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What do you find most stressful when traveling by plane? Seeing someone sitting in your assigned seat, realizing you forgot your headphones or seeing a baby boarding the craft? A lot of people give parents dirty looks, in anticipation of a few hours of non-stop crying. Fortunately, there are people like Meegan Rubin, who, upon seeing a cute baby, decided to gift her a fabulous crochet beanie that she rushed to make during the flight. After all, baby Romey behaved excellently on her very first flight.More info:…

When he was growing up, recalls Julian Borger, it felt as if his family “had painted layer after layer of tasteful off-white over the top of something garish, more visceral and unsettling”. His difficult and dissatisfied psychologist father Robert had never managed to overcome “the refugee’s curse” of being “from two places and none at the same time”. His grandmother Erna, when invited over, “would typically arrive late and… insist on making Viennese food from scratch, unpacking her plastic shopping bags on the already…

More than half a century ago, Japanese physicist Yosuke Nagaoka theorized a way a magnetic field might expand from meandering electrons restlessly searching for a place to rest that was radically different from conventional models of ferromagnetism.A phenomenon recently observed in a stack of alternating semiconductors could be explained by Nagaoka's speculations, while throwing out a few unforeseen surprises.In an experiment led by researchers from ETH Zürich in Switzerland, atomically thin grids of two different…

The nonprofit We Are Moving The Needle presented the Resonator Awards on Tuesday night, an inaugural celebration designed to spotlight women in the music business in a push for creating a more inclusive industry. Naturally, the biggest name in the game received a shoutout from the podium. Two of Taylor Swift’s close collaborators — producer Jack Antonoff and mixer and recording engineer Laura Sisk — hit the stage inside Beauty & Essex in Hollywood. Antonoff had the honor of presenting the…

Instagram is testing yet another feature meant to give users an alternative to finstas. It’s called “flipside” and it allows people to create a secondary photo grid that only designated friends can see.If that sounds somewhat familiar it’s probably because Instagram already makes it pretty easy for users to create posts intended for a more limited audience. The app added the ability for users to share grid posts with back in November (Stories for close friends has been a thing since 2018). More recently, it tested for…

Lily Gladstone made Oscar history by being the first Native American woman to be among the 2024 Oscar nominees for her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon. Her performance as Osage Nation member Mollie Burkhart has been adored by the Academy, audiences, and critics alike. With this Oscar nomination, big things are coming to Gladstone’s career, like getting to re-team with Scorsese on a very different kind of movie.To go from roles in indie films to putting her name on the map by starring in Martin Scorsese’s…

The eagerly anticipated Oscar nominations for 2024 were unveiled on Tuesday, bringing forth recognition for outstanding achievements in cinema. Among the standout films, Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” emerged as a frontrunner, earning a staggering 13 nominations, the highest for any film this year. Notably, Cillian Murphy, who portrays the title character, received a nod in the prestigious Best Actor category. In a recent interview with The New York Times, Murphy shared his thoughts on the…

Oscar 2024 nominations were announced on Tuesday. Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer earned 13 nominations, the most for any film this year, including one for Cillian Murphy in the best actor category. In an interview with The New York Times, the actor shared what his first Oscar nomination felt like. He has been nominated for his performance as the title character in Oppenheimer. Also read: Oscars 2024 nomination snubs and surprises include Greta Gerwig, Leonardo DiCaprio Cillian Murphy was seen as J Robert…

Photo: Reshetnikov_art / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock)Don’t ring the funeral bells just yet, but the self-checkout kiosk horror show could be nearing its end. So far, the grand experiment in robot cashiers is an abject failure. Stores across the country are reversing course on the machines, and consensus is growing among analysts and insiders that self-checkout has been a disaster for consumers and retailers alike, according to a new report in the BBC. The machines aren’t disappearing anytime soon, but if nothing else,…

When Julian Borger’s father took his own life in London in 1983, his family assumed it was linked to recent events. Robert Borger, a lecturer in psychology at Brunel University, had been passed over for a promotion at work and, after an ultimatum from his wife, Wyn, about his infidelity, had walked out of the family home. But then Borger Jr telephoned Nancy Bingley, who lived in Caernarfon in Wales and had fostered Robert after he arrived from Austria in the late 1930s as a Jewish refugee. On hearing that he had killed…