âYou never forget your first kiss ⊠you always remember your first time in the shadow,â says one eclipse chaser. Thereâs a total solar eclipse somewhere on Earth once every 18 months or so. And whether itâs passing over a barren, ice-cragged coast of Antarctica, a remote African desert, or a lonely patch of ocean, you can be sure there will be an umbraphile â a shadow-loving eclipse chaser â... Read more âș
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Food delivery apps have recently added new fees in response to minimum pay rules in New York City and Seattle. | Getty Images/iStockphoto As delivery discourse rages, donât forget the middlemen: apps like UberEats, DoorDash, and Grubhub. No one is happy about the delivery apps. Not the customers, who feel gouged by an avalanche of fees. Not restaurants, who feel gut-punched by the commission apps take from them. Certainly not... Read more âș
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Melissa Mattola-Kiatos, RN, removes the pig kidney from its box to prepare for transplantation as part of Mass Generalâs historic pig kidney transplant surgery on March 16, 2024. | Massachusetts General Hospital We eat pigs. Do we need them to process our urine too? No one tells you, when you donate your kidney, that from that point on youâre a Kidney Guy. When kidney things happen in the news, everyone... Read more âș
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Passersby walk near a poster for âOppenheimerâ in Roppongi, as the film debuts in Japan eight months post worldwide launch on March 30, 2024. | Marcin Nowak/Anadolu/Getty Images The filmâs Japan premiere renews critiques about what the movie omitted. Oppenheimerâs premiere in Japan this past weekend has renewed scrutiny of how the film depicted the devastating bombings that killed more than 200,000 people during World War II. The Oscar-winning film... Read more âș
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The highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, has affected tens of millions of farmed and wild birds in recent years. Over the last couple weeks, itâs begun to infect cattle â and one dairy farm worker. | Nathalie Laurence - Sunspiral Images via Getty Images Explain it to me: Am I at risk of getting bird flu? Bird flu is, famously, a disease that infects birds. But on Monday, federal... Read more âș
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Usher featured in a February 2024 Skims menâs campaign. | Donna Trope/Courtesy of Skims The internet loves Kim Kardashianâs shapewear company. But it loves its ads even more. Before hitting the stage at this yearâs Super Bowl Halftime Show, R&B singer Usher graced the cover of Vogueâs 2024 Winter Digital issue. It wasnât totally obvious, though, that he was meant to be the publicationâs guest of honor. The styling is... Read more âș
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J.K. Rowling, pictured at the premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore in 2022, has a history of transphobic statements and actions. | Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images An exhausting â if not exhaustive â timeline of J.K. Rowlingâs transphobia. J.K. Rowlingâs supporters frequently claim the author has never actually said or done anything transphobic. Itâs a position you can see on social media, in the pages of the New... Read more âș
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BeyoncĂ©/Blair Cardwell via Instagram Coverage and analysis of the global superstarâs eighth studio album. Giddy up! Cowboy Carter, BeyoncĂ©âs eighth studio album and long-awaited sequel to Renaissance, dropped on March 29. Notable collaborators include musicians like Linda Martell, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Miley Cyrus, Post Malone, and many others. Earlier this year, BeyoncĂ© made history as the first Black woman to top Billboardâs Hot Country Songs chart with âTexas Hold... Read more âș
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Despite progress, including bans on lead in gasoline, lead remains a public health threat all over the world. | Robert Alexander/Getty Images What contaminated applesauce reveals about how lead exposure happens. Lead keeps showing up where itâs not supposed to be. In 2024, one of the most potent neurotoxins known to humanity persists all over the world as a public health threat. For the second time in six months, lead... Read more âș
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Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg via Getty Images Americans used to live in multigenerational homes. Weâre starting to, again. Layla Ahmed is, by any measure, a responsible adult. She works at a nonprofit in Nashville helping refugees. Makes 50k a year. Saves money. Pays her bills on time. But thereâs another measure of adulthood that has so far eluded her. Ahmed, 23, moved back in with her parents after graduating college in 2022.... Read more âș
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US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on affordable housing in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 19, 2024. | Ian Maule/Getty Images The president has a housing affordability problem. Biden is in campaign mode, and the president wants voters to know he understands housing is out of control. Over the last month, Biden has ramped up his bully pulpit focus on the housing crisis. In his State of the Union address,... Read more âș
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and UAW President Shawn Fain, left, speak at a rally in support of United Auto Workers members as they strike the Big Three automakers on September 15, 2023, in Detroit, Michigan. | Bill Pugliano/Getty Images German labor history has some tips on how the US could reduce its workweek. The 40-hour workweek in the US will turn 84 this June, making it older than most human... Read more âș
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Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto/Getty Images The documentary details the abuse of Nickelodeonâs child actors in the â90s and aughts. Itâs a far bigger problem. Quiet on Set, a new docuseries from Investigation Discovery, tells the harrowing story of sexual assault and toxic behavior that took place behind the scenes on some of Nickelodeonâs most popular shows. âI will warn you, if you were a child of the â90s, this is going to... Read more âș
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Paige Vickers/Vox; AP Photo A spiritual atheistâs journey to helping death row inmates. When you hear the word âchaplain,â you probably think of a priest or an Imam or some other kind of traditional clergyperson â thatâs what springs to my mind in any case. Which is why I was surprised when I stumbled upon an article in the New York Times magazine from earlier this year about an âatheist... Read more âș
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BeyoncĂ©âs new album, Cowboy Carter, includes her version of Dolly Partonâs classic song âJolene.â | BeyoncĂ© via Instagram A music scholar explains why hell hath no fury like a country diva. Thereâs a lot to parse through and digest on BeyoncĂ©âs Cowboy Carter. The 27-track album is a rich, sprawling tribute to various eras and genres of Southern music, from outlaw country to Louisianaâs zydeco to 1960s rock ânâ roll... Read more âș
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) is working with a very slim majority of House Republicans. | Kent Nishimura/Getty Images The GOP majority is quite small, but a Democratic takeover pre-election still seems extremely unlikely. The GOPâs majority in the House of Representatives was already very narrow â and itâs getting even narrower. But could it get narrow enough that Democrats actually take control this year â before the... Read more âș
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Will TruthSocial deliver the windfall Trump needs? | Anna Barclay/Getty Images Trumpâs social network has made him one of the richest people in the world â at least on paper. Former President Donald Trumpâs net worth has skyrocketed to about $7.5 billion since Trump Media, the parent company for his social network Truth Social, went public earlier this week. The question for Trumpâs presidential bid â and his various legal... Read more âș
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US President Joe Biden appears with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton during a fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on March 28, 2024. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Also, why it might not. Joe Biden is swimming in cash, but short on votersâ support. The president has narrowed Donald Trumpâs polling advantage in recent weeks but still trails his Republican rival both nationally and in... Read more âș
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Malorny/Getty Images Why AI agents that could book your vacation or pay your bills are the next frontier in artificial intelligence. ChatGPT and its large language model (LLM) competitors that produce text on demand are very cool. So are the other fruits of the generative AI revolution: art generators, music generators, better automatic subtitles and translation. They can do a lot (including claim that theyâre conscious, not that we should... Read more âș
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Auggie enters the virtual reality game in 3 Body Problem. | Courtesy of Netflix Would you swear a loyalty oath to humanity â or cheer on its extinction? Stars that wink at you. Protons with 11 dimensions. Computers made of rows of human soldiers. Aliens that give virtual reality a whole new meaning. All of these visual pyrotechnics are very cool. But none of them are at the core of... Read more âș
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