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Alex Trebek Gone

from ABC News Legendary ‘Jeopardy!’ host Alex Trebek dead at 80 By Justin Doom and Troy McMullen Alex Trebek, the quick-witted and debonair television host who won over generations of fans at the helm of the popular quiz show “Jeopardy!,” has died after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 80. “This is an enormous loss […]

Fulton Ryder Redux

from artnet Wet Paint: Richard Prince to Reopen His Secret Gallery, the Shocking Story Behind the Odeon’s Missing French Fries, & More Juicy Art-World Gossip Which hot new artist did Anderson Cooper visit in the studio? Which Hamptons gallery is opening a space in Chelsea? Read on for answers. by Nate Freeman SLIGHT REBELLION OFF […]

Jessica Esquivel Rocks

from Nautilus What a Real Superhero Looks Like Particle physicist Jessica Esquivel on diversity, perseverance, and the search for a new understanding of our universe. By Mary Ellen Hannibal The physics of superheroes is more than a fun exercise in the world of Jessica Esquivel. A particle physicist in the Muon Department of Fermi National Accelerator […]

Old School Audiophiles Return

from Executive Traveller This weekend, why not build a stereo from scratch? The old-fashioned appeal of audio kits never goes away – especially during a pandemic. By Bloomberg Pursuits Brad Breedlove never considered himself an audiophile. The project manager for an Indianapolis-area industrial piping company has been collecting vinyl for about five years, and the records […]

Dark Soul Good

from The Guardian Into the night: why walking in the dark is good for the soul by Lizzie Enfield The lights from the cottage windows recede, all too rapidly, as we walk along an unlit country lane and take a footpath through a field into open countryside. Thick cloud cover prevents the moonlight from illuminating […]

Dead Not Dead

from Real Clear Science Could Schrödinger’s Cat Exist in Real Life? By Stefan Forstner Have you ever been in more than one place at the same time? If you’re much bigger than an atom, the answer will be no. But atoms and particles are governed by the rules of quantum mechanics, in which several different possible […]

Elysium Realism

from SPACE The Elysium effect: The coming backlash to the billionaire ‘NewSpace’ revolution By Rick Tumlinson In the 2013 science fiction film “Elysium” starring Matt Damon, Earth’s wealthiest 0.01% move to the ultimate gated community, a luxurious orbiting space colony, leaving a poverty-stricken humanity to fend for themselves on a ravaged planet. Interestingly, it is indeed […]

Cannonball Renaissance

from GQ The Incredible Story of the Great Cannonball Boom When the country shut down and the highways thinned out, a stealthy group of amateur car obsessives glimpsed an opportunity to revive the fabled cannonball run—the highly daring, absurdly illegal cross-country endurance race. And in the record-breaking frenzy that followed, they became legends of the […]

Cow Hugging

from Fox 5 New York Cow-hugging is the new animal therapy trend we all need By Catherine Park Therapy animals are not a new concept, but in a world where mental health is being tested by an ongoing pandemic, people are searching for comfort it what might seem like unusual places. A practice that originated in […]

Marbles

from AP Torlonia Collection of ancient marbles displayed in Rome ROME (AP) — One of the most important private collections of ancient Greek and Roman marble sculptures is going on display in Rome as part of the Eternal City’s 150th anniversary celebrations. The 90 works from the Torlonia Collection were opening Monday in the newly […]