Author: KnowledgeHippo
Two major Texas oil producers are joining forces in a $26 billion deal, the latest in a wave of consolidation in the U.S. energy industry.Diamondback Energy and Endeavor Energy Resources, both major players in the booming Permian Basin oil field spanning New Mexico and Texas, announced Monday that they will merge in a cash-and-stock deal, with Diamondback shareholders owning about 60 percent of the combination. Company.The Permian Basin was once thought of as a worn patch. But in the last decade or so, technological advances, including the advent of fracking, or hydraulically fractured horizontal drilling, have opened up its oil-…
In the darkest moments of a family tragedy, when playwright Mona Pirnot couldn’t find the strength to express her feelings to her boyfriend or her therapist, she tried something a little unorthodox: she typed her thoughts into her laptop and asked for a message. -program to speech to shout them out loud.It was a coping mechanism that also sparked a creative axis: Pirnot’s then-boyfriend, now husband, Lucas Hnath, is also a playwright, with a long-standing interest in sound and a more recent history of creating performances around disembodied voices. His latest work, “A Simulacrum”, featured a magician recreating his side…
Medical and scientific understanding of eating disorders is changing and expanding. What happened?Dr. Smith: Historically, eating disorders have mostly been seen as anorexia, which has been presented as a disease of adolescent women who want to lose weight for cosmetic reasons.Dr. Nagata: It has become increasingly recognized, particularly in the last decade or so, that some people with body image dissatisfaction are not trying to lose weight at all. Some men and boys try to get big and muscular. In fact, one-third of teenage boys in the United States report that they are trying to bulk up and become more…
Israeli security forces said early Monday they rescued two hostages being held in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, in one of the few examples of a successful hostage rescue in Gaza since the war began.The hostages, Fernando Simon Marman, 60, and Louis Har, 70, were being examined at a hospital in Tel Aviv and were both in good condition, according to a joint statement by the Israeli army, police and domestic security service , Shin. Bet.The statement came as Israel said it had carried out a “wave” of attacks in Rafah, a bustling city on the Egyptian border where…
Jonathan Henry, vice chancellor at the University of Maine at Augusta, hopes an email will arrive this month. He’s also kind of afraid of it.The message, if it comes, will tell him that US News & World Report has again ranked his university’s online programs among the nation’s best. The story suggests the email will also prompt the university to pay, through a licensing agent, thousands of dollars for the right to advertise its ranking in US News.For more than a year, US News has been embroiled in another bitter dispute over the value of college rankings — this time…
When an ad for Cetaphil lotion hit the Internet days before the Super Bowl, it drew rave reviews for a narrative that evoked a familiar story for parents, football fans and Taylor Swift fans.In the ad, a father tries unsuccessfully to interest his teenage daughter, who is distracted by something on her phone, at a soccer game. She goes to her bedroom to complete her skincare routine — using Cetaphil on her face. She then walks down the stairs to see her father watching a football game wearing a white No. 89 jersey. The announcer can be heard saying, “Well…
A group of students from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh traveled to Florida last month during their winter break.The students, many of whom are studying engineering and science, were there to watch a rocket launch that would send a small 4.8-pound robotic rover they had helped build on its journey to the moon. Afterwards, they hoped to have time for sun and fun, renting a large house just three blocks from the beach.Their trip did not go as planned.”We never saw the beach,” said Nikolai Stefanov, a senior studying physics and computer science.The rover, named Iris, headed for the moon…
China’s BYD was a battery maker that tried to make cars when it introduced its newest model in 2007. American executives at the Guangzhou auto show noticed the car’s patchy purple paint and poorly fitting doors.”It was the laughing stock of the industry,” said Michael Dunne, an analyst of the Chinese auto industry.Nobody’s laughing at BYD now.The company overtook Tesla in global sales of all-electric cars late last year. BYD builds assembly lines in Brazil, Hungary, Thailand and Uzbekistan and is preparing to do so in Indonesia and Mexico. It is rapidly expanding its exports to Europe. And the company…
An academic journal publisher this week retracted two studies cited by a federal judge in Texas last year when he ruled that the abortion pill mifepristone should be pulled from the market.Most of the study’s authors are doctors and researchers associated with anti-abortion groups, and their reports indicate that medical abortion causes dangerous complications, contrary to widespread evidence that abortion pills are safe.The lawsuit in which the studies were referred to will be heard by the Supreme Court in March. The high court’s ruling could have major implications for access to medical abortion, which is now the most common method…
Long before Donald J. Trump threatened over the weekend that he was willing to let Russia “do whatever the hell it wants” against NATO allies that do not contribute enough to collective defense, European leaders have been quietly discussing how they might prepare for a world in which America removes itself as the centerpiece of the 75-year-old alliance.Even allowing for the usual blowout of one of his campaign rallies, where he made his announcement on Saturday, Mr Trump can now force the Europe debate into a much more public phase.So far the debate in the European media has focused on…