For many millennials and Gen Z cinephiles, Mark Waters’ Freaky Friday is a cornerstone of early 2000s cinema. The third adaptation of Mary Rodgers’ 1972 novel of the same name, this Y2K outing starring Disney icon Lindsay Lohan and scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis uses its central body-swap premise as a means to explore...
Back in mid-July, a rumor from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who is always in the loop when it comes to Apple-related info, claimed the iPhone 17 family's launch event would be taking place the week that commences on September 8. Gurman then speculated that it could happen on September 8, 9,...
Jared Solomon, the former Vornado vice president accused of embezzling more than $9 million from the REIT, has decided to fight the charges.Solomon, alongside his attorney, Peter Toumbekis, pleaded not guilty on December 4 after prosecutors from the U.S. Southern District’s office charged him with one count each of wire...
New York saw its fair share of military action during the American Revolution. This spring, Dr. Daria Merwin, an underwater archaeologist by training and Co-Director of the Cultural Resource Survey Program at the New York State Museum spoke at the Museum about maritime military encounters that pitted Revolutionaries against full...
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has multiple pornography platforms on allegations that they fall afoul of age verification laws. The state passed HB 3 in March 2024 and the law took effect in January 2025. HB 3 new requirements on services to confirm the ages of their users if they...
In 2013, I wrote a post for edutopia exploring the difference between students and learners. As ‘learning trends’ become the basis for full-on institutions of learning (see the Avenues: World School and North Star: Self-Directed Learning for Teens for two examples), these kinds of ideas are being field-tested, moving them from wishful...
Name: Greg Mankiw Location: United States I am the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. I use this blog to keep in touch with my current and former students. Teachers and students at other schools, as well as others interested in economic issues, are welcome to use...
Brazil’s House of Representatives will hold a hearing on Aug. 20 to discuss a bill proposing the creation of a national Bitcoin reserve in the country. According to the House website, at least six institutions are slated to participate, including the Central Bank of Brazil, the Ministry of Finance, a...
Kamala Harris did something unprecedented last year: She had just 107 days to whip up a winning presidential campaign, the most compressed timeline ever for a major-party bid. But while she fell short in November, ceding victory to President Donald Trump, many believed she would run for governor of California;...
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