Making Sense of Verity’s Ambiguous Ending

Making Sense of Verity’s Ambiguous Ending

Anne Hathaway as the mysterious Verity Crawford in Verity —Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios Warning: This post contains spoilers for Verity. Under the studio lights of Hot Ones, across the table from host Sean Evans, Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway) looks every inch the bestselling novelist with the enviable life. We have seen a sliver of…

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What We Do—and Don’t—Know About Russia ‘Plague’ After Dozens Quarantined in Siberia

What We Do—and Don’t—Know About Russia ‘Plague’ After Dozens Quarantined in Siberia

Dozens of people have been quarantined and outbreak control measures are underway after a laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia died last week in undisclosed circumstances. Igor Kobzev, the regional governor of Irkutsk, said Monday the staffer had died from  “pneumonia of undetermined” origin. Acknowledging there have been “different interpretations of…

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The A.I. Boom Is Creating a New Market for the Physical Economy

The A.I. Boom Is Creating a New Market for the Physical Economy

The data center boom is exposing the financial infrastructure gap facing electricians, plumbers, HVAC crews and other businesses doing the work on the ground. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images Earlier this year, Microsoft president Brad Smith told a reporter that the single biggest obstacle to the company’s data center expansion wasn’t power, land or permits.…

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The Elon Musk Documentary That Has Him Fighting Back

The Elon Musk Documentary That Has Him Fighting Back

Theaters, in this moment, are proving to be a pretty good outlet for critical voices that the streamers and the social media platforms won’t allow. Which of those social media platforms has backed down from blocking the trailer? YouTube and Meta—both on Instagram and Facebook—are now allowing ads. TikTok is not, and X has said…

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The underdiagnosed condition that could raise your risk of heart disease — and the quick ankle test to catch it

The underdiagnosed condition that could raise your risk of heart disease — and the quick ankle test to catch it

Time for a heart-to-heart. When we think of cardiovascular disease, we might associate conditions like irregular heartbeat or heart failure with plaque buildup in the heart’s arteries. It’s also widely known now that women and men experience different heart attack symptoms. However, an overlooked condition — especially in women — can raise the risk of…

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Tom Brady Confesses to Blunder During On-Air Broadcast

Tom Brady Confesses to Blunder During On-Air Broadcast

Was Tom Brady silent, or was he silenced? While the NFL alum was commentating the face-off between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Los Angeles Rams on Oct. 4—which saw the West Coast team emerge victorious—Brady went suddenly silent while breaking down a play. His fellow commentator, Kevin Burkhardt, tried to smooth over the gaff by saying,…

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When Is the Best Time to See Peak Fall Foliage?

When Is the Best Time to See Peak Fall Foliage?

“What would have been a mosaic of lots of different colors, within the same period, is going to be now this extended thing where we see a few species change here and there, and then maybe a couple weeks later, another set of species,” he says. Don’t be fooled by leaves that appear to “turn”…

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