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Getty Images For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Regulators are reportedly eager to review the data from a two-dose vaccine regimen for young children, with hopes of approving an…
All love bridges the immense expanse between lonelinesses, becomes the telescope that brings another life closer and, in consequence, also magnifies the significance of their entire world. A master of metaphor — that handle on the door to new worlds…
The big one? That depends of what whets your whistle, but I’m personally really excited about JEEN-YUS, Netflix’s documentary on Kanye West. But Netflix is also releasing its THE CUPHEAD SHOW based on the video game released a few years…
Joni Mitchell has turned up the volume on demands for music and podcast streamer Spotify to address misinformation on its platform. Joining protests by a group of medical professionals and by rocker Neil Young, the iconic singer-songwriter says she plans…
Jason Momoa is joining the cast of the Fast and Furious franchise, the Fast Saga tweeted Friday. “The Fast Fam keeps getting bigger. Welcome, Jason Momoa. #F10,” the tweet said. Fast Saga Fast and Furious 10 and 11 are set to…
In the spring of 1936 — while waiting for his beloved to arrive from London for their wedding, contemplating enlisting in the Spanish Civil War, and germinating the ideas that would bloom into Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four — Orwell…
The aim of the Academy, “an honor society of the country’s leading architects, artists, composers, and writers,” is “to foster and sustain an interest in Literature, Music, and the Fine Arts.” It does so by, among other things, “administering over…
She was thirty. But before any portal of opportunity had opened, she too fell ill. At nineteen, Virginia was diagnosed with tuberculosis — the infectious disease that killed one of every seven humans born between the dawn of our species…
Lisa Eadicicco/CNET Slightly different numbers from Counterpoint Research, also released Thursday, showed similar results: Samsung in first place with 271 million phones shipped during 2021, Apple in second with 237.9 million, Xiaomi with 190 million, Oppo with 143.2 million and…
If your philosophy department has been or will be interviewing applicants to its graduate programs, please let us know in the comments. Recent updates posted at the Grad Cafe by prospective graduate students in philosophy have mentioned the scheduling of admissions…
Or is it because the editors of, and referees for, these journals tend to render negative judgments about the submissions they see in these areas? (And if so, are these judgments about quality, or fit, or what?) Once set up,…