The second dose of Covid-19 vaccine is crucial in creating longer and complete immunity as well as preventing variants of the virus, according to Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “We need to know that this is a two-dose vaccine, period,” Offit told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard
Illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover firing its descent stage engines as it nears the Martian surface (Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA’s Perseverance rover has landed on Mars, completing its seven-month journey to the red planet. The Mars 2020 mission will search for signs of ancient microbial life and collect rock samples that will be returned to Earth
by Trevor Kimball, February 17, 2021 (CBS ©2020 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.) CBS won’t be back to The Big Easy for the 2021-22 television season. The network has decided to cancel the NCIS: New Orleans TV series and end it with the current seventh year. NCIS: New Orleans stars Scott Bakula, Vanessa Ferlito,
In the span of six days, the Chinese box office roared to a $1.2B Lunar New Year record, with Wanda Pictures’ Detective Chinatown 3 setting global benchmarks for the biggest opening day and weekend in a single market. This happened even as some Covid restrictions remain in place in the Middle Kingdom. While the pandemic
SAN FRANCISCO – German propulsion startup Morpheus Space has opened a Los Angeles office and named a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer and fighter pilot as its chief revenue officer. David Kalinske, who retired from the Marine Corps in 2013 after serving as commanding officer of a fighter squadron and an aide to Presidents George
The Infinix Smart 5 was launched recently in the sub-Rs. 8,000 price segment as the newest addition to the Smart series. When I unboxed this smartphone, I was surprised to see how big it is, thanks to the bigger-than-usual battery capacity, considering its price. The Smart 5 has some decent specifications on paper, and an
The anti-Trump Lincoln Project paid a consulting firm run by former Obama deputy press secretary Bill Burton to conduct a Black voter outreach program in Pennsylvania, which turned out to be the decisive state in the 2020 election. The super PAC paid $1.5 million to the firm, BG Causes LLC, during the 2020 election cycle,
Toronto’s Ebhoni has released X, which is being billed as “her debut mini project/EP.” The four-song effort includes “X-Ting,” “Hit This,” and “MIA,” as well as a new track called “All to Myself.” Below, listen to X and also watch Ebhoni’s new BBY Chris–directed music video for “X-Ting.” Read Pitchfork’s interview “Ebhoni Is Reclaiming the
[The livestream is scheduled to begin at 2:15 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see the player above] NASA is hours away from its most ambitious Mars mission yet, with the U.S. space agency set to attempt to land rover Perseverance after a more than six month trip to the red
Zac Efron has apparently found a new romance amid his relocation to Australia. The Daily Mail first captured photos of Efron and Australian model Vanesa Valladares, 25, holding hands for a Byron Bay outing in September. This PDA comes months after the couple was spotted enjoying a ski vacation together in Thredo, as obtained by
WandaVision viewers have been very hopeful that the Disney+ series will introduce Reed Richards, aka Mister Fantastic, to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In episode 5, we saw Teyonah Parris’ Monica Rambeau talk about contacting an aerospace engineer friend of hers while the team was trying to figure out what exactly is happening in Wanda Maximoff’s
It’s been a long road to the screen for Tell Me Your Secrets, but the highly-anticipated drama series finally makes its debut on February 19. Starring Lily Rabe, Amy Brenneman, Hamish Linklater, and Enrique Murciano, it follows a trio of characters, each with a mysterious and troubling past: Emma (Rabe) is a woman who once
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. I picked up Lydia Davis’s Almost No Memory again recently for the first time in years, and as I flipped through, one
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks during a White House press briefing, conducted by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House January 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images The winter storm and power
Dweebs Global, which has the slogan “free mentorship for a brighter tomorrow, has an upcoming pay-it-forward challenge entitled #BrighterTomorrowChallenge. The Brighter Tomorrow Challenge is asking people all around the world to do an act of kindness and post a video or photo on social media of the act using the hashtag BrighterTomorrowChallenge. Dweebs Global
Some may live just a block away,even nearer: the Walmart clerkwho’d coolly hook a hot wireto your gonads, the grease monkeykeen on beheading, the cleaning ladywho’d fill her pail with eyeballs. And there’s the ousted Scoutmasterwho’d corral the kids, the engineerwho’d craft a more cost-effectiveabattoir for undesirables, the MBAwho’d plot the sweeping purgesand drive the
Ismail Kadare has a remarkable quality of saying a great deal and with much clarity, but in an elusive, oblique, and allegorical way. Peter Constantine situates Kadare’s work in the long history of the Balkans and in the broader tradition of writers who practice their craft under the constraints of censorship. Anton Chekhov, in his
by Trevor Kimball, February 17, 2021 (CBS) In the fall, Anna Faris left Mom, and now, the long-running sitcom is leaving CBS. The network has announced that the comedy series is ending and that the series finale will air on Thursday, May 6th. The Mom TV series stars Allison Janney, Mimi Kennedy, Jaime Pressly, Beth