Last week, the last episode of the final season of “The Big Bang Theory” was broadcasted on CBS. Say what you will about the show, but one thing is clear: it was popular. While the average episode in Season 11 received over 18.6 million views, the season finale ended its run with an audience of 23.44 million viewers. The New Yorker’s…
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Chicago Becomes First City To Collect ‘Netflix Tax’
Four years after announcing a 9% tax on streaming entertainment services, the city has collected $2 million in sales tax from Sony and two online ticketing services, making it the first major city to collect such a tax successfully. CBS News reports: The city collected $1.2 million from Sony in January, on services including PlayStation Video live events and purchases of…
Vox Sentences: Right to marry, right to work?
Source: https://www.vox.com/vox-sentences/2019/4/22/18511376/sri-lanka-easter-bombings-lgbtq-supreme-court…
America Reports Its First Cases of A Fungus Resistant To All Major Drugs
An anonymous reader quotes the New York Times:
About 90 percent of C. auris strains are resistant to at least one drug, and 30 percent are resistant to two or more of the three major classes of antifungal drugs. However, on Tuesday, the C.D.C. confirmed that it has learned in the last month of the first known cases in the United States…
Star Trek: Discovery Goes Out With Sound and Fury, Signifying…Something
Star Trek: Discovery’s second season has come to an end, and it’s ended with one hell of a bang. Several bangs, even. Actually, its season finale was approximately 90 percent bangs. It was Star Trek unlike Star Trek as we’ve seen it before, for better or worse, but it all built up to something potentially far more…Read more…Source: https://io9.gizmodo.com/star-trek-discovery-goes-out-with-sound-and-fury-sign-1834149240…
Watch: Barr walks away after he’s asked the most important question about the Mueller report
Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/4/18/18484817/william-barr-news-conference-mueller-report-walks-away-reilly…
Toxic Aluminum in Vaccines
Jon Rappport – There is a science library of studies referring to toxic aluminum in vaccines. Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/04/15/toxic-aluminum-in-vaccines/…
The Die Is Cast on an Emotionally Exhausting Star Trek: Discovery
After an entire season of build up, this is it. Star Trek: Discovery has come crashing into its endgame and the battle against Control is ready to begin. But before that, we have to go through what might be the ultimate realization of the show’s strengths and weaknesses: getting away with a lot of contrivance through…… Continue reading The Die Is Cast on an Emotionally Exhausting Star Trek: Discovery