Archaeologists exploring a small village in China announced recently that they discovered three tombs filled with ancient treasures, including gold ornaments, a jade sword and ivory lacquerware. The tombs are actually a “high-level family cemetery” from the Wei and Jin dynasties, a period of time from 220 A.D. to 589 A.D., experts said. These are […]
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An estimated 62,000 entertainment jobs in California spanning film, TV, music and gaming will be disrupted by the rise of artificial intelligence within the next three years, a new study says. Published Monday, the report further estimates that 204,000 entertainment jobs across the United States will be affected by AI during the same time frame.
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Europe officially has a new record temperature – 119.8°F – reached on Aug. 11, 2021. The extreme heat, recorded on the Italian island of Sicily, has been deemed the new record temperature for continental Europe by the World Meteorological Organization. Previously, the record temperature for the continent was 118.4°F, recorded in Athens and Elefsina, Greece,
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What you should do, what you can but don’t need to do, and what you will have to do to get published. By Rebecca Colesworthy Randy Lyhus for The Chronicle What you should do, what you can but don’t need to do, and what you will have to do to get published. Source link
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It’s an observation as old as humans gathering around campfires: Light at night can draw an erratically circling crowd of insects. In art, music and literature, this spectacle is an enduring metaphor for dangerous but irresistible attractions. And watching their frenetic movements really gives the sense that something is wrong – that instead of finding
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Astronomers always knew spotting moons around planets outside the solar system would be no mean feat — but a debate currently raging in planetary science circles shows just how tough detecting these so-called exomoons is going to be. The story begins in 2018, when astronomers including David Kipping, an assistant professor of astronomy at Columbia
When all this is over, when Lily Gladstone no longer has to discuss and dissect and get all dressed up to celebrate “Killers of the Flower Moon,” the movie that first came into her life nearly five years ago and has now propelled her into history as the first Native American to earn an Oscar
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The Academy Award for costume design was handed out early in the evening on Feb. 29, 2004, at the 76th Academy Awards — but it signaled something big was afoot at the ceremony. “Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” had already picked up an art direction award moments earlier — and when
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Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) is a literary professor on a leave of absence struggling to sell his book thanks to a publishing industry enamored by pandering tales of the “ Black experience,” novels filled with violence and street slang. Irritated, he writes the “true story” of a convicted gangster under the pen name Stagg
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If you, like me, have children who love to look for interesting facts about the country, state, or city they live in, then today you’ve come to the right place, especially if you, as a native Mainer, want to know more about Maine’s history. This popular tourist destination provides some spectacular vistas, thanks to the
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