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 S9A memorial in Yiddish, Italian and English tells the stories of Triangle Shirtwaist fire victims - testament not only to tragedy but to immigrant women's fight to remake labor laws   The 10-story Brown Building, site of one of the deadliest workplace disasters in United States history, stands one block east of Washington Square Park in New York City. Despite three bronze plaques noting its significance, it has long been easy to pass by without further thought.On March 25, 1911, however, thousands of New Yorkers gathered outside what was then known as the Asch Building, home of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Drawn by a brief but raging inferno, they bore horrified witness to dozens of factory workers with no way to escape gathering on the ninth-floor window sills, desperately jumping, and smashing onto the sidewalks far below.
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S12S33Netflix's Best Thriller of the Year Proves a Divisive Technique Can Work  In the streaming era, attention is at a premium. It’s great that viewers have thousands of titles at their fingertips, but that means they’re less likely to invest in the one they’re watching. Streamers have even told directors that “something needs to happen” in the first 30 seconds or viewers won’t be interested. Amid this cutthroat environment, Mike Flanagan has managed to keep the lost art of slow, deliberate storytelling alive. The Doctor Sleep director put Netflix horror television on the map with his slew of miniseries: The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club, and now The Fall of the House of Usher.
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S4165 Absurdly Clever Products Under $30 on Amazon Prime  Whether you’re buying clothes or groceries, it feels like everything has gone up in price. That’s why I always try to focus my spending on clever products — you know, the items that I’ll get a ton of use out of. But if you don’t have time to scour the internet for these types of products? Not a problem, as I’ve compiled all the best, most useful ones into this convenient list.From sturdy outlet shelves to rotary cheese graters, I’ve made sure to include a variety of items that you’re sure to find yourself reaching for on a daily basis. And since saving money is always a good thing, you’ll also find that each product costs $30 or less and is available on Amazon Prime.
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S70The song of a lost boy | Psyche Films  A delightful coming-of-age adventure, The Song of a Lost Boy follows the unexpected journey of Ben, a choir boy whose voice vanishes during a service. Humiliated, he runs from the church into a barren landscape where he finds solace among nomadic musicians and begins a profound journey of self-discovery. With a distinctive wax stop-motion style, the British animation director Daniel Quirke crafts a cast of peculiar yet endearing human figures that inhabit a Mad Max-esque landscape of desert plains, crimson sands and rocky alcoves.The story’s arc is communicated through the language of music, and sound serves as the conduit for discovering one’s true voice and sense of self. For Ben, the nomads’ pounding drums, resonant strings and uninhibited vocals represent the freedom of a new way of life and the promise of a society shaped by that freedom. Intermingling strands of attention-grabbing weirdness with a time-tested story, Quirke builds a joyful and unforgettable reflection on moving forward, leaving behind communities that no longer fulfil us, and finding the ones that do.
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S26Another Hospital in Gaza Is Bleeding  The New Yorker has been speaking with doctors at a hospital in southern Gaza, Nasser Medical Center, where conditions have been rapidly deteriorating during the Israeli bombing campaign. Scroll down to read the report, and turn on audio to hear excerpts of the interviews.Dr. Omar al-Najjar: Gaza is the place we were born and raised. However much they try to frighten and scare us, I agree with my family that I can’t ever leave Gaza.
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S34Nintendo of America President: "Everyone Has the Right To Form a Union"  Video game consoles come and go, but the Nintendo Switch is forever. At least, that’s how it sometimes seems. Six years after its launch, the beloved handheld hybrid is still going strong and on track to sell 15 million devices in 2023. But for Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser, the reason behind the Switch’s lasting power is simple: It’s the games.“It's still a very unique gaming platform,” Bowser tells Inverse, “And then on top of that is the games, the steady drumbeat of content, whether it's our own first-party games or whether it's games that are brought to us by our publishing partners, big and small, quite honestly. It's allowed us to keep players engaged.”
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S42A Planetary Scientist Reveals the Bizarre Untold Story of Why Mercury Keeps Shrinking  Planetary scientists have long known that Mercury has been shrinking for billions of years. Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, its interior has been cooling down as internal heat leaks away. This means that the rock (and, within that, the metal) of which it is composed must have contracted slightly in volume.It is unknown, however, to what extent the planet is still shrinking today – and, if so, for how long that is likely to continue. Now, our new paper, published in Nature Geoscience, offers fresh insight.
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S3260 Years Later, 'Loki' Episode 3 Revives a Delightful Sci-Fi Trope  More than half a decade later, Marvel's time travel show pays homage to the series that started it all.From the very first Superbowl commercial where we learned Loki was in trouble with the Time Variance Authority, Loki has stoked fan excitement over how it would include the coolest part of Avengers: Endgame: time travel.
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S29Blumhouse's Disturbing New Thriller Had to Overcome One Major Challenge  Emma Tammi learned all about animatronics... and how to show brutal kills within the confines of PG-13.Emma Tammi had never heard of Five Nights at Freddy’s, nor the extensive lore that came with the game, when she signed on to direct Blumhouse’s movie adaptation. But as soon as she learned about the premise — killer animatronic bears come to life and terrorize a pizza restaurant employee — she was all in.
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S27Joe Biden's Bear-Hug Diplomacy in Israel  President Biden embraced the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in Tel Aviv this week, reiterating America's support for Israel amid its war with Hamas. The President brokered a deal to allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza and warned Israelis not to be "consumed" by rage as they respond to Hamas's October 7th massacre of civilians in the country. "It's not clear yet what really has been accomplished by this extraordinary amount of personal diplomacy," the New Yorker staff writer Susan B. Glasser said. Senior Israeli officials are allegedly predicting several years or even a decade of war. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration is seeking more than a hundred billion dollars in federal funding, including assistance for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. But, because the raucous battle to elect a Speaker of the House is ongoing, the question of when this package might pass remains open. As the staff writer Evan Osnos noted, the events of the past two weeks underscore the challenges that democracy is facing both at home and abroad. The staff writer Jane Mayer joins Glasser and Osnos in conversation about it all.In the weeks before John Wayne Gacy's scheduled execution, he was far from reconciled to his fate.
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S36Here's How Long Takes To Stomp Your Way Through 'Super Mario Bros. Wonder'  Mario’s latest adventure is finally out on Nintendo Switch! Super Mario Bros. Wonder is a delightful return to the 2D platforming genre for the plumber thanks to a plethora of creative new features that emphasize the wonder (pun intended) of playing a good Mario game. But how long is it? We have your answer. Here is exactly how long it will take you to beat Super Mario Bros. Wonder.That really depends on how you decide to play Super Mario Bros. Wonder. The game is sectioned into worlds, and each one requires the player to collect a certain amount of Wonder Seeds to progress to the final stage of said world.
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S43Martin Scorsese's Brutal New Western Completes His Secret American Trilogy  There’s a moment of quiet profundity near the end of Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon where Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) is asked point-blank by his Osage Nation wife, Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), what was in the “medicine” he’d been giving her for years. By this point, viewers know as well as Mollie does that Ernest hadn’t been giving her medicine at all, but small, steady doses of poison supplied to him by his uncle, William King Hale (Robert De Niro).Moments earlier, viewers watched Ernest confess under oath to the murders that he helped his uncle commit, as part of a scheme to guarantee that the Osage’s rights to their oil-rich Oklahoma lands would go to them. Their crimes resulted in the tragic deaths of numerous members of the Osage Nation, including most of Mollie’s family. However, despite his courtroom confession, Ernest responds to Mollie’s question by falsely reiterating that all he’d given her was insulin for her diabetes. In response, she simply leaves the room.
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S37'Gen V's Big Format-Shattering Episode Does What 'The Boys' Can't For One Simple Reason  Episode 6 of Gen V is unlike any other episode of The Boys universe — nay, unlike most episodes of TV ever. The surreal, format-shattering episode follows Marie, Jordan, Emma, and Andre as they track down the reason for the huge gaps in the memories, bringing them to the last person they thought would betray them: Cate, who has used her powers of mind control against them.Now in search for what truly happened to them and those in the Woods, the gang ends up in Cate’s mind, watching, Ebenezer Scrooge-style, as they see the formative moments in her memory, from her imaginary friend Soldier Boy, to her first meeting with Dean Shetty, to how her powers affected Sam and Luke. But then, the memories shift to include not just Cate’s but also Jordan and Marie’s past. The visions even show a confrontation between Andre and the abstract concept of Luke/Golden Boy, who channels Cate’s inherent guilt into hatred for Andre.
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S40"I Have a Sordid Past": The Shocking Secrets Behind 'Gen V's Puppet Sex Scene  When Colin Penman read the script for Episode 5 of Gen V, he couldn’t believe it. The Canadian makeup designer has made a name for himself as an expert in prosthetics, working on Star Trek: Discovery and Dune, but Gen V, the college-set spinoff of the famously gory series The Boys, presented a much less realistic challenge: a no-holds-barred puppet fight scene, complete with felt intestines and plush brains. “I have a background, a sordid past in puppet building and puppeteering,” Penman tells Inverse. “When the script came across my desk and I read it, and saw it called for the Deep puppet, I thought, ‘Oh, this is my worlds colliding.’”
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S3045 Years Ago, the Most Ludicrous Sci-Fi Thriller Ever Created a New Genre  Attack of the Killer Tomatoes certainly wasn’t modern Hollywood’s first parody. It arrived at the tail end of a decade that had already given us Kentucky Fried Movie, Blazing Saddles, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Nor was it the first to attain so-bad-it’s-good status: see Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. But it was perhaps the first example of a spoof that intentionally aimed for cinematic infamy.It’s a cynical approach that’s since been replicated by everything from Lobster Man from Mars and Slumber Party Massacre II to every Syfy original based on an oversized monster; yes, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is to blame for the inexplicably popular Sharknado. In its creators’ defense, their paltry $100,000 budget meant they couldn’t really go in another direction.
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S45How Tech Is Transforming Entry-Level, Customer-Facing Jobs  Leaders have long focused on traditional talent management strategies. But as they make progress on their automation efforts and face a competitive labor market, these strategies are no longer sufficient. Leaders must shift their focus towards enabling customer-facing employees with technology, allowing them to broaden their talent pool and better support the employees they are able to attract. And, because a dollar invested in technology stays even as a dollar invested in people can leave, leaders can retain more of their investment in the face of high attrition. Therefore, technology must sit at the heart of future talent strategies — doing so will reset the bar for entry level talent.
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S16S3120 Years Ago, EA Made a Perfect Sports Video Game That's Never Been Topped  Growing up in a very bougie town in Southern California, every February my school would have a week-long break that everybody called “Ski Week,” when families would drive out to the nearest ski resort to enjoy the snow. Chilly days were spent snowboarding down as many runs as I could get in before the week ended and we all had to return to school. While I haven’t been snowboarding in years, I still shred down snowy slopes at least once a week thanks to SSX 3 — which 20 years later, remains the best snowboarding game ever made.While 2001’s SSX Tricky often stands out due to its arcade-like setup of courses that rewarded players for getting the highest trick score possible or the fastest time, SSX 3 wanted to go bigger and better in more ways than one. Namely, SSX 3 brought the snowboarding series open-world for the first time.
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S25The Silent Thunder of "Killers of the Flower Moon"  Two movies ago, Martin Scorsese made a long-cherished project called "Silence," and it's no accident that the center of his new film, "Killers of the Flower Moon," is silent. To be sure, "Killers" is full of talk; when I interviewed Scorsese about the movie, he mentioned that its star, his longtime collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio, "likes to speak in films," and Scorsese certainly grants him his wish. Nonetheless, the movie pivots on one of the great wordless gestures in recent moviesâindeed, silence both runs through the action like a poison and serves as its own antidote. There's a way of looking at this movie, a colossal tale of the sociopathy of American history, that's a matter of listening to what's said and what isn't. The movie raises the idea of silence to a nearly transcendent pitch of passion.Scorsese's film is an adaptation of a nonfiction book of the same title by David Grann, a staff writer at The New Yorker. The story is centered on the Osage Nation, in Oklahoma, in the late nineteen-tens through the mid-twenties. The Osage had struck oil on their land and had become rich, but the entire civic order of the areaâbusiness, politics, social life, law and its enforcementâwas organized to pry the money away from the Osage and get it into the pockets of whites. On a grand historical scale, "Killers" brings to light a horrific and shameful episode far too long hidden from view in mainstream, white-centric American culture. Like other films by Scorsese, including "Mean Streets," "Raging Bull," "Goodfellas," "Casino," and "The Irishman," "Killers" is also a gangster movie that dramatizes the spread of corruption at a personal level, like a virus, from criminal kingpins to more or less everyone in their purview. It's also, crucially, a marriage story, and this element shifts the movie's perspective vertiginouslyâtransforming a tale of collective and individual crime into a vision of love that is mysterious, almost religious, and ultimately terrifying.
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S15Carl Sagan detected life on Earth 30 years ago - here's how his experiment is helping us search for alien species today  It’s been 30 years since a group of scientists led by Carl Sagan found evidence for life on Earth using data from instruments on board the Nasa Galileo robotic spacecraft. Yes, you read that correctly. Among his many pearls of wisdom, Sagan was famous for saying that science is more than a body of knowledge – it is a way of thinking.In other words, how humans go about the business of discovering new knowledge is at least as important as the knowledge itself. In this vein, the study was an example of a “control experiment” – a critical part of the scientific method. This can involve asking whether a given study or method of analysis is capable of finding evidence for something we already know.
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S39If Apple Keeps Making iPads Bigger... They Need To Fold in Half  According to a questionable Digitimes report via MacRumors, Apple might add a 12.9-inch iPad Air to its extremely bloated tablet lineup. Such an iPad Air would be the same size as a 12.9-inch iPad Pro, likely without any “pro” features like Mini-LED or 120Hz ProMotion.Maybe the data shows people want a more affordable 12.9-inch iPad. But a larger iPad got me thinking... if iPads are going to keep getting larger, Apple should do the obvious: make them fold in half. Hear me out.
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S21S14Inflation: raising interest rates was never the right medicine -  Inflation remains too high in the UK. The annual rate of consumer price inflation to September was 6.7%, the same as a month earlier. This is well below the 11.1% peak reached in October 2022, but the failure of inflation to keep falling indicates it is proving far more stubborn than anticipated. This may prompt the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to raise the benchmark interest rate yet again when it meets in November, but in my view this would not be entirely justified.
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S50S24Spike Lee on His "Dream Project," a Joe Louis Bio-Pic  The director Spike Lee looked back at the length and breadth of his career so far with David Remnick at the New Yorker Festival. Lee talked about his father, a celebrated musician who turned down countless opportunities to play; falling under the spell of Kurosawa as a young film student; scraping together the money to make "She's Gotta Have It"; and the Joe Louis bio-pic he hopes to make one day. Plus, the writer Thomas Mallon discusses Showtime's adaptation of his novel "Fellow Travelers," about gay Americans targeted during Joseph McCarthy's witch hunt; and a preview of the stars to watch in the upcoming N.B.A. season.The iconic filmmaker tells David Remnick how he got his start, how to direct Denzel Washington, and when he wants to retire.
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S28Ibram X. Kendi's Anti-Racism  In November of 2016, just eight days after Donald J. Trump won the U.S. Presidency, a relatively unknown Black historian, Ibram X. Kendi, received the National Book Award for a nearly six-hundred-page tome titled "Stamped from the Beginning," a book claiming to trace the history of racist ideas in the U.S. In that moment, Kendi's book seemed to offer some explanation for the shock of Trump's victory: centuries of American racism and decades of toxic backlash politics. Kendi's follow-up book, "How to Be an Antiracist," sold more than a million copies as the country grappled with the horrors of the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. By the end of Trump's term, Kendi had become a household name.In the tumult of 2020, Time magazine declared Kendi to be one of the most influential people in the world. But he quickly became an object of derision from the right as the conservative campaign against Black Lives Matter gained momentum. Kendi's stark provocation that one is either a racist or an anti-racist epitomized the morality play that the right has come to describe as the essence of woke politics. Even more pointedly, "Stamped from the Beginning" argued, like the 1619 Project, that racism was a part of America's DNA. Kendi began to publish books for children and young adultsâwhich fit with the right's claim that woke progressives were trying to indoctrinate young people. Conservative activists have tried to ban Kendi's young-adult book, "Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You," co-authored with Jason Reynolds, in school districts across the country.
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S44S18Storm Babet caused dangerous floods as the 'dry side' of Scotland isn't used to such torrential rain  Storm Babet has caused havoc across the UK, with strong winds and rough seas along the east coast, record breaking rainfall and river levels in Scotland, overtopped flood defences, closed roads and railways and sadly at least two deaths. The impacts are not over as further rain is expected. The risk was clear well before the event. Storm Babet was officially named by the UK Met Office on Monday October 16 and a rare red weather warning was issued on the Wednesday, 32 hours before the heaviest rain started.
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