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The Chaos of Caring for Aging Parents: This Week’s Best Podcasts | TV and radio

The Chaos of Caring for Aging Parents: This Week’s Best Podcasts | TV and radio

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ Category: Television & radio,Culture,Podcasts 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Choose the weekSo your parents are oldBehind the irreverent title, Vanessa Grigoriadis draws on first-hand experience in this show about the exhausting and often confusing experience of caring for an elderly parent. Her first guest was Lisa Gibbons, an American talk show host who created a center for caregivers. Although her story is unique — complete with a stint on Celebrity Apprentice — it offers comfort and practical advice to those who find themselves in a similar situation. Hannah…
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TV tonight: a terrifying prequel series to Stephen King’s It | television

TV tonight: a terrifying prequel series to Stephen King’s It | television

🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture,It,Gaza,Prisons and probation đź’ˇ Key idea: Him: Welcome to Derry9pm, Sky Atlantic"Do you think someone could kidnap a child and keep him underground... in the sewers?" For those of us who were too terrified by Stephen King's Pennywise to watch the It series, this original series is best watched through the fingers (or with eyes closed the entire time). Developed by the team behind the latest blockbuster, the supernatural horror film is set in 1960s America, following the events of a small town with missing…
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“We want people to get lost!” New Princeton Museum Survives Scandal to Present Labyrinthine Art Ambush | Build

“We want people to get lost!” New Princeton Museum Survives Scandal to Present Labyrinthine Art Ambush | Build

🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ Category: Architecture,Art and design,Museums,Culture,David Adjaye,Princeton University,Education,Higher education 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: A A cluster of jagged concrete bunkers has descended into the heart of Princeton University's leafy campus in New Jersey, sending tremors through Uxbridge's fairytale land of Gothic turrets and spiers. The empty, blank facade of the new addition gives little away from the outside. It is wrapped in rows of vertical gray ribs, which contrast with the arched windows of the stately stone halls surrounding it, and has the appearance of a secure storage facility,…
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What do Israel and Hamas really want from a ceasefire in Gaza?

What do Israel and Hamas really want from a ceasefire in Gaza?

✨ Explore this awesome post from The New Yorker đź“– đź“‚ Category: News / Q. & A. 📌 Key idea: Earlier this month, Israel and Hamas announced a ceasefire in the two-year-old war in Gaza. The United States partially mediated the agreement, but American officials are concerned, according to New York timesIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may try to end the matter. Indeed, since the ceasefire began, nearly a hundred Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers have been killed. (In the first phase of the deal, Israel still controls approximately 53% of the Gaza Strip.)I recently spoke by phone with Michael…
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What’s Hollywood missing about artificial intelligence?

What’s Hollywood missing about artificial intelligence?

đź’Ą Check out this insightful post from The New Yorker đź“– đź“‚ Category: Culture / On Television âś… Key idea: In 2025, artificial intelligence appears to be appearing on television almost as often as it does in real life. In the hospital satire series Saint Denis Medical, a curmudgeon doctor expresses his dissatisfaction with a patient's unwavering trust in an artificial intelligence diagnostic tool. In the high school comedy "The English Teacher," an idealistic teacher campaigns for "smart" garbage cans, only to discover that the new bins equipped with cameras are part of an elaborate data-collection scheme. In the Hollywood…
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Gideon Lewis Krause talks about “The Crown Versus William Joyce,” directed by Rebecca West

Gideon Lewis Krause talks about “The Crown Versus William Joyce,” directed by Rebecca West

🚀 Check out this must-read post from The New Yorker đź“– đź“‚ Category: Magazine / Takes 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: The sign of maturity, for the genre, is the anxiety of influence—the compulsion an aspiring writer feels to urinate on a fire hydrant that a former celebrity par excellence has urinated on. Rebecca West, the goddess of unfairly neglected “fiction” reporting, would have approved of the triteness of this trope. In the 1941 masterpiece “The Black Lamb and the Gray Falcon,” in which an image is drawn on a fire hydrant in Yugoslavia for twelve hundred wonderfully discursive pages,…
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Mo Amer escaped being funny

Mo Amer escaped being funny

đź’Ą Read this awesome post from The New Yorker đź“– đź“‚ Category: Culture / The New Yorker Interview âś… Key idea: During our condensed and edited conversation, Amer talked about his reasons for accepting the concert in Saudi Arabia, his friendships with Jon Stewart and Jimmy Kimmel, and why he's not afraid to cancel the concert.What time are you in?10 evening In fact, I was still editing before I moved here, because the special wasn't finished yet. Now it's just a matter of final touches and adjustments — coloring, ADR, and whatever else. I've been running around like crazy all…
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Why can’t the NBA move on from its old stars?

Why can’t the NBA move on from its old stars?

✨ Explore this trending post from The New Yorker đź“– đź“‚ Category: Sports / The Sporting Scene âś… Here’s what you’ll learn: Kevin Durant, second overall, was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics, a team that has been defunct for seventeen years. After his rookie season, he left the SuperSonics for Oklahoma City, where they were rebranded as the Thunder. Since then, his impact has affected not only every franchise he has been a part of, but the entire league. This can be easily seen on the court: when he joined the NBA, big men were still primarily bruisers. He was…
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The 65 Best Movies on Disney+ Right Now (October 2025)

The 65 Best Movies on Disney+ Right Now (October 2025)

🚀 Read this trending post from Culture Latest đź“– đź“‚ Category: Culture,Culture / Movies,Culture Guides đź’ˇ Here’s what you’ll learn: In the game known as the streaming wars, Disney+ came out swinging, bringing with it a massive library of movies and TV shows—with new ones being added all the time. Watched everything on Netflix? Disney+ has a seemingly endless selection of Marvel movies and plenty of Star Wars and Pixar fare too. Problem is, there’s so much stuff that it’s hard to know where to begin. WIRED is here to help. Below are our picks for the best films on…
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“Tron: Ares” wants to enlighten you about the future of artificial intelligence

“Tron: Ares” wants to enlighten you about the future of artificial intelligence

🚀 Discover this insightful post from Culture Latest đź“– đź“‚ Category: Culture,Culture / Movies,Movie Review 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Ares, named after The Greek God of War was built to be an AI super-soldier. Then find out Frankensteinhe started listening to Depeche Mode, and realized that the techno brother who made it might be a hacker. So he takes matters into his own hands as he seeks freedom from his suicidal mission. I wish I was joking, but I'm not. This is a hypothesis Tron: Ares.AI robots waking up to the realities of human chaos is a trope almost…
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