Everyone likely conjures a different moment when they hear the name Val Kilmer. Many will remember him drawling “I’m your huckleberry” as Doc Holliday in Tombstone (1993). Others may see a toothy gentleman with a gray combover sneering, “You don’t put any stock in this cold-fusion mumbo jumbo, do you?” in The Saint (1997). For me, it’s him menacingly snapping his jaw—likened to “the sharp-cut bottom half of a stop sign”—at Tom Cruise in Top Gun (1986) with a shit-eating grin after puny Maverick says, laughably, “I am dangerous.” Kilmer has been an unlikely pandemic comeback star. After a viral New York Times Magazine profile last May, timed to coincide with the publication of his best-selling autobiography, this weekend sees the release of Val, a new documentary… Source link

Looking for a few more things to watch this weekend? Find our recommendations below: Hit & Run From the creators of the Israeli drama Fauda comes Hit & Run; a twisty new series about a Tel Aviv tour guide, Segev Azulai, whose wife is killed before a visit to America. Suspecting foul play, Azulai engages the help of his Israeli detective cousin, an old friend, and an American journalist ex to track down the people responsible. Lior Raz, the show’s co-creator, stars alongside Sanaa Lathan, Gal Toren, Kaelen Ohm, Moran Rosenblatt, Lior Ashkenazi, and Gregg Henry. Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle Joëlle Miquel as Reinette.Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection To close out its digital “Summer of Rohmer” series, the Metrograph is streaming Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle,… Source link

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Data is everywhere around us and we interact with it regularly. Whether you’re checking out the latest model of a smartphone or buying groceries online, you are interacting with data in one way or the other. We have been dealing with data for ages, what has changed now is the scale of data produced and the speed at which it is accessed. Thanks to digital technologies like cloud, IoT (Internet of things), AI (Artificial Intelligence), machine learning, and more, companies are producing data at an exponential rate. This amount of data collected around the globe is too hefty to process. According to a report, “People are generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day.” Here, traditional relational databases like SQL might not offer the required scalability and performance to… Source link

Listen now | Today on the pod, it’s a guest for whom David has been waiting for—Avi Loeb, an astrophysics professor at Harvard University who thinks it might just be possible that aliens have visited earth. Loeb talks about his research into Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object that’s passed through our Solar System, and gives his thoughts on the recently released UFO report from the Office of National Intelligence. Loeb also tells David and Sarah about his scientific philosophy—how science is like a fishing expedition where you throw out a hook and see what happens. Source link

Today on the pod, it’s a guest for whom David has been waiting for—Avi Loeb, an astrophysics professor at Harvard University who thinks it might just be possible that aliens have visited earth. Loeb talks about his research into Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object that’s passed through our Solar System, and gives his thoughts on the recently released UFO report from the Office of National Intelligence. Loeb also tells David and Sarah about his scientific philosophy—how science is like a fishing expedition where you throw out a hook and see what happens. Show Notes: -Avi Loeb’s book Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth –On Oumuamua by Avi Loeb –Office of National Intelligence UFO report Source link

In 1989, Dr. Stanley Pons and Dr. Martin Fleischmann “discovered” cold fusion — the ability to produce essentially free, unlimited energy. Pons and Fleishmann became overnight celebrities. Part of the story’s drama was two, upstart chemists revolutionizing the staid field of physics. It was, according to the New York Times, a story of David and Goliath. Sadly, there was no proof in the pudding. Instead, a misreading of temperature underlay the heralded results.  Fast forward three decades to renowned economist Olivier Blanchard’s pronouncement, in his American Economic Association Presidential address, that “public debt may have no cost.” Blanchard was elected president of economics’ 20,000-member club for good reason. After an illustrious career as MIT’s top… Source link

In 1989, Dr. Stanley Pons and Dr. Martin Fleischmann “discovered” cold fusion — the ability to produce essentially free, unlimited energy. Pons and Fleishmann became overnight celebrities. Part of the story’s drama was two, upstart chemists revolutionizing the staid field of physics. It was, according to the New York Times, a story of David and Goliath. Sadly, there was no proof in the pudding. Instead, a misreading of temperature underlay the heralded results.  Fast forward three decades to renowned economist Olivier Blanchard’s pronouncement, in his American Economic Association Presidential address, that “public debt may have no cost.” Blanchard was elected president of economics’ 20,000-member club for good reason. After an illustrious career as MIT’s top… Source link

  Thursday July 29th       49th State Brewery – Becky Kotter Summer Deck Days  7p-10p Anchorage Town Square Park – Live After Five presents H3 Reggae 5:30p-8p Dirty Skillet (Hope) – Summer Thursdays with Hwy9  6p-9p Eddies Sport’s Bar – KBEAR Country Night with DJ Steve Franklin  8p-12a Everett’s (Wasilla) – Salsa Night  7p-9p Fairview Inn (Talkeetna) – Fairytale Adult Prom  9p-1a Flattop Pizza & Pool – An acoustic evening with Tiffany 6p-8p Flattop Pizza & Pool – Jukebox Karaoke Roadshow  9p-12a Georgeson Botanical Garden (Fairbanks) – Music in the Garden  7p-8p Humpy’s – Ukulele Russ 8p-11:30p Kharacters (Homer) – Zero Miles to Empty  9p-12a Koot’s –Rose’s Pawn Shop   9p-12a Mad Myrna’s – Thursdays with DJ Covy… Source link

Audi and Porsche were the only manufacturers to join Formula 1’s 2025 engine regulation discussions which are not currently involved in the sport. So why did the two Volkswagen Group brands want to be at the table? Last year Audi announced it will quit Formula E and put its efforts into the Dakar rally, where it enjoys more technical freedom. It is using the powertrain it developed for its final season of Formula E in the design of the RS Q E-tron which will tackle the dunes. Volkswagen Group’s motorsport portfolio has diminished since the company attempted to move past the reputational damage of the dieselgate emissions scandal by refocussing on electric vehicles. This makes Porsche and Audi’s presence at F1’s recent manufacturer meetings all the more intriguing. Red Bull team… Source link