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Teo Yoo, left, stars as Hae Sung and Greta Lee as Nora in the new movie "Past Lives."(Jin Young Kim/Twenty Years Rights/A24 Films) (4 stars) Celine Song makes a quietly spectacular writing-directing debut with "Past Lives," a lyrical slow burn of a film that expertly holds back wellsprings of emotion, until it unleashes a deluge.

During the summer of 2020, the composer and lyricist Madeline Myers spent hours at the piano in her Manhattan apartment as she struggled to write three songs for her new musical, Double Helix, about the British chemist Rosalind Franklin.The challenge wasn't strictly about marrying words to a score, but conveying the science of a crucial moment in the discovery of DNA's structure and making the songs entertaining.

Picture this: You're America's preeminent power couple, and you have a couple hundred million dollars burning a hole in your pocket(s).What do you do with the money?One possible answer, according to recent TMZ reports, is buy the most expensive home in California history.Neilson Barnard/NBCUniversal/NBCU Photo Bank
Beyonce and Jay-Z - with a net worth well into the billions, and famous enough that I don't need to identify their professions - reportedly paid $200 million... in cash... for a 30,000-square-foot Malibu mansion.

Chief Standing Bear, whose 1879 lawsuit and celebrated I Am a Man courtroom speech led to the recognition of Native American legal rights, was honored on Friday with a Forever stamp featuring his portrait.A leader of the small Ponca tribe in northeastern Nebraska, Chief Standing Bear successfully fought in court for Native Americans to be considered persons in the United States with the same rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as other Americans and not as wards of the government.

Maryse Conde's long life and career at 86, the Guadeloupean writer has published more than 20 books has been shaped by some of the world's biggest political and cultural upheavals.And she, in turn, has played a role in interpreting those shifts.With roots in Guadeloupe, but encompassing the years she spent in Africa, Europe and North America, her work has explored the many threads of the Black diaspora always keeping the Caribbean at the center.

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Thomas is a senior reporter at TNW.He covers European tech, with a focus on deeptech, startups, and government policy.Every tech baron worth their Patagonia vest is talking about AGI these days - albeit with mixed feelings.Some await our robot overlords with rapturous excitement; others anticipate a digital apocalypse.

Toni Morrison remains the sole Black female recipient of a Nobel Prize in Literature.An exhibition at Princeton University, where Morrison was a professor, commemorates the 30th anniversary of her win.Morrison is pictured above in Paris in November 2010.Franck Fife/AFP via Getty Images Walking into Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory, a new exhibition curated from the late author's archives at Princeton University, is an emotional experience for anyone who loves literature.

Chilean writer, poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda answers journalists' questions in 1971.STF/AFP via Getty Images International forensic experts delivered a report to justice officials in Chile today regarding the death of the South American country's famous poet Pablo Neruda some 50 years ago.A nephew of Neruda tells NPR that scientists found high levels of poison in the poet's remains.

The solitary denizens of Macondo appear to have proved too much for a famously insane knight errant, according to research that shows Gabriel Garcia Marquez has overtaken Miguel de Cervantes to become the most translated Spanish-language writer of the century so far.However, the genius who gave the world Don Quixote and with him the first modern novel and a byword for impractical idealism can take comfort in the fact that he remains the most translated writer in Spanish over the past eight decades.

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For a bee to be successful, it needs to shake its honey maker.Scientists have long known honey bees jiggle their bodies to let nestmates know the location of nearby nectar and pollen.Bees choreograph their twists and turns with cues about the direction, distance and even the deliciousness of flowers around the hive.

If you're a lover of books and culture, Italy is the place to be, with myriad cultural events, book fairs, and literary festivals held annually all over the country.Most of these events require knowledge of Italian, though some feature at least a few talks in English.There are dozens of festivals taking place up and down Italy this year.

History A piece that aired on NPR this week about the discovery of DNA's structure neglected to mention the significant contribution of Rosalind Franklin to that scientific milestone.AILSA CHANG, HOST: And now some important context on a story that we aired yesterday, a story about the anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA.

If you're a lover of books and culture, Italy is the place to be, with myriad cultural events, book fairs, and literary festivals held annually all over the country.Most of these events require knowledge of Italian, though some feature at least a few talks in English.There are dozens of festivals taking place up and down Italy this year.

Russian police searched several apartments belonging to former employees of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning group Memorial on Tuesday.The human rights group said some of the former employees were also apprehended for questioning.One opposition party condemned the move as an assault on dissent.Memorial, one of Russia's most renowned rights groups, was founded in 1987 to document cases of political repression in the Soviet Union.

Japanese Nobel Prize winning author Kenzaburo Oe poses in March 2012 during the inauguration of the 32nd Paris Book Fair, which focused on Japanese writers.Jacques Brinon/AP TOKYO Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe, whose darkly poetic novels were built from his childhood memories during Japan's postwar occupation and from being the parent of a disabled son, has died.

Given the influence of Denmark on the far-right Sweden Democrats, there's a good chance that the Swedish cultural canon will follow the Danish example, and include architecture, visual arts, design and crafts, film, literature, music, performing arts, and children's culture.If the plans go ahead, you can expect vigorous debate in Sweden's national newspapers on what works should be included and what should be left out, how much emphasis should be put on 19th-century classics, and how much on modern pop culture.

Kenzaburo Oe, a giant of Japanese writing and winner of the Nobel prize in literature, has died aged 88.Spanning fiction and essays, Oe's work tackled a wide range of subjects from militarism and nuclear disarmament to innocence and trauma, and he became an outspoken champion for the voiceless in the face of what he regarded as his country's failures.

On Feb. 4, as 26-year-old Pierre Lipton approached the finish line of the Mesa Marathon in Arizona, an official race photographer snapped his photo.He wore matching yellow running clothes and sunglasses.The hint of a smile crept onto his face.Neither of his feet were touching the ground.Lipton, who graduated from Brown University, was about to complete the marathon in 3 hours, 10 minutes, and 5 seconds.

You probably know Albert Einstein as the guy with big hair; thought about the space-time continuum a lot - his name is synonymous with genius.But, while the former Austrian patent clerk turned theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize-winner, and Time 's "Man of the Century" was hypothesizing about things that changed the course of human history and scientific discovery forever, he also had 3 kids.

A wooded alley in the Russian Orthodox cemetery in Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, France.Eleanor Beardsley/NPR SAINTE-GENEVIEVE-DES-BOIS, France The largest Russian Orthodox cemetery outside of Russia is quiet on a winter morning, save for birdsong in the birch and pine trees planted between the graves.

Fifty years on, the true cause of death of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, in the wake of the country's 1973 coup d'etat, has remained in doubt across the world.The Nobel laureate was not only one of the world's most celebrated poets but also one of Chile's most influential political activists.An outspoken communist, he supported Salvador Allende, Chile's leftist president from 1970 to 1973, and worked in his administration.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A MasterChef judge and a Nobel Prize winner are due to receive honours at Buckingham Palace on Thursday.Celebrity chef John Torode will be made an MBE for his services to food and charity, while Professor Sir David MacMillan will receive his knighthood for services to chemistry and science.

The King has praised David Hockney's galoshes and revealed he cannot wait for the artist's next project as he celebrated leading figures from the world of politics, science and the arts.Charles gathered members of the prestigious Order of Merit for their annual Buckingham Palace lunch and welcomed an array of pioneers from broadcaster Sir David Attenborough to world wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Television presenter and author Baroness Floella Benjamin is among six leading figures chosen by the late Queen to become members of the Order of Merit and appointed by the King.Among the distinguished group are a molecular biologist and a geneticist both recipients of the Noble Prize, an award-winning architect, a former nurse who led the way in sickle cell treatment and a leading historian.

Gene therapy has had a long and bumpy history.Although researchers have made some notable and recent progress, past failures-including some deaths-have fueled mistrust and controversy.Despite these issues, experts say there could be a bright future ahead if gene therapy can be shown to work for difficult and rare genetic diseases.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman says Tesla may have more in common with bitcoin than you think.He explained that Tesla sales have depended in part on the perception that CEO Elon Musk is a cool guy while the price of bitcoin is being sustained by a hard-core group of true believers.Paul Krugman Compares Tesla to Bitcoin Paul Krugman, who won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2008 for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity, published an opinion piece in the New York Times Tuesday about Tesla, bitcoin, and their huge valuations.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has warned about the possibility of a perennial winter for blockchain projects, including crypto.In a recent article published in the New York Times (NYT), the economist criticizes blockchain as a tech and its uses citing several signs that he believes precede this upcoming winter.

True story: When I won the Nobel Prize in 2008, Princeton quickly set up a special event on campus and reserved a parking space for me in front of Robertson Hall.But when I drove up in my 2004 Jetta, the security people frantically tried to wave me away.They clearly didn't find it plausible that a laureate would be driving such a modest car.

Quantum computing has been slowly progressing both as a technology and potential new platform business (see my previous column, "The Business of Quantum Computing," Communications, Oct. 2018).But another application of quantum mechanics that has attracted increasing attention is quantum communications.

Nobody knows for certain what the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi did or didn't say at the lunch with colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico that took place in 1950.But as the perhaps apocryphal story has it, Fermi was holding forth on the sheer number of stars in the sky and the sheer number of intelligent civilizations the planets orbiting them might harbor, and puzzling out why we've never seen or heard any sign of them.

Matthew Cobb is a zoologist and author whose background is in insect genetics and the history of science.Over the past decade or so, as CRISPR was discovered and applied to genetic remodeling, he started to get concerned-afraid, actually-about three potential applications of the technology.He's in good company: Jennifer Doudna, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020 for discovering and harnessing CRISPR, is afraid of the same things.

Everywhere you look these days, people are talking about bank runs.The collapse of crypto exchange FTX; the flood of assets out of Credit Suisse Group AG; the limits on fund redemptions by Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT) - they've all been characterized as "bank runs" by various commentators.

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing Studio Libeskind's design for a contemporary extension to the iconic Boerentoren tower in Antwerp, Belgium.Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind's studio has designed an extension to the 90-year-old tower, which was once Europe's tallest high-rise, as part of a plan to preserve its architectural heritage while transforming it into a cultural institution.

Henry Bernstein has seen Bob Dylan 27 times in concert and owns three items autographed by him: a copy of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan album, a photograph of the singer and a John Wesley Harding songbook.His favorite song is Tangled Up in Blue.So when Simon & Schuster, Dylan's publisher, advertised limited-edition, hand-signed copies of the musician's new collection of essays for $600 each, Bernstein was among 900 fans who went for one.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN SONG, by Bob Dylan Come with me, and let's stand in the rain of the clauses and sub-clauses in Bob Dylan's devious new book, The Philosophy of Modern Song.Dylan has rounded up 66 songs, from Bobby Darin's Mack the Knife and Webb Pierce's There Stands the Glass to Nina Simone's Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood and the Clash's London Calling, and he riffs on them.

In a recent story on the Tribune website, Kane County State's Attorney Jamie Mosser said she and other state's attorneys are working to have the SAFE-T Act modified to protect survivors.While we appreciate the sentiment, the substance of the proposals the group has put forward seems to be in conflict with that.

With works created throughout the 1930s, a new exhibition provides an intimate encounter with Maar's early photographic interests and her preoccupation with the subtle and uncanny.The show anticipates the later foray into surrealism for which she is renowned today.Contact Prints is at Huxley-Parlour gallery, London until 19 November.

Organisers say 140,000 people attended the march against the rising cost of living and alleged government inaction against climate change.Organisers said 140,000 people attended Sunday's rally.Organisers called it a march against the high cost of living and climate inaction.But one poll by the BVA polling group released on Friday suggested only 37 percent of people supported the stoppages.

Thousands of protesters, including France's newly crowned Nobel literature laureate, piled into the streets of Paris on Sunday, in a show of anger against the bite of rising prices and cranking up pressure on the government of President Emmanuel Macron.
he march for wage increases and other demands was organised by left-wing opponents of Mr Macron and lit the fuse on what promises to be an uncomfortable week for his centrist government.