Month: April 2023

Have you ever wanted to visit space? Reading public astronomer Philip Plait’s Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Universe is the next best thing. Beginning with that closest rock, the moon, Plait describes at length what it would feel like to land on the lunar surface, from the bizarre sensation of shuffle-walking because
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Photography courtesy of SimonsIncluding new leak-proof swimwear from Knix. By Sarah Mariotti Date April 14, 2023 Facebook Twitter The new Édito by Simons drop is a collection of quiet luxury Photography courtesy of Simons Hot off the heels of its successful debut, Simons boutiques are rolling out a second Édito collection. The assortment is spring-focused
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By Howard Bloom On Wednesday April 12th, NPR announced that it will quit Twitter. It will take down all 52 of its Twitter accounts. Why?  Because Twitter has taken the label it uses for state-manipulated propaganda channels like Russia’s Russia Today and China’s CCTV—“state affiliated media”– and has applied it to NPR. Implying that NPR
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An exchange of more than 800 prisoners linked to Yemen’s long-running war began on Friday, the International Committee for the Red Cross said. Around 318 detainees were released on Friday, with a total of 869 expected to be released across a three-day operation. Dozens of former prisoners were greeted by family members, a marching band
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At least one in every seven schools in eastern Ukraine was damaged or destroyed during the first year of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Sky News can reveal. In a new report, shared exclusively with Sky News, the Centre for Information Resilience has verified 381 separate incidents in which Ukrainian schools, universities, orphanages and nurseries were damaged
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“She looked like a soccer mom,” Kody Brown once joked on Sister Wives of meeting then-single mom Robyn in 2009. “She had a van, three kids and was divorced. I thought, ‘I didn’t need a van, a divorced woman, and three kids in my life—that’s just trouble.'” Nearly a decade and a half on, though, they’re still
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