An Unusual Soccer Finale in Italy Reveals Libya’s Frailties
With two governments, and two soccer leagues, Libya is holding its soccer championship in Italy for a second year. Volatile politics and fans follow.
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What Are Light Echoes, and Why Do They Matter?
When I was a kid, I sometimes played basketball on a schoolyard court next to a brick wall. Bouncing the ball, I’d notice its sound repeated a split second later from the wall’s direction. It sounded a little different, but it was clearly the same noise the ball made when it hit the blacktop, just…
The subtle art of correcting your boss
Four winning strategies for saving a more senior leader from a mistake—without tanking your career in the process. Unless you’re at the very top of the food chain, you have to do a certain amount of managing upward, where you are trying to influence the decisions of the people above you in the org chart….
Clayton Kershaw outduels Max Scherzer in Dodgers’ win over Blue Jays
They’ve each played 18 respective big-league seasons. They’ve combined for nearly 6,500 strikeouts and 436 career wins. They each have two World Series titles, and three Cy Young Awards. And one day, they’ll each have plaques in Cooperstown, future first-ballot Hall of Famers who defined their generation of pitching. For Clayton Kershaw and Max Scherzer,…
“They told Ashwin, ‘Come South and do an action film’”
Director Ashwin Kumar, producer Shilpaa Dhawan, Chaluve Gowda of Homebale Films and eminent distributor Anil Thadani attended the success press meet of their surprise animated blockbuster, Mahavatar Narsimha. Usually, film events are held in five-star hotels. But the success press conference of this devotional film was held at Mumbai’s ISKCON Temple. Mahavatar Narsimha ends with…
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Zelensky Rejects Trump’s Suggestion That Ukraine Swap Territory With Russia
The Ukrainian president’s blunt comments risk angering Mr. Trump, who has made a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia one of his signature foreign policy goals.
Two sneaky viruses may be messing with honeybee flight
Honeybees routinely battle infectious fungi, bacteria, mites and viruses Anthony Brown/Alamy Two seemingly innocuous viral infections in adult honeybees may be secretly insidious, meddling with the insects’ airborne athletics. One virus makes them fly faster, while the other pumps the brakes. Honeybees routinely battle infectious fungi, bacteria, mites and viruses – some of which can…
Sam Altman addresses ‘bumpy’ GPT-5 rollout, bringing 4o back, and the ‘chart crime’
During a Reddit ask-me-anything session on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and key members of the GPT-5 team were peppered with questions about the new model and requests to bring back its previous model, GPT-4o. They also asked Altman about the most embarrassing — and perhaps funniest — snafu in the presentation, the “chart crime.”…
WGA Expels Park Chan-wook & Don McKellar For Working During 2023 Strike
The Robert Downey Jr. produced and starring The Sympathizer came and went last year with a lot less fanfare than many expected due to the talent involved and the fact the miniseries was based on Viet Thanh Nguyen‘s Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name. However, some unexpected fallout from the Emmy-nominated Park Chan-wook…