Month: August 2022
August 6, 2022
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Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present
““Blade Runner,” “E.T.,” “Tron,” “The Wrath of Khan” and “The Thing” all arrived that one season 40 years ago to become indelible and influential. The future is…”
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Four ways of looking at The Rehearsal
“Nathan Fielder, the mastermind of The Rehearsal . HBO Imagine a TV show so profoundly strange that the more you thought about it, the less you knew what it ……”
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What was the Schleswig-Holstein Question anyway?
““Only three people have ever really understood the Schleswig-Holstein business,” occasional British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston is reputed to have said. “The…”
August 5, 2022
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How a Phoenix record store owner set the audiophile world on fire
“Mike Esposito still won’t say who gave him the tip about the records. But on July 14, he went public with an explosive claim. In a sometimes halting video…”
August 3, 2022
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Footprints Discovery Suggests Ancient ‘Ghost Tracks’ May Cover the West
“Footprints discovered on the Utah Test and Training Range, about 80 miles west of Salt Lake City. Credit… Daron Duke The set of 88 prints is about 12,000…”
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Speculation Is on Fire Around HBO Max’s Future, Planned Layoffs in Major Streaming Shake-Up
“Speculation Is on Fire Around HBO Max’s Future, Planned Layoffs in Major Streaming Shake-Up by , Brandon Katz and Umberto Gonzalez | August 3, 2022 @ 11:23 AM…”
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Why Old Spice, Colgate and Dawn are locked up at drug stores
“New York (CNN Business) These days, it feels like many stores are fortresses. Most of the products on the drug store shelf are behind lock and key, even…”
August 2, 2022
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The Ace Hotel brings Toronto architecture to a new level
“The Ace Hotel’s main entrance on Camden Street cuts through a facade made up of brick-fronted panels. Younes Bounhar/Doublespace Photography/The Globe and Mail…”
August 1, 2022
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TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants
“Last month, Blake Chandlee, TikTok ’s president of global business solutions, was asked if he was concerned about competition from existing social-media…”
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The campaign to rename monkeypox gets complicated
“S ince the earliest days of the current global monkeypox outbreak, scientists and public health authorities have been calling for the disease to be renamed,…”