via U.S. Departmet of Agriculture/Flickr Over 200,000 acres have been scorched and 31 people have died in the Woolsey and Hill fires north of Los Angeles and the Camp Fire in Northern California. Six years of scant rainfall combined with historically-high temperatures have created tinderbox-like conditions in the Golden State’s…
We knew Disney was building its own on-demand streaming service, à la Netflix or HBO GO, but we didn’t know the name. Now we do. Disney’s new streaming service will be called Disney+. While there’s been a few rumored names (it was misreported, at one point, to be “Disney Play”),…
News broke that Stan Lee has died at the age of 95 and fans over the world are not only mourning, but honoring the legend with countless tributes. Stan Lee penned for many comic books throughout his career, including such stories as the iconic Daredevil, The Amazing Spiderman, Hulk, Fantastic Four,…
According to a Washington Post review of the book, Obama writes in Becoming: The whole [birther] thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed. But it was also dangerous, deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks. What if someone with an unstable…
Paris (CNN)Marking the breakout of peace after World War I, President Donald Trump on Sunday heard a dire warning from his host: the forces that led to the slaughter are resurgent. “Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism,” he said through a translator. “Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. By…
Waymo, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, has been testing its self-driving Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans in Arizona for the past year and is currently operating a beta version of the service for a select group of users. (AP) Waymo’s vehicles have been tested over millions of miles and…
For the first time this season, I’m excited to see ShaNelly walk into KamLeigh’s room after their purge loss. Nelson was probs crying the entire ride there, why else would he wear sunglasses inside? Kay is reluctant to give Nelly a hug because of the tea John spilled to her about his…
The Tsimane, a tribe of indigenous people in the Amazon basin of Bolivia, have the lowest rates of cardiovascular disease ever measured in a human population. According to the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) scientists who study them, the Tsimane also have a remarkably low prevalence of high blood…
Roivant Sciences has had a bumpy couple of years, but that isn’t stopping investors from pouring more money into the four-year-old company, which aims to one day be a giant holding company for dozens of independent biopharmaceutical spinoffs — and is fulfilling that vision by creating one independent company at…
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The British star of the Harry Potter franchise spin-off “Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them” sent “The Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon’s head spinning with some magic on Wednesday. Niffler feces. Redmayne’s new movie — the second installment in the “Fantastic Beasts” series, “The Crimes Of Grindelwald” — opens…
For almost 30 years, John Chhan and his wife, Stella, have been serving customers their fresh donuts. But for the past month, Stella’s been absent. The Chhans came to the U.S. as refugees from Cambodia in 1979. They opened a donut shop called Donut City in Seal Beach, and the…
The family said these could have been caused by invasive, physical and medical interventions during a previous hospital stay. ‘Horrifically stressful’ But because of the injuries, social workers began a safeguarding investigation and interim care orders were issued for their two other children to be looked after by grandparents. When…
At a meeting earlier this year, some experts took some time out of their schedules to have an intriguing discussion – what if Mars and Venus swapped places? The question was raised at the Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets III meeting at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas…
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Vince Lynch Bad examples abound. Consider the finding from Carnegie Mellon that showed that women were shown significantly fewer online ads for high-paying jobs than men were. Or recall the sad case of Tay, Microsoft’s teen slang Twitter bot that had to be taken down after producing racist posts. In the near future,…