Across The Worst

from Observer Hemingway’s Worst Novel Gets Worse: ‘Across the River’ Is a Dull, Pointless Misfire Liev Schreiber and Venice can’t save this lifeless adaptation of Hemingway’s least beloved work. By Rex Reed Matilda de Angelis and Liev Schreiber star in...

Revisiting The Silk Road

from The Wall Street Journal China Reaches Back in Time to Challenge the West. Way, Way Back. The country’s archaeologists are striking out along the Silk Road to trace the reach of ancient Chinese civilization, disputing long-held beliefs By Sha Hua The Chinortepa...

Dark Oxygen

from France 24 ‘Dark Oxygen’ in depths of Pacific Ocean prompts new theories on life’s origins Scientists have discovered that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean. These...

AI Eats Electricity

from WIRED AI’s Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet’s Hyper-Consumption Era Generative artificial intelligence tools, now part of the everyday user experience online, are causing stress on local power grids and mass water...

Neandertal Neighbors

from Phys.org ‘A history of contact’: Geneticists are rewriting the narrative of Neanderthals and other ancient humans by Princeton University Detecting modern human–to-Neanderthal gene flow (H→N) and its consequences. Credit: Science (2024). DOI:...