New Pompeii excavations reveal frescoes & mosaics about the Trojan War . “The flickering light of the lamps had the effect of making the images appear to move, especially after a few glasses of good Campanian wine.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Steve Buscemi, Thandiwe Newton, Christopher Lloyd, Billy Piper, and more join Netflix hit as new cast members and guest stars
Nikki Glaser was one of the highlights of Netflix’s Tom Brady roast, eviscerating the NFL superstar with jokes about his divorce from Gisele Bündchen and her reported new romance with Jiu-Jitsu instructor Joaquim Valente. But Glaser didn’t get to deliver every punchline she
Police in Slovakia are investigating more than 1,000 bomb threats to schools and other institutions.
The United States announced Tuesday it had brought back two dozen Western citizens, half of them Americans, from Islamic State prison camps in northeastern Syria where tens of thousands have languished. The repatriation is the largest ever of US citizens and comes as rights
Student protests to demand that universities break ties with Israel over the Gaza war spread across Europe on Tuesday, with police breaking up demonstrations in the Netherlands, Germany, and France. Students at some elite European universities, inspired by ongoing
Drake's OVO store located on London's famed Carnaby Street has been vandalized with lyrics from a Kendrick Lamar diss song aimed at the Canadian superstar.
Chimpanzees continue to learn and hone their skills well into adulthood, a capacity that might be essential for the evolution of complex and varied tool use, according to a study published May 7 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Mathieu Malherbe of the Institute of
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is delivering a press briefing on Tuesday afternoon. President Biden earlier in the day spoke at a ceremony for the Holocaust Days of Remembrance. Biden condemned those who he characterized as having already forgotten the horrors
What happens when you stick your finger in the closing trunk—or, in this case, the “ frunk ”—of a Tesla Cybertruck ? It’s a question that way too many Cybertruck owners are asking themselves these days. And a new video posted to YouTube appears to show the most grotesque answer
The findings of this paper provide a guiding direction for game producers to express claims in their products, and inform the authorities in communicating ideologies through video games.
The present piece is part of a series of articles that summarize the efforts of a university professor to provide the necessary frameworks for designing students' early years.
Panera Bread’s Charged Lemonade will soon be obsolete. Read more...
The Big Apple is home to the most millionaires in the world -- despite the recent exodus of wealth spurred on by the pandemic.
International Wrestling Syndicate, which celebrates its 25th anniversary, is set to be the subject of a new feature documentary from the Generation Iron Network. Vlad Yudin (“Jeremy Scott: The People’s Designer”) will direct the documentary film about the Canadian wrestling
Movie theaters will host individual listening events across North America on May 16 and May 17
On May 7, Xbox announced that it was closing four studios : Arkane Austin (Redfall), Tango Gameworks (Hi-Fi Rush), Alpha Dog Games (Mighty Doom), and support studio Roundhouse Games. The news is yet another example of Xbox— which has spent billions buying up studios —cutting
Altimeter Capital Chair and CEO Brad Gerstner said he has taken some chips off the table after this year's strong run in technology stocks.
The super-caffeinated, sugary lemonade drinks contain more caffeine than Red Bull and Monster combined. It is no longer on Panera Bread's menu.
Disney said it will release no more than three Marvel movies and up to two Disney+ shows each year as it focuses on “quality” following criticism that the company has been cranking out too many mediocre superhero flicks. The Mouse House said Tuesday its Disney+ and Hulu
Hit-Boy, The Alchemist and Big Hit have announced via an 'Office Space' inspired trailer they are joining forces to release collab album 'Black & Whites'.
Nompilo Simanje is a lawyer by profession and is the Africa Advocacy and Partnerships Lead at the International Press Institute . She leads the IPI Africa Program which monitors and collects data on press freedom threats and violations across the continent, including threats to
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Research from the University of Canterbury explores the crucial role emotions play in behavior change and decision-making when acting sustainably.
Elaborate observations reveal the structural specialization within an epithelial layer covering oocytes in the Japanese pill-millipede, Hyleoglomeris japonica, considered absent in Myriapoda. Comparing this result with previous descriptions suggested that metabolic activities
The head of the House Democratic Caucus defended the right of Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) to remain in Congress while his criminal trial runs its course, saying the Texas Democrat — recently indicted on bribery and foreign influence charges — is presumed innocent “just like
Turning curbside carparks into cycling lanes could improve city accessibility and livability without affecting business revenue, University of Queensland research has found.
Meta’s Oversight Board will review three Facebook posts that included the phrase “from the river to the sea” that the social media company ruled to keep up on the platform, the board announced Tuesday. The phrase pre-dates the current conflict, but the three posts under
Distant galaxies, interacting galaxies, whose shape has been forged by the mutual gravitational influence, but also galaxies forming groups and clusters, kept together by gravity—they are the protagonists of three new images released by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST).
Peaceful transfers of power aren’t to be taken for granted.
Amid a backdrop of spring birds chirping away the morning, Apple announced a bevy of updates to its iPad lineup in a streamed presentation. The company has launched a new family of iPad Airs with an updated processor and double the storage, plus two new iPad Pros with
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is calling on former President Trump to formally debate him during the upcoming Libertarian Party convention. Kennedy, an independent who considered joining the Libertarian Party after a failed primary bid as a Democrat, wants to take on Trump during the
“Green Book” director Peter Farrelly will take audiences behind-the-scenes on the unlikely and tumultuous production of “Rocky,” the boxing drama that catapulted Sylvester Stallone into stardom. “I Play Rocky,” the upcoming film, will follow Stallone long before his action hero
In recent years, a growing number of students have embraced scientific computation as an integral component of their graduate research. Yet since many of them are new to the field, they often have little to no coding experience, or any prior knowledge of computational tools.
The first crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner spaceship will have to wait until at least Friday to give ground teams time to analyze a malfunctioning rocket valve, pushing back a high-stakes test trip to the International Space Station.
