top-cited awards for China and India (courtesy: iStock/Igor-Kutyaev) Almost 130 articles from researchers in North America have been recognized with a top-cited award for 2023 from IOP Publishing, which publishes Physics World. The papers received over 15400 citations in total and
These 10 books take the imaginability of other minds as their explicit subject. Their writers are curious about nonhuman consciousness: could language reproduce that as well? In order to imaginewhat animals, plants, or objects might be thinking, these writers try to think those thoughts themselves. They wonder: what is it like to be an elephant,
Sun Nuclear presents the latest developments in the SunCHECK, SunScan and ArcCHECK platforms In this short video filmed at the ASTRO 2023 conference in San Diego, US, Greg Robinson, patient QA product line director at Sun Nuclear, outlines recent developments with the SunCHECK platform. Robinson points out that many new technologies and increasing complexities are
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