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15 hours ago · A record number of tornadoes have ripped through West Virginia this year, leaving behind a trail of damage, as states east of the Mississippi River experience tornadoes more frequently in part due to climate change. With 18 tornadoes, 2024 has been West Virginia’s most active season since 1998, when 14 tornadoes touched down in the state.
1 day ago · 17. It's not “Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to work we go" in "Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs." It's actually "Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's home from work we go." Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Speaking of, it's kind of a Mandela effect that it's called Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs instead of Snow White and The Seven Dwarves, right?
15 hours ago · Journalism in Prison is Risky and Constantly Under Threat. After nearly three decades of writing behind bars, I know how important it is to shed light on what happens inside prisons. I’ve spent most of my 27 years incarcerated in California practicing journalism. I’ve witnessed and experienced state attempts to censor and silence prisoners ...
5 days ago · In 1954, a gaggle of Hollywood VIPs boarded a DC-4 airliner headed from Hawaii to California. Their troubled flight made a bit of film history — in Cinemascope, no less.
15 hours ago · There was a big budget gap looming, and advocates in New York very successfully called attention to the state’s leadership of public transit in New York City. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority [MTA], which runs public transit, among other things, in New York City, is a creature of the state; the governor appoints the majority of its ...
5 days ago · A review of The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin, the third and final book in the Broken Earth series of science fantasy novels.
4 days ago · In late May, one of Sasan Sadrizadeh’s doctoral students stumbled upon a paper with data directly plagiarized from his previous work. Sadrizadeh, a researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, was the last author on “Supply-demand side management of a building energy system driven by solar and biomass in Stockholm: A smart integration with minimal cost and emission ...
