Today #TheSimonettaLeinShow continues its highly anticipated 6th Season, as the show welcomes New York Times best-selling author, keynote speaker, and industry-leading show host, Lewis Howes! Lewis is a two-sport All-American athlete, former professional football player, and member of the U.S.A. Men’s National Handball Team. His show, “The School of Greatness” is one of the top podcasts in
Month: December 2023
Cutting edge: NIRSpec being readied for the launch of the JWST. (Courtesy: Astrium/NIRSpec) Using a cutting-edge spectrograph on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have found evidence that interstellar oxygen was far more abundant in many ancient galaxies than previously thought. Led by Kimihiko Nakajima at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the team
The Moon Has Always Been an Alien Alien Once, this stable hosted tens of thoroughbreds. But this ranch has a history of lost riders and now, there is nothing else to ride. Set free by forgetfulness rather than truth, I am comfortable with my beliefs of the unseen. Under the night sky, scars become spider
As I watched Donald Trump win the presidency on November 8th, 2016, I didn’t know that it meant my days of sleeping with Republicans were over. Why? For a start, it took me a few days to even accept the election results. Furthermore, I’d never sought out Republicans for intimacy-related reasons—it was one of those
Flapping and soaring: The tips of pelicans’ wings turn down when they fly near the surface of water. Aerodynamics experts are trying to understand why. (Courtesy: iStock/Aschen) For human-built aircraft, turbulence is an old and knotty problem. One of the first recorded human flight attempts, by an 11th-century monk called Eilmer, ended when his birdlike
When it comes to nonfiction, this year featured some truly stellar writing. This was a year in which we’ve seen the expansion of what this genre is, and who writes it. Our truest stories, sometimes molded in the form of poetic lyricism or sensational public spectacle, yielded a larger than life impact. Questions of displacement
The tribal council hires Hokee to find missing reservation children. What he discovers is an evil business encompassing all humanity. Kidnapping, pedophilia and human trafficking take Hokee from America to the sands of Sahara where he nearly loses his life. A New York investigative reporter, Gloria Bingham is recruited to help Hokee take down the
Eskor David Johnson’s Pay As You Go is set in an imagined city, Polis, one that takes elements from New York to Chicago to London and magnifies them to grandiose size. Traversing Polis is an intrepid hero of sorts, Slide, whose rare mix of panache, naivety, earnestness, and humor makes him a mesmerizing act to
Screen time: teams of scientists that work remotely are less likely to make big research breakthroughs, claims a new study (courtesy: iStock/AndreyPopov) The online world makes it easier for researchers to collaborate – but does not result in more groundbreaking work. That is according to a new study, which finds that teams of scientists working
A Childhood That Defies Gravity Marcus Stewart Share article The Art of Levitation by Marcus Stewart Children hopped along the logs arranged as stepping-stones in the playground; Lewis stood next to them and stared at his shoes. Big, black shiny plastic shoes, with big black laces. He was sure the shoes didn’t affect it. He
“What would you do if you found out that the person you were trying to save might have to kill you?” Teddy Dabrowski is a man harboring a dark secret until one fateful day a horrific crime at his favorite coffee house forces him to confront his past. As the authorities search for suspects, Teddy
Diagnosing ADHD Using AI models to analyse children’s brain MRI scans could help find imaging biomarkers that can identify ADHD. (Courtesy: RadiologyInfo.org) RSNA 2023, the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) takes place this week in Chicago, showcasing recent research advances and product developments in all areas of radiology. This year’s
Planetary harmony: illustration of the orbits of the six exoplanets of HD 110067. (Courtesy:Medienmitteilung/UniBE/UniGE/CHEOPS/TESS/Sextett/Planete/Walzer/Video©UniBE/HughOsborn) A rare system of six exoplanets, all smaller than Neptune but larger than Earth, has been found with orbits that are all resonant with each other. The system was discovered by astronomers led by Rafael Luque of the University of Chicago,
Public fascination with con artists, scams, and heists has been on the rise, with stories of Anna Delvey, Rachel Dolezal, Caroline Calloway, and Elizabeth Holmes splashing across magazine covers in the last decade. Alongside it, my thirsty interest in literary scandals has grown, watered by “Bad Art Friend,” a mysterious manuscript thief, the pathological lies
“Blood Vessel”, a Netflix Original, is set to premiere on December 8th. The Nollywood thriller is executive-produced by Charles Okpaleke from Play Network Studios and directed by Moses Inwang. In this upcoming Nigerian original film, the mystery and crime thriller unfolds in the Niger Delta region. The plot revolves around six individuals brought together by
At 10:52 Wednesday morning, The Wall Street Journal reported new data from the National Center for Health Statistics on suicide in the United States. The data was shocking. According to the Journal, last year close to 50,000 Americans committed suicide. That’s the highest level of suicides since 1941. 50,000 is not just a lot of suicides
Slippery slope: a polymer coating made the toilet bowl on the left more slippery than the untreated one on the right. (Courtesy: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2023/DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c11352) Going into a public toilet is sometimes not for the faint hearted. Not only could there be visible evidence of previous use, but also the unseeable
Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover for the novel Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, which will be published by One World on June 18th 2024. Preorder the book here. A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to navigate an opaque past,