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Nicholas Penny: Boys in Motion

Please sign in to read the full article. Login It’s not hard to think of painters who took up sculpture: Raphael (probably), Guido Reni (at least once), Frederic Leighton, Degas, Renoir (unfortunately), Picasso. But sculptors have less frequently turned to…

bubmagJanuary 15, 2020

Black Hole

Podcast: Strange objects at the centre of the galaxy, and improving measurements of online activity

This week, observations of objects orbiting a black hole, and rethinking how we measure screen-time. In this episode: 00:45 Observing the centre of the galaxy Researchers have uncovered a population of dust-enshrouded objects orbiting the supermassive blac…

bubmagJanuary 15, 2020

Black Hole

Podcast: Strange objects at the centre of the galaxy, and improving measurements of online activity

This week, observations of objects orbiting a black hole, and rethinking how we measure screen-time. In this episode: 00:45 Observing the centre of the galaxy Researchers have uncovered a population of dust-enshrouded objects orbiting the supermassive blac…

bubmagJanuary 15, 2020

Electric Car

The Porsche Taycan Turbo S 192-Mile Range Now Makes It The Least Efficient EV, Beating Itself

Photo: PorscheThere were a lot of words spilled when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency claimed the 2020 Porsche Taycan Turbo could only achieve an estimated range of just 201 miles, making it the least-efficient electric car on sale today. But it’s more powerful sibling, the Porsche Taycan Turbo S, is…

bubmagJanuary 15, 2020

Hiroshima

The Ocean Is Warming at a Rate of 5 Atom Bombs Per Second, Scientists Warn

After analyzing data from the 1950s through 2019, an international team of scientists determined that the average temperature of the world's oceans in 2019 was 0.075 degrees Celsius (0.135 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the 19812010 average. That might not …

bubmagJanuary 15, 2020

Holocaust

‘Hunters’ Amazon Al Pacino Series “A Love Letter To My Grandmother” Says Creator – TCA

When it comes to creator/EP David Weil’s new Amazon series Hunters, it all goes back to grandma. “My grandmother was a Holocaust survivor and she told me about her experiences during the war,” said Weil, “Hearing this felt like the stuff of comics books and …

bubmagJanuary 15, 2020

Holocaust

‘Hunters’ Boss on Creating a ‘Love Letter’ to Holocaust Survivor Grandmother

Growing up as a young Jewish boy in Long Island, N.Y., “Hunters” creator David Weil used to hear a lot of stories about his grandmother’s time during the Holocaust. She was a survivor, and what she described felt to him then “like the stuff of comic books and…

bubmagJanuary 15, 2020

Google

Google Is Buying the World’s Most Boring (but Useful) Startup

You know how sometimes when you Google a store, you get a pop-out sidebar containing info about products that store currently has in stock? Well, in a deal announced today, Google has agreed to purchase the startup responsible for making those sidebars possib…

bubmagJanuary 15, 2020

Chinese Expansionism

What’s At Stake in the Race for 5G Dominance

Skip to comments. What's At Stake in the Race for 5G DominanceTownhall.com ^ | January 14, 2020 | James Edwards Posted on 01/14/2020 3:02:11 PM PST by Kaslin The United States and China are racing for dominance in 5G wireless connectivity. The R&D,…

bubmagJanuary 15, 2020

Silk Road

HRW says China poses ‘dire’ threat to human rights

Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a scathing assessment of China in its 2020 World Report on Tuesday, accusing Beijing of using its economic and diplomatic leverage to carry out the "most intense attack" ever on the international system for protecting human rig…

bubmagJanuary 14, 2020

Nicholas Penny: Boys in Motion

Podcast: Strange objects at the centre of the galaxy, and improving measurements of online activity

Podcast: Strange objects at the centre of the galaxy, and improving measurements of online activity

The Porsche Taycan Turbo S 192-Mile Range Now Makes It The Least Efficient EV, Beating Itself

The Ocean Is Warming at a Rate of 5 Atom Bombs Per Second, Scientists Warn

‘Hunters’ Amazon Al Pacino Series “A Love Letter To My Grandmother” Says Creator – TCA

‘Hunters’ Boss on Creating a ‘Love Letter’ to Holocaust Survivor Grandmother

Google Is Buying the World’s Most Boring (but Useful) Startup

What’s At Stake in the Race for 5G Dominance

HRW says China poses ‘dire’ threat to human rights

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