The process of writing, when it’s going well, feels like psychic channeling. You start typing and who knows what’s going to pour out or where it’s coming from? I’ve always felt a little psychic, a little witch— writing things that end up coming true, sensing the truth of a situation before I consciously understand it. I remember talking to a friend who also considered herself psychic and also came from an immigrant family with a lot of trauma and she was telling me how she thought being psychic was a survival strategy —you learned to be hyper-attuned to the shifts…
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Quick, when was the last time you went into your bathroom, picked up a glass fist filled with an impossibly alluring fragrance, and spritzed it on your pulse points with great abandon? If your answer was something like, “This morning,†feel free to jump ahead to find your next bottle. If your answer was more along the lines of, “Huh?†then your nose is in for a treat. Because this list, gentlemen, is all about the best Diesel colognes. Five of the best, to be exact, across a range of categories from budget to splurge-worthy. In this list of the…
Maybe it’s generational. Because a proper introduction feels like something of a bygone era. Like three-martini lunches or smoking in the office. It’s just not something we do all that regularly. Of course, there are lots of upsides to today’s casualness. You feel less burdened by arbitrary rules and expectations, you can practically wear whatever you like to work and saying hello to someone you find attractive is as simple as swiping a finger on your phone. The downside, is that we’ve become incredibly lax when it comes to introductions. Maybe we say hello, but do we introduce ourselves? Rarely.…
Starting the Oscars earlier seemed like the right move for ABC! Just look at the ratings. The 2024 Oscars began shortly after 7/6c, and the three-and-a-half-hour show (it ended on time!) reached a four-year high (since the 2020 broadcast) in viewers, with 19.5 million tuning in. The awards show also received a 3.81 rating among Adults 18-49, based on Fast National Live+Same Day program data. Plus, Abbott Elementary, airing a special episode after the Oscars at 10:30/9:30c—which featured a guest spot from Bradley Cooper, nominated for his performance in Maestro—delivered the highest-rated sitcom telecast in nearly four years. The Oscars grew…
Shoppers are seen in a Kroger supermarket in Atlanta on Oct. 14, 2022.Elijah Nouvelage | AFP | Getty ImagesRising gasoline prices likely put a floor under inflation in February, potentially reinforcing the Federal Reserve’s decision to take a go-slow approach with interest rate reductions.Economists expect that prices across a broad spectrum of goods and services rose 0.4% on the month, just ahead of the January pace for 0.3%, according to the Dow Jones consensus. Excluding food and energy, the increase for core inflation is forecast at a 0.3% gain, also one-tenth of a percentage point above the previous month.On a…
Jessica Berman, commissioner of the National Women’s Soccer League, speaks during a panel on women’s professional soccer at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas on Feb. 10, 2024.Omar Vega | Getty Images Sport | Getty ImagesAt 16 years old, Jessica Berman was one of those rare teenagers who knew exactly what she wanted to do in life: lead a professional sports league.Nearly 30 years later, the New York City native has not only achieved her dream — becoming the commissioner of the National Women’s Soccer League in 2022 — but she’s helping to pave the way for a new generation of…
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures to supporters as he hosts a campaign rally at the Forum River Center in Rome, Georgia, U.S. March 9, 2024. Alyssa Pointer | ReutersPresident Joe Biden on Monday quickly slapped down Donald Trump’s suggestion in a CNBC interview that “there is a lot” that can be done in terms of cutting the government programs Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.”Not on my watch,” Biden said in a social media post on X in response to a video of Trump’s comment that was posted by his reelection campaign.It was the latest quick response…
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesBitcoin extended recent gains and climbed to another record to start the week.The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 4% at $72,492.42, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier, it reached an all-time high of $72,750.16.Last week, bitcoin hit new records in volatile trading for the first time since 2021, before more subdued trading over the weekend.Stock Chart IconStock chart iconBitcoin hits another record, ether rises to December 2021 highInflows into U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs continue to drive the cryptocurrency’s price action. Last week, crypto investment products saw record inflows totaling $2.7 billion,…
Blake Harrison, who played samples, noise, and other sound design in Pig Destroyer as a full-time member between 2006 and 2022, has died, Blabbermouth.net reports. The band issued a statement on social media commemorating Harrison, writing, “Everyone that knew Blake loved Blake. Light bent around him. You only had to meet him once. We in Pig Destroyer are forever grateful for the time we’ve been able to share with him.†A cause of death was not provided. Harrison was 48 years old.Harrison was a punk rock fan from his early teens, eventually joining the bands Daybreak and Triac before working…
Weezer have officially announced their ‘Voyage To The Blue Planet’ tour in celebration of ‘The Blue Album’ and its 30th anniversary. After frontman Rivers Cuomo began teased an “epic tour†last December, the band have now unveiled their extensive North Ame rican tour for 2024. Weezer are set to play their self-titled debut album in full, along with other rarities and playing with “very special guestsâ€. They will be supported by The Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr. Presale tickets will be made available via Weezer’s mailing list on Wednesday, March 13, 12pm local time. Citi cardmembers will also have their…
Samsung has launched its 2024 midrange phone lineup, which combines weaker specs and feature sets with more alluring prices than its flagship handsets. The Galaxy A55 and A35 have 6.6-inch Super AMOLED displays. For the first time in its budget handsets, the company included Knox Vault, a walled-off security section that debuted in the Galaxy S21.Both Android 14-running phones have FHD+ (2220×1080) displays (374 pixels per inch) and variable refresh rates up to 120Hz. Like last year’s Galaxy A54, both include Samsung’s Vision Booster feature, which adjusts the screen’s tone mapping based on ambient lighting conditions. Their 6.6-inch diagonal measurements…
Xiaomi 14 is one of the best examples of how collaborations should work. Here, Xiaomi and Leica have worked together, and we talked in detail about why this is not just a marketing partnership. 2024 is an important year for Xiaomi, not only because it completes 10 years of operations in India but also because this year, plenty of Xiaomi devices will be upgraded to HyperOS, the company’s next big move to bring the human x car x home smart ecosystem a reality. We will get into that later in this review. The all-new Xiaomi 14 ticks all the boxes…
This was supposed to be a big year for the Academy Awards. The battle between Barbie and Oppenheimer that had been raging all award season (and that began when both films hit theaters on the same day back in July) promised a level of enthusiasm for Hollywood’s biggest night that would hearken back to the Oscars’ most recent heyday in the ’90s. That was an era in which the tastes of Hollywood bigwigs and average moviegoers widely overlapped, resulting in Best Picture wins for popular favorites like The Silence of the Lambs, Unforgiven, Forrest Gump, and Titanic.…
Donald Trump on Monday once again denied allegations by writer E. Jean Carroll that he raped and defamed her, despite facing nearly $90 million in civil penalties for making similar statements about the writer.Carroll’s attorney quickly responded that the writer’s legal team is closely monitoring Trump’s latest remarks about her — and suggested that a third defamation lawsuit could be in store for the former president.Trump in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” said that several civil court judgments against him in New York — two of them in Carroll’s favor — will cause companies to leave the state.”People aren’t…
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon rolled out a $849.8 billion budget request for fiscal year 2025 that includes $29.4 billion for the U.S. Space Force. The $29.4 billion request represents a $600 million cut from the $30 billion the Defense Department sought for the newest military branch in fiscal 2024 – a plan that remains in limbo as Congress has kept the government funded via a series of stopgap spending bills. Congress on February 29 passed the fourth continuing resolution for fiscal year 2024 extending funding for Defense and other federal agencies at 2023 levels until March 22. The Biden administration…
Illustration of a terror bird and other animals that may have lived in what is now Antarctica at the same timeC. Acosta Hospitaleche & W. Jones/Palaeontological Association 2024 A 2-metre-tall flightless bird may have been the top predator in what is now Antarctica 50 million years ago. Two 8-centimetre fossil claws found on Seymour Island, near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, belonged to a large family of similar birds that palaeontologists call terror birds, according to an analysis by Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche at the National University of La Plata in Argentina and Washington Jones at the… Read the original…
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My Worst Experiences Haunt Me From the Memory Cloud Gina Chung Share article Presence by Gina Chung After Leo left, I had trouble keeping track of myself. I had just moved into a new apartment, and I felt like I was existing in an endless twilight. I would drift off for a nap in the living room, only to find myself standing in the kitchen, washing a dish I didn’t remember using. Or I would leave a cut of meat to defrost in my shining, empty refrigerator and forget it was there for days, until the sour smell of old…