At the Ballpark: I See London, I See France!
Fashion experts weigh in on Major League Baseball’s new inadvertently see-through uniforms, which leave nothing to the imagination.
Fashion experts weigh in on Major League Baseball’s new inadvertently see-through uniforms, which leave nothing to the imagination.
The actor and her ex-husband, the filmmaker Marc Silverstein, host a “divorce sale” to sell their Le Creuset and her wedding veil.
Andrei Platonov’s “Chevengur” depicts a Communist utopia, but Stalin loathed his writing, calling the author “scum.”
“Years later I will / Still feel most at home when I eat standing up.”
“Manhunt,” a new television miniseries, depicts the pursuit of Lincoln’s killer. But the public appetite for tales about the chase began even as it was happening.
“The Survivors of the Clotilda,” “Goodbye Russia,” “Held,” and “The Fetishist.”
“Where were you on the morning of Sunday, March 10th, between 2 and 3 A.M.?”
At a private party, the dog actors playing Josephine—the mascot of the new Fontainebleau resort in Las Vegas—upstaged Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.
The author discusses his story “The Time Being.”
The playwright stages boxerly confrontations in a revival of “Doubt,” starring Liev Schreiber and Amy Ryan, and in the new show “Brooklyn Laundry,” with Cecily Strong.
The artist depicts carving up the slopes, straight into spring.
Some people think machine intelligence will transform humanity for the better. Others fear it may destroy us. Who will decide our fate?
Since the Islamic State fell, tens of thousands of people—many of them children—have been herded into Al-Hol, a giant fenced-in camp in Syria, and effectively given life sentences.
The author of “Erasure” is renowned for his satires of genre, identity, and America. But his great target may be language itself.
The classical-education movement seeks to fundamentally reorient schooling in America. Its emphasis on morality and civics has also primed it for partisan takeover.
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The Polar Wolf Aluminum Ultra is a portable 256GB SSD with ultra-speedy transfer abilities and could make bringing work files to and from the office more manageable. This portable file storage has been temporarily marked down from $75 to $43.99.
This external SSD doesn’t need any drivers to be installed. It’s a plug-and-play storage device that automatically enters sleep mode after 10 minutes of inactivity. The Polar Wolf also comes with an adaptive cable that has USB-A and USB-C connectors... Читать дальше...
As the breathless excitement around how brands can theoretically use generative AI morphs into marketers finding actual use cases for the technology, like elevating consumer experience through chatbots, some brands, in addition to making C-suite investments in AI titles, have begun adding more effective roles at the vp and director level, while bolstering their teams...
Almost a year after the industry outcry over made-for-advertising inventory and months since many ad-tech firms have devised solutions to address the problem, ads from large brands are still being served on spammy websites, new research from Adalytics has found. Adalytics found examples of hundreds of large brands advertising on made-for-advertising websites, facilitated by most...
After rapid growth, Kim Kardashian's shapewear brand, Skims, made its TV ad debut, with a futuristic film in which the famous co-founder plays every role. The company's first national TV commercial had a big media presence ahead of the 96th Academy Awards Sunday, running twice on ABC Countdown and six times during E!'s Oscars Red...
The plug-in hybrid performance sedan delivers 0-62 mph in 3.9 seconds and a claimed electric range of over 62 miles.
In C&EN, this news (article by Britt E. Erickson):
More than 5 months into fiscal 2024, US lawmakers have reached an agreement that would fund about half the federal government through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year. Under the spending bills, released March 3, several science-related agencies face steep budget cuts.
Hardest hit are the US Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Читать дальше...
HOUSTON - 1986: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar #33 of the Los Angeles Lakers shoots against Hakeem Olajuwon #34 of the Houston Rockets circa 1986 at the Summitt in Houston, Texas. | Photo by Bill Baptist/NBAE via Getty Images
He has an argument
Читать дальше...It was a sad day for the Lagrange Street neighborhood on March 11, 1964.
The conclusion of Evan Osnos’s big New Yorker profile of Joe Biden from last week ends on a note that is still ringing in my mind. Osnos asks the president about how it all might end, and whether or not Trump, if he’s bested in the 2024 election, will concede the race. Biden doesn’t seem to be under any delusion: “Losers who are losers are never graceful,” he said. “I just think that he’ll do anything to try to win. If—and when—I win, I think he’ll contest it. No matter what the result is.”
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