Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.The price of oil futures has collapsed catastrophically. In fact, the prices collapsed into negative territory in the near term. This bizarre situation, prompted by lack of consumer demand and lack of storage facility, led the irrepressible Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.,…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.When one is struck by the coronavirus, symptoms can range from none to fatal. But for the many million in between who are infected by the novel pathogen and then recover, just how damaging are the lingering effects?Medical researchers are on the quest…
Environment 17 April 2020 By Adam Vaughan The coronavirus restrictions are a new challenge for the UK’s National GridCW Images/Alamy The coronavirus-led shutdown of large parts of the economy is likely to cut the UK’s electricity needs dramatically this summer, potentially by as much as a fifth. While electricity demand always dips in summer months,…
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Laurence Olivier, Wuthering Heights (1939) United Artists Laurence Olivier’s performance embodies Heathcliff’s dichotomy of hard and soft. Oliver’s presence on screen is distinguished and sympathetic, given his deep, dark eyes, knife-sharp jaw, and a background in Shakespearean productions that made him a household name. In the 1930s, masculinity was in a crisis (Isn’t it always?).
4 min read The following story contains spoilers for The Pitt season 2, episode 6, "12:00 P.M." LIKE SO MANY other viewers of The Pitt, I watched the show's first season in a binge. And for a show that's so fast-paced and where each episode truly bleeds directly into the next, that felt right. For
6 min read Kimmie Ng, M.D., a Boston oncologist, started noticing an alarming trend in her work a few years ago. Men in their 20s, 30s, and 40s—runners, CrossFitters, lifelong nonsmokers—were streaming through her door at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. They all appeared lively and strong—yet there they were, battling colorectal cancers, a family of