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“There’s this desperate need amongst a segment of our population to believe that nothing has changed and that with the election of a certain candidate, everything can go back to the way it was—and a big part of that is The West Wing,” Anthony says. “I was writing on a show with a guy and every day after we finished, he would go home and watch two episodes of The West Wing. When I asked him why, he said, ‘I just want to remember how awesome things could be.’ And I was like, ‘They’ve never been that! What are you talking about?'” … [Read more...] about Before you watch HBO Max’s ‘The West Wing’ reunion special, listen to skeptics of the beloved series

Also mirroring the events of the film: Donald Trump’s recent attempts to use rioters as props for his election the way Nixon did in 1968, and a series of unfit, Trump-appointed judges continuing the legacy of the film’s clearly biased judiciary, embodied with Harry Potter villain-level subtlety by Frank Langella. Not to mention the fact that the inciting incident of the film involves leftists being mad at a Democratic candidate and former VP (Hubert Humphrey) for not appealing enough to the left. The parallels to now are, more or less, apparent in nearly every scene. … [Read more...] about Aaron Sorkin Sorkinizes the radical left in Netflix’s ‘Trial of the Chicago 7’

In July, it started placing orders with syringe suppliers well in advance, realizing that demand would increase later in the year, and that it would also need time to get supplies to each country. “Vaccines are always shipped by air because of cold storage requirements and the need for temperature control,” Matthews says. “So the shipment goes relatively quickly, whereas the shipment of the associate syringes and safety boxes takes normally between two to four months to be shipped by sea because they’re far bulkier.” Each delivery will include special syringes that can only be used once, to prevent any spread of blood-borne disease, and thick boxes that can safety store the used syringes. Other organizations are working on other parts of the logistics puzzle, like making sure there is enough glass available to make all the vials necessary to transport the vaccine. … [Read more...] about UNICEF is stockpiling half a billion syringes to get ready for a COVID-19 vaccine

There are several advantages, Vidarte says. “You have an energy source that’s producing electricity during daytime and nighttime,” he says. “So it’s 24-7 production of energy. It doesn’t matter if it’s raining or snowing, it will produce the same amount of energy.” Unlike a large solar farm that might displace nature—as in South Korea, where 2 million trees have been cut down in recent years to make room for solar panels—the biological panels can work without impacting plants growing in a field. The technology uses materials (such as graphite) that are more abundant than those used in solar panels, so when mass-manufactured, it could potentially compete on price, though the startup is only beginning to collect data about how much energy the panels can generate. … [Read more...] about These biological batteries generate renewable energy from the ground

It’s technically challenging to design, since the approach is new. “No one has ever really studied from an aerodynamic point of view how this actually works,” Dhomé says. It will also have to operate differently than any traditional sailboat. “We can’t have sailors on the ship constantly be looking at the wings and trimming them, like we would do on a normal sailboat,” he says. “So we have to find ways to have the right sensors that enable algorithms that do the control. Again, that’s not something that has been done before.” … [Read more...] about This cargo ship cuts emissions 90% using an old-fashioned trick: Sails