On April 24, UC Berkeley’s production of Snowflakes, or Rare White People was supposed to open at the 500-seat Zellerbach Playhouse. In the sci-fi comedy, black and brown women run a far-future America, while two of the last remaining white people are confined to an exhibit at the Museum of Natural History. For the seniors…
Earlier this month, SpaceX engineers completed the 27th and final test of the parachute system that will soon be responsible for carrying astronauts back to Earth. When the four parachute canopies successfully unfurled over the Mojave Desert, it indicated that the company was finally ready to start sending humans to space after nearly a decade…
I shook hands with a stranger the other day. Even made a fist bump. Before you get your pitchforks out, this all happened virtually. I was in my Brooklyn living room, wearing sweatpants and a hoodie, and I tapped knuckles with Spatial’s vice president of business development and strategy, who was standing in his own…
Home News (Image credit: Sarang Sheth) The Google Pixel 5 could look like an evolved take on the Pixel 4 rather than a wholly different phone, if the latest design renders are anything to go by. Created by Sarang Sheth of Yanko Design, these new concept design images are based on a collection of leaks and…
Ferdinand Porsche founded the Porsche brand in 1931, at first designing cars for other companies. In 1948, Porsche and his son, Ferry, released their first sports car, the Porsche 356. Edmunds describes Porsche as having “a virtually untarnished reputation” and says the brand’s cars are “among the finest performance vehicles in the world.” Porsche is…
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One March evening, photographer Natan Dvir stood in the middle of an empty Fifth Avenue in New York City, fighting back tears. The shopping hub had been the focus of one of Dvir’s first projects after moving to the city in 2008. Now, amid a citywide lockdown, the street was a ghost town, its fashion…
With unemployment surging and businesses struggling under lockdown, millions of Americans are relying on the extra benefits payments issued under the $2.2 trillion dollar Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (Cares) Act. Yet, amid threats of utility shut-offs and housing and food insecurity, an alarming proportion are still waiting for their relief checks.Hold-ups in issuing…
These days, you can get a really good smartphone for $400—sometimes even less. You can get one that takes spectacular nighttime photos, one that’s easy to repair, or one with unrivaled speed. Unfortunately, you get none of these niceties if you give your $400 to the world’s number one smartphone manufacturer, Samsung.The Galaxy A51 is…
As a graduate student at Purdue University about two decades ago, Bobby Corrigan spent weekends living inside a commercial granary in Indiana. As part of his doctoral thesis, he observed how rats live, behave, and reproduce, following about 10 separate rat families on several floors of the sprawling facility. The population stood at about 150…
