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Supernova Era By Cixin Liu, Joel Martinsen Purchase BookPurchase close overlay Buy Featured Book TitleSupernova EraAuthorCixin Liu, Joel Martinsen Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? Independent Bookstores In Cixin Liu's sprawling, Hugo Award-winning Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, the acclaimed Chinese author played a multidimensional mind game that was complex enough to boggle even the most astute science-fiction reader. His latest novel to be published in the United States, Supernova Era, was actually written years before the Remembrance books, and accordingly, it's far less ambitious in scale.

Jay Rayner on restaurantsFoodReviewAs Smithfield meat market gets ready to close, a superb new meat-led restaurant opens up its doorsOrigin City, 12 West Smithfield, London EC1A 9JR (020 4568 6240). Starters £11-£15; mains £21-£42; desserts £8-£10. Wines from £24 Slapping the words “nose to tail” on your website is a gutsy flex for a new restaurant, when it’s located fewer than 250m from Fergus Henderson’s St John. They coined the term almost 30 years ago, and have been diligently working their way from arse to nostril and back again ever since.

Redeem now Business Insider has compiled a dataset of every known flight made by Jeffrey Epstein's private jets. The sex offender owned a Gulfstream IV, a Gulfstream GV-SP, and a Boeing 727 nicknamed the "Lolita Express." Business Insider combined flight manifests unsealed in court with signal data associated with Epstein's jets and flight records provided by the Federal Aviation Administration, revealing at least 2,618 trips made by the aircraft between 1995 and Epstein's arrest on federal sex-trafficking charges in July 2019.

Hide caption Left to their devices, many seedless grapes would be puny and soft. But these Thompson seedless got pleasingly plump after a little hormone therapy and girdling. Previous Next Daniel M. N. Turner/NPR Hide caption Giving that orange a run for its money, these red grapes clearly have been treated with a plant hormone, which makes them long and cylindrical. They "were so large, hard, and yummy that I had to re-read the package label a couple of times,"

In the latest episode of Baddies East, Nataline Nunn appears to be at the epicenter of yet more drama. After fighting with Scarface, Biggie is seen getting into with Nunn. According to Biggie, Nunn "f-cked up" the Baddies bag. This derails Nunns' plans to have a surprise for the cast in Times Square. There are fights galore in what appears to be an action-filled episode that debuts tomorrow. Sukihana also appears to go after Mariah, much to the disdain of several other cast members.

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Candy Finnigan, one of the show’s interventionists. Aw, man, Intervention is ending. A&E announced today that the five episodes that will air starting in June will be the show’s last. According to the network, of the 243 people who’ve had interventions on the show, 156 are currently sober — a pretty impressive record, thanks in part to the show’s strategy of matching addicts with specific rehab facilities. All shows end eventually, and Intervention had a hell of a run: What could have been an exploitative mess was instead a riveting, intimate drama that helped shape the contemporary understandings of addiction crises and recovery.

Lauren Lapkus is a mom! The Orange Is the New Black alum gave birth to her and husband Mike Castle's first child together, a baby girl named Holly. Lapkus, 35, shared the news on Friday by posting a sweet video of their bundle of joy. In the clip, little Holly wears a blue floral onesie and has a pacifier in her mouth. "☁️Holly☁️," the new mom simply captioned the adorable clip. Castle, 32, also posted the same video on his Instagram, adding, "

Miley Cyrus can't be tamed!  The 26-year-old singer took to Instagram on Friday to share even more photos from her December wedding to Liam Hemsworth. Among the playful pics were some of Cyrus goofing off with her bouquet, including one in which she pretends to smoke it.  The former Disney star recently revealed that she started smoking marijuana again, thanks to her mom, Tish Cyrus. "My mom is gonna kill me, but yeah, my mom smokes a lot of weed, "