Deciphering the best gifts for older men can feel like navigating the ever-evolving landscape of men’s fashion. Yet, just as a classic tweed jacket never goes out of style, there are timeless treasures that resonate deeply with the seasoned gentleman.In this curated collection of the best gifts for older men, we’re merging old-school charm with contemporary flair, ensuring that every item on our list is both a nod to their rich past and a toast to their present. From birthdays to anniversaries and every occasion in between, buckle up, style savants, as we journey through gifts as distinguished as the…
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Rare-earth elements are vital for the magnets found in electric cars, wind turbines and other parts of the “green economyâ€. But with uncertainties over the supply of these materials, James McKenzie reports on the importance of magnets that avoid rare earths entirely Time to get digging With geopolitical issues surrounding the mining of rare-earth elements, the search is on for permanent magnets that can be made from alternative materials. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/mykhailo pavlenko) Magnets might not be something on most people’s minds, but they are essential for the burgeoning “green economyâ€, lying at the heart of motors for electric vehicles and generators in…
A Doomed Romance Is the Deadliest Tragedy SJ Sindu Share article Patriots’ Day by SJ Sindu Four days before his death, Amit Srinivasan files for divorce. He’s living in a tiny apartment in Somerville that he began renting in December, ever since his wife packed a suitcase full of his clothes and burned it in the backyard firepit of their suburban brick house. Winter has broken, and Somerville’s tree-lined streets rupture with color. Pink petals work their way into the cracked, uneven sidewalks. As soon as Amit files for divorce, he calls Hannah. She doesn’t pick up. He leaves her…
Fall, the season of sweaters, PSL, and—of course—haunted houses. Though the Victorian clapboard house will forever remain iconic, the past few decades have broadened our scope of what can be haunted. 2022’s Barbarian, for instance, introduces a humble Airbnb, while Grady Hendrix’s Horrorstör is set in a very familiar Swedish furniture store. What ultimately binds the haunted house genre together is the undiscovered trauma. The abandoned apartment at the end of the hall turns out to be the site of a gruesome, unsolved murder. Trinkets move back and forth in the home of an already troubled family. Grandma’s house is…
Elle Nash’s novel Deliver Me tells the story of Daisy, a Southern woman in her 30s seeking control over her life. Daisy struggles under the thumb of her partner (a petty criminal with a sexual fetish for exotic bugs), her mother (a domineering matriarch who wields the evangelical church like a weapon), her job (a chicken slaughtering facility with a daily kill quota in the hundred thousands), her best friend/love interest/bitter enemy, Sloane (a better-in-every-way version of Daisy), and even her own body, which refuses to give her the thing she wants most: a baby. Daisy’s quest for agency and love upends…
Photo by Alexander Grey / UnsplashWelcome news to those of us in the “Flyover Zone”: our reading habits are healthy and well served. The Jackson Madison County Public Library in Jackson, Tennessee, is one such example. Possessing 115,799 physical items and over one million electronic books, it is one of the larger West Tennessee libraries, and it purports to encourage communicating information, developing technology literacy, and connecting people. It has a total physical circulation of 216,807 and 71,885 patrons (Madison County has a little over 100,000 residents). Digital circulation has gone up since Covid and stands today at 143,709. The…
Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the teaâ€Â on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk†live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their audience along for a fantastic ride. Mac Gollehon will be a featured guest on “If These Walls Could Talk†with hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss on Wednesday, October 11th, 2023 at 2 PM ET live from the infamous Pangea Restaurant. Wendy Stuart is an…
Liverpool’s Curtis Jones celebrates scoring their side’s second goal of the game during the Premier League match at the King Power Stadium, Leicester. Picture date: Monday May 15, 2023.Tim Goode | Pa Images | Getty ImagesFor U.S. investors looking to score an investment in a European soccer club, some of the focus is shifting toward the clubs with lower valuations and typically not in the marquee tier of the sport overseas.Some investors, particularly in the U.S., are shifting toward a so-called multi-club model, or investing in smaller clubs with lower valuations, as they try to take a piece of the…
Formed within wells indented into the stack of two different layered materials (a monolayer semiconductor and an anti-ferromagnetic crystal), the chiral quantum light emissions rise up out of the material and could be used for quantum information and communication applications. (Courtesy: Los Alamos National Laboratory) A new nanoscale device based on stacks of two-dimensional materials can not only generate a stream of single photons but can also control their chirality, or circular polarization, without the need for an applied magnetic field. Since manipulating a photon’s polarization state is a way to encode information in it, the advance could be important…
Refresh for latest…: Just as it came in lower than hoped for domestically, Universal/Blumhouse/Morgan Creek’s The Exorcist: Believer didn’t fully convert overseas audiences, summoning a $17.9M international box office debut for $45.1M global. The R-rated David Gordon Green-directed reboot/sequel did see some of its 52 launch markets give it a No. 1 start, while in like-for-likes, the bow is above M3GAN, Evil Dead Rise, Scream VI and Smile. (As regards the latter, recall that it legged out with terrific holds, so the comparison may not stick down the line since scores on Believer are not good, and Taylor Swift is…
by Trevor Kimball, October 7, 2023(Photo: Michael Lavine/FOX) The residents of a certain small town are moving on. FOX has cancelled Welcome to Flatch so there won’t be a third season. The second season finished airing in February. A mockumentary comedy series, the Welcome to Flatch TV show stars Holmes, Sam Straley, Seann William Scott, Aya Cash, Jaime Pressly, Taylor Ortega, Krystal Smith, and Justin Linville. When a documentary crew sets out to explore the lives, dreams, and concerns of residents in a small American town, they stumble upon the midwestern town of Flatch. The community is made up of…
WASHINGTON — The head of the Space Development Agency — a U.S. Space Force organization that uses unconventional procurement methods to acquire satellites and build a space network — is pushing back at critics who presumably don’t want the military acquisition culture to change, SDA’s director Derek Tournear said in a recent social media post. “Recently, I was told to stop playing the role of ‘bad cop’ on behalf of the Space Development Agency and our mission. It was suggested that I might damage relationships among my peers,” Tournear wrote. Established just four years ago, SDA is moving ahead with an…
Vivo has launched its new software update, the Funtouch OS 14, which is based on the recently launched Android 14. The company has also confirmed a list of smartphones that are scheduled to receive the update over the coming few months – including both Vivo and Iqoo handsets. The update introduces a significant number of upgrades and new features over the preceding software. Starting in October, the rolling out of the Funtouch OS 14 Beta version is spread over the next few months leading up to April 2024.Smooth Envision is a new feature introduced with Funtouch OS 14 that claims…
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 22, 2023 in Washington.Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesU.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that it is not clear there was any involvement by Iran in the weekend attack by Hamas on Israel.Iran has long been a supporter of Hamas, the group designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization, whose attack on Saturday left at least 250 in Israel dead.”We have not yet seen evidence that Iran directed or was behind this particular attack, but there is certainly a…
Play video content Everybody wants a piece of Maluma these days — but that doesn’t mean he wants folks going for a handful of the goods … evidenced here in this video. Check out this clip of the Colombian singer that made the rounds this weekend — it shows him walking through a lower-level crowd during his concert at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Montville, CT … getting pretty close to adoring fans, and maybe even too close. As you can see, as people reach out to touch him … somebody appears to reach for his crotch — and it…
Passengers look at a departure board at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 7, 2023, as flights are canceled because of the Hamas surprise attacks. Gil Cohen-magen | AFP | Getty ImagesSeveral airlines suspended service to Israel this weekend after surprise attacks by Hamas and Israeli retaliation left hundreds dead.United Airlines, Delta Air Lines and American Airlines each scrubbed service to Tel Aviv. United Flight 954, which departed San Francisco Friday night for Israel, turned back near Greenland, according to flight-tracker FlightAware.Lufthansa Group said all of its flights, including those on Swiss International Air Lines and Austrian Airlines,…
One of Hollywood’s most beloved couples, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, seem to have a perfectly-balanced relationship—particularly when they take turns lovingly roasting each other on social media. The pair began dating in 2011 and were married about a year later. That might seem fast, but they’d been friends for a while and could simply no longer deny the chemistry between them.More than a decade later, Lively and Reynolds remain happily married and share three daughters—James, Inez, and Betty—and their fourth baby, whose name and gender haven’t been shared yet. Here, the complete history of Lively and Reynolds’ love story.July…
If something doesn’t seem right, Mercer is on it and will uncover the truth come rain or come shine. If there’s anything The Irrational has proved in the two episodes it has aired, it’s not dull as far as the cases it tackles are concerned. One can expect an exciting premise for every case, and the investigation until a solution is found is also quite interesting. The show doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to flesh out most of its characters, but as long as they keep delivering these kinds of cases, it is worth dedicating someone’s 10 p.m.…