Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks during an interview at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in New York September 25, 2013. The CGI was created by Bill Clinton in 2005 to gather global leaders to discuss solutions to the world's problems. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson Former President Bill Clinton says Democrats have a shot of holding Congress […]
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The Morning Show Review: Apple’s Big Swing Is Preachy, Jumbled Sorkin Lite
Apple certainly brought out the big guns for its first major TV offering, with Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell all starring in the daytime TV-set drama The Morning Show, debuting this Friday, Nov. 1 along with the Apple TV+ streaming service. (I’ve seen the first three episodes.) How could any show starring those […]
Dance Your PhD’s 2018 winner mixes superconductivity and swing dancing
Cooper pairs and impurities come to life in a superconductor and dance their little particle hearts out in Pramodh Yapa’s “Superconductivity: The Musical.” Pairs of swing-dancing electrons do the Lindy Hop in “Superconductivity: The Musical,” the winning video for this year’s geektastic Dance Your PhD contest. Pramodh Yapa, a graduate student at the University of Alberta, […]
India humiliated by England swing kings in Lord’s thrashing
JAMES Anderson and Stuart Broad shared eight wickets before Chris Woakes completed a brilliant return to international duty with the final blow as England thrashed India by an innings and 159 runs in the second Test at Lord’s on Sunday. India, the world’s top-ranked Test side, failed to cope with overcast and swing-friendly conditions in […]
‘Frustrated’ boss to swing the axe
NRL boss Todd Greenberg is expected to swing the axe following Friday night’s horrific display during Cronulla’s clash with Canberra. The Raiders’ hopes of making the NRL finals were crushed after two controversial decisions were made by the referees and the bunker. Number one referee Gerard Sutton and touch judge Rick McFarlane now find themselves […]
EA’s Play to Give charity campaign is in full swing
Today marks the beginning of Electronic Arts’s third annual Play to Give campaign. In addition to donating $ 1 million to three charities, the developer is running in-game events in several of its games to raise awareness and give players rewards for cooperative play. The campaign will run until 11:59 p.m. Pacific on June 3. […]
Russian Twitter bots tried to swing the UK election for Corbyn, investigation claims
Rob Stothard / Stringer / Getty Images Russia attempted to influence the UK’s 2017 General Election, an investigation by The Sunday Times states. The investigation made in conjunction with Swansea University found 6,500 Twitter accounts run by bots masquerading as English women. 80% of the automated accounts were set up during the weeks before the […]
‘Swing Kids’ Revisited: Does the Nazi Jitterbug Drama for Kids Still Hold Up?
(Welcome to Nostalgia Bomb, a series where we take a look back on beloved childhood favorites and discern whether or not they’re actually any good. In this edition: a look back at Swing Kids, the early ’90s drama about dancing in the face of Nazism starring a young Christian Bale). For about three months in 1998, everyone […]
Kickstarter Product Lets You Swing Through the Air Like Spider-Man and Will Possibly Kill You
Have you ever wanted to swing through the air like radioactive superhero Spider-Man? What about death – are you interested in that? A new Spider-Man Kickstarter product might give you the chance to achieve both of those dreams! I’m at a bit of a loss here. There’s a new Kickstarter page for something called “Air-Ropes: […]
Saudis ready to swing oil market into deficit
Saudi Arabia is undergoing a truly seismic shift in its economy, politics, and society, all thanks to the oil price crash of 2014. Read more Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, commonly referred to as MBS, would likely not have had the opportunity to initiate the sweeping changes envisaged in Vision 2030 had it not been […]