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Keith’s 2025 Movie Year In Review
With every new year comes another opportunity to resent those who just happen to live in cities that are privy to press screenings, or any screening for that matter, but I digress. In addition to working as an editor for this website, it has been a particularly difficult year for yours truly so that sometimes meant not getting to certain…
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Well, we have the most cringe-inducing moment so far.
Olympics Jerk Watch is a long-running feature that subjectively rates the jerkiness (or lack thereof) of the Games’ biggest stars. Read more of Slate’s 2026 Olympics coverage here. Nominee: Sturla Holm Lægreid Home country: Norway Known for: Winning biathlon medals, cheating on his girlfriend, apologizing for cheating on his girlfriend Why he might be a jerk: On Tuesday at the Milan Cortina…
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Shared brainwave biomarker bridges mouse and human fragile X research
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: Numerous potential treatments for neurological conditions, including autism spectrum disorders, have worked well in lab mice but then disappointed in humans. What would help is a non-invasive, objective readout of treatment efficacy that is shared in…
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America the Fearful | Foreign Affairs
Shortly after U.S. special forces raided Caracas and captured the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro in early January, Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, offered a blunt justification for the Trump administration’s actions. “You can talk all you want about international niceties,” he said, “but we live in a world, in the real world… that is governed by…
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Harmony Korine Loves AI and Is Skeptical About a New Spring Breakers
Harmony Korine doesn’t do anything by the book. In fact, he doesn’t even read books. “Oh, I haven’t read a book in two or three decades,” Korine says, not proudly but matter-of-factly, but maybe also a little proudly. The iconoclastic Gummo and Spring Breakers director may be associated with earlier eras of outre cinema. But provocateurs never go away — they are just reborn…
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What to know about how the SAVE America Act could change voting
Ahead of the midterm elections, Republicans are again pushing for legislation that requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to vote. The Trump-backed Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or the SAVE America Act, seeks to address the president’s longstanding demands to “fix” U.S. elections that he says are “rigged” and “stolen,” despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud. “American citizens, and…
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Banks, health, transport services to be hit on Feb 12
New Delhi: Services related to electricity, banking, insurance, transport, health, as well as gas and water supply, are likely to be affected across the country on Thursday, February 12, due to a nationwide strike called by a joint forum of central trade unions. The general strike on February 12 is expected to see participation of 30 crore workers from various…
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Why Blockchain TPS Numbers Often Collapse in the Real World
Blockchain transactions per second (TPS) numbers are often treated as a performance gauge, but they don’t tell the full story of whether a network can scale in practice. Carter Feldman, founder of Psy Protocol and a former hacker, told Cointelegraph that TPS figures are often misleading because they ignore how transactions are actually verified and relayed across decentralized systems. “Many…
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Scientists discover how life experiences rewrite the immune system
The COVID-19 pandemic made one thing unmistakably clear: people can experience the same infection in dramatically different ways. Some develop mild symptoms, while others face severe illness. This wide range of outcomes raises a fundamental question. Why do two people exposed to the same pathogen respond so differently? A major part of the answer lies in differences in genetics (the…
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Global Strike Command’s Top General
The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. The head of U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) has downplayed the current significance of Chinese efforts to develop new long-range strike aircraft with more global reach. He said that China remains, at best, a regional bomber force, though it continues…
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