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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain White people surveyed in a recent study indicated they would be more likely to confront those who post racist content on social media if their objective were to defend the norms for political discussions rather than to change the person's prejudiced beliefs. Communication professors Stewart M. Coles of the University…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeOlivia Laing wrote the book on loneliness. Over a decade ago, the British writer moved to New York City for the love of a man who then called it off. She stayed and sought out artists who anchored her solitude to the city. “I was possessed with a desire to find correlates,” she wrote in 2016’s The Lonely City, “physical evidence that other people had inhabited my state”. The book was…

Large amounts of the mineral are needed for electric car batteries, but getting it out of the ground and refining it often requires clearing rainforests and generating large amounts of carbon. Large amounts of the mineral are needed for electric car batteries, but getting it out of the ground and refining it often requires clearing rainforests and generating large amounts of carbon. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the…

Just a few hundred people of Chinese heritage still live in Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown. Many have been pushed out to cheaper and safer areas.Noah Sheidlower | CNBCPenny and Jack Lee, now married, grew up in the 1960s and 1970s among the thousands of people of Chinese heritage who lived in apartments lining the main stretches of Washington, D.C.'s bustling Chinatown."Chinatown was very bright, vibrant," Jack Lee recalled. "All of our recreations ended up being in the alleys of Chinatown." They felt it was a safe haven,…

‘Harry Potter’ star backs JK Rowling, vows to confront critics over trans issues ( Photo Credit – Facebook ; Movie Still ) ‘Harry Potter’ author J.K. Rowling has been backed by actor Jim Broadbent, 73, as he pledges to confront her critics “if it came to it.” The Oscar-winning actor, who played Horace Slughorn in three of the film adaptations of the famous book series, also said the abuse aimed at J.K., 57, was “really sad”, reports Mirror.co.uk. His comments come as it was revealed there will be a brand-new Harry…

SACRAMENTO —  The raft to Bannon Island does not inspire confidence. But Dyrone Woods climbed aboard the piece of crumbling Styrofoam secured to the remains of a wood pallet anyway. An atmospheric river was headed straight for the capital, prompting dire warnings about potentially deadly flooding and damaging high winds. Yet the raft, about the size of a refrigerator door, was his only way back to the tent where he has lived for five years, to his pit bull Bra Bra and his meager possessions.“It’s rough right now,” Woods…

Overnight, Twitter decided to fix a "legacy bug" affecting its Twitter Spaces that saw the whole service go down. This happened to be during a massive call discussing Elon Musk's decision to ban a bot that tracks his private jet and several high-profile journalists who reported on the story. It's sparked outcry on the platform following the controversial move. A lot has happened in a short space of time. Here's a quick rundown.BannedThere is (or should we say, was) an account on Twitter called 'ElonJet' which uses…

The past year was sobering for investors who poured money into Tesla Inc and rival electric vehicle startups that hoped to emulate Tesla CEO Elon Musk's success. As interest rates rose and financial markets gyrated, shares in many EV startups deflated. Rivian Automotive Inc, which had a higher market value than Ford Motor Co shortly after it went public in 2021, lost more than 70% of its value over the past year. Other EV startups fared worse. Electric van maker Arrival warned it could run out of cash in less than a…

BRISBANE, Australia—Every week, workers at one of Australia’s major airports spend hours searching the tarmac and terminals for a security threat that could bring down an airplane. The inspectors at Brisbane Airport, in Australia’s third-biggest city, are hunting for the keyhole wasp, an introduced species that builds nests in Pitot tubes—a crucial instrument on the fuselage that tells pilots how fast they are flying. The wasps, which build nests out of mud, can block a tube in as little as 20 minutes. They are smaller…

The days of easy subscriber growth in the streaming industry are over.Rivals abound, inflation is high, creating compelling content is expensive and consumers are increasingly willing to jump from service to service in search of a hot new show or movie. In the latest shake-up for the industry, Disney’s board of directors on Sunday replaced Chief Executive Bob Chapek with former Chairman and CEO Robert Iger. This month,…