A 'Parade of Planets' Is Coming. Here's How to Watch This Sky Show

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  673 words  |  Martina Birk

One of the solar system’s most fortuitous conga lines occurred in the late 1970s, when the four gas giants—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—formed a neat cosmic column, allowing the Voyager spacecraft to make flybys of all of them. The twin ships performed dazzling science, returning some of the best pictures ever taken of the worlds and discovering moons and rings never before seen. Things won’t be quite as history-making on June 3, 2024, but they will be eye-popping all the same. [Read More]

Blake Crouch on New Book 'Upgrade' and Future of Sci-Fi

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1229 words  |  Kelle Repass

In 2019, Blake Crouch published Recursion, a sci-fi thriller about a neurological disease that inflicts memories upon people of lives that are not their own. Before that, he introduced readers to a physics professor who is kidnapped and then catapulted into alternate universes in his 2016 novel Dark Matter. Both books bring to life the type of technology that, in imagined worlds, would have the capability to change humankind. So when Crouch set out to write about the very real genetic modification technology CRISPR, he knew it would be a different prospect. [Read More]

Breaking Down the End of Swarm

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2402 words  |  Billy Koelling

Spoiler alert: This article discusses, in depth, the final two episodes of Amazon’s Swarm. If you’ve finished streaming Swarm, Donald Glover and Janine Nabers’ Amazon horror comedy about a young woman’s murderous obsession with a pop star who is clearly meant to mirror Beyoncé, allow me to welcome you to the land of Huh?! You did, after all, just watch Dominique Fishback’s serial-killer stan Dre—full name: Andrea Greene, now living under the alias Toni—ride off in the back of a limousine with her idol Ni’jah. [Read More]

Can Whites Say the N-Word?

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1295 words  |  Martina Birk

Illustration by Alexander Ho for TIME We are stepping into deeply emotional territory here. No word in the American lexicon has the emotional force of nigger and yet its colloquial use grows as some young whites (and some Latinos and some Asians) believe it’s as innocuous as they decide it is. Words evolve but there is no new consensus on what nigga and nigger mean in the way the word gay turned in the 20th century from meaning happy to homosexual. [Read More]

Cardi B Described Her Prom by Making Faces and Sounds

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  190 words  |  Kelle Repass

April 10, 2018 11:28 AM EDT When Cardi B first appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last year, the late night funnyman was rendered speechless by Cardi’s gregarious enthusiasm, much to the delight of his fans. On Monday night, however, Cardi returned to The Tonight Show as not just a guest, but as the show’s first co-host. During her time with Fallon, the Invasion of Privacy rapper proved to be a charming co-host, which might have been most fittingly demonstrated when she helped to interview comedian John Mulaney, which led to an anecdote about her prom that consisted of almost no storytelling and all monosyllabic answers and meaningful looks. [Read More]

Carol and The Price of Salt: True History Behind the Story

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1070 words  |  Patria Henriques

In December 1948, Patricia Highsmith—then twenty-seven years old and fetching in an offbeat style, razor thin, tall, usually dressed in a white Oxford shirt from Brooks Brothers—was working as a temporary salesclerk in the toy department at Bloomingdale’s in Manhattan. It was a rather bleak day, with showers making the mild temperatures less pleasant. In any case, it was a day that she would never forget. A tall blonde woman in her late thirties, reeking of class, wearing a mink coat, approached the counter to inquire about a toy for her daughter. [Read More]

CM Punk, Randy Orton Returns Boost Monday Night Raw Ratings 29%

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  314 words  |  Patria Henriques

The returns of both CM Punk and Randy Orton saw the ratings for WWE‘s “Monday Night Raw” rise by nearly a third over last week. The Best in the World and the Apex Predator helped the “Raw” viewership rise to 1.88 million viewers, up 29% over last week and 13% over the comparable show a year ago. That is the highest viewership for a “Raw” episode since August 7. In addition, this week’s episode drew 863,000 viewers in the adults 18-49 demographic, up 34% over last week and 64% over last year. [Read More]

Counting Down New Years Eve: Whos in it the Most?

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  829 words  |  Patria Henriques

A few weeks ago I was walking along a New York subway platform when I noticed the movie poster for Garry Marshall’s New Year’s Eve. It’s the follow-up (same director, same writer, same producers) to 2010 Valentine’s Day. Both are pretty much the same film, a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Holiday minus the mad-cap. Star-stuffed and ostensibly full of good cheer, the pair are actually extremely cynical — “If we just put a ton of actors on screen, and then tie them all together with a holiday conceit and then put all their names on a poster, people will just come, right? [Read More]

CRIME: Trapped Tong | TIME

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  519 words  |  Kelle Repass

The Hip Sing Tong is a business, social and fraternal secret organization of American-Chinesewhose several thousand members usually get themselves into the papers only by periodic squabblings with their rivals, the On Leongs. Last week, the Hip Sing Tong made news in another way entirely. Simultaneously one night 50 agents of the Treasury Department’s Narcotics Bureau conducted a nationwide raid in Chicago, San Francisco, Butte, Pittsburgh and New York. Result was a motley crew of 23 suspects who, according to the Narcotics Bureau’s New York head, Major Garland Williams, had used the Tong as the framework of a nationwide narcotics ring doing $1,000,000 worth of business a year. [Read More]

Daddy Freeze's partner Benedicta alleges she was assaulted by her ex-husband, shares medical report

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  222 words  |  Tandra Barner

According to the medical report shared via her Instagram page on Monday, March 8, 2021, she was "presented to our centre with complaints of neck pain, headache and voice hoarseness thought to have been due to a scuffle with her ex-husband." She made the revelation known via her while celebrating International Women's Day. ADVERTISEMENT "We should be observing a moment of silence for the fearless women, who fought to the death for the rights of women and children and raising our glasses to a toast, to all the strong women that have fought and continue to fight for the abolishment of archaic practices and the reformation of laws that have enslaved women for decades in unison," [Read More]