By 1969 student protests were raging across Japan, as anti-university, anti-war and anti-government movements mingled in strikes and classroom blockades. “Students were getting really violent,” Makoto Kubota recalls of Kyoto’s Doshisha University, leaving his studies in shambles. But when his quiet, magnetic fellow student Takashi Mizutani invited Kubota to the first gig by his band…
A strange object known as the “golden orb” puzzled scientists and captured public attention after it was collected during a 2023 NOAA expedition. More than two years later, researchers have finally identified what it is. The unusual golden mass, discovered at a depth of 3,250 meters (over 2 miles) in the Gulf of Alaska, turned…
Explorers sent a robot two miles under the ocean’s surface near Alaska to look for odd creatures, and unexpectedly struck gold. To be more specific, they found a golden blob, smooth and shiny with a perplexing hole in it, stuck to a rock on the seafloor. Was it coral? A sea sponge? An alien? No,…
by Jordan Harper A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE (Mulholland, 372 pp., $29) arrives on the heels of the drip-drip-drip of the Epstein files, with its juxtaposition of elite impunity and the exploitation of girls and women. Misogyny, abuse and skulduggery — perennial subjects in crime novels — are made fresh in this fiendish, gorgeously written descent into…
Toward the end of the first episode of Pluribus, Carol (Rhea Seehorn), a woman put in a bizarre and impossible scenario, asks a very straightforward question: “What the fuck is happening?” It’s something you’ll likely be asking yourself a lot while watching. I certainly did. But that ongoing sense of mystery, and the measured pace…
Nearly 40% of Nvidia’s second quarter revenue came from just two customers, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. On Wednesday, the chipmaker reported record revenue of $46.7 billion during the quarter that ended on July 27 — a 56% year-over-year increase largely driven by the AI data center boom. However, subsequent…
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Shorouk Express Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy preview how the day will play out in British politics. After Labour’s migration plans were announced yesterday, Sam and Anne discuss Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s rhetoric and its populist overtones. But how authentic is it? Also, the Tories launched their deportation bill in parliament…
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