Pearls

Life is a journey, and the more years we spend “traveling”, the bigger our baggage of life lessons gets. Needless to say, after decades on this earth, it can become quite hefty, but that’s what makes it a great source of ideas, tips, and inspiration for other voyagers out there.Atlanta-based fractional sales executive Louie Bernstein recently discussed his experiences on the ‘Life Hacks’ subreddit; but instead of delving deeper into the subtleties of successful sales strategies, he chose to share the life lessons he’s…

Pacific Drive is a game that emphasizes crafting upgrades so you can survive longer in the wilds. As such, it's important to gather materials, even from objects and parts that you no longer need. Here's our guide on how to use Garbage Pearls and the Matter Deconstructor in Pacific Drive.How to use Garbage Pearls and the Matter Deconstructor in Pacific DriveYou can use Garbage Pearls in Pacific Drive by feeding them into Matter Deconstructors. That sounds straightforward enough, so here's a quick…

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured yet another beautiful sight. While observing a series of interacting galaxies known as Galaxy AM 1045-325, Hubble spotted what looked like a celestial “string of pearls.” The unique appearance of the galaxy was caused by magnetic interactions between it and a neighboring galaxy, NASA says.Before these galaxies merged, NASA says that they were rich in dusty clouds of molecular hydrogen that may have remained inert. But, when the merger jostled the clouds, the hydrogen…

If ever a book needed translation into Hindi and other Indian languages and should be read and discussed on rural community radio, it is Green Pearls of India by V Sundararaju, which describes 27 trees considered sacred in India. The book should also be of interest to those researching biodiversity, ecology and religion. The regular urban reader, in turn, is likely to be charmed by how religion and culture are inseparably married to the land of India through Nature. Students in schools and colleges will find it a mine…

via MGM Despite being widely regarded as one of the greatest films in the history of cinema, it would also be fair to say that certain elements of Gone with the Wind haven’t held up particularly well when viewed through a modern lens. It might be the highest-grossing release the business has ever seen when adjusted for inflation, as well as winning 10 Academy Awards from 13 nominations, but it’s very much a product of its time. Of course, that’s to be expected when it hit theaters close to a century ago back in…

By Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University December 20, 2022Researchers have constructed a high-quality, chromosome-scale genome of pearl oysters, which they hope can be used to find resilient strains.In Japan, pearl oysters are a key animal for aquaculture because they generate valuable, beautiful pearls.The output of Akoya pearls has decreased over the past 20 years from about 70,000 kg per year to barely 20,000 kg per year due to a variety of reasons, including disease.Researchers have…

In this tense thriller from the screenwriter Emeric Pressburger – he of the legendary British film-making duo Powell and Pressburger (The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus) – a fugitive Nazi moves into a boarding house over a stationery shop in London’s Pimlico. We learn that Karl Braun, who arrives “hatless, with a bow tie, greying hair, slight in build”, is in fact one Dr Otto Reitmüller, a former surgeon who has been in hiding from authorities for 20 years and who is wanted for conducting medical experiments on concentration…

The great memoirist and story writer Tobias Wolff once complained about the “essentially anonymous” gestures used in fiction and drama to delineate characters: “the mixing of drinks, the crossing of rooms, the lighting of cigarettes”. The problem, he said, was that these details “don’t tell us that much. What you want is a gesture that tells you something particular.”Natalia Ginzburg seems to me to be a master of the gesture that tells you something particular. In her 1952 novel All Our Yesterdays, the latest welcome…