Los Angeles Times reporter Joseph Menn’s “All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning’s Napster” provides the best seat yet to the online music revolution. In 1999, Fanning, a 19-year-old Boston-area hacker from a broken home, stumbled on the idea for making digital MP3 files easy to find on the Net. Teaming up with fellow geeks he knew only through online chat rooms, he crafted a simple technology that allowed millions to swap music collections free of charge....
It’s not your fault if you developed certain beliefs early on that may be continuing to cause problems at work, school, or home. The good news is that it’s never too late to learn healthy ways of improving self-esteem and changing negative thought patterns you developed earlier in childhood. This article discusses what narcissism is and isn’t, what it means to have narcissistic parents, how to deal with them, and what treatments may be of interest....
The TESS mission, launched in 2018 and led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), helps scientists to discover distant worlds outside of our solar system. These worlds, called exoplanets, can be discovered whenever they pass in front of their stars along the telescope’s line of sight. When this happens, the star’s brightness appears to dip repeatedly. The process is called transit photometry, and scientists use it to learn all sorts of characteristics about exoplanets including size, shape of orbit, and how long it takes to orbit the star in question....
Prior to the latest analysis, a small chance remained that the space rock, known as 99942 Apophis, could collide with our planet in the year 2068. While calculations showed that this chance was tiny—one of the latest estimates suggested a probability of around one in 380,000—the new analysis has now definitively ruled out this possibility, with astronomers gaining a better understanding of the asteroid’s orbit around the sun. The space rock, which is estimated to measure around 1,100 feet across, was discovered in 2004 and quickly gained notoriety after astronomers initially predicted that it had around a 2....
Itching is often associated with the immune response and the release of immune system proteins and compounds, including histamine. This article will cover potential causes of nasal pruritus, as well as how to get a proper diagnosis, prevention methods, and treatment. Causes of an Itchy Nose Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis Seasonal allergic rhinitis is often called hay fever. A pollen allergy typically causes it, but it can also be caused by mold spores or other allergens (substances that trigger an allergic reaction)....
Nasal sprays do, however, have a downside—they need to be used routinely to get the best results, and many people do not like the idea of putting medication in their nose. How to Correctly Use a Nasal Spray It seems pretty obvious. Still, most people do not use a nasal spray correctly. Incorrect use leads to an increased chance you’ll suffer side effects and a decreased chance that the medication will work as well as it could....
The starting grid for the race at Texas (8 p.m. ET; FS1, TSN3, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) will be led the hottest driver in the Cup Series. The random draw set the positions for the first 17 spots in the 21-car field. Watch the NASCAR All-Star Race live with fuboTV (7-day free trial) Three of the final four spots in the All-Star Race field will be determined by the results of the All-Star Open (6 p....
The schedule released by NASCAR includes a pair of Cup Series races at the historic Darlington track on Sunday afternoon, May 17, and Wednesday night, May 20, with a NASCAR Xfinity Series event in between on Tuesday, May 19. MORE: Updated NASCAR schedule for 2020 The schedule will move to Charlotte Motor Speedway, where there will be NASCAR Cup Series races on Sunday, May 24, and Wednesday, May 27, with Xfinity Series and NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series events on May 25 and 26, respectively....
The milestone, reached with a second straight NASCAR Cup Series victory, helped cement his status as one of the premier drivers of the past 20 years. MORE: Watch NASCAR live with fuboTV (7-day free trial) Joey Logano finished second, while Brad Keselowski earned third despite a slow start. Busch became the first driver in the 2019 season with more than one race victory. Auto Club 400: 2019 winner, order of finish for top 20 Lead changes: 17...
Both pileups occurred in the race’s second stage. COKE ZERO SUGAR 400: Live blog | Starting lineup In the first one, pole-sitter Chase Elliott, Brad Keselowski and Kurt Busch were among the drivers whose cars were collected in the wreckage: The second, which happened less than 12 laps later, took out Monster Energy Series points leader Kyle Busch, who was turned by Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Busch’s car then turned into the car of rookie William Byron, setting off another chain of crashes....
Martin Truex Jr. won Stage 1, his 14th stage win of the year, and Kyle Busch won Stage 2 for his fifth stage win, but it was Hamlin who ultimately won the 301-lap race, which covered 318.46 miles. It was his first victory of the season and the first Cup Series win for Joe Gibbs Racing in 2017. MORE: Starting lineup at New Hampshire The next race in the series is the Brantley Gilbert Big Machine Brickyard 400 on Sunday, July 23, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway....
NASCAR returns to Pocono for the first time since racing there on June 7. The Camping World Series is in Pocono for the first time this season while the Xfinity Series goes back to Iowa for the first time since running there on May 17. MORE: Kyle Busch wins third straight | Results | Gordon’s bad day | Chase standings All three series will practice on Friday. The Sprint Cup series will have qualifying on Friday while the Xfinity and Camping World series will qualify on Saturday....
After Martin Truex Jr.’s victory last week in Las Vegas, there is one less guaranteed spot heading into the last few weeks of the first round and drivers like Ryan Newman, Erik Jones, Clint Bowyer and Kurt Busch have a little bit more pressure on them to win. Busch and Jones already have victories this season, so they know their teams can put winning cars on the track, but Newman and Bowyer will have to do something they have yet to do this season on a track dominated by Kyle Busch in the past....
The yellow flag came out on lap 200 because of debris. Busch, who was leading at the time, later saw another caution (after Kyle Larson made contact with another car) on lap 204 get in the way of his victory. MORE AUTO CLUB 400: Must-see images | Results Busch on his team radio said “WWE” after the series of events that led to a third-place finish behind Keselowski and Kevin Harvick....
The starting grid for Sunday’s race at Bristol, scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. ET and broadcast live on Fox, features a handful of Fords at the front of the field as a result of the procedure that utilizes a combination of points standings and a random draw to set the lineup. MORE: Updated NASCAR Cup Series schedule for 2020 As for pit stall selection for the next five Cup Series races being run without qualifying, it will be ordered based on finishing positions from the series’ previous race, followed by new entries in order of points....
It sent Scott Miller, senior vice president of competition, into the media room at Richmond to address questions about a growing concern regarding one of the smallest and least expensive items on a racecar. The gist of Miller’s comments: We are reviewing procedures and enforcement. MORE: Drivers stand by Stewart | NASCAR’s iffy response | Richmond starting lineup Presented here are Miller’s comments and questions raised in Friday’s Q&A session....
He also attracted a devoted fan base through his backstory of outrunning the law as he hauled moonshine across North Carolina, an endeavor that, in turn, led to him running stock cars. MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2019 People associated with NASCAR, in reacting to the news of his death, detailed Johnson’s outsize role in building stock car racing into a national sport:
That message was a reminder to avoid the type of retaliation that got Matt Kenseth suspended two races for his actions at Martinsville. MORE: Rain delays Phoenix race | Starting lineup | Kevin Harvick’s win streak Sunday’s Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500, a scheduled 312-lap run, was delayed several hours by rain. That wasn’t the kind of clean NASCAR wanted. By the time persistent showers ended, the track was “green” — racing terminology for lacking a significant amount of grip-enhancing rubber laid down during practices and other NASCAR events....
Mayor Megan Barry and lead investor John R. Ingram confirmed Monday that they had finalized a proposal for a 27,500-capacity soccer-specific stadium on the Nashville Fairgrounds. Stadium funding would draw $200 million in revenue bonds, $25 million from the MLS ownership group, and $25 million in general obligation bonds to pay for public infrastructure. The MLS ownership group would cover any construction cost overruns. In a news release, Barry said she believes the proposal puts her market in the best position to win an MLS franchise when the league awards two slots in December....
Trotz, the only coach in franchise history, will not return for a 16th season in Nashville, the team confirmed. The Predators (38-32-12) finished 2013-14 with wins in nine of their last 12 games, but still missed the playoffs for a second straight season, largely because of a long-term injury to goalie Pekka Rinne and a group of forwards that is short on skill. Trotz helped turn an expansion team into a regular playoff qualifier, though he made it past the first round just twice, and benefited greatly from the presence play of goaltenders like Tomas Vokoun and Rinne....
