Siblings

Rivian officially revealed the R2 electric SUV during a livestream held Thursday afternoon. We knew the followup to the well-regarded R1 was coming, and we even got some leaked specs earlier this week, but now we’ve heard it from the electric horse’s mouth. The company also surprised view R3 and R3X, however, came as a complete surprise, harkening back to Steve Jobs and his famous "one more thing" conference enders.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82IiXIKkRIAAs previously suspected, the R2 is a compact SUV that looks quite…

In a South American swamp, a broad-snouted caiman floats along a river on a hot day. She's not only looking for prey, but listening closely for the calls of her babies. High up on the bank, a mound of peat covers her precious eggs.From within its shell, a young caiman calls out to its brothers and sisters. One by one, the babies begin chirping from inside their eggs, encouraging one another to emerge; their chances of survival are higher if they hatch simultaneously. Using sound to synchronize themselves, the baby caimans…

As It Happens6:24Great apes get a kick out of 'playfully teasing' each other, study findsWhat do you call it when a chimpanzee offers his buddy a delicious piece of fruit only to pull his hand away at the last second? Or when a bonobo repeatedly pokes, prods and pulls on the hair of an older relative not hard enough to hurt, but just enough to be annoying?It's not quite play, argues anthropologist Erica Cartmill, but it's not quite aggression either. It's "playful teasing." And, according to a new study, it's a very…

Director Guy Ritchie is famous for attracting A-list actors throughout his career, as he's shown through his frequent collaborations with Jason Statham, compiling the star-studded cast of 2019’s The Gentlemen, and getting Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law to play Sherlock and Watson. The filmmaker’s next movie proved this again as it will see John Krasinski and Natalie Portman playing brother and sister. Plus, the adventure at the center of the film sounds like it will be a blast. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Guy Ritchie has…

Among all the ways of communicating, Gen Z prefers texting to anything else. It’s brief, not so formal, and very convenient. They even have their own etiquette and language for it. Messages without full stops, the peculiar use of emojis, and words you’ve never heard before are just a few things you have to know if you want to speak their lingo.However, it seems that the older generations can’t quite keep up with the current texting trends anymore. Millennials receiving a text from Gen Z now equals deciphering a secret…

If you have a sibling, disagreements and quarrels are a given. And it turns out, things are not so different even among galaxies. And now, we have proof thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope that has managed to capture a trio of galaxies engaged in a tug-of-war — of sorts. But what are they fighting for? Well, the three galaxies in question were squabbling for gravity.  The image captured by the Hubble telescope was shared by NASA on its official website on July 30 and features the “dramatic triplet of galaxies”.The image…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Having a high-achieving older sibling helps children, especially those from socioeconomically disadvantaged families, succeed academically, according to a new Yale-led study. Using data from North Carolina public schools, a team led by Yale sociologist Emma Zang found that children whose birthdays fall…

Electric vehicles are often in news for catching fire. Tesla, the leading manufacturer of electric cars in the world has been in similar fire incidents in the past as well. Last month, an Indian family had a narrow escape as their Tesla Model S caught fire and exploded following the fire. The incident happened in Sacramento, California, USA. The driver of the car pulled to the shoulder of the road before the car exploded and became an inferno. Videos of the incident show how massive the fire was and how it engulfed the…

Siblings, the first English translation of a novel by German writer Brigitte Reimann, opens with a bang, an argument – “I’ll never forgive you” – and the fear of violence: “When we’d argued in the past, he’d thrown shoes at me and once even a vase.”It’s a splendid opening for a story of what happens when the tense bonds of family are stretched to snapping point by the politics of a divided nation. The rest of the novel builds up to the argument, which is between brother and sister Uli and Elisabeth Arendt, residents of…

As a young woman in East Germany, Brigitte Reimann claimed that she would rather live 30 wild years than 70 well-behaved ones. When she died from cancer in 1973, aged only 39, she left behind an impressive but tantalisingly incomplete set of literary achievements. Her life – as her riveting diaries and autobiographical novels attest – was as fascinating as she hoped it would be. Reimann started writing early and quickly became a GDR literary star. A dedicated socialist, she joined a state initiative that sent her to write…