On 22nd November 2023, Singer/Songwriter Tony Moore Will Release A Song Called “Blood And Roses†Which Documents The Experience Of The Artist Meat Loaf Who, When He Was A Teenager, Got Caught Up In Events Surrounding The Tragic Assassination Of John F Kennedy In Dallas. Singer/Songwriter Tony Moore will release a new single titled “Blood And Roses†on November 22nd, 2023, the 60th Anniversary of the assassination of John F Kennedy. In late 2021 Tony was invited to write songs for the iconic singer Meat Loaf, by a friend who was in talks with the artist to produce his next…
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This American Dream Tastes Like Government Cheese Dear Irreverence, We were raised on food stamps that looked like British pounds and dead-end jobs where bodies slung over crates and cans and cam shafts or pouches with pennies and coupons and a giant magnet sign wearing the paint off the car was just another insult. This pepperoni’s here for you, America. We wanna be poor. We wanna live off the government, you say. Where in hell does Mr. Government live, I say. Show me the gated drive, let me buzz in a pizza box filled with the greasy process that will…
Since the early aughts, the cultural phenomenon known as the Korean Wave has expanded from a tiny homegrown ripple to a global tsunami of trends and merchandise encompassing pop music, gaming, cosmetics, cuisine, film and TV, and literature. K-pop bands now top the music charts, kimchi and gochujang are sold in most supermarkets, and Gen-Z embraces the K-dramas I scoffed at my parents for watching, while movies and TV shows like Parasite and Squid Games garner major awards and attract large viewership. Korean representation in literature has emerged in a huge way as well, with women’s voices in recent years…
Across the world, varying factions of society seem to be angrier and more divided than ever. But as Anna Demming explains, physicists are doing their best to shed light on what has gone wrong Divided society Can physics help us to understand why society is increasingly politically polarized? (Courtesy: iStock/Mariya Bondarenko) Aeroplane contrails are being deliberately loaded with an extraterrestrial, disease-causing, silicon-based life form: such was the claim back in 2006 by Bill Deagle, a Canadian medical doctor and self-proclaimed “prophetâ€. “This is a silicon-based life form that is intelligent like bees or ants and it fights back,†he warned.…
On March 20th, 2020, Animal Crossing: New Horizons was released. Just a few days after the majority of the world shut down, marking the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people fell into a virtual world in which sickness was not rampant and you could pay back the construction costs on your home at your own pace. It felt like more people than ever were playing and talking about video games; it makes sense, then, that Critical Hits: Writers Playing Video Games was birthed from quarantine conversations. But, escapism and playing-in-isolation only scratches the surface of what the eighteen…
Farah Ali’s debut novel The River, The Town is a haunting portrait of lives relegated to the margins by capitalism and its resulting byproduct: the inequitable distribution of resources. The world of the novel centers two places, the Town and the City, and the narrative focus, in typical Farah-Ali-fashion, is on people. Farah tells me her recurring fascination as a writer is to explore relationships and indeed, in her novel we find relationships thriving, morphing, breaking in the ebb and flow of poverty-stricken conditions. The story opens with Baadal, a teenager living in the Town where thirst, hunger and diseases…
Certified entangled: In this entanglement certification scheme involving weak certification and reversal measurements, two parties (traditionally known as Alice and Bob) sitting in their respective laboratories share a potentially entangled pair of systems in the shared state |Ψi⟩. In the certification step, they subject their local systems to weak certification measurements to obtain statistics. In each run, they obtain outputs (±1) and the corresponding output state |Ψm⟩ that still has some entanglement. After passing the certification test, the post-measurement state |Ψm⟩ is subjected to reversal measurements in the last step to obtain the original state |Ψf⟩ =|Ψi⟩ probabilistically. (Courtesy: “Recovering…
Performing on Stage for an Audience of One Sarah Blakley-Cartwright Share article An excerpt from Alice Sadie Celine by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright Check out the audiobook edition of this excerpt, read by award-winning actress Chloë Sevigny, from Simon & Schuster Audio. AliceFRIDAY Opening night and, as soon as they could get Leontes’s detachable sleeves Velcroed on—the adhesive tape was moist and mucky in the record June heat, not sticking to the tunic—the show would begin. The sun had risen each day that week angry and blinking, baking the asphalt. Alice, sweltering, was tucked away backstage, hidden in the narrow wings. Sadie…
This is the first year that IOP has recognised North America, having already published top-cited awards for China and India (courtesy: iStock/Igor-Kutyaev) Almost 130 articles from researchers in North America have been recognized with a top-cited award for 2023 from IOP Publishing, which publishes Physics World. The papers received over 15400 citations in total and represent the top 1% of the most-cited articles that have been published by IOP Publishing between 2020 and 2022 with corresponding authors from North America. This is the first year that IOP has recognised North America, having previously published top-cited awards for China and India.…
These 10 books take the imaginability of other minds as their explicit subject. Their writers are curious about nonhuman consciousness: could language reproduce that as well? In order to imaginewhat animals, plants, or objects might be thinking, these writers try to think those thoughts themselves. They wonder: what is it like to be an elephant, or a cockroach, or a Joshua tree? What is it like to be a chatbot, or a planet, or a vampire? In his 1974 essay “What Is It Like To Be A Bat?”, the philosopher Thomas Nagel famously concluded that these questions are unanswerable. Since…
Sun Nuclear presents the latest developments in the SunCHECK, SunScan and ArcCHECK platforms In this short video filmed at the ASTRO 2023 conference in San Diego, US, Greg Robinson, patient QA product line director at Sun Nuclear, outlines recent developments with the SunCHECK platform. Robinson points out that many new technologies and increasing complexities are being introduced into the workflow, but that there’s currently a big shortage of qualified medical physicists. And this is where technology companies can help. So Sun Nuclear is looking for ways to automate mundane tasks. In terms of in vivo QA, that means looking at…
I’ve seen Salar Abdoh only a handful of times. The most noteworthy is in May 2017 when, hearing that I’d be spending vote day in the southernmost areas of Tehran interviewing working class Tehranis about their choice for president, he offered to give me a ride through some of those neighborhoods. Abdoh, whom I had previously corresponded with over Tehran Noir but only met earlier that week, had a motorbike and even more conveniently, knew the area like the back of his hand. If I’m sharing this anecdote, it’s because reading A Nearby Country Called Love, which is sprawling with…
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On the road again: Jenny Hoffman somewhere on her run across the US. (Courtesy: Jill Yeomans) We all know physicists with extraordinary talents that stretch well beyond academia – and Harvard University’s Jenny Hoffman is no exception. She has just become the fastest woman to run across the US. She made the 3000 mile (5000 km) journey in just 47 days, 12 hours and 35 minutes. Astonishingly, she beat the previous record time (by Sara Villines in 2017) by more than one week. Hoffman, who studies the electronic properties of exotic materials, began her journey from San Francisco to New York…
If we label a work as bilingual for using at least two languages, then how do we quantify a work as having more than one language? For example, would one call Megan Thee Stallion’s song “Hit My Phone” bilingual with these lyrics: “Party like a vato, shots of the blanco / Guaranteed to knock a – out his zapatos?” In a traditional sense, probably not. In a creative sense, I think so, and in more ways than one. By extension, is Beyoncé considered a bilingual artist for singing at least six songs entirely in Spanish (“Irreemplazable,” “Oye,” “Bello Enbustero,” “Amor…
The National Book Awards took place on November 15th at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. A day before the biggest night in books, two sponsors—Book of the Month and Zibby Books—announced they were not attending because of “political speeches,” following rumors that the nominees were planning to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. Zibby Owens, founder of Zibby Media and daughter of Blackstone billionaire Stephen A. Schwarzman, rescinded her donation, citing “a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli agenda” in her newsletter (which was full of oxymoronic gems like “I don’t support censorship” while using her money to do just that). As…
Astronomers are becoming increasingly concerned about the growing number of satellites that are lighting up the night sky by reflecting sunlight to Earth. In 2022, the prototype communications satellite BlueWalker 3 was launched and it is now the brightest commercial satellite ever – outshining almost every star in the sky. And to make matters worse, communications satellites like BlueWalker 3 broadcast microwave signals that can interfere with radio astronomy. To talk about the threats to astronomy posed by satellites I am joined down the line by the radio astronomer Mike Peel, who is at Imperial College London and Jeremy Tregloan-Reed…
Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover for Annell Lopez’s debut short story collection, I’ll Give You a Reason, which will be published by Feminist Press on April 9th, 2024. Lopez is the winner of the Louise Meriweather First Book Prize. The Ironbound is a large, multi-ethnic immigrant neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, filled with characters rich in pride, history, and culture—if not money. The vibrant stories in I’ll Give You A Reason, the debut short story collection by Annell Lopez, are a love letter to this place, and its people. Concerned with questions of race, identity, connection, displacement…