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The Best Graphic Novels Of 2021
This year’s list of top literary, non-fiction and genre work covers everything from global history and politics to superheroes and mutant teenagers.Read original article here.Written by: Rob Salkowitz
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Meet the candidate who wants to be ‘exhibit A’ for getting partisan politics out of the business of running elections
“When you’re the Washington State Secretary, you play a national leadership role. We are exhibit A,” Julie Anderson said.Read original article here.
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Michael Saylor says bitcoin doesn’t need Warren Buffett’s support — and notes Microsoft has thrived without the investor’s backing
The MicroStrategy CEO and bitcoin bull argued the cryptocurrency can flourish with only a little institutional support.Read original article here.
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NYDIG’s cool $1 billion raise indicates investors believe Bitcoin is mainstream
NYDIG’s $1 billion round portends growing investor interest in crypto firms that help FIs offer their own crypto products.Read original article here.
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Washington Post Grasps for New Direction as Trump-Era Boom Fades
News outlet’s audience is down sharply, amid sector-wide declines, and subscription growth has stagnated as readers look beyond politics.Read original article here.
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A Sun-Like Star Just Blasted out a Flare That Would be Devastating if it Happened Here
In the search for “potentially-habitable” extrasolar planets, one of the main things scientists look at is stellar activity. Whereas stars like our own, a G-type (G2V) yellow dwarf, are considered stable over time, other classes are variable and prone to flare-ups – particularly M-type red dwarf stars. Even if a star has multiple planets orbiting…
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Galaxy Found With Twin Supermassive Black Holes
For literally being black in the truest sense of the word, black holes are surprisingly easy to spot. Astronomers have spent decades at this point purposely searching for them and have found thousands already, with potentially 100 billion existing in our part of the universe. We are still finding new types and configurations of black…
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Astronomy Jargon 101: Cosmic Rays
In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You’ll have to be careful around today’s topic: cosmic rays! Did you feel that? Something just hit you. It was a cosmic ray, a tiny charged particle traveling at nearly the speed of light. It was so small you probably didn’t notice,…