- Black female country singers: ‘We’re tolerated, not celebrated’ BBC.com
- Fans Compare Beyoncé’s ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ to ‘Franklin’ TV Show Theme as Composer Says They’re ‘Similar’ PEOPLE
- Beyoncé’s Country Pivot With ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ a Hot Topic During Country Radio Seminar: ‘We’re the Coolest House on the Block’ Billboard
- Beyoncé brings new audience to country music and highlights the genre’s Black roots PBS NewsHour
- Black artistry is woven into the fabric of country music. It belongs to everyone The Guardian
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Katrina Kaif, Kajol, Shahid Kapoor give glimpse of how they celebrated their New Year, wish fans. See posts – Hindustan Times
- Katrina Kaif, Kajol, Shahid Kapoor give glimpse of how they celebrated their New Year, wish fans. See posts Hindustan Times
- From Shraddha Arya’s beach destination to Dheeraj Dhoopar’s Disneyland trip; Luxurious New Year getaway pics of celebs IndiaTimes
- Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Priyanka Chopra, Aryan Khan, Bhumi Pednekar: How celebs partied on New Year Eve Hindustan Times
- Kareena Kapoor in Switzerland & Shahid Kapoor in Bhutan – Here’s how Bollywood celebs are ringing in the New Year 2024 Times of India
- A Round Up Of Alia Bhatt’s Special Moments In 2023. Ranveer Singh Reacts NDTV Movies
Katrina, Kajol, Shahid give glimpse of how they celebrated New Year. See posts – Hindustan Times
- Katrina, Kajol, Shahid give glimpse of how they celebrated New Year. See posts Hindustan Times
- From Shraddha Arya’s beach destination to Dheeraj Dhoopar’s Disneyland trip; Luxurious New Year getaway pics of celebs IndiaTimes
- From Parineeti Chopra To Kiara Advani, These Bollywood Celebrities Entered The New Year 2024 Wearing Their Fabulous Best NDTV
- Kareena Kapoor in Switzerland & Shahid Kapoor in Bhutan – Here’s how Bollywood celebs are ringing in the New Year 2024 Times of India
- Filmfare Year-Ender 2023: 10 Best Instagram Moments of Alia Bhatt That Made the Year Special Filmfare
Prince Harry’s Birthday Call to King Charles Broke Six-Month Silence — and How Archie and Lilibet Celebrated – Entertainment Tonight
- Prince Harry’s Birthday Call to King Charles Broke Six-Month Silence — and How Archie and Lilibet Celebrated Entertainment Tonight
- Prince Harry & Meghan Markle’s Olive Branch to King Charles May Be Short-Lived After They Are Criticized for This Media Move Yahoo Entertainment
- King Charles received no birthday call from moaning Harry, says expert Geo News
- The Duke of Sussex and King Charles are preparing to ‘talk again’ after his birthday Tatler
- Prince Harry’s Children Archie and Lilibet Reportedly Recorded a Birthday Message for Grandpa Charles Yahoo Life
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Texas A&M Celebrated a New Journalism Director. Protests Followed. – The New York Times
- Texas A&M Celebrated a New Journalism Director. Protests Followed. The New York Times
- Black Texas A&M professor has contract changed; some say it’s because her previous work to improve d FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth
- Celebrated new leader for A&M journalism rescinds acceptance over ‘hostile environment’ KBTX
- Read all about it! Aggies in retreat from anti-woke zealots. (Editorial) Houston Chronicle
- Black Texas A&M professor has contract changed; some say it’s because her previous work to improve diversity FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth
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Hi-Fi Rush Must Be Celebrated – Unlocked 580
Now that we’ve had a week to play Hi-Fi Rush and see the incredible viral reaction to it, we had a deep and extended conversation about Tango Gameworks’ surprise rhythm-action release. We discuss why it was exactly what Xbox was needed, whether we might get a sequel, and more. Plus: the second half of the podcast is dedicated to an equally deep and heartfelt conversation about the state of 343 Industries and the Halo IP.
Subscribe on any of your favorite podcast feeds, to our YouTube channel, or grab an MP3 of this week’s episode. For more awesome content, check out our interview with Todd Howard, who answered all of our Starfield questions after the big reveal at the Xbox Showcase:
For more next-gen coverage, make sure to check out our Xbox Series X review, our Xbox Series S review, and our PS5 review.
Ryan McCaffrey is IGN’s executive editor of previews and host of both IGN’s weekly Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked, as well as our monthly(-ish) interview show, IGN Unfiltered. He’s a North Jersey guy, so it’s “Taylor ham,” not “pork roll.” Debate it with him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan.
A 2021 fusion power breakthrough is celebrated in three new studies, but controversy remains around replicating the findings.
On 8 August, 2021, 192 laser beams pumped vastly more power than the entire US electric grid into a small gold capsule and ignited, for a faction of a second, the same thermonuclear fire that powers the Sun.
The experiment in fusion power, conducted by the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, is explored in detail in three new papers — one published in Physical Review Lettersand twopapers published in Physical Review E — that argue the researchers achieved “ignition,” a crucial step proving that controlled nuclear fusion is achievable. But definitions of what constitutes “ignition” vary, and however defined, the results of 2021 are still very far away from a practical fusion reactor, despite producing a very large amount of energy.
Nuclear fusion involves the fusion of two elements, typically isotopes of hydrogen, into the heavier element helium. It releases tremendous amounts of energy in the process, which is the process that powers stars like the Sun.
A fusion power plant would produce abundant energy using only hydrogen from water as fuel, and producing helium as waste, without the risk of meltdowns or radiation. This is in contrast with nuclear fission, the type of reaction in contemporary nuclear power plants, which splits the nuclei of heavy elements like uranium to produce energy.
While fusion reactions take place in the Sun, and uncontrolled fusion takes place in thermonuclear weapon explosions, controlling a sustained fusion reaction for generating power has eluded nuclear engineers for decades. Experiments of varied design have managed to produce fusion reactions for very small amounts of time, but never have they reached “ignition,” the point where the energy released from a fusion reaction is greater than the amount of energy required to generate and maintain that reaction.
The team at the National Ignition Facility and authors of one of the three new papers, the one published in the journal Physical Review Letters, argue that “ignition is a state where the fusion plasma can begin ‘burn propagation’ into surrounding cold fuel, enabling the possibility of high energy gain.” That is, fusion began in cold hydrogen fuel and the reaction expanded to generate far more power than in previous experiments.
The 8 August 2021 experiment required 1.9 megajoules of energy in the form of ultraviolet lasers to instigate a fusion reaction in a small, frozen pellet of hydrogen isotopes, — an inertial confinement fusion reaction design — and released 1.3 megajoules of energy, or about 70% of the energy put into the experiment. The output, in other words, was more than a quadrillion watts of power, even if released for only a small fraction of a second.
“The record shot was a major scientific advance in fusion research, which establishes that fusion ignition in the lab is possible at NIF,” Omar Hurricane, chief scientist for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s inertial confinement fusion program, said in a statement. “Achieving the conditions needed for ignition has been a long-standing goal for all inertial confinement fusion research and opens access to a new experimental regime where alpha-particle self-heating outstrips all the cooling mechanisms in the fusion plasma.”
Subsequent attempts to replicate the experiment have produced far less output energy, most in the 400 to 700 kilojoules range, leading some researchers to suggest that the experimental design of the National Ignition Facility is a technical dead-end, according to reporting by the news department at the journal Nature.
“I think they should call it a success and stop,” physicist and former US Naval Research Laboratory laser fusion researcher Stephen Bodner told Nature.
The National Ignition Facility cost $3.5 billion, more than $2 billion more than expected, and is behind schedule, with researchers initially targeting 2012 as the deadline to prove ignition was possible using the design.
The new studies suggest that researchers are willing to keep exploring what the National Ignition Facility is capable of, especially because unlike other fusion researchers, the researchers at the facility are not primarily focused on developing fusion power plants, but better understanding thermonuclear weapons.
“We’re operating in a regime that no researchers have accessed since the end of nuclear testing,” Dr Hurricane said. “It’s an incredible opportunity to expand our knowledge as we continue to make progress.”
Peter Brook, Celebrated Stage Director of Scale and Humanity, Dies at 97
His own job, he said, was to encourage and enable, clarify and refine, and not to dictate. He had ceased preplanning, or “blocking,” movement onstage as a young director in 1946, when he came to the first rehearsal of “Love’s Labour’s Lost” with plans that, after a few moments with the actors, he realized were absurdly inflexible and promptly tore up.
He was never known to lose his temper during rehearsals, and he sometimes lapsed into an amused detachment. But his seriousness was never in doubt. For Mr. Brook, theater was “a whole mirror of human existence, visible and invisible,” which should challenge both performers and audiences to reassess the world and their lives.
Mr. Brook’s long and globe-spanning career continued well into his 90s. In September 2019, “Why?,” a play written and staged by Mr. Brook and his longtime collaborator, Marie-Hélène Estienne, opened in Brooklyn after a debut in Paris, with a tour planned for China, Italy and Spain. And a new book, “Playing by Ear: Reflections on Music and Sound,” was published the following month.
With his piercing blue eyes and quiet authority, Mr. Brook had undeniable charisma, though he disliked being described as a guru. He wryly rejected his nickname, the Buddha, since he felt that he was far from attaining spiritual certainty and, indeed, didn’t think any certainty was possible.
He was influenced by George Gurdjieff, a mystic who believed that nothing was to be taken for granted, that everything needed questioning, and that collaboration with others was vital. As Mr. Brook told The Times in 1998, “I am ready to disclaim my opinion, even of yesterday, even of 10 minutes ago, because all opinions are relative.”
Emma Bubola contributed reporting.
‘Anytime a black woman is enjoying herself, it is something to be celebrated’
Joshua Jackson is in awe of his wife.
Ahead of the 2022 Met Gala, the actor shared with Yahoo Life that Jodie Turner-Smith, attending the biggest night in fashion for the first time, has “embraced the joy” of the chaotic evening and is “taking everything out of this that she can” rather than getting stressed or overwhelmed.
To keep levelheaded — and look her best — the Queen and Slim star carved out some me time and indulged in a bit of extra self-care, starting with physical wellness.
“I’ve been at pilates every day doing my lymphatic drainage massages, and my facials, just like taking care of self,” she says, adding that she doesn’t usually get to spend this much time pampering herself.
“It’s actually really nice because in our business this is what people get to see, right, they get to see us, like, celebrating each other and celebrating design and art and fashion and ‘Oh, it’s just one big party and premieres,’ but the reality is, it’s really hard on your body. You don’t get a lot of sleep, you have all these first world problems but it’s a lot of stress and strain and you know, when you fly around everywhere, like what that does to your body, so we often don’t take care of ourselves…so this has actually been a really fun little excuse to be like, ‘Oh, I need to take care of my body right now.'”
She also wants to make sure she is in prime condition to make the most of her first-ever Met Gala.
“I’m going to be in a costume wearing heels and I don’t want to fall down, I want to dance all night,” she says.
Hubby Josh is no Met Gala novice and has no worries that Jodie will make it an unforgettable night without any help from him.
“I have not given her any [advice,] my only tip is like this: It’s a crazy wild thing. It just is and it’s madness and the stairs are intense and the night is kind of intense and if you lean into having a good time, you will have a good time. And I know that she’s going to do that, I’m so happy that I get to be beside her for her first Met experience,” he says.
Beyond pilates and massages, the actress has also been working with her beauty team for the big night, something she views as an opportunity to bring more seats to the table.
“I have always wanted to have a Black team and I feel that the number one thing that in my existence and in my career and in what I’m trying to do for people that look like me in front of the camera is create an environment of representation,” she says of her deliberateness in seeking out Black makeup artists and helping them grow their craft. “I want to do the same thing behind the camera, I want to do the same thing for the people that make it happen as well. There’s so many barriers to entry for people of color into the business and I think that the best thing that we can do as artists of color is actually help each other in that way by being that network for each other,” she says.
The two are attending this year’s Met Gala with Gucci and Motorola, the latter of which is making its debut at fashion’s biggest night at this year’s gala.
The brand’s “HangUpOnIt” campaign for the razr phone, famous for its beloved “hang up” action, is encouraging everyone to “hang up” on the status quo, something Jodie and Joshua are all about.
“This is my lovely wife’s first Met Gala. So that’s ditching the norm right there. But I think, you know, we are coming out of, hopefully, probably the most anxiety-inducing time in everybody’s–life and so just the idea that you could return to something that is maybe a little frivolous and fun and it’s for its own purpose, after this intense experience that we’ve all been through, I feel like that is really ditching a norm,” says Jackson, adding that simply enjoying life disrupts the status quo of the past two years. “I feel like just the celebration of beauty and American design and people getting together again, that in itself is kind of a revolutionary act right now.”
His “lovely wife” is just as excited to hang up on societal norms, something she says her mere existence embodies. “I think anytime a Black woman is enjoying herself, it is something to be celebrated. It is saying like the norm and whatever the status quo is, I’m allowed to be happy and I’m gonna be happy.”
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Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee: Holiday weekend, Platinum Pudding, pageant of flags. Palace reveals how Queen’s 70th year on throne will be celebrated
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Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch in British history.
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Elizabeth was born April 21, 1926, in London. She is held here by her mother, also named Elizabeth. Her father would later become King George VI.
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Princess Elizabeth poses for a photo at her London home in 1928.
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Princess Elizabeth is seen with her uncle Edward, Prince of Wales, during a visit to Balmoral, Scotland, in September 1933. He would go on to become King Edward VIII in 1936. But when he abdicated later that year, Elizabeth’s father became King and she became heir presumptive.
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From left, Princess Elizabeth, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret wave to the crowd from the balcony of Buckingham Palace on June 22, 1939.
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Elizabeth rides a horse in Windsor, England, in 1940. Her love of horses has been well documented.
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A 14-year-old Elizabeth, right, sits next to her sister for a radio broadcast on October 13, 1940. On the broadcast, her first, she said that England’s children were full of cheerfulness and courage.
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Princess Elizabeth shakes hands with an officer of the Grenadier Guards on May 29, 1942. King George VI made Elizabeth an honorary colonel in the Royal Army regiment.
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Elizabeth, right, and Princess Margaret wear summer dresses circa 1942. Margaret is Elizabeth’s only sibling.
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With the Drakensberg Mountains behind her, Princess Elizabeth sits in South Africa’s Natal National Park on April 21, 1947. It was her 21st birthday.
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On November 20, 1947, Elizabeth wed Prince Philip, a lieutenant in the British Navy who had been born into the royal families of Greece and Denmark. After becoming a British citizen and renouncing his Greek title, Philip became His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. His wife became the Duchess of Edinburgh.
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Princess Elizabeth arrives at a state banquet in London in March 1950.
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Elizabeth ascended to the throne in February 1952, when her father died of lung cancer at the age of 56. Here, she walks to the altar during her coronation ceremony on June 2, 1953.
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Queen Elizabeth II is photographed on the balcony of Melbourne’s Government House during her tour of Australia in March 1954.
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From left, Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother visit Epsom Downs Racecourse in June 1958.
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The Queen holds her son Prince Andrew while his sister, Princess Anne, watches during a family holiday at Scotland’s Balmoral Castle in September 1960. The Queen has four children, including sons Charles and Edward.
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Queen Elizabeth II is seen during the state opening of Parliament in April 1966.
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Queen Elizabeth II with her oldest son, Prince Charles, in 1969. Charles is next in line for the throne.
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Prince Charles adjusts his coronet during his investiture ceremony as Prince of Wales in 1969.
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The Queen and Prince Philip wave from a plane ramp shortly before taking off from Tokyo in May 1975.
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The Queen takes a portrait at Windsor Castle for her 50th birthday on April 21, 1976.
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The Queen meets the crowds during her royal tour of New Zealand in 1977.
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Elizabeth walks with some of her corgis at the Windsor Horse Trials in May 1980.
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The Queen stands next to Prince Charles as he kisses his new bride, Princess Diana, on July 29, 1981.
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Elizabeth takes pictures of her husband during a horse show in Windsor in May 1982.
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Elizabeth drives her Land Rover during the Royal Windsor Horse Show in May 1992.
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While at Buckingham Palace, the Queen and Prince Philip view the floral tributes to Princess Diana after her tragic death in 1997.
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The Queen addresses the nation on the night before Princess Diana’s funeral in 1997.
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Prince Charles looks back at his mother after wedding Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, in April 2005.
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The Queen, second from right, greets a crowd from the balcony of Buckingham Palace on April 29, 2011. Her grandson Prince William, third from left, had just married Catherine Middleton.
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The Queen’s signature is seen in the visitors book at Aras An Uachtarain, the Irish President’s official residence in Dublin in May 2011.
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Madame Tussauds London reveals a wax figure of the Queen in May 2012.
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Prince Charles kisses his mother’s hand on stage as singer Paul McCartney, far right, looks on at the Diamond Jubilee concert in June 2012. The Diamond Jubilee celebrations marked Elizabeth’s 60th anniversary as Queen.
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The Queen tours the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London in December 2012.
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A boy in Belfast, Northern Ireland, takes a selfie in front of the Queen in June 2014.
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The Queen enters the Great Hall at Edinburgh Castle after attending a commemorative service for the Scottish National War Memorial in July 2014.
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The Queen waits to give her speech during the state opening of Parliament in May 2015.
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Elizabeth listens to her great-grandson, Prince George, outside a church where George’s sister, Charlotte, was being christened in July 2015. George and Charlotte are the children of Prince William, left, and Duchess Catherine.
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The Queen takes a photo with five of her great-grandchildren and her two youngest grandchildren in April 2016.
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The Queen poses with four of her dogs on the private grounds of Windsor Castle in April 2016.
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The Queen and Prince Philip wave to guests in London who were attending celebrations for her 90th birthday in 2016.
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Elizabeth speaks to Evie Mills, 14, at a hospital in Manchester, England, in May 2017. Evie was injured in a bombing that took place as people left an Ariana Grande concert.
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The Queen sits at a desk in Buckingham Palace after recording her Christmas Day broadcast in 2017.
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The Queen arrives for the wedding of her grandson Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May 2018.
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The Queen laughs with Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, during a bridge-opening ceremony in Halton, England, in June 2018. It was Meghan’s first royal outing without her husband, Prince Harry, by her side.
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The Queen and Prince Philip look at a homemade anniversary card that was given to them by their great-grandchildren Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis in November 2020.
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The Queen receives a Duke of Edinburgh rose from Keith Weed, president of the Royal Horticultural Society, in June 2021. The newly bred rose was officially named in honor of Prince Philip.
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The Queen drives her Range Rover as she attends the Royal Windsor Horse Show in Windsor, England, in July 2021.
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The Queen attends the Royal Windsor Cup polo match and a carriage-driving display by the British Driving Society in July 2021.
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The Queen and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, left, greet guests during a Windsor Castle reception for international business and investment leaders in October 2021.