NBC’s NBA Nostalgia PlayNBC appears to be getting back into the NBA business. There is something about the sports streaming age that has made many pine for an older era of basketball broadcasting on network television. You’re an NBA fan. Or you’re a media professional who knows the name Mark Lazarus.
The 15 movies you need to see this summerSquint your eyes and look at it a certain way, and this summer’s movie lineup could easily pass for a robust offering from, say, 30 years ago.
The Dow Jones Hits 40,000 for the First Time. What to Know About This Major MilestoneThe Dow Jones Industrial Average surpassed 40,000 points on Thursday for the first time ever, signaling a strong endorsement of the health of the U.S. economy.
The Home Insurance Crunch: See What’s Happening in Your StateAs climate change makes disasters more frequent and severe, the insurance industry is in tumult. Losses have been spreading beyond states that have been ravaged by hurricanes and wildfires, like Florida and California, and into places like Iowa, Arkansas, Ohio, Utah and Washington.
Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to CountBy making use of randomness, a team has created a simple algorithm for estimating large numbers of distinct objects in a stream of data. Introduction Imagine that you’re sent to a pristine rainforest to carry out a wildlife census. Every time you see an animal, you snap a photo.
The Madly Captivating Urban Sprawl of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis”The subject of “Megalopolis,” Francis Ford Coppola’s first feature in thirteen years, is time. The movie begins with an image of a large city clock, and Coppola repeatedly invokes time’s relentless forward march.
An MLB In-Season Tournament? Projecting Baseball's Version of Hottest Trend in SportsSince in-season tournaments are all the rage in the sports world, one can't help but wonder: What might a Major League Baseball version look like? Unlike in the NBA, no such thing exists in MLB. Nor, unlike with NASCAR, is any such thing officially in the works for the near future.
Would You Want to Know if You’re Going to Get Alzheimer’s Disease?Advances in genetic research mean predicting who develops the condition is becoming more accurate, but that’s not necessarily a comfort.
The Pill Makes Some Women Miserable. But Are They Really Quitting It en Masse?The woman in the video looks resolute, and a little sad, as she cuts up a pack of birth control pills. “These silly little pills have literally ruined me as a person,” reads the caption. The clip, which is on TikTok, has 1.1 million likes.
Who Wants 30,000 Used Teslas?At the start of the year, after Hertz announced it was selling off its fleet of Teslas — backtracking on a plan to buy up 100,000 of the electric vehicles — the news sounded good for Bijay Pandey, a 34-year-old self-employed data worker in Irving, Texas.
How to Make the Best Ultra-Buttery CroissantsFermented and layered with loads of butter, Tartine’s signature croissant dough is the building block for so many more flaky twists, buns, and danish.
Has Quantum Physics Determined Your Future?On the morning of June 28, 1914, a Bosnian Serb student named Gavrilo Princip stood outside Moritz Schiller’s delicatessen near the Latin Bridge in Sarajevo. Sometime after 10:45 A.M.
We’ve Hit Peak TheaterOne of the last premiere parties of the Broadway season felt a little on the nose. The Great Gatsby, a ballad-belting, pyrotechnic glow-up of F.
Worm Wiring Diagram May Help Us Understand Our Own Nervous SystemGenes in the humble C. elegans also turn up in autism, schizophrenia and other human disorders.
How the world could have looked: the most spectacular buildings that were never madeDid you know that, if things had gone differently, the Pompidou Centre could have been an egg? In the 1969 competition for the Paris art centre – ultimately won by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, with their inside-out symphony of pipework – a radical French architect called André Bruyère submi
Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Motheralong the coastal 101 in brilliant blue, the bright May sky beginning to soften toward sunset. Chin Rodger felt a lift of optimism as she exited the freeway and arrived at a sushi restaurant tucked away in the tony town of Montecito, where she greeted her 22-year-old son, Elliot. He looked well.
The Dream of Streaming Is DeadBundles are back. Remember when streaming was supposed to let us watch whatever we want, whenever we want, for a sliver of the cost of cable? Well, so much for that. In recent years, streaming has gotten confusing and expensive as more services than ever are vying for eyeballs.
Freeze Every Citrus Peel That Comes Through Your KitchenUnless you plan to use the zest right away, stashing large slivers of citrus peel in your freezer is a great way to preserve their flavor until the day it’s needed.
What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the WeekClaire Messud’s This Strange Eventful History, Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger, Miranda July’s All Fours, and Hari Kunzru’s Blue Ruin all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews.
How to Use ‘Circle to Search’ on an Android PhoneAs you've no doubt noticed, tech companies are pushing artificial intelligence into as many of their products as they can at a ferocious rate. One of the newest AI-powered features to make its way to Android phones is called Circle to Search.