An open marriage, dating sites, sex with strangers – now the writer’s fearsomely frank and funny memoir about the joys of polyamory has become an instant bestsellerMolly Roden Winter wasn’t planning an extramarital affair. Certainly not a string of sexual encounters with multiple partners, each liaison now intricately catalogued in the public domain. When she stormed out of her Brooklyn home one evening in 2008 – kids crashed out upstairs, husband barely through the front door – it was space,...
In 2017 Polina Anikeeva, PhD ’09, was invited to a conference in the Netherlands to give a talk about magnetic technologies that she and her team had developed at MIT and how they might be used for deep brain stimulation to treat Parkinson’s disease. After sitting through a long day of lectures, she was struck…
However, she added that if the language around the invitation was changed, she’d be ‘happy to receive it’.
Microsoft CTO made a "mistake" dismissing Google's AI as a "game-playing stunt."
‘I knew John Belushi for seven years. I’ve been talking about him for 48 years’
Half a century since the perfectionist director vowed to block it, a critique that dared to discuss flaws in his films is to be publishedStanley Kubrick, the relentless perfectionist who directed some of cinema’s greatest classics, was so sensitive to criticism that, in 1970, he threatened legal action to block publication of a book which dared to discuss flaws in his films.The director of Spartacus and 2001: A Space Odyssey, warned the book’s author and publisher that he would fight “tooth and...
Why tie the knot with someone you have lived with for years – and what happens next? Three women share their storiesOn the surface, marriage might not appear relevant to many Australians today. Indeed, most women and half of men say that’s so. De facto couples enjoy the same legal rights as their wedded counterparts, one in seven Australians are in a de facto relationship, and a new survey showed a 15% drop in marriage rates among young Australians between 2001 and 2021. Yet sometimes even...
Ronnie O’Sullivan has revealed that he didn’t want to play in the World Snooker Championship this year. The seven-time champion made the admission after being knocked out of the tournam
In a new interview with David Letterman’s Netflix show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, John Mulaney revealed something Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels shared about sobriety and addiction. Mulaney recalled how Michaels invoked John Belushi, who died in 1982 at 33 after struggling with addiction. While in rehab, Mulaney received a call from […]
Ellis Lockley, 14, died from injuries sustained in the collision on Tarn Lane, Keighley on Sunday afternoon (April 28). A silver Vauxhall Corsa was travelling towards Black Hill Lane at the time of the collision and two other passengers in the car suffered minor injuries. Paying tribute, Ellis’ family said: “We as a family are totally devastated at the loss of our beautiful boy Ellis, he has left such a massive hole in our hearts. We have received so much love and support from the community, he...
Especially since Jan. 6, much has been written about the call-and-response dynamic between Donald Trump and his supporters. But since the beginning of the Manhattan district attorney’s criminal trial against Trump last month, a different feedback loop has been on display: After the media makes observations of the former president’s courtroom arrangements and behavior, Team Trump appears to make noticeable tweaks in response. Don’t believe me? After the press noted that Trump was sitting alone...
Ethan Hawke was nominated at the 2002 Oscars for best supporting actor for his performance in Antoine Fuqua’s crime thriller “Training Day.” He lost the prize to Jim Broadbent (“Iris”), but he immediately got some much-needed perspective from his “Training Day” co-star Denzel Washington, who happened to win the Oscar that same night for best […]