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You Needed to Start Growing Out Your Sideburns Yesterday

You Needed to Start Growing Out Your Sideburns Yesterday

Published by Jenni Sidey

Having long sideburns hasn’t been in for a while, unless you’re an Elvis impersonator. Even with the recent uptick of ’70s hair (the last decade where they were universally accepted) the hairstyle is still seen as a bit outdated. The rule for a long time was simple: keep them neat and a far cry from Wolverine territory. But that may be slowly but surely shifting. Just look at some recent celebrity haircuts: Andrew Garfield and Jeremy Allen White have been growing out their sideburns alongside their beards. It’s a subtle, yet easy, way to stand out. “As we see shaggy mullet cuts lean into the ’70s, a longer side burn can look really good,” Matt Hughes of Idris Barbers says. “It’s also a way of standing out. Men are constantly looking for something different, and where that’s getting increasingly difficult now, men are looking to sideburns.” But don’t go too far to the bushy side, either. In fact, they can also look silly when they’re too tight to your hairline. “A shorter, well-tapered sideburn can …

Where To Start Reading Daniel Kraus Books

Where To Start Reading Daniel Kraus Books

Published by Jenni Sidey

This year’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction went to Daniel Kraus for his phenomenal work of historical fiction, Angel Down. For readers who’ve not followed Kraus’s career, it felt like a surprise win–the story, set during World War I, is unique in structure, being told through a single sentence. But for those readers who’ve known Kraus since the start of his career, the Pulitzer win made complete sense and felt like an honor his work more than deserved. Kraus’s work has been growing and expanding since his debut, The Monster Variations, in 2009. He is a writer who takes bold risks and always delivers on the promise and premise of his stories. He cut his teeth in young adult literature, but he’s continued to shine in his forays into adult fiction, middle grade fiction, and even comics. Many readers may not realize they’re already familiar with Kraus’s work, even if they are less familiar with his name. Kraus worked with Guillermo del Toro on the novelization of The Shape of Water, having breakfast with del Toro …

Key Events This Week: CPI, PPI, Earnings Start And Warsh Speaks

Key Events This Week: CPI, PPI, Earnings Start And Warsh Speaks

Published by Jenni Sidey

This week markets will navigate the latest complex geopolitical news amid a barrage of news including the latest US inflation data, with September CPI on Wednesday and PPI on Thursday, the final readings before the Fed’s October 28 meeting, alongside a broader US activity pulse from retail sales (Thursday) and industrial production (Friday). After Columbus Day today where US bond markets will be closed but equities open, Q3 US earnings season also gets properly under way tomorrow, led by the big US banks, while across the globe ASML (Wednesday) and TSMC (Thursday) should provide another useful read on the AI capex cycle. Elsewhere, China has September inflation and trade data on Wednesday, UK monthly GDP is due Thursday, and the IMF/World Bank meetings run through the week, with the IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook out tomorrow and a long list of central-bank speakers. Thursday we also get what may be a key speech from Warsh at the IMF when the Fed Chairman participates in a fireside chat with IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva at the IMF …

Russell Brand Arrives at Court for Start of Rape Trial

Russell Brand Arrives at Court for Start of Rape Trial

Published by Daniella Wilson

Russell Brand arrived at London’s Southwark Crown Court on Monday for the start of his rape and sexual assault trial. It begins with jury selection and could last up to 10 weeks, according to British reports, which also confirmed the heavy presence of media around the venue. The former actor, comedian and presenter was photographed arriving at the court in a grey suit and sunglasses with his wife, Laura, in the morning. Brand, best known for his roles on Big Brother’s Big Mouth and in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, is accused of three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault, and one allegation of indecent assault, with six women alleging crimes dating from 1999 to 2009. Brand vehemently denies the charges. Since the allegations have come to light, he has turned to Christianity and been baptized. He responded to the news in a video shared on his social media last year, stating: “I’ve never engaged in nonconsensual activity. I pray that you can see that by looking in my eyes.” Detectives began investigating in September …

Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Social Reckoning’ is off to a weak start

Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Social Reckoning’ is off to a weak start

Published by skeptic

“The Social Reckoning,” Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to “The Social Network,” is on-track to make only $5.5 million at the domestic box office this weekend, according to Sunday estimates. That’s below the already underwhelming $7 million to $8 million the studio had projected, and it means Sorkin’s new movie is unlikely to become a “Social Network”-sized hit. The earlier film had a $22 million opening weekend and made a total of $97 million domestically (and that’s at 2010 ticket prices). It also won Sorkin an Oscar and became one of most influential on-screen depictions of Silicon Valley and startup culture. Beyond the fate of a single film, the weekend box office could also offer hints about audience excitement, or lack thereof, as we kick off a fall full of movies starring villainous, real-world tech CEOs. There’s Alex Gibney’s four-hour documentary “Musk” (which also opened this weekend), Nathan Fielder’s apparently uncategorizable Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” (coming next weekend!), and the OpenAI boardroom drama “Artificial” (which has a new distributor after being dropped by Amazon). …

Expert tips to make you a better runner – start slow, enlist a friend, choose strength over stretches | Running

Expert tips to make you a better runner – start slow, enlist a friend, choose strength over stretches | Running

Published by Sam Flores

Whether you have never been for a run or are building up to a marathon, sometimes the biggest challenge is just getting out the door. Here, running coaches share their tips on everything from mindset to avoiding injuries – but mainly how to find joy in running. Find your motivation “I absolutely hate getting out of bed and going for a run,” says Jo Wilkinson, a former GB and England athlete who has been a running coach for 10 years. “It takes me a good 20 minutes to get into a run, and then I quite enjoy it. Motivation ebbs and flows in all of us.” Wilkinson suggests arranging to run with someone to make yourself get out – “It’s much harder to let a friend down. There’s a sense of obligation to turn up” – or find a running club to sign up to. “If you’re running after work, my top tip is: do not sit down,” she says. “Walk in the front door and put your running clothes on. If you sit on …

Want to Fight Book Bans? Start Here.

Want to Fight Book Bans? Start Here.

Published by Jenni Sidey

It’s Banned Books Week, which means book banning and censorship are getting more coverage than usual. Kelly Jensen is out this week, but she spends the entire year reporting on censorship news in the Literary Activism newsletter. If Banned Books Week has inspired you to join (or rejoin) the fight for freedom to read, here’s the best way to get started. Kelly wrote this list of “60+ Small Tasks to Defend the Right to Read” at the start of the year, but now is a great time to get started. “What can I do to learn about book censorship and help put a stop to it?” This question and variations thereof continue to be the most common ones I come across. The answer is not just to buy the books. That is an act of consumerism, and while it has value, meaning, and purpose — especially for living authors whose works and lives are under attack — it is not a step toward ending book bans. It is a myth that book bans increase book sales and …

The world’s first nuclear clocks start ticking

The world’s first nuclear clocks start ticking

Published by Jenni Sidey

Timekeeping has officially entered its nuclear age. Two independent teams, one in Vienna, Austria and another in Beijing, China have built working thorium-229 nuclear clock prototypes. Rather than track changes in an atom’s electrons the way that current atomic clocks do, these nuclear versions use a laser that’s tuned to the frequency where a thorium nucleus flips between two energy states for potentially even more accurate time keeping. Scientists believe this new approach could one day make the clocks far more reliable than any existing atomic timekeeper.  To put that in perspective, current atomic clocks can  keep time with an uncertainty of 1 second every 300 million years. Scientists predict that more advanced nuclear clocks could move that metric into the billions of years. That could open the door to probing some of the universe’s hardest-to-measure phenomena, like notoriously elusive dark matter. The Chinese clock and Austrian clock were detailed in a pair of studies published this week in the journal Nature. “The great advantage of the new nuclear clock in Vienna is that, if …

We’re reporters, not teachers. We were able to start private schools anyway

We’re reporters, not teachers. We were able to start private schools anyway

Published by Sam Flores

We have no business running a private school. We’re reporters, not teachers. That doesn’t matter. Inexperience has hardly been a barrier for those who want to start their own schools, as we have reported this year. And it didn’t stop us, either.  Over the last few months, to test the process, reporters from ProPublica partnered with local journalists in three states to establish private schools. None required much effort. In Arkansas, all it took was a few clicks on the Arkansas secretary of state website, $45 and an American flag to form a bona fide private school with the Arkansas Times. We established a school with Mountain State Spotlight in West Virginia after filing our new school’s name and location with authorities on a piece of notebook paper, then exchanging a few emails. And with The Assembly in North Carolina, we filed an online notice of intent to open a private school at Ponysaurus Brewing Co. in Durham, while perched on its metal bar stools, eyeing glasses of a crisp kolsch. We used our names …