Scarlet Cardona, autor en thickcookie

Jun

2024

Black baseball history takes center stage in the Hall of Fame

Related media - Associated media After the reinstatement, Major League Baseball executives established an unwritten quota system that limits the number of Black players on rosters, Shieber said. “This led to unbalanced trading,” he added. “It’s not just a one-on-one exchange. Like, ‘We have enough black player trades.'” Toward the end of the exhibit, Shieber pointed out the locker once used by Willie Mays who Barry Bonds took over as a player for the San Francisco Giants. One of Stewart’s fondest early memories was meeting Mays, his favorite player, when he was 5 years old. But Stewart might also look…

Jun

2024

By Scarlet Cardona

Muhammad Ali’s childhood home goes on the market

Economy

Related media - Associated media George Bochetto, a Philadelphia lawyer who said he owned the house with his late partner’s widow, bought it in 2016 for $60,000. “It was abandoned for many years. He was run down,” Mr. Bochetto said in an interview Tuesday. He marveled at how “this little house on the western edge of Louisville, modest as it was, could produce a magnificent world figure.” He added: “Muhammad Ali was one of my heroes as a child.” Mr. Bochetto said he wants the new owners to “make sure the house is preserved” as an honor to him. The…

Jun

2024

By Scarlet Cardona

US officials return to Middle East to push for ceasefire

Politics

Linked media - Linked media William J. Burns, director of the CIA, was due to arrive in Doha, Qatar, this week for talks on reaching a ceasefire in Gaza.Credit…Nathan Posner/Anadolu, via Getty Images William J. Burns, director of the CIA, was due to arrive in Doha, Qatar, this week for talks with regional officials about reaching a ceasefire in Gaza, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the matter . the spy chief’s journey. The trip by Burns, America’s top negotiator, to the Gulf country comes amid a renewed effort to broker a deal…

Jun

2024

By Scarlet Cardona

Switching from iPhone to Android is easy

Science and Technology

Linked media - Associated media Apple announced that later this year it will improve messaging between iPhone and Android users by adopting advanced communications services, a standard that Google and others built into their messaging apps years ago. Texts sent between iPhone and Android will remain green, but images and videos will be higher quality. Losing your Apple wallet For iPhones, the reference app for making mobile payments in stores is Apple Wallet and for Android users the equivalent app is Google Wallet. The experience of using each wallet app was identical: I loaded my credit cards and the Clipper…

Jun

2024

By Scarlet Cardona

The art and power of healing

Politics

Related media - Linked media “In a creative environment there is an encounter of the self, an awakening to one’s unconscious, to one’s experiences,” said Tammy Federman, a filmmaker whose new documentary “Memory Game” centers on a theater troupe of survivors of Holocaust in Israel managed by AMCHA, an Israeli social support services organization. “But there is also a group meeting because one person talks about this very traumatic experience and another person can identify with it. It gives you the courage to open up, to share your experience, and there is also joy, there is humour, there is movement…

Jun

2024

By Scarlet Cardona

Modi Struggles to Remain at Top

Politics

Associated media - Connected media Indian Wall Street has twisted and turned. Investors in Mumbai’s Indian stock markets responded enthusiastically to the first exit polls. They went on a buying spree on Monday, driving up the prices of so-called Modi shares, those associated with the prime minister’s spending priorities or believed to benefit from his fiscal policies. When the actual voting results were tallied, those stocks plummeted. Shares of Adani Group’s flagship stock lost around 19% of their value in one trading day. The blue chip index lost about 6%, almost erasing the gains of the first five months of…

Jun

2024

By Scarlet Cardona

Google restores AI search functionality after errors and flaws

Science and Technology

Connected media - Related media Liz Reid, Google’s recently promoted head of search, wrote in a blog post Thursday that the company has pared down its AI overviews in certain ways, rolling out “additional opt-in refinements” to deliver more health-conscious answers , disabling misleading advice and limiting the inclusion of satire and user responses from forums like Reddit. “We will continue to improve when and how we show AI overviews and strengthen our protections,” he wrote, adding that Google is working on updates to improve broad sets of search results. Ashley Thompson, a spokeswoman for Google, said in a statement…

Jun

2024

By Scarlet Cardona

The transplanted pig kidney is removed from the patient

Politics

Related media - Related media In April, Ms. Pisano became the second person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig. Hers was a particularly complicated case: she suffers from heart and kidney failure and she received the organ only eight days after receiving a mechanical heart pump. Ms. Pisano was at risk of dying without the heart pump, a device implanted in patients who need a heart transplant. But there is a critical shortage of available human kidneys from donors, and her heart disease has made her ineligible to receive one. She is the first known heart…

Jun

2024

By Scarlet Cardona

Fifty years later, the chaos of Cleveland’s 10-Cent Beer Night still shocks

Politics

Connected media - Related media There were streakers, kissers and wannabe prize fighters. There were arrests, threats and flying chairs. There were bruises, there was blood and there was beer. So, so much beer. There was plenty of blame to pass around: the fans, the umpires, the team officials, the managers, local broadcasters and radio hosts. Oh, and according to one Cleveland resident, the real instigator causing that evening’s mayhem? The moon. And that’s not a reference to the fans who yanked down their pants and showed Rangers players their backsides. Fifty years ago, chaos descended upon Municipal Stadium on…