According to Taylor Swift’s record label, her new album, “Folklore,” secretly recorded in quarantine and released on Friday with only a few hours warning, sold more than 1.3 million copies worldwide on its first day of availability. That’s the kind of figure rarely seen in the music industry dominated by …
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Complete Arizona St. Will swim list for the NCAA 2020-2021 season
The Arizona State Swimming and Diving program has opted to redshirt its entire roster, for both men’s and women’s programs, for the 2020-2021 season. In essence, this cancels the team’s competitive season. Editor’s Note: A “red shirt” in NCAA parlance essentially means staying out of season and extending a college …
Read More »The mask debate is not a cultural war, it is Trump trying to distort reality, the facts
Referring to Trump and his followers’ crusade against the masks as a “culture war” he does not understand what it really was: an authoritarian attempt to bend reality. Unlike a culture war, the fight for the masks was not a matter of values, but of facts. Nor was it an …
Read More »Fascinating scientist animation shows how our entire solar system orbits an invisible center, and not the sun
© NASA Artist’s concept of our solar system showing a sense of scale and distance. POT Our solar system orbits an invisible point at its center called a barycenter, from which its mass is evenly distributed. Even the sun orbits around this point, so the center of the solar system …
Read More »Clippers’ Lou Williams to be quarantined for 10 days and miss games
The NBA quarantined Lou Williams for 10 days after the league investigated the Los Clippers guard for what he did while in an excused absence from the Orlando, Florida campus. The league announced Williams’ quarantine on Sunday, three days after Williams was photographed by rapper Jack Harlow at an Atlanta …
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