Latest: Mount Everest: Climbers will need to bring poo back to base camp
As complaints of human waste pile up, new rules require climbers to properly dispose of their stools. Source link
Latest: Why Kobe’s 8 and 24 mean so much to these NBA players
Dave McMenamin, ESPN Staff WriterFeb 7, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Close Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09. WHENEVER JALEN WILLIAMS grabs his phone, he sees a collage of Kobe Bryant photos as his … Read more
Latest: A Top Artist’s Foundation Gets a New Director
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is going to Yale for its next leader. The foundation plans to announce this week that it has picked Courtney J. Martin, the director of the Yale Center for British Art, as its next executive director. She will begin her new job this spring. “Courtney is a dynamic and tested leader … Read more
Latest: Raven Chacon’s Sound-and-Art Symphony
As to the work’s duration and execution, the only directions Chacon gives are that it should run “at least 13 minutes” and be performed by “any number of musicians with any number of non-musicians.” Indeed, one of Chacon’s guiding principles is that much of his work be available to amateur performers. A 2005 Yoko Ono-like … Read more
Latest: Capote’s Black and White Ball Is Fabled. Does ‘Feud’ Measure Up?
The latest episode of Ryan Murphy’s new series, “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans,” recreates Truman Capote’s famous Black and White Ball, held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in 1966. The event, which honored Katharine Graham, the former publisher of the Washington Post, was a coveted invite. And the guests, who included Mia … Read more
Latest: More Adolescent Boys Have Eating Disorders. Two Experts Discuss Why.
For decades, eating disorders were thought to afflict mostly, if not exclusively, women and girls. In fact, until 2013, the loss of menstruation had long been considered an official symptom of anorexia nervosa. Over the last decade, however, health experts have increasingly recognized that boys and men also suffer from eating disorders, and they have … Read more
Latest: Iceland volcano at it again with a third eruption in as many months
Grindavik, Iceland — A volcano in southwest Iceland erupted for the third time since December on Thursday, sending jets of lava into the sky and triggering the evacuation of the Blue Lagoon spa, one of the island nation’s biggest tourist attractions. The eruption began at about 1 a.m. Eastern time along a nearly two-mile fissure northeast … Read more
Latest: World’s first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit
The last 12 months were the hottest on record, temporarily sending the world past a deeply symbolic mark. Source link
Latest: Mojo Nixon, Who Mixed Roots and Punk Rock, Dies at 66
“All of it was performed in maximum overdrive on a bed of rockabilly, blues, and R&B, which earned Nixon some friends in the roots rock community but had enough punk attitude — in its own bizarre way — to make him a college radio staple during his heyday,” the All Music Guide wrote. “I’m a … Read more
Latest: Government in court over chicken poo in River Wye
“We believe that the government and the Environment Agency have acted unlawfully by deliberately not enforcing the critical regulation that, had it been in force, would have prevented the contamination of the Wye catchment area,” Charles Watson, the chairman of River Action, told the BBC. Source link
