The glasses still have some quirks to work out, but the potential here is massive.
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Scott Kramer,
Forbes.com,
23 Aug. 2026
The center contributes to global research on gibbons The gibbons are full of personality and individual quirks, and Skollar knows them well after decades at the center.
In both cases, there is something at once magisterial and leadenly self-regarding about the melancholic rhythms of Cusk’s prose, with its stiff and stately syntax and its utter impatience with the real vagaries of difference.
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Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
16 Aug. 2026
Some of the long time lag reflected the vagaries and limitations of travel in the mid-19th century, when moving family, servants, and belongings via horse and buggy in the winter months made a longer period necessary.
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Tracy Grant,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
10 Aug. 2026
The other is a powerful exposé on the safety breaches that have caused deadly crashes and accidents on Boeing airplanes.
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Lorraine Ali,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Aug. 2026
Nuclear power development stalled after high-profile accidents such as the 1979 Three Mile Island meltdown and the 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled public fears of the technology.
The three main sectarian deities have numerous avatars, local forms, and variations.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
28 Aug. 2026
Closer to home, Roman will monitor small variations in light from stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy in order to infer the presence of rogue planets drifting between the stars.
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