NASA’s New Horizons Takes Photos of Ultima Thule, 4 Billion Miles Away
Now scientists await a bounty of new data about the small, mysterious icy body, the most distant object ever visited.
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Now scientists await a bounty of new data about the small, mysterious icy body, the most distant object ever visited.
The Nobel-winning biologist has drawn global criticism with unfounded pronouncements on genetics, race and intelligence. He still thinks he’s right, a new documentary finds.
“Homecoming,” “Dirty John” and “Lore” are just the first in a likely wave of headphone-to-screen adaptations.
Even as Facebook, Google and others confronted challenges in 2018, their ambitions were undimmed. After all, so much of life remains undisrupted.
Samanta Schweblin’s collection “Mouthful of Birds” offers parodies of work and family life, with characters who constantly talk themselves out of perceived reality.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 26, 2018, covering January 1, 2019.
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Meek Mill
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Michael Buble
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2019Paul Neville, Australian politician (born 1940)[†]
Paul Christopher Neville was an Australian politician who was a National Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1993 to August 2013, representing the Division of Hinkler, Queensland. After the Queensland chapters of the Nationals and Liberals merged in 2008 as the Liberal National Party of Queensland, Neville continued to sit with the Nationals in Parliament.
2019Pegi Young, American singer, songwriter, environmentalist, educator and philanthropist (born 1952)[†]
Margaret Mary "Pegi" Young was an American singer, songwriter, environmentalist, educator and philanthropist.
2019George, last known Achatinella apexfulva (born c. 2004)[†]
George was a snail of the species Achatinella apexfulva, and the last known individual of his species.
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[†]