Новости за 02.07.2020

When the light starts to fade in the evening is when I start feeling it. A rush of heightened awareness, a palpable sense of increased IQ, like my brain is a Sim City growing on fast forward. Daytime's rural village of slow-talking neurons explodes into a bustling metropolis full of taxis, neon signs, and hot jazz. The sundown rush, I can confirm after years of experimentation, is unrelated to anything I might have imbibed, inhaled, or ingested. If anything, it feels like my morning coffee fully, finally, kicked in. Читать дальше...

Robert Farley

History, Asia

Japanese policy in the Pacific in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries kept German regional ambitions firmly in mind.

Key Point: Germany's slow-moving battleship would not fare well against her swift Japanese counterparts.

Can we imagine a scenario in which two titans of World War II, the German battleship Bismarck and the Japanese battleship Yamato, would come into conflict? Difficult, but not impossible. Had the Battle of the Marne gone the other way... Читать дальше...

This month a 6.5 foot Evangelion Unit-01 will be released in Japan. It’s priced at 1.58 million yen or $14,708.62.

She was an athletic director at age 22 and now she “motors” into the job as executive director of WPIAL.

More than 100 pictures of remarkable figures in Western Pennsylvania history make up the Heinz History Center’s new exhibition, “Smithsonian’s Portraits of Pittsburgh: Works from the National Portrait Gallery,” on view through Jan. 3.

Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL) has accepted a binding bid for its entire stake in Omani steel producer Jindal Shadeed Iron & Steel in an attempt to reduce company debt, the Indian steelmaker has announced.

Continuous testing is both a practice and a mindset. Developers and quality assurance specialists initiate the practice of continuous testing in the devops CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous development) pipeline, triggering a list of automated tests that run with every build and delivery. The mindset comes when developers, engineers, and quality assurance specialists collaborate on testing strategies and implementations.

Mother loses her only child after another deadly weekend in Chicago: “Innocent lives are being taken out of this world. They need to take the guns off the street."

If little of the first half of 2020 was predictable, imagine how volatile the next six months might be.

COVID-19 hurting Chicago Public Schools budget, potentially for years. New contract with teacher union added costs.

No one is happier about Jai Field making his Parramatta debut than his parents, who idolised Eels halfback Peter Sterling.

As per provisional closing, the barometer S&P BSE Sensex rallied 429.25 points or 1.21% at 35,843.45. The Nifty 50 index surged 131.95 points or 1.27% at 10,562.

IT admins have a hard enough time keeping employees on the technology straight-and-narrow in the best of times. It's even harder when a pandemic hits and everyone in the office scatters to work from home.

Apple last week unveiled macOS 11, aka "Big Sur," at its all-virtual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Like any other year, the Cupertino, Calif. company also gave coders a preview build of the operating system so they could get cracking.

Black Americans have long used the holiday to crusade for equality.

Malaka Gharib offers a series of humorous illustrations showing various ways to try to get people to put on their dang masks, to protect the public against the coronavirus.

Peter Kupers’s Daily Cartoon depicts an invisible man fretting over invisible germs.

Jim Downs on a British prison ship in the nineteenth century in Bermuda, where a convict named George Baxter Grundy claimed that male prisoners considered themselves to be in same-sex marriages.

UNDATED: University of Maryland’s Len Bias #34 aims to shoot from the free throw line during a game. | Photo by Focus on Sport via Getty Images

What was, what might have been

Despite a 27% rise since the March 23 lows of this year, at the current price of around $235 per share we believe Amgen Inc. stock has more room for growth. Amgen stock has rallied from $186 to $236 off the recent bottom, underperforming the S&P which moved 39%. Amgen stock is also up 46% from...

The carrier informed its flight attendants’ union that one way or another the excess attendants will be gone by February.

Because banks are cutting back on loans to consumers, we need a new stimulus bill—and a new round of individual checks.

Temple Grandin wants the meatpacking industry to learn from the pandemic.

Counting recognized certifications in addition to college degrees (associates, baccalaureates, graduate and professional degrees), 31 states and the District of Columbia have reached attainment rates above 50%, and all states have attainment rates above 40%.

Cash-strapped drivers who put off repairs to their vehicles will have a better shot at low-cost loans to pay their bills after DigniFi, a financing platform for auto repairs and services announced a major cash infusion.