Author: Michelle Korhonen
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Celebrities were all over last night’s Super Bowl ads. Did the stars overpower the brands they were supposed to be selling?First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:Promoting the PromotersMany of last night’s Super Bowl ad breaks seemed to double as promotions for celebrities. An ad that focused on how Christopher Walken talks was immediately followed by an ad about how Arnold Schwarzenegger talks,…
Byeong Hun An summed up the scenes at this weekend’s Waste Management Phoenix Open as ‘totally out of control on every hole’.Dubbed ‘The People’s Open’ the event is renowned for having one of the best atmospheres on the PGA Tour. But An is right, this weekend’s event was marred by a select few spectators taking things too far.Chaos descended around the tournament grounds among spectators. Fans were seen invading the playing areas, doing snow angels in bunkers and sliding down muddy hills with their tops off.One spectator was reportedly taken to hospital on Friday after falling from the grandstand at…
A chartered quantity surveyor lost his job after telling colleagues their company had HIV and he had been ‘brought in to stop it before it became full blown AIDS’, a tribunal heard.Geoffrey Madawho, 48, heralded his arrival at Kent County Council-owned Gen2 Properties by declaring there was a ‘new sheriff in town’.But after the HIV comment and subsequently being told to dial things down a notch, he resigned after just seven days. He then launched a claim of racial discrimination and harassment but this was dismissed by an employment tribunal after the judge said his behaviour was ‘an example of him acting out…
Both President Biden and former President Trump have experienced public memory lapses. Experts say that’s common for people of their age and not necessarily a sign of cognitive impairment or dementia.
Listen to this articleProduced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration.At the height of the Iran-Contra affair in 1986, Saturday Night Live featured a now-classic skit in which Ronald Reagan (played by Phil Hartman) doddered around the Oval Office whenever a journalist or tour group showed up, then snapped into evil-genius mode when they left the room. “Casey!” he barks at CIA Director William Casey. “The TOW missiles and grenade launchers will leave for South Africa at 0800 hours!” He performs lightning-quick mental arithmetic to improvise funding for a covert op. Those who lived through the second…
A blood test that can predict dementia up to 15 years before symptoms start could change the lives of thousands, scientists believe. Researchers found 11 protein ‘biomarkers’ in the blood of individuals who were later diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and similar diseases, allowing them to foresee the conditions with more than 90 per cent accuracy. It means a simple blood test could replace the expensive, time-consuming and invasive tests currently available to dementia patients — more than a third of whom are never diagnosed at all. The proteins may also help guide the development of new drugs to slow or even…
Will enough of Trump’s party finally be willing to stand up for Ukraine rather than follow his lead and bow to Russia?Haiyun Jiang / NYT / ReduxFebruary 12, 2024, 1:15 PM ETAfter weeks of backroom maneuvering, the Republican split over foreign policy has burst into full view. The immediate stakes are the survival of Ukraine and the credibility of NATO. But behind the crisis of today is a larger crisis of tomorrow: U.S.-led defense of collective security, global trade, and the vitality of democracy as a force in the world.That split in the GOP emerged over the weekend in two…
England fans claim they were left blindsided after Twickenham trialled alcohol-free zones during clash with Wales… with spectators demanding refunds after being informed that they were prohibited from drinking in their seats – Sound health and lasting wealth
Sharing the books I read in January and if I’d recommend adding them to your collection! Hi friends! How was the weekend? I hope you had a great one! We were in Phoenix for an awards ceremony, and hiked at Camelback before heading home. For today’s post, I wanted to share a recap of the books I read in January. I really wanted to hit the ground running with books, enjoy some fun reads, and I finished five books last month. They were a mix of fiction and nonfiction, and I enjoyed all of them. Here’s a recap for the…
When I first saw the announcement, I thought it was a joke. Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant movement, was staging an “immersive theatrical performance” in Beirut, with three interlinked plays running simultaneously. The invitation noted that there would be live gunfire; people with heart conditions and children under 7 were discouraged from attending. Viewers would be given the chance to walk from set to set through a Gaza-style tunnel.Hezbollah isn’t exactly known for its avant-garde drama. But these are not ordinary times. The group has been exchanging bombastic threats and near-daily attacks with Israel across the Lebanese border, and about 150…