ABC’s scripted shows returned Thursday for the first time in over a month. Grey’s Anatomy secured 3.8 million and a 0.6 rating in the demo, ticking up a bit. Spinoff Station 19 had 4.1 million viewers and a 0.5 rating, marking its lowest total viewer tally to date. Big Sky returned steady at 2.4 million
The first season of Disney+’s newest Marvel series, Moon Knight, is a challenging story to follow, to say the least. Yesterday’s final installment continues the show’s examination of trauma, justice, and supernatural interference while providing tantalizing hints at even more depths to plumb. As with all shows that feature an unreliable narrator, Moon Knight delights
Remember when you were younger and your mom would put every crayon drawing you did on the fridge as though you were the next Basquiat (no matter how, err, crap)? That’s the reaction you want from a mother’s day gift. Except, rather than give your gift pride of place in the home, the aim is
This short video features Niels Bultink, co-founder and chief executive of Qblox, a start-up company based in Delft, Netherlands. Speaking at the 2022 March meeting of the American Physical Society in Chicago, Bultink outlines the benefits of Qblox’s control stacks – equipment that is used in quantum computing to generate control signals and interpret the
Taken from the May 2022 issue of Physics World where it appeared under the headline “A more accessible discipline”. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app. Claire Malone highlights the importance of creating a better working environment for those with physical disabilities
A living cardiac pump: Christos Michas examines the miniPUMP in the lab. The scaffold that gives structure to the heart cells, without exerting any active force on them, can be seen through the tissue. (Courtesy: Jackie Ricciardi for Boston University Photography) By combining a metamaterial cylinder with artificially grown heart tissue, researchers in the US
The system supporting cross-currents. Courtesy: MA Martin-Delgado Can energy move from a colder to a hotter region in a material without violating the second law of thermodynamics? Yes, according to physicists from Trinity College Dublin and the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, who discovered that a quantum effect sometimes forces current to flow around the edges
The annual meeting of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) will enable both onsite and online delegates to share knowledge and explore the latest technical innovations Technology on show: ESTRO 2022 will host Europe’s largest industry exhibition in radiation oncology. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Mark_Kostich) Europe’s largest meeting for radiation oncology, ESTRO 2022, will take place in
Dressing up: the now-removed dress code for the opening ceremony for IPAC22 (Courtesy: IPAC22) Social media went into meltdown recently from an unexpected source: the 13th International Particle Accelerator Conference, due to be held in Bangkok on 12–17 June. Delegates planning to attend the opening ceremony – presided by Thai Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn –
My Gender Won’t Fit in the Family Car KB’s Origin Story I was born a weary son painted into a family unit. I can’t fit in, but I do fit jeans if I squeeze into them enough. I pain myself with laughter when someone asks whose baby is this. I sleep in a tunnel of
Editor’s note: We don’t typically commission custom cocktails for book releases, but when our own managing editor is named one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 for her sensational debut, Little Rabbit, a toast is in order. So we invited mixologist and author of The Gold Persimmon, Lindsay Merbaum, to develop this custom
Many of us know Michelle Hart from her wonderful work highlighting queer writers when she was the assistant books editor at O, the Oprah Magazine. Now, she has her own novel to add to the fold: We Do What We Do In The Dark, an exquisitely written, intimately affecting novel about Mallory, a college freshman,
To weather the early days of the pandemic, I went back to my parents’ house in Southern California. I had lost both of my jobs and, after applying for unemployment, had nothing to do but wander through the neighborhood. In those days we didn’t know about the improbability of outdoor transmission, and many of my
It’s difficult to process the recent news of a leaked draft decision from SCOTUS; what’s even more difficult is that the draft decision, should it become a ruling, will overturn Roe v. Wade, rolling back decades of work fought on behalf of human rights. I say human rights, as opposed to women’s rights, because abortion
How To Bring a Living Being Into a Dead House Tove Ditlevsen Share article They sat across from one another on the train, and there was nothing special about either of them. They weren’t the kind of people your eyes would land on if you tired of staring at the usual scenery, which appears to
I first met Courtney Maum in 2011 when she was writing the “Celebrity Book Review” column for Electric Literature. Through the medium that is Courtney’s mind, iconic pairings such as John Mayer reviewing The Marriage Plot and Anne Hathaway reviewing The Woman Upstairs ensued. Despite their obvious farcical nature, occasionally readers and sometimes publicists mistook
Having been raised by my grandparents and great-aunt, my early years were predominantly filled with oral storytelling. Many tales my family shared bordered on the fantastical and incorporated magical elements or hinged on the unexpected. In one story, crickets were transformed into silver coins while in others people levitated or shapeshifted into human-animal hybrids. When
The first time I read a book about a person who even minorly resembled me, I was 19 and teaching at a creative writing summer camp. My coworker Sophie Lee’s YA novel What Things Mean tells the story of a young Filipina girl named Olive who uses reading to cope with feelings of loneliness and