Behind most every tech billionaire is a sci-fi novel they read as a teenager. For Bill Gates it was Stranger in a Strange Land, the 1960s epic detailing the culture clashes that arise when a Martian visits Earth. Google’s Sergey Brin has said it was Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, the cyberpunk classic about hackers and computer viruses set in an Orwellian Los Angeles. Jeff Bezos cites Iain M. Banks’ Culture series, which unreel in an utopian society of humanoids and artificial intelligences,...
If someone says, “Trust the science!” these days, it’s usually an effort to short-circuit debate over weighty policy issues. “Trust the science” has been deployed in the past five years to prevent debate over COVID school closures and mask mandates, over electric-car subsidies, and over sex changes for boys and girls. For my entire time […]
Michelle Elia, one of Ohio's foremost experts on the Science of Reading, and Maria Pappas who helped implement the Science of Reading in the Youngstown City Schools, recently met to discuss the method.
A new report lays bare what life is like on the UK’s floating prison-barge, the Bibby Stockholm. Produced by Care4Calais, Portland Global Friendship Group and Stand up to Racism Dorset, ‘The Bibby Stockholm: A People’s Inquiry’, compiles the lived experience of people living on the barge, evidence from the charities supporting them, and the testimony […]
Stacker combed through film history to highlight 20 films that received mixed-to-negative reviews upon release but were eventually reappraised.
John Travolta's father-daughter red carpet outing was as good as Royale with cheese. The Pulp Fiction star's daughter Ella served as his date to the recent screening of the Quentin
Three monks, a horde of reporters and 20 singles looking for love walked into a Buddhist temple. The singles sat on gray mats in the center of the temple’s study hall, visibly tense because the two dozen reporters crammed in the back were causing a small scene. An irritated cameraman snapped at a competitor: “Can you get out of my shot?” The three monks of the Jogye order — South Korea's largest Buddhist sect, with around 12 million followers — looked on with placid smiles. So began the third...
Our weird and wacky dreams can be open to interpretation, but they might actually mean something. Here are common dream themes explained by sleep experts.
In a recent post, u/anon1839 shared a distressing account from their experience conducting a survey on regenerative agriculture.
It has been an intriguing season for Hearts as they battle for a return to European group stage competition. Form is being found at just the right time as the business end of the campaign rapidly approaches. After suffering just two defeats in their last ten games and claiming a 4-2 home win against Livingston on Saturday, Steven Naismith’s men are sat in third place in the Premiership table. Although they remain some distance behind second placed Rangers and current leaders Celtic, there seems...
It's obvious that fresh meat, fish and dairy should be kept in the fridge. But there are other ingredients that you might be storing incorrectly
In the first two months since the return of the Executive there has been and air of optimism that this historic trend appears to be changing. The Derry Chamber has played host to Minister for the Economy Conor Murphy MLA three times since the resumption of Executive affairs, most recently in March as the keynote speaker at our President’s Annual Lunch. Addressing Chamber members at the City Hotel, Minister Murphy said that a “compelling economic proposition is emerging in the North West”, with...