ortableau. The matrix was 26 rows long and 26 columns wide. The first row contained the alphabet as it is normally written. The next row used a Caesar Shift to move the alphabet over one space. Each row shifted the alphabet another spot so that the final row began with "Z" and...
"I've known Ari since she was an astonishingly talented 14-year-old," he said. "We've gotten to make music together a couple of times throughout the years, and whenever it happens, I am struck by how comfortable our collaboration is and how relentlessly hard she works to get ...
One of the first people to arrive on scene was then-Beaufort County Sheriff's Deputy Stephen Domino. In an exclusive interview with Battiste and "48 Hours", Domino recalled the chaos he encountered. "Everybody was crying, scared, shocked, just worried about their friend," Domino said. Mallor...
In 1856, W H Perkins was an 18yr old student trying to synthesize quinine. The reaction failed, and, as is so common with failures in the lab, he ended up with a nasty, black solid residue in the bottom of ...
When Stephen Sondheim died in 2021, the composer had been working for years on a new musical, “Here We Are” opening at The Shed, with the playwright David Ives and the director Joe Mantello. This is the story of how they made it.
"We birthed Baja Beach Fest because we wanted to create an inclusive event for Latinos, specifically young Mexican Americans on the West Coast, and that turned into this movement. It was almost the perfect storm," Den Uijl says. "As the brand has grown, we are now bringing...
When I was finishing my first book, I became so frustrated and hopeless with my writing that I knelt on the floor, put my face in my hands, and cried (a very macho, manly cry, of course). “I don’t want to do this anymore,” I thought. “I don’t want to write this book....
Make sure to use your skills to write about what matters for your story. Descriptive language needs to align with the scene's purpose. 2. Purple prose can make your reader feel stupid. Purple in ancient Rome was a sign of royalty and wealth—and by extension, pretentiousness. If you were...
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Much worse is the damage that has been done to public confidence in vaccines: In the Philippines, where immunization coverage was already dangerously low, the Dengvaxia scare caused vaccination rates to fall even further, opening the door to infectious diseases once believed to be on the wane. ...