Note: The following article contains spoilers about the Netflix series 3 Body Problem.I first encountered the three-body problem 60 years ago, in a short story called “Placet is a Crazy Place” by American science fiction writer Frederic Brown.In Brown’s story, Placet is a planet in a figure-of-eight orbit around two stars, one of which is composed of ordinary matter, the other of anti-matter. The closeness of the two stars cause time and space to become wonderfully distorted so that Placet can...
The city of Springfield was buzzing with excitement as the highest level of international basketball 3 x 3 teams competed it out starting Monday night.
I first encountered the three-body problem 60 years ago, in a short story called "Placet is a Crazy Place" by American science fiction writer Frederic Brown.
Sure, yanking taxpayer money from any college looks clear and decisive on paper, but it’s a move so rife with potential unintended consequences and legal hurdles.
Amid the semiconductor industry’s slowdown and increasing geopolitical tensions, Dutch chip machine-maker ASML reported a decrease both in sales and profits. Europe’s most valuable tech company saw orders fall to €3.6bn in the first quarter of 2024, down from €9.2bn in the previous quarter. Its net profit also dropped to €1.2bn — a 37% decrease compared to Q4 2023. “We see 2024 as a transition,” ASML's President and CEO Peter Wennink said in a statement. Wennink expects a stronger...
FPI / April 17, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On April 13, Iran shattered precedent by launching its first major direct attack against Israel from Iranian territory that Israeli sources said consisted of strikes by over 120 ballistic missiles, 170 drones and 30 cruise missiles. Earlier, Iran launched a new and barbaric chapter in its […]
Netflix’s 3 Body Problem landed atop Nielsen’s latest U.S. ranking of streaming originals, as well as ranked No. 1 on the overall chart — ahead of Prime Video’s Road House remake and Max’s record-breaking Quiet on the Set docu. On Nielsen’s overall chart for the week of March 18, 3 Body Problem led with nearly […]
Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the advertisement for a movie’s longevity in subsequent home entertainment windows. Entering […]
ASTON VILLA took a bit of mauling from a club nicknamed The Mastiffs! But Unai Emery’s boys showed true British bulldog spirit to battle back when they seemed dead and buried. And it was Emi
We already knew the entertainment industry has more or less become a technocracy, but hearing about it still feels surreal. Sadly, all the human entertainment execs can do these days is lay down mere mortal ideas on the altar of the almighty algorithm, enslaved to the whims of whatever ones and zeroes say will be successful. That is to say, according to A Knight’s Tale director Brian Helgeland, Netflix shot down his pitch for a sequel because its algorithm said so. “Paul Bettany called me after...
USA Basketball announced Friday that 17 athletes will participate in the 3×3 Women’s National Training Camp in Springfield.
Amid growing discontent about America funding Israel’s bombing of Gaza, President Joe Biden is set to give the commencement speech at Morehouse College on May 19. Morehouse, a 157-year-old historically Black college in Atlanta, extended the invitation to Biden in September, the month before Hamas launched a deadly attack in Israel and took hostages. But news of the president’s scheduled address wasn’t announced until last week, when anti-war protesters on college campuses across the country were...