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I took my first puff on a cigarette before puberty had even reared its ugly head. At the age of 11, I was camping in the garden with a family friend when I begged him to let me try one of the cigs he kept carefully hidden from his parents. As I took my first […]
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Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic reports that Commissioner Rob Manfred will suspend Uniform Employee Contracts on May 1st. Doing so will enable teams to reduce the pay of or outright furlough managers, coaches, scouts and some front office staff. The contracts contain similar langue to that contained within player contracts that allowed them to be […]
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Though they’ve been big in Japan for decades, Covid-19 has accelerated Australians’ curiosity about ‘alternative toileting devices’ Before the Great Toilet Paper Shortage, alternative means of washing were not top of mind for most Australians. We laughed at the eccentricity of the French with their peculiar, rather-too-intimately fastidious bidets. Then, in March, Google searches for […]
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The U.S. stock market has rebounded swiftly despite a raft of terrible economic news, driven by a massive boost from the Federal Reserve, hopes of a successful reopening of the economy and possible coronavirus treatments, as well as investors’ fear-of-missing-out. But not everyone is buying the bounce. The S&P 500 .SPX closed on Friday at […]
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Nvidia’s GeForce RTX GPUs have been out for quite some time now, and though more and more games have begun to support the real-time ray tracing tech they enable, their value proposition is still a bit shaky. Nvidia wants to sweeten the pot a bit now, though, with its new “RTX Voice” plugin. This plugin […]
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Mum-of-10 Courtney Rogers has not been without a bump for more than nine months since getting married to husband Chris Rogers, 32, in 2008. The couple, who have six boys and four girls aged between nine months and 10 years, also homeschool their brood. They live on a 12-acre plot in Santa Fe county, New […]
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Tottenham Hotspur’s South Korean striker Son Heung-min began his three-week military training at a marines boot camp on Monday (April 20), a report said, with the Premier League on hold over the coronavirus pandemic. All able-bodied South Korean men are obliged to serve in the military for nearly two years, making up the bulk of […]
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We’ve been asked – and we’ve asked ourselves – why Covid-19 seems to be impacting Princess so heavily.” Thus spoke Jan Swartz, president of Princess Cruises, in a video posted on social media in mid-March. She looks sad-eyed and baffled into the camera: “We don’t really know.” Perhaps, she muses, the problem is something to […]
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The Seattle-based e-commerce giant has been under scrutiny over its working practices on both sides of the Atlantic since the start of the pandemic, with workers raising concerns over the risks of contagion while fielding shipments. U.S. unions and elected officials have called on Amazon to close down buildings while in France worker representatives took […]
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Launching the project in the midst of a global pandemic may seem almost “disrespectful” (his words, not mine), but according to Wolfram, he also thought it could serve as an “intellectual distraction.” And remember, Newton conducted some of his best work while under quarantine during the bubonic plague. Perhaps today’s modern minds – and by […]
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