The Sympathizer’s New Take on Vietnam

When the author Viet Thanh Nguyen was growing up in California as a refugee from the Vietnam War, depictions of that conflict were omnipresent in American culture. Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, and many other films portrayed American heroes fighting their way through a dystopian backwater and then dealing with the psychic toll of defeat back home. Very f…

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Lady Gaga Sparks Engagement Rumors With Boyfriend Michael Polansky With Applause-Worthy Diamond Ring

Why Lady Gaga Has Been "So Private" Lately on Social Media

Lady Gaga's new bling is far from the shallow. 

The Star is Born actress debuted a massive rock on her left ring finger while spotted out in Los Angeles April 7, sparking rumors that she is engaged to boyfriend Michael Polansky

While visiting…

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Electric Airplanes Could Be the Future of Battery Technology

Richard Wang is trying to bring lighter, more powerful batteries to the world. The best way to do that, he says, is by electrifying airplanes.

Wang is the founder and CEO of battery startup Cuberg, which is trying to use new, advanced chemical combinations to develop better batteries than the lithium-ion cells that serve as workhorses for laptops, cell phones, and electric vehicles. Ther…

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How Pittsburgh Is Leading the U.S. Back to the Moon

It’s not easy to get from North Lincoln Avenue to the Lake of Death. North Lincoln Avenue is in Pittsburgh; the Lake of Death is on the moon—meaning there’s a tidy 385,000 km (over 239,000 mi.) between them. But before the end of the year, that gap should close—thanks to a modest company in a modest building just a third of a mile northwest of the Pittsburgh Steelers&rsq…

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Bedbug Outbreak Takes Over Paris During Fashion Week

Away from the glamor of Paris’ ongoing Fashion Week, French officials have warned of a “widespread” outbreak of bedbugs across public spaces in the capital. With tourists expected to flock to the city next year for the 2024 Olympics, concerns about health and safety implications are rising. 

Transport Minister Clement Beaune has vowed to “reassure and protect” the public by…

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Gas Prices and Energy Bills Are Going Up. Will COP26 Help Bring Them Down Again-

Your energy bills are probably going up. The average price of gasoline in the U.S. is currently $3.38 a gallon, 56% more than a year ago. This winter, the roughly half of U.S. homes heated by natural gas could see as much as a 30% hike in their bills and increases will be even steeper for the few that use propane and heating oil.

U.S. consumers are far from alone in the energy price crunc…

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Remembering Stephen Hawking’s Greatest Scientific Accomplishment — and My Famous Bet Against Him

I’m glad to write about Stephen Hawking for Time because Stephen spent much of his scientific career thinking and writing about timeคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Time was his thing.

Stephen studied time from the perspective of Einstein’s theory of gravitation, the g…

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Nuclear Power Is COP26’s Quiet Controversy

In the midst of the COP26 climate talks yesterday, U.S. and Romanian officials stepped aside for a session in the conference’s Blue Zone, establishing an agreement for U.S. company NuScale to build a new kind of modular nuclear power plant in the southeastern European country. The company’s plants—designed to be quickly scaled up or down based on need—are intended to be …

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The U.S. Is Requiring More Efficient Home Appliances

Under the Biden administration, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed a series of stricter energy standards on Friday that they said would update regulations for household appliances, and slash greenhouse gas emissions while saving Americans around $3.5 billion annually on utility billsคำพูดจาก สล็อตเ…

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The Coronavirus Pandemic’s Outsized Effect on Women’s Mental Health Around the World

COVID-19 is a devilishly versatile disease, attacking all manner of body systems and doing all manner of damage—to the lungs, the heart, the liver, the kidneys. Though it doesn’t attack the mind directly, the pandemic the virus has caused has been devastating to mental health, and in many cases, the most vulnerable group is women.

In a new study conducted by CARE, a non-profit…

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