• From Toy Man to Book Man? Tubridy’s new podcast is more about anecdotes than books

    Actor and children’s author David Walliams joined Tubridy for the first episode.

  • New Books Hitting Shelves This Week

    Funny StoryDaphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s...

  • New Books Hitting Shelves This Week

    To Gaze Upon Wicked GodsDaughter of a conquered world, Ruying hates the invaders who descended from the heavens long before she was born and defeated the magic of her people with technologies unlike anything her world had ever seen.Blessed by Death, born with the ability to pull the life right out of mortal bodies, Ruying shouldn’t have to fear these foreign invaders, but she does. Especially because she wants to keep herself and her family safe.When Ruying’s Gift is discovered by an enemy...

  • A new book tells you why, and how, to consume coconut (and other ‘superfoods’)

    An excerpt from ‘Superfoods, Super Life: 20 Indian Ingredients to Prevent Disease and Uplift Your Health’, by Madhur Kotharay.

  • Brainerd psychologist pens new children’s books

    Kevin Edwards is using his psychology background to teach kids about positive character strengths.

  • What Rushdie’s new book says about the state of intolerance

    Back in the day, Salman Rushdie used to joke that the argument over The Satanic Verses, his satirical novel caricaturing Prophet Muhammad, was a “quarrel between those with a sense of humour and those without one”.But, lately, his mood has darkened and he has become less forgiving of his critics, judging from his new book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, a cathartic account of the murderous attack on him at a literary event in upstate New York in the summer of 2022.It left him with...

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    Modeling a new future: AI's impact on content creation

    Artificial intelligence is reshaping industries worldwide, and China is at the forefront of this technological revolution. The use of AI has been a hot topic at the China International Consumer Products Expo, where brands are exploring the potential

  • New book explores navigating the shame that comes with debt

    New York Times' best-selling author Michael Arceneaux discusses his personal journey with debt and the importance of letting go of the shame often attached to it.

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    New York's New Budget

    WNYC / Gothamist Albany reporter Jon Campbell talks about what's in and what's out of the just-approved New York State budget, including housing incentives, zoning changes, limited tenant protections, mayoral control of the schools, and more.

  • Supreme's New Book Catalogs Every Tee Its Ever (!) Released

    Thirty years of Supreme calls for one thing: a big fat book. Well, three of them actually.30 Years: T-Shirts 1994-2024 , though, isn’t just any old Supreme boo

  • China's Baidu Unveils New AI Tools for Chatbot Creation

    China's Baidu has unveiled new AI tools allowing people with no coding knowledge to create their own AI chatbots.

  • New benzofuran synthesis method enables complex molecule creation

    In the field of organic chemistry, scientists are always looking out for new types of reactions to unlock synthesis routes for challenging compounds. Most of the progress that we have witnessed in pharmaceutics and agrochemicals over the past few decades can be traced back to the discovery of novel practical reaction pathways. Such pathways often involve the selective replacement of a functional group with another, the formation of aromatic rings, or the strategic cleaving of parts of a...