Society & Culture

This Friday, Universal will be releasing a remake of Firestarter, about a young girl, Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), with the ability to start fires with her mind. But what is perhaps most horrifying for viewers isn’t that conceit but the fact that Charlie’s father Andy is played by Zac Efron. …

05/05/22 By FHSU University Communications HAYS, Kan. – Fort Hays State University celebrated the remarkable legacy of successful alumni entrepreneurs on the evening of May 2. A chartering ceremony on campus for Sigma Nu Tau featured the first chapter of the entrepreneurship honor society for a Kansas university. Sigma Nu …

As the Military Chapter of the ACS, the Excelsior Surgical Society (ESS) provides a voice and a home for all military surgeons within the largest surgical organization in the world. The ESS serves as both an on-ramp to membership in the College as well as an off-ramp for surgeons as …

LAS VEGAS — Harry Reid spent decades perfecting his brand of machine politics that powered Democratic control across Nevada.  Now, four months after the death of Reid, the venerated political titan who represented Nevada in Congress for 34 years, Democrats here find themselves relying on his legacy once again.   In …

THE VILLAGES, Fla. — Today, Governor Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 7044, to reform higher education in Florida. The bill removes the stranglehold that faculty unions and accrediting agencies have had on universities and colleges and adds common-sense transparency requirements for tuition, fees and cost of materials. “Florida’s public college and …

If you’ve purchased gas, groceries, a car, a home, or just about anything else lately, you’ve noticed that things are getting more expensive, quickly. In March, inflation reached 8.5%, representing the biggest year-over-year jump in over 4 decades. Inflation is typically the result of an imbalance in supply or demand. …

After having to scrap the event in 2020 and then going virtual i 2021, the San Francisco International Film Festival returns to an in-person experience for its 65th anniversary of celebrating the finest of indie global filmmaking. And what a return. SFFILM 2022 is serving up a head-spinning slate of …

Messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, which continues to play a key role in the ongoing fight against Covid-19, represents one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs of our time. The widespread effectiveness of mRNA-based vaccines has attracted considerable attention to the prospect of mRNA technology serving as a platform that can …

Anatomy of a Scandal launched on Netflix on April 15, and many viewers are already hooked. The series follows a scandal among elite members of Britain’s society and provides a thrill as viewers learn who the real guilty party could be. Anatomy of a Scandal could easily pull inspiration from …

For years, China has left a loophole open for people to access unauthorized video games, but it’s ready to close it. Many foreign titles lack a Chinese publishing partner like Tencent to help them obtain the government-issued license needed to operate in the country, so players normally rely on an …