A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More
My college experience at the University of Iowa looks a little bit different than most students. I have been at the UI for seven years. While I did spend a year at Kirkwood in Iowa City, I don’t mention that because it was a waste of my time. However, I did find the Spanish and
Meta’s Llama 3 model represents a significant advancement in AI language processing technology. Designed to handle anywhere from 8 billion to 70 billion parameters, with plans to expand up to 400 billion, Llama 3 is engineered for a wide range of AI tasks. Its scalable architecture allows it to adapt from generating simple automated responses […]
2017's ill-advised Mummy reboot starring Tom Cruise led to an infamous photoshoot and botched launch of what should have been a whole Dark Universe starring Russell Crowe as Dr Jekyll, Johnny Depp as the Invisible Man, and Javier Bardem as Frankenstein's Monster. Unfortunately, the monster movie was a critical and commercial failure, leading to the entire concept to be abandoned. Continue reading The Dark Universe was “biggest failure” of The Mummy director’s...
Nearly all the multiple health care workers I know and who live here are in opposition to this type of legislation.
A Donald Trump-connected super PAC has been fined by the Federal Election Commission for failing to disclose $150,600 of in-kind donations in a 2022 public financial report, according to a review of federal records by Raw Story.Make America Great Again, Again! agreed to pay a $6,075 fine and to distribute a policy to its staff on identifying in-kind contributions. The super PAC agreed to do both by May 24.Representatives of the super PAC told the FEC that the error was discovered during an...
National Security Memorandum 22 represents a good first step to better protect America’s critical infrastructure.
Different types of barley recruit distinct communities of soil microbes to grow around their roots by releasing a custom mix of sugars and other compounds, according to a new study led by Jacob Malone of the John Innes Center, UK, published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.
The pro-Palestine protests on the campus of Tulane University have resulted in a police raid of the protesters’ encampment.
Kansas GOP lawmakers overruled radically pro-abortion Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on bills banning coerced abortion, supporting pro-life pregnancy centers, and improving state gathering of abortion data.
Honduras passed one of the strongest pro-life laws in Latin America, and now international abortion activists are taking it to the UN to coerce Honduran politicians into declaring killing unborn children an ‘essential health service.’
The University of North Florida closed its diversity, equity, and inclusion office on Wednesday, but DEI personnel were given new job titles, rather than being Read More