π₯ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Film,Delroy Lindo,Baftas,Tourette syndrome,Sinners,Awards and prizes,Culture,Society π **What Youβll Learn**: Sinners star Delroy Lindo has spoken in more detail about the N-word controversy at the Baftas, which saw the BBC and BAFTA apologize after a racial slur shouted by Tourette's Syndrome campaigner John Davidson was broadcast on BBC One in edited highlights of the ceremony.Lindo, who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in the film, was speaking to Tonya Mosley on NPR's Fresh Air and said he initially couldn't comprehend what had happened…
β¨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News π π **Category**: β
**What Youβll Learn**: Start with the per-capita number that Western media will never print.Iranβs own Ministry of Science data shows 266,213 students currently enrolled in PhD programs in a country of 92 million people.That is 1 in every 346 Iranians enrolled in a PhD program right now. In the United States, with roughly 200,000 doctoral students across a population of 335 million, the figure is 1 in every 1,675 Americans. Iran has nearly 5 times more PhD students per capita than the United States.UNESCO data shows women account…
π₯ Read this trending post from BBC Sport π π **Category**: β
**What Youβll Learn**: This will be a situation that Wrexham will have to get used to should they turn the promise of the play-offs into a fourth successive promotion and book regular visits from their Premier League opponents.For now, though, manager Phil Parkinson can only bemoan the officials' refusal to read the script.βWithout VAR, we wouldn't have given anyone a red card and that goal would definitely stand, so it's against us tonight,β Parkinson said, directing his anger further at Dobson's decision for a foul on Alejandro Garnacho."It's…
π₯ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Kim Gordon,Music,Sonic Youth,Culture,Pop and rock,Experimental music π **What Youβll Learn**: She's one of the icons of American alternative rock, a heroic example of someone who maintains the perfect balance when she has one foot in the mainstream and the other in the underground. After decades with Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon continues her impressive career as an individual β and she'll answer your questions.Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, she returned to New York where she immersed herself in the non-wave scene in the…
π₯ Discover this insightful post from WIRED π π **Category**: Gear,Gear / Reviews,Gear / Products / Kitchen,Java.Base β
**What Youβll Learn**: Coffee is Biohack is the original desktop and the country's most popular productivity tool. While we're losing sleep over the switch to daylight saving time, the caffeine-addicted WIRED Reviews team is writing about our favorite coffee brewing routines and appliances that will keep us alert and maybe even happy in the morning. Today, reviewer Matthew Korfhage explains his lifelong love of drip coffeeβand why the Ratio Four never leaves his desk. In the following days, we'll add other Java.Base…
π₯ Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport π π **Category**: π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: Before Saturday's match in Rome, the Italy-England match was the most anticipated match of the Six Nations.Italy has never beaten England in the tournament and has lost all 32 meetings in all competitions.That miserable run finally ended with a hard-fought 23-18 win at a raucous Stadio Olimpico.Steve Borthwick's England team entered the match under pressure after successive dismal defeats, increasing Italy's belief in causing a historic upset.That's what happened when the hosts took advantage of yellow cards from Sam Underhill and Maro Itoje in…
π Explore this insightful post from Hacker News π π **Category**: π **What Youβll Learn**: By Matthew ClaxtonWritten science fiction is dying. Long term trends see fewer books making their way to shelves in the sci-fi section. Although sci-fi looks healthy from a perspective of films, video games, and TV, written sci-fi has long been the wellspring of the vast majority of new ideas, aesthetics, movements, and tropes within the genre. If you saw it on a screen, it was almost certainly found on a printed page first.Yet even as the clanking genre-machinery of specialty publishers and imprints seems to…
π Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport π π **Category**: π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: However, it could have been very different.Newcastle may have been feeling the effects of playing with ten men for too long in a spirited midweek win over Manchester United.But Newcastle began the fifth-round tie as a team that recognized that the FA Cup was not just their best chance of winning silverware this season.It was also their most obvious route back to Europe at a time when Howe's side sit 12th in the Premier League.Newcastle quickly brought the fans into the match with their energy…
β¨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Books,Literary festivals,Festivals,Culture,France,Amazon,Paris π **What Youβll Learn**: Amazon has withdrawn from the Paris Book Festival after a boycott by the French Booksellers Association sparked a dispute over the company's sponsorship of the event.The festival, scheduled to be held from April 17 to 19, will continue without support from the US retailer, after a mutual decision between the organizers and Amazon to end their partnership.The dispute began after French booksellers' association Syndicat de la Librairie FranΓ§aise (SLF) announced it would boycott the festival in protest over Amazon's participation.The SLF…
π Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch π π **Category**: AI,TC,Alphabet,Google,Sundar Pichai π **What Youβll Learn**: Sundar Pichai's new pay package could be worth up to $692 million. According to a filing first spied by the Financial Times, Alphabet has structured a three-year deal for its Google CEO that could make him one of the highest-paid CEOs on the planet β but most of it is tied to performance, including new stock incentives tied to Waymo and Wing, its drone delivery venture. What is striking is how little public fascination Pichai attracts compared to the Google founders. Larry Page and…
