Director Christopher Nolan’s new thriller will be released internationally on August 26, Warner Bros. said Monday. The film will be released a week later in the United States for Labor Day weekend that will open on September 3. Tenet, which has been delayed multiple times due to the coronavirus, will …
Read More »John Oliver explains the “egregious” treatment of Uighurs in China | Television and radio
John Oliver returned to last week tonight on Sunday with a segment demanding attention to the persecution of China and the forced detention of the Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority in the country’s northwestern Xinjiang region, more than a One million of whom have been detained by the Chinese …
Read More »Can trees live forever? New Kindling for an immortal debate
Trees do not pay taxes. Some seem to avoid death too. Many of the world’s oldest organisms are trees, including a 3,600-year-old cypress in Chile and a sacred fig in Sri Lanka that was planted in the 3rd century BC. C. A bristle pine known as Methuselah has been alive …
Read More »John Lewis is in the state at the US Capitol.
Washington Congressional leaders, political luminaries, and members of the public will pay their respects to late Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon, in Washington, DC, this week. He will be lying in the state on the United States Capitol on Monday and Tuesday. An aircraft carrying Lewis’s coffin arrived …
Read More »Mars 2020 missions: Here’s why several spacecraft will launch this summer
Four missions to Mars were planned to launch this summer, including three rovers, from multiple space agencies. Two, including China’s Tianwen-1 (which carries a rover) and the UAE’s Hope Probe probe, launched last week, are now headed for Mars. NASA’s Perseverance rover is next, scheduled to launch on July 30. …
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