Between Hope and Horror: Sandy Hook Families Still Breathe Tiny Shards of Glass
Jimmy Greene and Nelba Marquez-Greene honor their daughter Ana Grace, six, at an event. Photo…
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Earthquake: 6.8 quake strikes near Hagonoy, Philippines
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake was reported Sunday near Hagonoy, Philippines, according to the U.S. National…
Greta Thunberg apologises for ‘put leaders against the wall’ comment
Image copyright AFP Image caption In Swedish, the phrase means “to hold someone accountable” Greta…
New Zealand volcano: Death toll rises with two still missing
Image copyright New Zealand Police Image caption Search and rescue staff returned after searching for…
What they’re saying: NYT board becomes the latest to back Trump’s impeachment
“President Tweety McTreason abused the power of his office by strong-arming Ukraine, a vulnerable ally, holding up hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid until it agreed to help him influence the 2020 election by digging up dirt on a political rival. Wh…
Trump promotes at Army-Navy game new pro sports policy for military athletes
Driving the news: Trump announced in June plans to enable student athletes graduating from the academies and Reserve Officers’ Training Corps to “delay professional sports before fulfilling their two-year active-duty military,” per Reuters. Under th…
Problematic monetization in security products, Avira edition
A while back we’ve seen how Avast monetizes their users. Today we have a much smaller fish to fry, largely because the Avira’s extensions in question aren’t installed by default and require explicit user action for the additional “protection.” So these have far fewer users, currently 400 thousands on Firefox and slightly above a million…
How John Williams’s Star Wars score pulls us to the dark side
‘This will be the final word in the story of Skywalker . . .”So declares the disembodied voice of Emperor Palpatine in the latest teaser for “The Rise of Skywalker.” The last film in the decades-spanning space opera promises the return of the iconic Sith lord, who’s been pulling strings in this faraway galaxy since our story began.…
We keep revising our idea of Emily Dickinson. We may never get her right.
When I first encountered Emily Dickinson in high school, I was told what most people are told about her: She was an agoraphobic hermit who would hate her posthumous fame and voluminous publications. I remember staring at her ethereal daguerreotype, diminutive and pale, her hair parted neatly down the center with precision. There was a…
Please stop making jokes about gender pronouns when people tell you theirs
Earlier this fall, during an LGBTQ town hall on CNN, Sen. Kamala D. Harris said her pronouns were “she” and “her.”“Mine too,” said host Chris Cuomo.The backlash was instantaneous. By the end of the night, Cuomo had apologized on Twitter, noting his sorrow as “an ally of the LGBTQ community” — but still not managing…
Corbyn ‘sorry’ over Labour’s heavy election defeat
Image copyrightReuters Jeremy Corbyn has apologised to Labour supporters over his party’s heavy defeat in the general election. Writing in the Sunday Mirror and the Observer, he acknowledged the party’s failings in the poll and said he accepts his responsib…
How Mexicans saved a dying US town
How Mexicans saved a dying US town
