“An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s” isn’t precisely the book that presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin set out to write. Dominating this often fascinating volume is both the colossal presence and the sudden absence of Richard “Dick” Goodwin, Doris’ late husband, whose speechwriting talents defined some of the most memorable moments of the 1960s. The couple’s aim was to co-write a book based on his extraordinary archive — 300 boxes! — of personal papers and curios,...
Turbulence is ubiquitous in nature. It exists everywhere, from our daily lives to the distant universe, while being labeled as "the last great unsolved problem of classical physics" by Richard Feynman. Prof. Dr. Huirong Yan and her group from the Institute of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Potsdam and DESY have now discovered a long-predicted phenomenon: the weak-to-strong transition in small amplitude space plasma turbulence.
Royal Jordanian has never had an easy time in business. Geopolitics have frequently intervened to make the airline’s operating environment more difficult than that of rivals. And it finds itself in competition not only with Arab airlines with some of the world’s highest standards of inflight service, but also, increasingly, with low-cost carriers.
It was even worse than you heard, than you read, than you feared. “Screams Before Silence” lets the survivors of the Oct. 7 massacre at the hands of Hamas tell their stories. The documentary, available for free at screamsbeforesilence.com, doesn’t show the grisly visuals found in the 45-minute video circulated to journalists and Hollywood denizens. The stories reveal atrocities that led one voice to describe them as “redefined evil.” Even the Nazi machine couldn’t match the vile acts perpetrated...
This is inspired. Waldo Jaquith created a Mastodon bot in response to the cliché email opening sentence of "I hope this email finds you well." "Twice a day it proposes a novel way to conclude that sentence that opens so many emails," Jaquith explains. — Read the rest
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Mothers Against Drunk Driving held a vigil tonight. They held candles outside Santa Barbara County District Attorney John T. Savrnoch's Office. One of his senior investigators has survived two crashes caused by drunk drivers. The first time Judith Estrada said she was 7 months pregnant when a drunk driver's car struck the side
Communities across the North-West and West Coasts are gearing up for
Listeners who protested on their college campuses in the turbulent years around 1968 reflect on that time, and share their thoughts on today's young protesters on campuses here in NYC and around the country.
There’s no question that New Yorkers love their Knicks but it’s also true that it can’t be easy to be a Knicks fan. New York hasn’t won a title since 1973 and while Pat Riley and Patrick Ewing had some good years, they could not get past Michael Jordan, who had a lock on the league in the ‘90’s. James Dolan took over the Knicks in 1999 and not many good things have happened since then. Well Monday night was pretty good. New York was down to Philadelphia 100-96 with 27.1 to go when Jalen Brunson...
DICKSON CITY, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — State police in Lackawanna County held a ceremony to honor troopers who have been killed in the line of duty. Both current and retired members of the Pennsylvania State Police Troop R gathered at Eagle Hose Company Number 1 in Dickson City for a memorial service to commemorate 119 []
In an emotional news conference city, state, and local officials gave some insight into what happened in the deadly shooting that killed four law enforcement officers and injured four others.
Told in the second person, this account of an everygirl growing up with the internet will be devastatingly familiarIt begins when she’s seven. Her father brings home a desktop computer; he shows her that if she types “cats” into a search engine she will be met with the sight of “hundreds of kittens. Millions of kittens.” The same goes for horses. And ponies. And unicorns. “Images blink into existence”, as though the machine is “listening to [her]”. This seems innocent enough. As does the virtual...