Новости за 18.12.2024

In the marble halls of the battle dome of American lawfare on December 4, Tennessee’s deputy solicitor general performed a brazen act of legal gymnastics: He argued to the Supreme Court that protecting transgender children requires denying them health care. That same day, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson—architect of an AI-powered claims denial system with a reported 90 percent error rate—was shot, allegedly by a man driven to desperation by America’s predatory and labyrinthine health care system... Читать дальше...

In a 1939 essay, the critic Philip Rahv argued that there have been two main types in American literature: the solemn and semi-clerical, which he associates with Henry James, and the exuberant, open-air lowlife embodied in Walt Whitman. Between them, James and Whitman represent the distinction between “life conceived as a discipline” and “life conceived as an opportunity.” Knowingly or not, Lili Anolik’s dual biography, Didion & Babitz, endeavors to revive Rahv’s opposition, this time for the ladies. Читать дальше...

Gift cards. The answer is always gift cards.

Donald Trump and Robert Kennedy Jr. are poised to do huge damage to U.S. vaccine policy based on their misguided beliefs about vaccines, autism, and mandates.

How one designer used dynamic type to track the history of name trends.

As Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering, he’s responsible for bringing AI advancements to iOS and MacOS.

Sometimes, making them feel heard is more important than offering them a solution

Moses Itauma is looking to prove more before he thinks too big in boxing | Photo by Richard Pelham/Getty Images

Moses Itauma isn’t getting ahead of himself, even if he says it’s nice to be compared to Anthony Joshua.

Our parasocial dismay has become confused with social critique.

Why does hepatitis B, which can lead to liver cancer, often go undetected, even though tests exist?

The year’s strongest films offered thrilling affirmation of cinema as a global medium.

With projects like “IMG_0001,” an online compendium of YouTube home videos, Riley Walz is calling attention to the hidden deposits of personal information that power our digital lives.

If only there were a device that could prevent me from having a social life.

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Do you hear that sound? It's your dial-up connecting you to AOL and its chat rooms. Yes, we're taking you back to a time before WiFi. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan's romantic comedy You've Got Mail came...

(Telecompaper) Taiwanese vendor Edgecore Networks said it is launching a new cell site gateway and an aggregation router targeting modern telecoms deployments,...

A handful of federal judges appointed by Democrats have put off retirement plans in the wake of President-elect Trump’s election victory, raising questions about the ethics of their decisions as judicial vacancies for the next administration dwindle. Legal experts said judges have discretion to decide when to retire, and while walk-backs are rare, it’s...

Despite the correction, the study's authors stand by their conclusions about the risks of certain kitchen utensils.

Tens of millions of tourists visit Turkey each year, most of whom are there to see the convergence of East and West. It’s a place where Europe meets Asia, where history collides with modernism, where you can find a dazzling combination of culture and cool unlike anywhere else on planet Earth. But among those millions […]

How Slovakia influenced my cooking journey.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will stay in space an extra month, until March 2025, giving SpaceX more time to complete a new Crew Dragon capsule.

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Pittsburgh gets the win on Tuesday night.

Lionel trains turns 125, celebrating more than a century of holiday magic. From historic models to smartphone-controlled locomotives, these iconic toy trains continue to captivate kids and collectors alike.

Enigma has become a hub for almost a million people to share and discuss UFO and UAP sightings like the unidentified drones over New Jersey.