Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Exploring Culture and Chaos, Dies

Joan Didion, whose mordant posts on California culture and the chaos of the 1960s made her a leading proponent of New Journalism, and her novels Play It as It Lays and The Book of Common Prayer heralded the coming of a difficult time. , succinct, distinctive voice in American fiction, died Thursday at his home …

AWS Outage Causes Chaos for Amazon Warehouse Staff

SEATTLE — Amazon warehouses across the country stopped working Tuesday as disruptions to the company’s cloud computing system removed the technology that powers the company’s logistics operations. The outage came during peak holiday season, and Amazon is already more complex and expensive logistics during the labor shortage. Usually, Amazon’s share of online sales practically increases …

Summer Travel Was Chaos. Tell us what you saw.

Hopes were high for travel in the summer of 2021. Vaccines have been launched in the United States, new coronavirus cases have fallen, and reservations have increased as restrictions are lifted. In reality, the resumption of summer travel was messy. NS Delta variant increased United States and beyond, some foreign borders closed again, airline delays …

‘Vacation Buddies’ Review: Life Lessons Amidst Chaos

Ugly couples comedy is an established genre, though no longer reliable. “Holiday Buddies” has the advantage of quality in the cast of couples; Lil Rel Howery, Yvonne Orji, John Cena and Meredith Hagner they are all guaranteed laugh generators. Howery and Orji, Marcus and Emily; Marcus is a button-down planner whose surprise offer to Emily …

In Alaska, Salmon Hunting Hints at Climate Change Chaos

This summer, fishermen set records in the world’s largest wild salmon habitat 65 million sockeye salmon From Alaska’s Bristol Bay, beating the 2018 record with more than three million fish. However, about 500 miles to the north, salmon in the Yukon River was alarmingly absent. This summer’s run of friends was the lowest on record …

Cauliflower and Chaos, Fractals in Every Flower

Monks once hoped to turn lead into gold through alchemy. But consider cauliflower instead. Just two genes are all it takes to transform the ordinary stems, stems, and flowers of the herbaceous, tasteless Brassica oleracea strain into such a wondrous creation as this fractal, cloudy vegetable. This is real alchemy, says Christophe Godin, senior researcher …