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Our 10 Jethro Tull Songs Fans Love The Most looks at the music of a band from Blackpool‚ England‚ first formed in 1967. Jethro Tull’s impact on the music world transcends genre classification. Fans have long argued over whether Tull should be classified as hard rock ‚ soft rock‚ or Progressive rock. In the end‚ they developed their own category. Led by the iconic flutist and vocalist Ian Anderson‚ who many people at times thought was Jethro Tull‚ the band’s evolution from blues-rock to a progressive powerhouse propelled them to international stardom. Their influence stems from their fearless experimentation‚ seamlessly The post 10 Jethro Tull Songs Fans Love The Most appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

At the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)‚ an 11-year-old boy from Morocco is hearing the world for the very first time thanks to a revolutionary new genetic therapy that has cured his deafness. While the gene involved is quite rare‚ the milestone represents a breakthrough in the treatment of patients around the world with hearing […] The post 11-Year-Old Moroccan Boy Hears for the First Time Thanks to Experimental Gene Therapy in Philadelphia appeared first on Good News Network.

The post How My Cats Help Me To Switch Off and Focus on The Now by Dr. Karyn Kanowski‚ BVSc MRCVS (Vet) appeared first on Catster. Copying over entire articles infringes on copyright laws. You may not be aware of it‚ but all of these articles were assigned‚ contracted and paid for‚ so they aren't considered public domain. However‚ we appreciate that you like the article and would love it if you continued sharing just the first paragraph of an article‚ then linking out to the rest of the piece on Catster.com. Hi‚ I’m Dr. Karyn! Read my introduction to learn more about me and meet my five hilarious cats: Clutch‚ Cyril‚ Alex‚ Zelda‚ and Zazzles. I have a confession to make: I am addicted to my phone. There‚ I’ve said it. I’m not proud of it‚ I’ve tried to fight it‚ but I know I’m not alone. I’m sure that many of my fellow Catsters out there are familiar with that compulsion to check your phone every 5 minutes (if we can even wait that long) for messages‚ likes‚ gossip‚ or funny clips. Losing hours down the TikTok rabbit hole‚ “doom-scrolling” into the wee hours‚ all too aware that we are the victims of addictive algorithms designed to keep us doing exactly that. At one stage‚ I even downloaded an app to try to break my phone habits; the irony of using a phone program for my phone addiction is not lost on me! But the allure of adorable animal videos‚ hilarious pranks‚ and emotional rescue stories keeps me coming back for more. There is one thing‚ however‚ that never fails to get me to put down my phone‚ even if it is reluctantly‚ and that is a big fluffy cat butt in my face! Cyril is definitely the main perpetrator in my house‚ and is also unfortunately the heaviest of my cats to have sitting on my chest. Even though he is initially met with frustration‚ his determination to place himself firmly between me and my screen‚ eventually forces me to put down the phone and enjoy his demanding feline attention. Clutch and Alex’s technique tends to be a combination of plaintive meowing and forcefully rubbing their head against my phone until I give in and turn my attention away from the screen to give them the fuss they want‚ and deserve. And when you think about it‚ how ludicrous is it that I am ignoring the real‚ wonderful creatures that share my home to watch clips of someone else’s cat‚ dog‚ or pet raccoon? Side note‚ I don’t think that wild animals should be kept as pets‚ but I want a raccoon so badly!! Me vs Cyril’s Fluffy Butt Why Do I Fight It? I love cats. I love all animals‚ just like I know you all do. So why is irritation my first reaction to my cats getting between me and my phone? It’s crazy‚ right? If you’ve ever watched The Social Dilemma‚ it’s actually pretty terrifying to see just how cleverly the tech used by social media companies and advertisers learns our habits and keeps us glued to our screens. Like many people‚ I deleted apps and suspended my Instagram account immediately after finishing the documentary. And like most of them‚ I was back within a few weeks. The trouble is that without our phones‚ we miss out on so much of what is going on in the world. Not just that‚ but our knowledge and awareness can be greatly enhanced by what we watch and read online‚ provided we’re looking in the right places. So‚ I accept my constant companion as a necessary evil‚ and hope that by clicking on more educational links‚ my personalized algorithms will help keep me on track‚ although I still can’t resist a good racoon clip! With the help of my cats‚ I am also learning to take a break. Me enjoying time with Cyril’s Fluffy Butt How My Cats Help Me to Switch Off With the possible exception of the late Grumpy Cat‚ our feline friends do not care about the internet. They aren’t into following trends or likes‚ and the only tweets they care about are the ones originating from birds. What they do care about is that the person they love‚ the person they have deigned worthy of their attention and affection‚ is worshiping the small rectangle in their hand instead of them. We all know that cats can be aloof. Their independent nature means that they seem not to need our affection‚ making it all the more special when they seek it out. So when I find my screen blocked by a fluffy Cyril butt‚ or my phone being jostled by affectionate head bumps‚ I take that as my signal to put the phone away and spend time with my cats. I give them my full attention‚ which they absolutely deserve. As a result‚ I have found it easier to put down my phone more often‚ disconnecting from it to connect to the world around me. Although it may not be their intention‚ my wonderful cats are helping me manage my phone addiction and improve my mental health and well-being; just another reason why cats are awesome. 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I’ve written here before about the quality of “I-want-to-read-it-osity” that some books have‚ a hard to define but easy to see quality which I am going to refer to as “grabbyness.” There are books you can pick up and put down and happily pick up again‚ and then there are books that seem to glue themselves to your brain‚ that utterly absorb you. There are books that are great when you’re halfway through them but that take work to get into. Sometimes‚ the kind you can put down and the kind that are hard to get into don’t cut it‚ because they’re hard to focus on while fretting. For me‚ grabbyness is a quality entirely orthogonal to actual quality. There are grabby books that are only OK and great books that are not grabby. It also has nothing to do with how ostensibly exciting they are‚ nor how comforting they are. There are just books that are grabby and books that are not. What I’m talking about is the power to bring you right into the story so that all you want to do is read more‚ and you forget entirely about the real world around you. So here are some suggestions for books that grab you. I’m trying to suggest a wide range of things‚ so that there might be some you haven’t read before—sometimes we want to re-read and comfort read‚ but sometimes we want new things that are sure to hold our attention. Children’s Books and YA First‚ for those of you with kids wanting distracting books and those of you who‚ like me‚ happily read books for all ages just the way I did as a kid: • Gary D. Schmidt’s The Wednesday Wars and the sequel‚ Okay for Now. These are not genre‚ they’re historical novels about kids in the US in the 1950s going to school and growing up. The first one has great stuff about Shakespeare‚ and the second about Audubon. They’re just great. Huge thanks to Suzanna Hersey‚ whose tastes are incredibly congruent with mine‚ for recommending these to me. • Ella Minnow Pea‚ a fascinating Ruritanian dystopian comedy by Mark Dunn. This is about an imaginary island off the coast of the US which reveres Nevin Nollop‚ the man who wrote the sentence “The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog‚” and when letters start falling off the memorial‚ they decide to do without the letters. This book is very funny and very clever too. Thanks to Gretchen McCulloch for reading this aloud to me on Discord‚ which was a great feat of pronunciation! • Eleanor &; Park by Rainbow Rowell‚ and after that‚ the rest of Rainbow Rowell. Eleanor &; Park is about two geeky teenagers getting to know each other‚ and their differently difficult families‚ and it’s just perfect‚ and it has that “can’t put it down” quality. All her books are like that. • Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein‚ a book about women pilots and spies in WW2 that does some incredibly clever POV stuff and is very powerful‚ but which also once caused me to miss my stop on the bus because I wasn’t paying attention to where I was. Science Fiction and Fantasy • Patrick Rothfuss’s The Name of the Wind. (You knew I was going to say that‚ didn’t you?) It’s fantasy‚ and it really does have a very compelling voice. I once picked it up to look up something for the re-read I was doing and accidentally read four chapters. And it has the advantage of being long and having a sequel‚ so once you are head-down into it‚ it will last you a long time. • Nina Kiriki Hoffman—almost everything she has written‚ but start with A Red Heart of Memories because it’s especially grabby right up front. She’s writing Zenna Henderson-esque novels set in the real US but with families who have magic‚ which isn’t a genre that I often like‚ but she really makes it work. • Ira Levin’s The Boys From Brazil‚ and again‚ pretty much all of Ira Levin. His work has that compelling quality. The Boys From Brazil is about cloning Hitler‚ and it’s really a compulsive read. • Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series. This may not be grabby for everyone because of the style‚ which really works for me but not universally. If you try the sample chapters and you’re not grabbed‚ wait to read it another time. But if you are‚ these books are incredibly absorbing and all-consuming in addition to being great‚ and I highly recommend them. • Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire: Get past the first intro chapter and you will get so completely sucked in to the problems of these worlds that you’ll forget all about the real one. This is one of the very few books we’ve done for book club that absolutely everyone loved. No wonder it’s nominated for all the awards. • J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings‚ the book that could always reliably take me to Middle-earth until I’d memorized the whole thing—so that if you start a sentence‚ I can finish it. I can now only read it slowly. But if you haven’t already read it to death‚ this is the perfect time to read or re-read it. • C.J. Cherryh’s Chanur books‚ beginning with Pride of Chanur—do not read out of order. Aliens and space stations par excellence‚ and again‚ utterly all-consuming. • Lois McMaster Bujold’s The Warrior’s Apprentice and all the subsequent books in the Vorkosigan series. If you haven’t read them‚ this is your lucky day. They may look like MilSF‚ and they are‚ but they are also so much more: they are about family and home and integrity and reproduction. I’ve written about them a lot‚ they’ve won a ton of awards‚ they are very good‚ and also very‚ very‚ very readable. • John Barnes’s A Million Open Doors and indeed‚ lots of Barnes. He does not write happy feel-good books‚ though AMOD is the closest he comes‚ but he has that spellbinding voice that means you want to keep on reading. I once re-read this on a very‚ very bad day‚ and it absolutely succeeded in removing me from myself. Not a comfort read‚ but it definitely worked. • Rosemary Kirstein The Steerswoman and sequels—available inexpensively as ebooks. I’ve written about these‚ too‚ they’re about people trying to understand the world they live in using scientific methods‚ and they’re wonderful friendship-centered‚ science-centered‚ and grabby. • Octavia Butler’s Clay’s Ark (and indeed most of her fiction‚ but I’d avoid the Parable books right now). Excellent SF‚ though somewhat pessimistic‚ impossible to put down. My husband Emmet suggested Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker books. I first encountered them as radio plays‚ and while I certainly find the books delightfully readable‚ I’ve never thought of them as must-read grabby. But the more I think about it‚ the more I think maybe they are and I never noticed because they’re so short I’d have read them in one sitting anyway. He also suggested Lawrence Watt-Evans’s Ethshar books‚ starting with With a Single Spell‚ which almost made it into my “books where nothing bad happens” piece except that bad things happen on page one. Light‚ light fantasy‚ clever‚ and very readable in that good way. His Dragon Weather series also has that same thing. Mainstream and Other Genres • Jennifer Crusie writes genre romance‚ and she has that gift of the grab—I’d recommend starting with Welcome to Temptation‚ which connects to Faking It‚ which is my favourite of her books. But you can feel safe with anything of hers to suck you in and pull you along. • Nevil Shute. Unfortunately I have no unread Nevil Shute‚ it’s all re-reads for me. But there’s something about his prose and his way of telling a story that really pulls me into it. If you haven’t read any‚ start with A Town Like Alice or Pied Piper. If you have read some‚ find the ones you’re lucky enough not to have read yet. Shute wrote some borderline SF‚ too. • Donna Leon’s Brunetti series—start with the second one‚ Death in a Strange Country‚ because that’s where they start to be really great. I have the latest one unread and I am saving it. • Peter Dickinson also wrote mysteries‚ and they’re all grabby in just the right way. Probably the best one to start with is A Perfect Gallows about an actor and a play being put on during WW2‚ or Hindsight‚ which also is about a wartime crime being investigated a long time afterwards. • Noel Streatfeild—did you know her adult backlist are available very inexpensively as ebooks? I bought and read them all last year and I thought I was doing really well reading only one a month‚ but now I wish I’d saved one. However‚ they are there for others‚ and definitely things I read in one bite. • Robert Graves’s I‚ Claudius and the sequel‚ Claudius the God: written in first person‚ utterly absorbing accounts of shenanigans in Ancient Rome. • Mary Renault’s The Persian Boy and also everything else she ever wrote‚ but especially this one. Historical novels about Ancient Greece; this one is about Alexander the Great and it’s set in Persia. Autobiographies • The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini—I’ve written about this‚ too‚ I couldn’t put it down. • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: engaging in exactly the way I mean when I say grabby. • Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry‚ which I idly started reading one day‚ couldn’t stop‚ and bought the second volume the second I’d finished it. Non-fiction So people don’t often talk about unputdownable non-fiction… I don’t know why‚ because there is some‚ and non-fiction can sometimes work when stories do not. • Don Kulik’s A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea is one I read recently that I absolutely could not stop reading. Incredibly absorbing. I bought it because I was mildly interested and then found myself riveted. • Kate Harris’s Lands of Lost Borders: This is a travel memoir about cycling the Silk Road‚ but it’s so well written and so full of thoughts and places‚ and so open and honest‚ that I couldn’t put this down either. • Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts is another travel book‚ this one about a trip young Paddy made in 1933‚ walking to Constantinople. It’s funny and charming and full of incident‚ and an absolute joy to read. Graphic Novels Not my thing‚ but Ada Palmer recommends Kurt Busiek’s Astro City for its unputdownability. Grace Seybold says she devoured Ryan North’s Squirrel Girl as soon as it came out. Vicki Rosenzweig and a bunch of other friends all recommend Ursula Vernon’s Digger as not only very readable and also gentle and fun. And I’d welcome more suggestions! icon-paragraph-end Originally published in April 2020. The post Finding the Books That Grab You appeared first on Reactor.

Newly minted Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) has a new project all lined up—and it’s kind of a doozy. According to The Hollywood Reporter‚ she is set to star in a long-gestating adaptation of Yōko Ogawa’s novel The Memory Police. Reed Morano (an Emmy winner for The Handmaid’s Tale) is directing the project‚ which is written by Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). The Memory Police was originally published in 1994‚ and arrived in the U.S. in 2019. The English-language edition was a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature and the World Fantasy Award. The novel’s synopsis says: On an unnamed island‚ objects are disappearing: first hats‚ then ribbons‚ birds‚ roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes‚ while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police‚ who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young writer discovers that her editor is in danger‚ she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards‚ and together they cling to her writing as the last way of preserving the past. Powerful and provocative‚ The Memory Police is a stunning novel about the trauma of loss. The Washington Post wrote of the novel‚ “Ogawa finds new ways to express old anxieties about authoritarianism‚ environmental depredation and humanity’s willingness to be complicit in its own demise.” The adaptation reteams Gladstone with her Killers of the Flower Moon director‚ Martin Scorsese‚ who is an executive producer on the project. Curiously‚ The Hollywood Reporter doesn’t mention a studio behind the film. In 2020‚ when the adaptation was first announced‚ it was at Prime Video‚ but that no longer seems to be the case. With a lineup like this‚ though‚ it’ll surely be snapped up quickly. The post Oscar Nominee Lily Gladstone Will Star in The Memory Police appeared first on Reactor.

The Biden White House had made the decision to halt the permitting process for several proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal projects due to concerns over their potential impacts […] The post White House Halts LNG Export Terminal Permitting Over 'Climate Change' Concerns appeared first on The Federalist Papers.

Electric vehicles are the future‚ they said. They’re the quintessential pain in the backside that isn’t worth the money and a resource drainer for the working family. Who am I kidding? These cars…