Shark Attack Survival Tips: What to Do If Bitten by Shark
Posted on August 27, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
Being attacked by a shark? Don’t panic.
As the weather warms in the U.S. and more swimmers head into the water, there is a rising likelihood of shark attacks. While the chances of being bitten are still very small, experts say it’s important to be prepared and not just thrash around in terror if the worst happens.
“We need to remember that sharks rarely ever bite people,” said Chris Lowe, a marine biologist and director of Shark Lab at California State University, Long Beach.
[Read More]Somebody's Daughter: 100 Must-Read Books of 2021
Posted on August 27, 2024
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| Martina Birk
These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. At the beginning of Ashley C. Ford’s blistering memoir, the author learns that her father is being released from prison, where he’s been for almost 30 years. Ford has never known life with her father in it—she was a baby when he was incarcerated, and she only found out the devastating reason for his imprisonment when she was a teenager.
[Read More]Sony Teases Quentin Tarantinos Final Film, the Beatles Movies and Live-Action Zelda a
Posted on August 27, 2024
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Sony Pictures gave the first major studio presentation at the 2024 CineEurope trade show on Monday. In a short but sweet show in Barcelona — which preceded the screening of Greg Berlanti’s rom-com “Fly Me to the Moon,” starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum — Sony’s president of international distribution Steven O’Dell gave a whistle-stop rundown of the studio’s upcoming titles, revealing an enviable list of filmmakers it’s working with.
[Read More]STATES & CITIES: Again, Chicago
Posted on August 27, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
STATES & CITIES “If Judge Jarecki rules against us,” mourned Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak of Chicago last week, “we might have to close the City Hall.” Against Mayor Cermak was precisely how Judge Edmund Kasper Jareckidid rule, holding the 1928-29 Cook County tax rolls invalid. Unless the State Supreme Court reverses the decision, new tax rolls will have to be compiled before $140,000,000 in back revenue can be collected. That sum represents a 22.
[Read More]The 10 Best-Looking Video Games of 2016
Posted on August 27, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
December 5, 2016 1:34 PM EST
Our list of the best looking games of 2016 isn’t just a rundown of the year’s most glamorous eye-poppers. Technical breakthroughs are one way of thinking about graphics in any art form, but too much of it and you risk siloing thinking.
Focusing on the rendering prowess of a game can, for instance, lead to overlooking the accomplishments of something deceptively simple looking, like Burly Men at Sea, Brain&Brain’s folk-romp that uses visually minimalist pastels and geometric shapes to frame its charming vignettes.
[Read More]The 17 most iconic female movie characters of all time, according to audiences
Posted on August 27, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
DirecTV surveyed 1,003 people about who they thought were the most iconic female film protagonists ever and provided the results to Business Insider. Below are the 17 characters people found the most iconic, ranked by the percentage of people that cited each character. Respondents were given a list of 70 female characters to vote on (here's the full list), with a write-in option available. The survey also asked people what films or franchises they would most like to see remade with female protagonists.
[Read More]The Amazon Fires, As Seen From Space
Posted on August 27, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
A version of this first appeared as the TIME Space newsletter sent on Aug. 30.
Space is aspirational. Merely the act of looking through a telescope is an exercise in questing. It’s vast, exciting, and gorgeous out there. Even scenes of cataclysm—a supernova, a Jovian cyclone—can be beautiful from so safe a remove as Earth.
Orbiting telescopes like Hubble or Spitzer or Kepler also have the luxury of avoiding the sometimes-dispiriting business of looking down at Earth.
[Read More]The Complicated Ethics of Writing Violence in Fiction
Posted on August 27, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
There are some hard ethical questions in the writing of crime fiction.
For me, the most difficult one is how to portray violence.
For one thing, should you depict it all?
And if so, how do you do it with some sense of morality?
I wrestle with this issue all the time. It’s a fine line to walk. On the one hand I don’t want to sanitize violence—I don’t like presenting murder as a parlor game, or worse, a video game in which there are no real consequences.
[Read More]The Paris Olympics Sees a Twist in the U.S. Men's Gymnastics
Posted on August 27, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
A total of 96 gymnasts tackled six events in men’s gymnastics on day one of the Paris Olympics, and there were surprises for the U.S., which competed in the first of three subdivisions of the qualification round. Results from qualification determines the lineup for the remainder of the competition, since the top eight teams, determined by adding the highest three scores from each team, move on to the team final, and the top 24 scorers compete in the all-around, with a maximum of two gymnasts from each country.
[Read More]The Resurrection of Neil Young
Posted on August 27, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
Every Neil Young album arrives with a question: which Neil this time? the folkie? The grunge progenitor? The acoustic country guy? Or the avant-gardist whose sonic violence can make instruments–and sometimes fans–cry out for mercy? For his 31st album, Prairie Wind, out Sept. 27, it’s yet another Neil Young: a mortal one. In March, Young was told he had a brain aneurysm, and Prairie Wind poured out of him in the week between diagnosis and his undergoing surgery.
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