winter

According to the calendar, it’s not yet summer in the Northern Hemisphere. But in many parts of the world, the weather would indicate otherwise. A crippling heat wave created the hottest spring on record in India and Pakistan. Europe saw a heat wave of its own in May, with the temperature reaching historic highs across the continent. And in the United States? Surprise: unprecedented heat wave! Dozens of states saw spring temperatures at the highest they’ve ever been. In Texas, the heat was bad enough to knock six power…

Hey everyone, and welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we talked about the rough road ahead for Coinbase. This week, we’re talking a bit about Andreessen Horowitz’s multibillion-dollar bet on web3’s continued viability. Read on to check out the latest episode of the Chain Reaction podcast as well. To get this in your inbox every Thursday afternoon, you can subscribe on TechCrunch’s newsletter page. $4,500,000,000 May hasn’t been the kindest month to crypto. Consecutive weeks of drops have left whispers of the…

Let this be a lesson to all Marvel Cinematic Universe supporters and detractors alike; when approaching the topic of 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier, anything less than benign neutrality will be met with swift retribution in the form of a myriad of tweets refuting your stance. Here we have the site of the latest Winter Soldier divide, a tweet from user Jayden challenging Twitter to pick one MCU film to disappear from the world forever. Among the four choices are the aforementioned Winter Soldier,…

Winter is coming, at least to the Red Planet. And part of preparing for this tumultuous time on Mars means preparing the Ingenuity helicopter for the freezing temperatures. After losing connection with the Mars helicopter for a short time, NASA has engineered a new plan that should help it survive the Martian winter. NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter missed a communication check-in From NASA’s blog: “This image of Mars was taken from the height of 33 feet (10 meters) by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter during its…

Barbara Brandon-Croft‘s Where I’m Coming From leads the pack in Drawn & Quarterly’s Winter 2023 solicits. Joining this treasure will be the latest volume of vintage work by Japanese gekiga master Yoshiharu Tsuge, Nejishiki; Aisha Franz‘ follow up to Shit is Real – Work-Life Balance; and Leslie Stein’s first full length work of graphic fiction, Brooklyn’s Last Secret. Where I’m Coming From is long overdue for a collection. The first syndicated strip to be produced by a black female cartoonist, the collected edition …

Valzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, Belarus, moved to the US in 2005 and now teaches at Cornell University. She speaks three languages: English, Belarusian and Russian and wrote Music for the Dead and Resurrected in Belarusian and English versions. She recently claimed in an interview not to be at home in any of her languages, but reading the English poems, I find this hard to believe. I read her exceptional collection with the excitement you feel on encountering a poised new voice. The opening pieces each contain the words…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Just 7% of more than 1,000 Londoners polled had no concerns about heating their homes this winter, while around two-thirds (65%) said they were very or fairly concerned. When asked what puts most pressure on their living costs, almost half (48%) said energy bills and a quarter (23%) rent or mortgage payments, while others cited household expenses like food and petrol.…