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6 days, 8 hours ago

‘Bridgerton’ actor Phoebe Dynevor joins Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s ‘Pendulum’

Bridgerton star Phoebe Dynevor has been cast opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the upcoming thriller Pendulum, directed by Mark Heyman and produced by Darren Aronofsky. The film, described as a "terrifying new genre film", follows a young couple, Patrick and Abigail, as they embark on a journey to a new-age retreat in New Mexico. As tensions build, the couple must determine …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Engineering education: When lab work can be done remotely, virtually too

The Hindu

In early 2024, the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, witnessed many students eagerly waiting to do a laboratory experiment. “The remote trigger laboratory has been here for many years, but this time,we wanted to cut the whole set-up cost from lakhs to a few thousand,” says Vincent Paul, a Mechanical Engineering graduate from NIT-K. Mr. Paul has played a prominent …

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4 months ago

Letters to the Editor: A transgender reader’s defiance, another reader’s worry that the pendulum has swung too far

LA Times

To the editor: As regular readers of The Times’ letters section know, I identify as transgender. I also had a long run as a public transportation advocate — going back to the 1990s — and served as a governing official at Metro for 11 years. So plenty of people know how long I have been “out.” In a letter last …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Letters to the Editor: ‘Wait four years’ is a tough message for Democrats to swallow

LA Times

Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris watch as results come in during an election night party in Washington on Nov. 5. To the editor: Columnist Robin Abcarian is very blase and nonchalant when she states, “It may take four ugly years, but trust me, the pendulum will eventually swing back toward normal. It always does.” Four years is a long …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Will JD Vance’s debate performance help swing the pendulum back to Trump?

The Independent

There is a widespread view that vice-presidential candidates do not have a great bearing on the result of a US election – and that it is overwhelmingly the presidential nominee that determines people’s vote. From the first question – on the escalating conflict in the Middle East – Vance came across as more fluent, more articulate and better informed than …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Pendulum has swung’: Supervisors signal shift on Men’s Central Jail closure plan

LA Times

Built in the early 1960s, the now-decrepit Men’s Central Jail has been a vexing issue for the county. In the summer of 2019, justice reformers celebrated because the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors scrapped a controversial $1.7-billion plan to replace the county’s oldest lockup — the dungeon-like Men’s Central Jail on Bauchet Street — with a jail-like mental health …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

How Taiwan's tallest building survived the earthquake: Taipei 101 has a 660-tonne pendulum that transfers energy into giant shock absorbers - helping the 1,670ft high skyscraper to sway rather than to

Daily Mail

Taiwan has been hit by its strongest earthquake in 25 years, killing at least nine people, toppling buildings and even triggering tsunami warnings. But amid the chaos, eerie footage shows the island's tallest building – the $1.8 billion Taipei 101 skyscraper – gently swaying like a stick in the breeze. Taipei 101 is the tallest building in Taiwan and formerly …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Premier League title race pendulum swings in new direction as one of the three contenders benefits from latest results with Opta supercomputer revealing updated chances with nine games left

Daily Mail

Liverpool were the big winners of the Easter weekend and are now the favourites to win the Premier League title. Together with Arsenal's stalemate draw against Manchester City a few hours later, the win sent Liverpool back to the top of the table with 67 points and nine games left. According to Opta's supercomputer, Sunday's results mean Liverpool are now …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Foucault pendulum | Earth’s rotation on display

The Hindu

Foucault pendulum, the 19th-century experiment that exemplified the earth’s rotation without complex calculations, has found a new home in the recently inaugurated Parliament building of India. Invented by the 19th-century French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, the pendulum provided simple physical proof that the earth rotated on its axis. As the earth rotates, the plane of the pendulum’s swing appears …

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1 year, 9 months ago

An opulent House: art lines ₹200-crore interiors

The Hindu

An artistic interpretation of a section of the night sky over New Delhi on January 26, 1950, and a Foucault pendulum inside the new Parliament building drew crowds on Sunday, with several MPs and other dignitaries posing for pictures against them. Above the pendulum, on the ceiling, six individual panels depict the artistic interpretation of the section of the night …

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1 year, 9 months ago

A Foucault pendulum swings inside the new Parliament

The Hindu

One of the features of the new Parliament building in New Delhi, inaugurated on May 28, is a Foucault pendulum suspended from its ‘Constitutional Gallery’ area. At the time Foucault set up the first public display of the pendulum, the earth’s rotation was a well established fact. In 1991, the then-new Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, commissioned the …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Yogi ‘pendulum’ remark, cutting Shivpal Yadav security prompts Akhilesh pushback

Hindustan Times

As Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh gears up to vote in the bypolls next week, a controversy has already erupted in the state over downgrading of Shivpal Yadav’s security. The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister - who was in the Samajwadi Party stronghold on Monday - attacked Shivpal Yadav while campaigning in the Lok Sabha constituency; the seat was vacated following the …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Analysis: Bet the under; NFL pendulum has swung to defense

Associated Press

Bet the under when it comes to point totals in the NFL these days. That might as well be the league’s new mantra with the pendumlum finally swinging back to defense, smacking the likes of Aaron Rodgers, Matthew Stafford, Tom Brady and Russell Wilson along the way. Brady’s Buccaneers, Stafford’s Rams, Wilson’s Broncos and Rodgers’ Packers all take losing records …

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2 years, 9 months ago

‘The pendulum will swing’: Lewis Hamilton backed to turn his luck around by Toto Wolff

The Independent

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3 years, 10 months ago

South Korea’s Political Pendulum Swings Again

The Diplomat

South Korea held by-elections for mayoral posts in Seoul, the capital, and Busan, the country’s second largest city, on April 7. Young voters, especially young women in their 20s, did not perceive such episodes as an opposition plot seeking to delegitimize the ruling party’s political and moral image, but as testament to still-pervasive problems of gender inequality in South Korea. …

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3 years, 11 months ago

IPL 2021 | IPL like a 'pendulum', things can change very quickly for good or bad: Harshal Patel

India TV News

IPL 2021 | IPL like a 'pendulum', things can change very quickly for good or bad: Harshal Patel Harshal Patel is wary of not getting too "overconfident" after he produced a match-winning performance to aid RCB to win over MI in the opening game. Royal Challengers Bangalore pacer Harshal Patel bowled a match-winning spell in the side's opening game against …

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4 years, 10 months ago

South Carolina is hoping Mike Bobo and top recruits can swing the pendulum

New York Times

Editor’s note: The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on sports is unprecedented, and its effect on the 2020 college football season is unclear. “He’s got to get better fundamentally as a quarterback,” new offensive coordinator Mike Bobo said in his first visit with South Carolina media members. Impact of coaching changes Bobo will be the fifth play caller in Muschamp’s …

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5 years, 9 months ago

A patent for a pendulum clock

The Hindu

You have heard of Christiaan Huygens, haven’t you? Working with a Dutch clockmaker Salomon Coster, Huygens was able to convert his prototype into fully-functioning pendulum clocks. One of the first pendulum clocks designed by Huygens is now on permanent display at the Boerhaave Museum in Leiden, the Netherlands. Huygens’ pendulum clock went a long way in making clocks more accurate, …

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5 years, 11 months ago

The Math of How Crickets, Starlings, and Neurons Sync Up

Wired

When the incoherent claps of a crowd suddenly become a pulse, as everyone starts clapping in unison, who decided? Quanta Magazine Original story reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent publication of the Simons Foundation, whose mission is to enhance public understanding of science by covering research developments and trends in mathematics and the physical and life sciences. …

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6 years, 3 months ago

Galileo, Krypton, and How the True and Accurate Meter Came to Be

Wired

In 1582, Galileo noticed something quite mundane. Harper A century later an English divine, John Wilkins, proposed employing Galileo’s discovery to create an entirely new fundamental unit, one that had nothing to do with the then-traditional standard in England, which was a rod that was more or less officially declared to be the length of a yard. In a paper …

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6 years, 3 months ago

How Rajasthan has fared under the BJP-Congress pendulum

Live Mint

If anti-incumbency is a phenomenon, Rajasthan is the proof. But as a share of India’s total GDP, Rajasthan has hovered around 5% in the past five years, slightly less than its share in India’s population. Rajasthan’s significant growth in recent years came under the previous Ashok Gehlot-led Congress regime, where GDP grew by 7% CAGR between 2008-13 and its share …

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6 years, 5 months ago

Ayodhya Art Festival: It might appear a minor swing in pendulum, but it is a step towards reclaiming lost glory

Op India

The city of Ayodhya organized the Ayodhya Art Festival to commemorate the life and times of its beloved king, Shri Rama. https://t.co/VnUoB2un6h — karan acharya October 11, 2018 Ayodhya holds a special place in the heart of every pious Hindu. The art festival at Ayodhya may appear to some as a minor swing of the pendulum in the grand scheme …

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7 years, 5 months ago

Snowbombing Festival 2018: Liam Gallagher and Pendulum to headline Austrian event

The Independent

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7 years, 5 months ago

New Zealand's man climbed to top of music festival scene

Daily Mail

When Mitch Lowe first began putting events together it was more something he fell into than had originally set out to do. Mitch Lowe is a festival organiser behind some of New Zealand's biggest events The 27-year-old told Daily Mail Australia he fell into event planning accidentally The entrepreneur knew from a young age that he would run his own …

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‘Bridgerton’ actor Phoebe Dynevor joins Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s ‘Pendulum’

Engineering education: When lab work can be done remotely, virtually too

Letters to the Editor: A transgender reader’s defiance, another reader’s worry that the pendulum has swung too far

Letters to the Editor: ‘Wait four years’ is a tough message for Democrats to swallow

Will JD Vance’s debate performance help swing the pendulum back to Trump?

‘Pendulum has swung’: Supervisors signal shift on Men’s Central Jail closure plan

How Taiwan's tallest building survived the earthquake: Taipei 101 has a 660-tonne pendulum that transfers energy into giant shock absorbers - helping the 1,670ft high skyscraper to sway rather than to

Premier League title race pendulum swings in new direction as one of the three contenders benefits from latest results with Opta supercomputer revealing updated chances with nine games left

Foucault pendulum | Earth’s rotation on display

An opulent House: art lines ₹200-crore interiors

A Foucault pendulum swings inside the new Parliament

Yogi ‘pendulum’ remark, cutting Shivpal Yadav security prompts Akhilesh pushback

Analysis: Bet the under; NFL pendulum has swung to defense

‘The pendulum will swing’: Lewis Hamilton backed to turn his luck around by Toto Wolff

South Korea’s Political Pendulum Swings Again

IPL 2021 | IPL like a 'pendulum', things can change very quickly for good or bad: Harshal Patel

South Carolina is hoping Mike Bobo and top recruits can swing the pendulum

A patent for a pendulum clock

The Math of How Crickets, Starlings, and Neurons Sync Up

Galileo, Krypton, and How the True and Accurate Meter Came to Be

How Rajasthan has fared under the BJP-Congress pendulum

Ayodhya Art Festival: It might appear a minor swing in pendulum, but it is a step towards reclaiming lost glory

Snowbombing Festival 2018: Liam Gallagher and Pendulum to headline Austrian event

New Zealand's man climbed to top of music festival scene