GET THE LATEST INTERNATIONAL AND POLITICAL NEWS
Spotify is now offering brands the option to sponsor Discover Weekly, its signature customized playlist that updates every Monday for each user. It is supposedly one of the most popular features among both the platform’s 87 million paid subscribers and…
An appealing theme of Dan Taberski’s recent podcast “Headlong: Surviving Y2K” was the value of planning for possible calamity. Anticipating wide-scale chaos—like what might have befallen the world if most of its computers went berserk—made people in 1999 go a…
“I’m Sorry” (truTV) is cringe comedy you can unwind with. Its creator and star is Andrea Savage, whose onscreen alter ego is a comedy writer, harried mom, and full-time potty mouth. Her show assuages middle-aged, upper-middle-class anxiety with easy-listening raunch.…
Sligo captain Kevin McDonnell looks set to miss out on all of 2019 as he struggles to recover from a troublesome hip injury, while experienced duo David Kelly and Ross Donovan also look set to miss out on Paul Taylor’s…
While European archaeological records provide almost no evidence of women scribing books in the Middle Ages, a recent study has shed light on the “gendered production” of illuminated manuscripts. Blue-coloured particles discovered in the teeth of an ancient skeleton buried at a German…
Astronomers and astrophysicists from around the world still aren’t certain what to make of an unusually bright flash of light coming from a galaxy far, far away that was witnessed last June, coming up with two intriguing theories about what…
