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- January. The James Webb Space Telescope entered orbit. The telescope has since yielded a series of stunning images of deep space. The James Webb Space Telescope: Looking back towards the beginning of time ("Sunday Morning")
- February. Russia invaded Ukraine, igniting a bloody conflict now in its tenth month. Ukraine vs. Russia: A modern-day David vs. Goliath story ("Sunday Morning")
- March. Researchers discovered the wreck of Endurance, the ship from Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated trans-Antarctic expedition that got underway in 1914. A tale of Endurance ("Sunday Morning")
- April. Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson? ("Sunday Morning") Why Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation resonates across generations ("CBS Mornings")
Dec 31, 2022 · 14 Headlines that made 2022...in 74 seconds. Watch a selection of some of the most momentous stories covered by BBC News this year. Video by Megan Fisher and Mattea Bubalo.
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Dec 16, 2022 · The year 2022 has been full of rapid and unexpected changes. From severe flooding in Pakistan to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, these 10 pictures cover major news events from the past 12 months.
- Slapgate: Will Smith vs. Chris Rock vs. Jada Pinkett-Smith
- West Elm Caleb
- The Journey to The Womblands
- The Lesbian Emu Tiktoker Who Almost Caught Avian Flu
- Try Guys Tried Adultery
- The (Pink) Sauce That Almost Killed People
- “Lea Michele Can’T Read” and The Funny Girldrama
- Don’Tworry Darlingand Spitgate
- Queen Elizabeth’s Death and Twitter
- Amber Heard vs. Johnny Depp
It happened, and we wanted it to be over, but seemingly every celebrity decided to share their feelings on the matter. At the 2022 Academy Awards in March, host Chris Rock did as Oscar hosts do and poked fun at famous audience members. At one point, he turned to Jada Pinkett-Smith, who was there supporting her husband, Will Smith, during his bid fo...
The West Elm Caleb drama took over people’s TikTok “For You Page” for days and wouldn’t let up as the situation deteriorated. It all started with women sharing stories on the app in January about how they went on a date with a man named Caleb, who seemed like a great potential suitor: among his romantic gestures, he would take dates to museums and ...
Some people create their own downfalls online. This is exactly what happened in the case of Chelsea Hart (@chelseahartisme) and Lance Tsosie (also known as @modern_warrior__ on TikTok). Tsosie is an Indigenous creator who had a large following on TikTok, where he would call people out for racist, homophobic, or transphobic content by dueting their ...
The world is already on edge with zoonotic diseases because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was believed to have originated in bats. The thought of a lesbian farmer almost catching avian flu from an emu on her farm that was suspected of having it, put social media on edge once again. Anyone who has used TikTok for long enough might’ve been served v...
In a string of events that no one seemed to have seen coming, one of the Internet’s biggest self-proclaimed wife guys cheated on his wife. The Try Guysare a group of men made up of Zach Kornfeld, Eugene Lee Yang, Keith Habersberger, and formerly Ned Fulmer. The quartet gained popularity on Buzzfeed’s YouTube channel in 2014 for, as their name sugge...
A runny pink sauce started appearing on people’s “For You” page in June as its creator, Carly Pii, began promoting it on TikTok. Pii, who goes by @chef.pii, made several videos drizzling the sauce on everything from fried chicken to tacos. People soon began to notice the sauce changing shades of pink from magenta to baby pink, and when they asked h...
Lea Michele famously grew up in the theater and made her Broadway debut as young Cosette in Les Misérables, then taking a role in Ragtime, followed by Spring Awakening. In 2020, one of her Glee co-stars, Samantha Ware, accused her of being a bully, which created a wave of negative public sentiment directed at Michele before she returned to the Broa...
The drama surrounding the production of the Don’t Worry Darlingmovie overshadowed the film itself, an imperfect movie that was actually not as terrible as the chatter would have you believe. In July, gossip about Florence Pugh’s on-set feud with director Olivia Wilde began to pop up on TikTok as people noticed that she wasn’t promoting the movie as...
Queen Elizabeth II’s deathafter 70 years on the throne, shocked the world. News of her declining health had reverberated across the world and social media timelines. After her passing, some people—mostly in the UK, who idolized the Queen—were upset by her passing and tweeted out condolences to the Royal Family. Others took the opportunity to expres...
The defamation case between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp that started with a 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post created some of the biggest moments on the Internet this year. We haven’t seen this much fervor for a morally sticky trial since Casey Anthony back in 2011—and that was before TikTok was around to showcase some of the ugliest tendencies of ...
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Jan 21, 2022 · Times are changing faster than ever as people ride out the pandemic. And vocabularies are evolving at an accelerated pace as well, leading to a sharp rise in buzzwords over the past year. In...
Dec 21, 2022 · Wednesday’s top tech news: 2022 in review. By Jon Porter, a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards.
Dec 22, 2022 · All that buzz about a tenuous hint of a problem with the Standard Model reflects the troubled situation particle physicists find themselves in. The 17 elementary particles known to exist — the ones described by the Standard Model — don’t solve all the mysteries of the universe.
