Tag Archives: Darkness

It turns out that your annoying friend who insists on closing all of the window blinds and covering all of the glowing electronics in a bedroom in order to sleep in total darkness is onto something. New research bolsters the well-established theory linking nighttime light to adverse health impacts. A preliminary analysis set to be presented at the American Heart …

In 1981, Bruce Springsteen found himself at a crossroads. He’d just finished his tour for The River, which had brought his marathon-length, rock & roll-revivalist shows to a record number of audiences. The E Street Band was hitting on all cylinders. “Hungry Heart” was his first single to crack the Top Five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. His record …

An underwater photographer in Australia was following a sea dragon carrying eggs during a rough night dive when he was surprised by a huge stingray. The spectacular dive was “one to remember,” says photographer Sam Glenn-Smith on Instagram. Despite challenging conditions, he had taken to the water to try to get photos of male weedy seadragons carrying their clutch of precious pink eggs.  “Visibility …

In an astonishing feat of gravitational sleuthing, astronomers have found a mysterious, dense blob of invisible matter embedded in a galaxy whose light took 7.3 billion years to reach us. Exactly what this blob might be is currently an open question, but it’s absolutely tiny for the distance at which it was detected – just around a million times the …

Data darkness in US spreads a global shadow  Reuters From Lipstick To Payrolls: Investors Turn To Strange Signals As Government Data Stalls During Shutdown  Forbes Economic Risks Of A Prolonged U.S. Government Shutdown  Seeking Alpha The ‘gold standard’ is absent for the Fed. What is it watching instead?  MarketWatch Kelly Perkins: Sorry Folks, the Government’s Closed… and It’s a Nothing Burger  CandysDirt.com Source link

Review | Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Last Rites’ captures the Prince of Darkness in twilight  The Washington Post Ozzy Osbourne’s Memoir and Doc: 8 Takeaways  The New York Times Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Last Rites’ Memoir Is Haunting, Revelatory, and Often Deeply Sad  Rolling Stone Jack Osbourne talks reading late dad Ozzy Osbourne’s memoir: ‘The last chapter’s the hardest’  Lakes Media Network ‘People screamed. Cried. Threw up’: 10 …

Morning Bid: Darkness falls on dour US jobs market  Reuters U.S. Lost 32,000 Jobs in September, Says Payroll Processor  The Wall Street Journal The US economy lost 32,000 private-sector jobs in September  CNN 10-year Treasury yield falls after surprise decline in private payrolls, government shutdown  CNBC ADP report: Private employers unexpectedly shed 32,000 jobs as labor market continues pullback  Yahoo Finance Source link

In this artist’s illustration, infalling hydrogen gas causes the growing protoplanet WISPIT 2b to shine brightly in the hydrogen alpha spectrum, to which the MagAO-X instrument is particularly sensitive. Credit: Joseph Olmsted/STScI/NASA Astronomers have captured something extraordinary: the first-ever direct photo of a baby planet growing inside a dusty ring around a young star. Using cutting-edge adaptive optics, the team …

A Defender of Darkness in the Darkest Place on Earth  The New York Times Source link

As he points out on the opening track of Play, Ed Sheeran has now been around a long time. It’s 20 years since he self-released his debut album and 14 since he signed to a major label and set about becoming the most commercially successful British artist of his age: long enough that we’re now seeing the appearance of pop …