Columbia University canceled its main graduation ceremony planned for May 15, saying it will instead devote resources to smaller, school-level ceremonies.
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New Jersey’s Democratic primary candidates for the U.S. Senate will take part in a debate moderated by WNYC’s Morning Edition host Michael Hill on Monday, May 13 at the South Orange Performing Arts Center. Candidates Patricia Campos-Medina, Larry Hamm, and Andy Kim will face questions on critical issues facing the state. The event begins at 6 p.m., with video live streamed at wnyc.org. The debate is free and open to the public, but registration at SOPAC.com is required. It will be broadcast at 8...
Our friends at Eater New York are diving into New Jersey this month. They published a list of 22 restaurants that highlight Jersey City's dining diversity. Eater New York's Robert Sietsema walks Weekend Edition host David Furst through some of the options.
Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have investigated radio emission from a rotating radio transient known as RRAT J1854+0306. Results of the study, published April 15 on the preprint server arXiv, shed more light on the properties of this transient.
"The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists."
The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations. If we are to revive it, that must endBrowsing through a history of online public messaging last week, I came across a magical photograph from 1989 or 1990. It shows the world’s first web server. It was Tim Berners-Lee’s NeXT workstation in Cern, the international physics research lab, where he worked at the time. On the case is a tattered sticky label, on which is scribbled, in red ink, “This machine...
The internet spreads out like a virus. As it becomes ubiquitous, so are its influences. The same slang is shared in all fifty states through the influence of social media, the same arguments are repeated online by people in disparate corners of faraway states, and gradually, the same manner of dress is adopted almost universally. The internet is a force of widespread cultural homogenization much in the same way that the spread of the English language via the British Empire was, only the internet...
There was no internet during the Enlightenment, but something surprisingly similar did exist in the 17th and 18th centuries. This was the Republic of Letters: a virtual, global community of scientists and intellectuals who exchanged information using the fastest technology available at the time — the postal service. 15,000 letters The clue is in the name: letters tied this self-proclaimed, transnational society together. Lots of letters. What this “metaphysical republic” lacked in speed, it made...
The Knuckles show is out today on Paramount+. As Kotaku’s resident Sonic (eh, Shadow, really) sicko, I did not like it! I gave it a broadly negative review and was especially caught off guard by how little the titular punch-throwing echidna is actually in it. Now that the show is available to stream, fans are forming their own opinions, and it turns out the show’s landing like Sonic falling into a body of water and sinking to the bottom. There seem to be a few major points of contention. The...
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On the air Listings are for Oceanic and Hawaiian Telcom analog/digital. —premium station. —retelecast. —delayed. Check your TV guide for latest updates. TODAY TIME TV CH HT BASEBALL: MLB Angels at Pirates 6:30 a.m.