Taylor Townsend capped a whirlwind week at the US Open with one of the performances of her career, upsetting No 5 seed Mirra Andreeva 7-5, 6-2 in 76 minutes under the lights on Arthur Ashe Stadium to reach the fourth round in New York for the first time since 2019. The 29-year-old American, ranked outside…
Movies about the relationship between a person and one of God’s creatures is becoming a virtual genre of its own. My Penguin Friend, Penguin Lessons, The Starling and Penguin Bloom are recent examples, the latter starring Naomi Watts who was also on hand in Telluride last year with another similar story, this time with a…
Problems with passenger screening led to a disruption in international flight service to and from Nuuk, a snag in the island’s quest to attract more tourists.
President Trump’s repeated claims about having “solved” the India-Pakistan war infuriated Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. And that was only the beginning.
When I was a teenager, I was—shockingly, I know—deeply nerdy. At a science-fiction convention, I bought a button that read, “186,282 miles/second: Not just a good idea, it’s the law.” It was poking fun at a highway speed limit slogan from the time; the speed listed is the velocity of light (forgive me, this was…
Every platform wants to be the place you hang with friends — even Spotify as of this week — so it’s apparently time for TikTok to shore up its direct messaging feature! It told TechCrunch that over the next few weeks, all users should see voice messages and image sharing options arrive in their DMs….
It’s finally here, the season opener. Vanderbilt hosts Charleston Southern, and let’s just say Vanderbilt is a heavy favorite. How much of a blowout will Saturday be? Let’s ask the Anchor of Gold writing staff. As FCS teams go, Charleston Southern is bad. Like “picked to finish in last place in the not-particularly-good OVC-Big South…
Pre-pandemic, Queen Elizabeth II was already moving over to Windsor Castle, a relocation born out of necessity given the costly renovation project for Buckingham Palace. It’s a decade-long restoration, renovation and modernization for a drafty, outdated old palace, and the whole project costs the British taxpayers £369 million. Currently, King Charles is still based out…
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that most of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs are illegal, striking a massive blow to the core of his aggressive trade policy. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held in a 7-4 ruling that the law Trump invoked when he granted his most expansive tariffs —…
The hallucinogen psilocybin is produced in hundreds of species of magic mushroom microgen@gmail.com A single dose of the psychedelic compound psilocybin could be enough to remodel connections of specific brain networks, which may explain how the drug helps to treat some mental health conditions. Psychedelic drugs like psilocybin, which is produced in hundreds of species…
