Helped

In a moving new documentary on Christopher Reeve, Glenn Close sheds light on his close friendship with Robin Williams and speculates that the “Superman” star might have been able to help Williams near the end of his life, as he coped with a devastating form of dementia that was known to cause a decline in mental abilities and mobility. “I always felt that if Chris was still around, Robin would still be alive,” Close says in the film, “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story,” which recently premiered at the Sundance Film…

Early Tuesday morning, in Ontario, Canada, a car crashed when it slammed into a tree, injuring at least two. It’s a nightmare for the victims, but reports indicate that it could have been worse, since Apple crash-dection features, which are included in the Apple Watch and iPhones, sent alerts to police. In fact, according to a story from KTLA news, the “collision-alert technology was instrumental in helping officers locate and provide aid to the victims.” The report goes on to say that “the crash occurred just before 2…

Netflix said that user engagement with games on the service tripled in 2023. “ games still being small, and certainly not yet material relative to our film and series business, we’re pleased with this progress,” the company said in its earnings report on Tuesday. As an example, the company pointed to the addition of the Grand Theft Auto trilogy to the service last year, although it isn't clear how much the trilogy, which only arrived on Netflix on December 14, helped drive engagement in the final two weeks of the…

As new music launches go, the arrival of Lil Nas X’s “J Christ” single and video earlier this month was hardly blessed. The artwork that adorned the single — Lil Nas X strapped to a cross and being hoisted up by five women, an apocalyptic sky behind them — led to a predictable uproar from the religious front. So much so, in fact, that Lil Nas X posted a video on his socials explaining the imagery (“It was literally me saying I’m back like Jesus”) and apologizing for offending anyone with the song’s accompanying, pretty…

Sheryl Sandberg, who helped to transform Facebook from a tech startup into a digital advertising empire, will step down from the board of Meta, Facebook's parent company.“With a heart filled with gratitude and a mind filled with memories, I let the Meta board know that I will not stand for reelection this May,” Sandberg wrote in a Facebook post. Sandberg left Google to join Facebook in 2008, four years before the company went public. As the No. 2 executive at Meta under CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Sandberg also took a lot of…

Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music’s A list. This edition features backup bassist Billy Sherwood. If you saw Yes on the 1994 Talk tour and then again anytime during the…

Poor Matt Damon. Sure, the Oscar winner is one of the most successful actors around, having most recently starred in the Christopher Nolan awards juggernaut Oppenheimer. Conversely, he's so often the butt of the joke when it comes to his old Ocean's Eleven buddies George Clooney and Brad Pitt. The dashing duo has been known to play pranks on the Good Will Hunting star throughout their decades-spanning friendship, especially the notoriously mischievous Clooney, who memorably photobombed his pal while they were promoting…

In this graph, the orange line shows the global sea surface temperature throughout 2023. The other squiggles are previous years, with the uppermost dashed black line being the average between 1982 and 2011. The dark black line at upper left is where we’re starting out 2024. Notice it’s already at a sky-high level several months before temperatures typically peak. Even the record-breaking year of 2023 didn’t see these kinds of temperatures until late March and early April.The 2023 climate reports also note that Antarctic…

Radiation oncologist Vera Peters began her career studying treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She used techniques that had seen positive outcomes for Hodgkin’s to treat breast cancer patients. And she discovered a treatment that was equally effective and much less invasive than radical mastectomy, sparing hundreds of thousands from that life-altering surgery.LISTEN TO THE PODCASTLost Women of Science is produced for the ear. Where possible, we recommend listening to the audio for the most accurate representation of what…

A small fishing vessel navigates turbulent waves in Sri Lanka. Ocean warming intensifies weather patterns. Credit: Jiang Zhu A multi-national team of scientists (China, U.S., New Zealand, Italy, and France) analyzes the temperature of the Earth annually. These scientists have found a fever that increases every year: For the past decade, each year has been hotter than the prior year in the ocean, and there are other changes in…