More than six weeks have passed since the House passed the HEROES Act, its latest version of additional stimulus as workers, businesses, and states continue to grapple with the economic consequences of the coronavirus. However, the Senate wants to wait two more before considering a bill of its own. Both …
Read More »Monthly Archives: July 2020
Kemba’s shot has finally arrived | Bleach report
Kemba Walker was not the first NBA player to lose more games as a rookie than in his entire basketball fan career, and he certainly wasn’t the first lottery pick to spend his rookie season playing for a loser. This is the kind of thing that happens when a league …
Read More »Playing Beethoven’s piano sonatas changed how I listen to them
For my piano recital at university, encouraged by my teacher, I took an ambitious program. I opened with an elaborate Haydn sonata and ended up combining a late night Chopin with its full Ballade in G minor. I also played Schoenberg’s first three five piano pieces, intensely complex atonal works …
Read More »Trump says the increase in cases is ‘great news’
A pandemic of the new coronavirus has killed more than 520,000 people worldwide. More than 10.8 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering. The actual numbers …
Read More »Twitter may allow you to edit your tweets, but everyone must wear a mask first
“It may have an edit button when everyone wears a mask,” the company tweeted from its flagship account on Thursday. The comment quickly spread across the platform, retweeted half a million times in 12 hours, and received more than 2 million likes. Despite the great enthusiasm for an edit button, …
Read More »