Literally Squeezed Out of the Market Skinny House The houses are getting skinnier. By the time Ant can afford to buy one, there is only enough room to stand. His elbows bump up against the walls. His nose hits the front door. He goes outside whenever he has to take a deep breath. He spends a lot of time on his porch listening to The Smiths, but it is worth it to own his home. Most of his neighbors have bigger houses. They moved in decades ago, before the subdivisions. He is stuck in an upright coffin, but he is…
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Before August 2017, most people were more familiar with my home of the past 30-plus years, Charlottesville, Virginia, for its postcard appeal: Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello and the University of Virginia, his “academical village”; charming neo-classical cityscapes; undulating foothills rolling into blue-tinged mountain horizons; and a burgeoning multitude of scenic vineyards, microbreweries, and artisan distilleries, plus a growing reputation as a foodie destination. Even in the best of times, postcards leave something out. Like how enslaved laborers built all these pretty neo-classic buildings, starting with Virginia red clay, baking it into bricks, laying each one. Like how at least two serial…
A woman’s world The Mosuo community in south-western China has a matrilineal structure and many of its women hold positions of power. Such societies have often been viewed – and written about – as backwards or uncivilized, simply because they deviate from the patriarchal “normalâ€. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Alexander P Bell) Award-winning journalist Angela Saini has spent years interrogating and exploring deeply rooted bias in science. Her previous two books, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong (2017) and Superior: the Return of Race Science (2019) examined how sexist and racist theories have been embedded in the fabric of science, permeating throughout history…
When you hear the phrase “queer history,” how far back does your mind go? For many, there’s a sense that LGBTQIA+ history is fairly recent, starting with Marsha P. Johnson or maybe Oscar Wilde. Beyond that, we start to get into murky territory: stories of “lifelong bachelors” and “happy spinsters” and “historically very good friends.” But LGBTQIA+ people didn’t spring up out of nowhere in the last 100 years, even if that’s when many history books start the story. When I started writing Let the Dead Bury the Dead, I was inspired by the popular uprisings that regularly swept through…
If you live in New York, you may have spotted The Nonbinarian Book Bike. It’s hard to miss—a bicycle carrying a big, bright pink box full of free LGBTQIA+ books for all ages and languages directly to the community. The initiative was founded by K. Kerimian, and is new on the scene; it’s only been operating in Brooklyn for a few months now. K. began the Book Bike out of the desire to continue their work bringing books to the public without the constraints of a for-profit system nor the red tape of a non-profit. Instead, they’ve focused on mutual…
Messenger from the dark side: Dark matter may interact with normal matter via a hypothetical particle known as a dark photon. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/80’s Child) A new analysis conducted by an international team of physicists suggests that dark photons – hypothetical particles that carry forces associated with dark matter – could explain certain data from high-energy scattering experiments. The analysis, which was led by Nicholas Hunt-Smith and colleagues at the University of Adelaide, Australia, could lead to new insights into the nature of dark matter, which remains a mystery even though standard models of cosmology suggest it makes up around 85%…
Electric Literature is thrilled to reveal the cover for acclaimed writer Claire Messud’s new novel, This Strange Eventful History, which will be published by W. W. Norton & Company in May 2024. Spanning seventy years, Claire Messud’s forthcoming novel, This Strange Eventful History, tells an intimate yet expansive story inspired by the author’s own family history. A family separated in the chaos of World War II, the Cassars live in an itinerant state, constantly on the run from a messy colonial homeland. At the center of this novel is the patriarch, Gaston, and his wife, Lucienne, who strive to maintain…
How to Audit a Capitalist Nightmare Molly McGhee Share article An excerpt from Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee Abernathy arrives at the office late by three minutes. A harried woman leads him through the cold foyer, down a set of carpeted stairs, into a small basement recently refurbished. The woman deposits him next to a table of bagels, pastries, and the like. The room is low-ceilinged and has green industrial carpet. In the middle of the room, forty folding chairs are broken into five rows. A white projector screen has been pinned to the wall. A group of dream…
Precision frontier: the ATLAS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. (Courtesy: CERN) In a thorough review of proton collision data from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), physicists working on the ATLAS experiment have determined the strength of the strong force to the highest level of precision to date. While the result is in agreement with the Standard Model of particle physics, the approach could be used to search for new physics in future experiments. As defined by quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the strong force is responsible for the binding of quarks together via exchanges of massless gluons. The strong…
In this articleAMCFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTPopcorn buckets are pictured during the “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” concert movie world premiere at AMC The Grove in Los Angeles on Oct. 11, 2023.Valerie Macon | AFP | Getty ImagesTaylor Swift fans had just eight hours to buy tickets for last-minute Thursday night previews of her The Eras Tour concert film.The result was $2.8 million in ticket sales.While the figure is low in comparison to blockbuster releases from Marvel, DC and Star Wars, it reflects the fact that film wasn’t originally slated for a Thursday release. In fact, fans weren’t told…
Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anatomy Of A Fall from Neon grossed $125,377 at five theaters for a per screen average of $25,075 — a solid limited opening for the Justine Triet-directed film that made its theatrical debut Friday in NYC, LA and San Francisco. A limited expansion is planned for next week. Sandra Hüller stars as a German writer living a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps with her husband Samuel and their 11-year-old son. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, the police question whether it was suicide or murder. They fix on…
by Regina Avalos, October 11, 2023(Photo: NBC) Season three of Transplant arrives on NBC tomorrow night, and the peacock network has already picked up the medical drama for a fourth season. The season four episodes have already started airing on CTV in Canada and the network has announced that those ten episodes will be the end. Starring Hamza Haq, Laurence Leboeuf, John Hannah, Jim Watson, Ayisha Issa, Linda E. Smith, Torri Higginson, Gord Rand, Nora Guerch, and Ahmad Meree, the series follows Doctor Bashid Hamed (Haq), a talented doctor from Syria who flees his war-torn country to make a new…
WASHINGTON — Despite satellite malfunctions that are expected to lead to major insurance claims, the space insurance field is taking a cautious approach to servicing technologies that might be able to repair such spacecraft. In a talk at the Global Satellite Servicing Forum Oct. 12, Mark Quinn, chief executive of WTW Global Inspace, a space insurance broker, acknowledged that several high-profile satellite malfunctions and other incidents will result a major loss for the field in 2023. “It’s the worst market we’ve been in in the last 20 years,” he said. “In the last six months there’s been about $1 billion…
WhatsApp has finally begun testing a revamped interface on Android, months after the company was spotted working on a redesigned version of the popular chat application. The new interface ditches WhatsApp’s iconic green-coloured top bar in favour of a white top bar, in the main chat list and inside individual chats. The new design is also aligned with Google’s Material Design 3 guidelines and improves the appearance of dark theme. WhatsApp has also added new ‘outline’ icons for various buttons in the app, as part of the latest beta update.A Gadgets 360 staff member’s app received the redesigned interface on…
Sen. Robert Menendez is trailed by reporters after attending a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on federal judge nominations on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 4, 2023.Jonathan Ernst | ReutersSen. Bob Menendez has been accused of accepting bribes and acting as a foreign agent for Egypt, according to a superseding federal indictment filed Thursday.For more than four years through June 2022, Menendez, D-N.J., along with his wife and others, “willfully and knowingly combined, conspired, confederated, and agreed together and with each other” to have the senator act as an agent for the Egyptian government, the indictment alleges.The indictment also alleges…
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce faked everybody out — despite making a splashy NYC appearance this weekend … they’re nowhere to be found for a key football game. There was a lot of speculation that the couple would show up in person Sunday to watch the Jets-Eagles game at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey … y’know, to root for Travis’s brother, Jason Kelce, seeing how he’s a starter … plus, Taylor herself is a known Philly fan. Play video content TMZ.com Seeing how they both hit the town the night prior — with a romantic dinner at Nobu, not to…
In this articleRADFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTA Rite Aid store stands in Brooklyn on August 28, 2023 in New York City.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesRite Aid filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New Jersey on Sunday and said it would begin restructuring to significantly reduce its debt.The company said it reached a deal with creditors on a restructuring plan that includes evaluating its retail footprint and closing underperforming locations.Rite Aid also said lenders agreed to provide $3.45 billion in new funding to “provide sufficient liquidity” as it embarks on its restructuring plan.The beleaguered drugstore chain has been grappling…
Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin dated on and off long before they became husband and wife. Hailey first met Justin in the late aughts, and they eventually struck up a casual romance. Though they decided to keep it out of the public eye, this didn’t stop fans from obsessing over their relationship. After a breakup and surprise reconciliation-turned-whirlwind engagement two years later, Justin officially made Hailey his Mrs. during a September 2018 New York City courthouse ceremony. They got married in front of friends and family in a more formal wedding a year later.From their highly-publicized South Carolina nuptials to…