When most people think about sun-related damage, they probably worry about their skin. But the sun’s ultraviolet rays also pose a threat to a person’s eyes. According to a 2014 study funded by the U.S. National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, UV radiation can damage proteins in the eye’s lens. Over…
via How Wearing Sunglasses Actually Impacts Your Eyes, According to Science — TIME
Get ready for the 2019 edition of Atonal with a look at some of the highlights from last year. Berlin Atonal makes its glorious return for 2019 this week with a stellar lineup that includes appearances from Objekt, Amnesia Scanner, Huerco S. and Mark Lanegan & Not Waving. In preparation for the epic five-day event…
Can you feel it in the air? The heat is starting to falter. The wind is coming in stronger. Starbucks is about to start selling Pumpkin Spice Lattes. Fall is almost here, and with it come all the biggest video game releases of the year. It’s already been a great year for video games, but…
via The 10 Video Games We Can’t Wait to Play This Fall — TIME
The Boeing-built X-37B space plane commissioned and operated by the U.S. Air Force has now broken its own record for time spent in space. Its latest mission has lasted 719 days as of today, which is one day longer than its last mission, which ended in 2017, as noted by Space.com. It’s not an overall…
via Experimental US Air Force space plane breaks previous record for orbital spaceflight — TechCrunch
Kentucky Fried Chicken is going beyond chicken with its latest partnership. As other chicken chains vie for chicken sandwich dominance, KFC is doing its bit for the planet and taking its first fledgling steps to move beyond the chicken coop with a plant-based chicken nugget in partnership with Beyond Meat. The first nuggets are going…
via Kentucky Fried Chicken goes beyond chicken in partnership with Beyond Meat — TechCrunch
You really have to give Oracle a lot of points for persistence, especially where the $10 billion JEDI cloud contract procurement process is concerned. For more than a year, the company has been complaining across every legal and government channel it can think of. In spite of every attempt to find some issue with the…
via Oracle files new appeal over Pentagon’s $10B JEDI cloud contract RFP process — TechCrunch
In 1893, Clare de Graffenried, special agent of the United States Department of Labor, published an article in The Forum describing an invasion of America’s northeastern border. For 30 years, Graffenreid observed, hundreds of thousands of French Canadians had been pouring into states like Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, finding work in the…
via When Americans Feared an Invasion From Their Northern Border — TIME
There’s a part of me that still can’t believe that a live-action movie based on Dora the Explorer exists, and yet, there it is. I’ve largely felt ambivalent about Dora and the Lost City of Gold ever since it was announced, but that’s probably due in large part to the fact that I was far […]
via Soundtrack Review: Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019) — Film Music Central
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