The U.S. Navy is sending six warships out to sea to ride out Hurricane Dorian before the storm makes landfall. The coastal patrol ship USS Shamal––motto, “the Fury of the Storm”––left Naval Station Mayport outside Jacksonville on Thursday. Five other ships were scheduled to leave Mayport on Friday: the guided-missile destroyers USS Lassen, USS Paul…
via U.S. Navy Sends 6 Ships Out to Sea to Ride Out Hurricane Dorian — TIME
This week, Lana Del Rey’s Norman F—king Rockwell! comes out swinging as a statement of American despair over languid, beautiful melodies. Plus, Post Malone is back — this time with something more like a ballad — on the emotional “Circles.” Pop-soul singer Mapei puts forward a motivational anthem in “Rise Up.” Broadway’s Moulin Rouge! The…
via The 5 Best Songs of the Week, From Lana Del Rey to Post Malone — TIME
Saying goodbye to summer — and with it, some of the hottest books of the season — is never easy. But the most anticipated books of the fall offer some comfort, returning to beloved stories and characters from years past. This season, look forward to highly anticipated sequels to Margaret Atwood’s 1985 classic The Handmaid’s…
(LOS ANGELES) — Valerie Harper, who scored guffaws, stole hearts and busted TV taboos as the brash, self-deprecating Rhoda Morgenstern on back-to-back hit sitcoms in the 1970s, has died. She was 80. Longtime family friend Dan Watt confirmed Harper died Friday, adding the family wasn’t immediately releasing any further details. She had been battling cancer…
Listen to a previously unreleased live version of ‘Alien Observer’ now. A I A: Dream Loss and A I A: Alien Observer, the ethereal ambient masterworks from Grouper, are back on vinyl for the first time since 2012. To accompany the announcement Kranky has released a previously unheard live version of ‘Alien Observer’, recorded at the Emanuel…
When DARPA, an agency within the Defense Department that works on advanced technology for the military, asked Twitter users if they knew of any urban underground tunnels “able to host research & experimentation” on Wednesday, some people were a little freaked out — especially because the request was “short notice.” Some sent around memes from…
In the days when movie stars used to appear in mainstream melodramas made for grownups—when we used to have mainstream melodramas made for grownups—it meant something to watch suffering play out on a deeply familiar face. Joan Crawford, James Stewart, Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden: With their charisma and their carriage, in their Hollywood-royalty clothes, these…
Over 20,000 recordings joins Reservoir in ‘turning point’ for NYC-based company The post The iconic Chrysalis Records has a new home – at fast-growing Reservoir appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.
via The iconic Chrysalis Records has a new home – at fast-growing Reservoir — Music Business Worldwide
Work continues on developing MIT’s fully autonomous robot boats — “roboats” if you’d rather — and now they have a new trick, allowing them to change configurations and reassemble with one another to form a range of new structures. When last we checked in on the “roboat” project, the robots had achieved a basic level…
via MIT’s autonomous boat robots can now shapeshift to form new structures — TechCrunch
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