A Notebook is No Place To Keep a Secret Jean Chen Ho Share article “Kenji’s Notebook” by Jean Chen Ho Tuesday evening, Fiona rode the 6 train downtown after seeing Kenji home from the hospital. She’d tucked him into bed and made sure the packet of OxyContin lay within his reach on the nightstand, next to
People walk in Regent Street, in London. SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images LONDON — There are growing calls in Europe for Covid-19 to be treated as an endemic illness like the flu despite strong warnings from global health officials that the pandemic is far from over. Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is the
Stock futures held steady in overnight trading Tuesday after a rally on Wall Street as investors bought the dip following a five-day sell-off in the S&P 500. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were little changed. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures were also flat. The overnight session followed a rebound in the
Broadway’s traditional post-holiday January doldrums teamed up with a slate of show closings and a national skyrocketing surge in Omicron cases to send box office tumbling by nearly a third last week. Combined grosses of $18 million for 27 Broadway productions were down 31% from the previous week’s $26 million. The figure – $18,251,734, to
WASHINGTON — Astroscale U.S., a provider of on-orbit services to extend the life of satellites, has signed an agreement to use Orbit Fab’s in-space refueling tankers, the companies announced Jan. 11. Orbit Fab, a startup offering “gas stations in space,” will refuel Astroscale’s geostationary satellite servicing spacecraft known as LEXI, short for Life Extension In-Orbit.
Apple paid out around $60 billion (roughly Rs. 4,43,300 crore) to developers in 2021, the company revealed in its latest App Store figures. The new figures show an increase in money paid to developers compared to previous years, which comes after Apple’s decision to reduce the commission collected from smaller developers. The company also revealed
President Joe Biden on Tuesday issued his most explicit call yet for the Senate to bypass its filibuster rule to pass voting rights bills, calling the move necessary “to defend our democracy” against Republican-led restrictive voting laws pushed around the country. “Today, I’m making it clear, in order to protect our democracy, I support changing
News Foo Fighters Share Trailer for Horror Film Studio 666: Watch The clip shows the band moving into a haunted mansion to record their 10th album By Matthew Ismael Ruiz January 11, 2022 Facebook Twitter Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, image courtesy of Nasty Little Man Facebook Twitter Foo Fighters have shared the first trailer for
Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a meeting with community representatives and residents of Crimea and Sevastopol via a video link in Moscow, Russia March 18, 2021. Alexei Druzhinin | Sputnik | via Reuters WASHINGTON – On Wednesday members of the world’s most powerful military alliance will meet with top Russian officials in Belgium
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky signaled to the world they’re going strong this January, as the couple of over a year stepped out for a dinner date at Nobu in West Hollywood on Monday. They also demonstrated how to dress masterfully in comfy clothes for the winter. Rihanna paired a white sweat set with white pumps
We have some good news for fans of two of Hulu’s best comedy series. The streamer has officially picked up a third season of The Great. Ten new episodes have been ordered. In season two of The Great, Catherine (Elle Fanning) finally takes the Russian throne for her own – but if she thought coup-ing
It was my gut, not my mind, that first suggested to me that the films I was consuming represented less a leap for womankind than an interminable box step routine. My feminist hackles had been, for a time, smoothed by the presence of preternatural beauties with STEM degrees in even the silliest movies, like Dr.
Jean Giono at his home, Le Paraïs, in Manosque, France, 1942 / Photo by André Zucca / Courtesy Les Amis de Jean Giono Written late in life, “Le Haut Pays” and “Camargue”—once again paired in the Archipelago Books edition of Ennemonde, newly translated by Bill Johnston—offer a microcosm of French writer Jean Giono’s postwar écriture.
Real and imaginary: the time-dependent Schrödinger equation formulated using complex numbers. (Courtesy: iStock/piranka) Complex numbers are essential to achieve the most accurate quantum-mechanical description of nature, according to experiments done by two independent teams of physicists. Both studies were inspired by the Bell’s inequality test of quantum theory and suggest that complex numbers are more
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, shows a screen grab of a campaign website while answering questions from Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine the federal response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and new emerging variants at Capitol
Today is publication day for a new translation of Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural, a Tamil masterwork of poetry and practical philosophy. This new translation, published by Beacon Press, is by author, poet, and performer Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma. Each chapter of the Kural consists of ten kurals on a single theme, such as friendship, hospitality, or rain. The
French film exports generated 91.4M euros ($103.6M) in 2021, a 5.5% increase on the previous year’s provisional figures, while admissions were up 8% to 14.8M. Comparatively, French films within France sold 39.2M tickets during the year. The figures were announced during the annual Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema which is taking place in Paris this
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Space Force lacks spare parts for much of the equipment needed to support launches from the Eastern and Western Ranges, an issue that could loom larger as launch activities at both spaceports increase. A report released by the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General Jan. 7 found that the Eastern