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'Melania' buried with low critic score on Rotten Tomatoes, scores 99% with verified audience

FOX News

Melania Trump documentary sparks controversy with stark divide on Rotten Tomatoes as critics panned the documentary as "propaganda" despite it scoring 99% with the "verified audience."


Groundhogs don't poop during hibernation and 6 other random facts

Popular Science

Shadow or no shadow, the rodents have a special set of ecological skills. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Despite advances in meteorological technology, we still keep a close eye on a rodent's burrow every February 2 for a weather forecast. While groundhogs --also called woodchucks--have been associated with the end of winter and beginning of spring for centuries, there's more to know about our rodent friends than their amateur Al Roker'ing. Unlike bears, groundhogs are true hibernators.


AI wearable helps stroke survivors speak again

FOX News

Revoice wearable device helps stroke survivors with dysarthria communicate naturally. Cambridge researchers developed throat-sensing technology achieving 4.2% word error rates.


Tax season scams surge as filing confusion grows

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'Coffee is just the excuse': the deaf-run cafe where hearing people sign to order

The Guardian

The video menu at Dialogue Cafe teaches hearing people how to order a drink using sign language. The video menu at Dialogue Cafe teaches hearing people how to order a drink using sign language. 'Coffee is just the excuse': the deaf-run cafe where hearing people sign to order W esley Hartwell raised his fists to the barista and shook them next to his ears. He then lowered his fists, extended his thumbs and little fingers, and moved them up and down by his chest, as though milking a cow. Finally, he laid the fingers of one hand flat on his chin and flexed his wrist forward.


A Harry Potter quiz may predict your career prospects

Popular Science

Researchers solemnly swear they are up to no good. Scorpius Malfoy (Nyx Calder) gets sorted into Slytherin in a production of'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' at Princess Theatre on February 25, 2021, in Melbourne, Australia. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Many people dream of starting their own business but wonder if they have what it takes. According to new research, you can find the answer to that dilemma in a Harry Potter house quiz.


How to Use Physics to Escape an Ice Bowl

WIRED

Here are three smart tricks, based on an understanding of frictional forces, to beat a slippery slope. I don't know who invented this crazy challenge, but the idea is to put someone in a carved-out ice bowl and see if they can get out. The bowl is shaped like the inside of a sphere, so the higher up the sides you go, the steeper it gets. If you think an icy sidewalk is slippery, try going uphill on an icy sidewalk. What do you do when faced with a problem like this?


The Brazilian Director Who's Up for Multiple Oscars

The New Yorker

Kleber Mendonça Filho wants his films to reclaim lost history. For Kleber Mendonça Filho, filmmaking is an act of both provocation and preservation. Mendonça was born in 1968, in the early years of a ruthless military dictatorship--a time when cinema, like much else, was harshly constrained. His mother, Joselice Jucá, was a historian who studied Brazil's abolitionist movement, and she taught him that filling gaps in the cultural memory was a way to expose concealed truths. His relationship with film is inextricably linked with his home town, Recife--a port city where attractive beaches and high-rise developments coexist with sprawling favelas and rampant crime. In his youth, Mendonça was fascinated by the city's grand cinema palaces. He carried a Super 8 camera to the tops of marquees and shot dizzying images; he spent hours in projection booths, learning the mechanics of how films reached the screen. Over time, Mendonça watched those theatres fall into decline, an experience that he likened to being aboard a ship as it wrecked. But even as Recife lost its allure, he made the city a fixture of his films--a way of vindicating its place in history. His first narrative feature, "Neighboring Sounds," takes place on a street where he lived as a child, a setting that he spent years documenting. Later, he made "Pictures of Ghosts," a documentary about Recife told largely through its cinemas.


Gavin Newsom Is Playing the Long Game

The New Yorker

He catches nascent changes in the political weather. "During early, he kept telling me, 'Crime--there's something here,' " DeBoo told me. DeBoo studied the latest crime statistics and saw nothing unusual. He brushed off the worry. Then new numbers came out, showing a large pandemic spike in shoplifting and car theft, and concerns about crime exploded into the headlines. Last March, judging the winds, Newsom launched a podcast, "This Is Gavin Newsom."


Escaped kangaroo blocks Virginia highway after being chased by hunting dogs, officials say

FOX News

Kangaroo spotted on highway in Virginia prompts rescue by Nelson County Sheriff's deputies Saturday morning. The injured female marsupial was tranquilized and returned to its owner.