News The Three-Body Problem Rosalind Chao Voices New Audiobook for Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem The Star Trek actor will also appear in the upcoming Netflix adaptation of Cixin Liu’s novel. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on February 7‚ 2024 icon-comment 0 Share New Share Twitter Facebook Pinterest RSS Feed Rosalind Chao has had a long career; many of us saw her first in the 1990s in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Keiko O’Brien (pictured above). Chao’s career goes beyond Star Trek‚ of course—she was in The Joy Luck Club‚ played Mulan’s mother in the recent live-action envisioning of the Disney tale‚ and was even on two episodes of M*A*S*H*. Chao will also play the character Ye Wenjie in Netflix’s 3 Body Problem‚ an adaptation of Cixin Liu’s Remembrance of Earth trilogy helmed by David Benioff‚ D.B. Weiss‚ and Alexander Woo. And today‚ we found out via The Verge that she’s delving further into that sci-fi world by reading a new audiobook version of Liu’s The Three-Body Problem‚ the first in the aforementioned trilogy.   This isn’t the first audio recording of Three-Body Problem. An audiobook narrated by Luke Daniels came out in 2014‚ and the Macmillan podcast‚ Stories from Among the Stars had a version there that has since been taken down. Those looking to listen to Liu’s first book narrated by Chao will have to wait until February 27‚ 2024. That gives you almost a month‚ however‚ to listen before the Netflix adaptation releases on Netflix on March 21‚ where we can see Chao bring Ye Wenjie to life on screen. [end-mark] The post Rosalind Chao Voices New Audiobook for Cixin Liu’s <;i>;The Three-Body Problem<;/i>; appeared first on Reactor.

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Season Two is now live in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone‚ and the first event of the new season is called Horde Hunt. Call of Duty seasons typically launch with a big event and Season Two is no exception. The Horde Hunt event is one of the longest events that Modern Warfare 3 has seen‚ and there are multiple tiers of rewards to earn across all game modes. It’s a perfect match for the new Walking Dead collaboration‚ which also has more content coming later in the season. Horde Hunt Challenges Featured Zombies How to Get the Killshot Skin Horde Hunt Schedule Modern Warfare 3 Horde Hunt Challenges and Rewards Screenshot: PC Invasion To earn Horde Hunt rewards‚ all you need to do is kill Zombies in any Call of Duty game mode. Playing Zombies in MW3 works‚ but you can also try the new multiplayer Hordepoint mode or jump into Warzone since the undead hordes have found their way to Fortune’s Keep as well. When you defeat a Zombie‚ it’...

While the Horde Hunt event is live in Modern Warfare 3‚ your goal is to collect specific items like Skulls and Bones. You’ll want to do this quickly to get back to enjoying Fortune’s Keep‚ so here’s how. Best way to farm Horde Hunt items in MW3 and MWZ You can play Hordepoint to get a lot of Skulls and Bones quickly‚ but I recommend skipping Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer altogether and going straight to Modern Warfare Zombies. In Hordepoint‚ you get a lot of zombies‚ but only one featured zombie and your teammates can (and often will) steal your Skulls and other Horde Hunt items. Related: How to find and defeat Hokkaebi in Modern Warfare Zombies (MWZ) If you launch into Modern Warfare Zombies solo or with one friend‚ you’ll collect Horde Hunt items very quickly. I recommend doing an Escort Contract or calling in an exfil helicopter to farm zombies. If you’re solo‚ you’ll have all the Skulls‚ Bones‚ and other Horde Hunt items all to yoursel...

As you progress in Palworld‚ you might need better resources to accommodate your level. Food is one of those things. Berries‚ honey‚ and certain meals will only take so far. However‚ it seems that at one point in your adventures tomato seeds become important. To find out how to get tomato seeds in Palworld‚ we have the answer for you below. Palworld: How to get tomato seeds There are a couple of ways to earn tomato seeds. The first is by getting Pals to drop them. Not every Pal has a chance to drop them‚ but there’s a handful. They are:  Broncherry Dinossom Lux Vaelet Mossanda Wumpo Botan While the Pals are great ways to farm the seeds‚ it seems that Broncherry is the easiest Pal to get to drop the seeds. Having tomato seeds appear once you’ve gotten them isn’t enough. You’ll need to build a Tomato Plantation. The good news it’s quite affordable during the mid-game of Palworld. All you need is five Pal Fluids‚ three tomato seeds‚ 70 wood‚ a...

Whenever Call of Duty updates on PC‚ Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone players need to wait for their shaders to pre-load in order to ensure a smooth experience. It’s an annoying process‚ and it gets even worse if you encounter the bug that causes shader pre-loading to get stuck. It’s a frustratingly common occurrence for PC players‚ but there are a few things you can try to kickstart the shader compilation process so you can get into MW3 or Warzone faster. Some players are reporting that their shader pre-loading is stuck at 0%‚ others have shader pre-loading stuck at 3%‚ and there are all sorts of similar shader compilation roadblocks that you can run into when playing MW3 on PC. What to Do If Shaders Won’t Load in Call of Duty If your shader pre-loading is stuck in Modern Warfare 3 or Warzone‚ the easiest solution is just to wait. It may seem like shader pre-loading is stuck at 0%‚ but in reality‚ it just takes a really long time for shaders to compile sometimes...

World of Warcraft’s Love is in the Air event is a celebration of love‚ and what better way to honor that than showering yourself with gifts? To get your hands on Valentine’s-themed toys‚ cosmetics‚ pets‚ and mounts‚ you’ll need to collect Love Tokens. Blizzard revamped Love is in the Air this year‚ replacing the usual method of exchanging Friendship Bracelets and spraying perfume to earn Love Tokens. Instead‚ there are a bunch of new ways to earn Love Tokens through the Gala of Gifts. Here’s every way to earn Love Tokens in WoW and spoil yourself with lovely loot. How to earn Love Tokens in WoW: Love is in the Air As of 2024‚ World of Warcraft players can earn Love Tokens during Love is in the Air from the following sources: Introductory quest – 10x Love Tokens (one-time only) Daily Quests — 20x Love Tokens per day Crown Chemical Co. questline + introductory quest — 130x Love Tokens (one-time only) The Crown Chemical Co. dungeon ?...

It was love at first sight for Audrey and Glyndwr. However‚ mysterious weekends away and abrupt walks in the park made Audrey curious about what her husband did in his spare time. Years later‚ the truth finally comes out‚ thanks to strange documents found in a drawer. Audrey began to wonder if she ever really knew her husband at all. Audrey Phillips met Glyndwr at a bar‚ and it was love at first... Source

The vampire crew of the Santa Carla Lost Boys hit the silver screen in 1987 with one of the best casts around‚ including Alex Winter‚ the two Coreys‚ and Kiefer Sutherland. But after the loving comic book nerds defeated the evil undead‚ what happened to the cast? Keep reading to find out! Jason Patric was pretty new to Hollywood when he won the role of Michael Emerson in The Lost Boys. Source

At this year’s annual World Economic Forum in Davos‚ Switzerland‚ panelists convened to discuss their “Global Risks Report 2024.”   Among the many world problems they decided they needed to solve‚ they identified “misinformation and disinformation” as one of the most severe threats facing the planet in the near term.   Public health officials‚ struggling mightily to conquer the ignorance of the masses for their own good‚ of course‚ were the victims. In the World Economic Forum’s passionate panel discussion on the topic‚ “Liberating Science‚” Naomi Oreskes‚ professor of the history of science at Harvard University‚ acknowledged that the COVID-19 pandemic vastly amplified the public’s lack of trust. “[T]here has been a deliberate attempt to inflame the public against experts‚ and we definitely saw this during the COVID-19 pandemic‚” she said. Conspicuously‚ the globalist jet-setters didn’t focus on the fact that much of the popular hostility to the public health “experts” during the COVID-19 pandemic was largely attributable to the experts themselves; specifically‚ their profoundly flawed and often contradictory messaging‚ their own inadequate information‚ and the devastating social‚ economic and educational consequences of their lockdown policies.   Here in the U.S.‚ the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been struggling to regain public trust in the aftermath of the pandemic. Recently‚ a major Health Affairs study of a large sample (4‚208 respondents) of American public opinion found that only 42% of those polled reported “a great deal” of trust in the CDC‚ and the reasons for such relatively low trust had more to do with the agency’s reputed scientific expertise and much less to do with its actual performance. The mystery is that CDC has retained as much popular trust as it has after the COVID-19 pandemic. After all‚ then-CDC Director Rochelle Walensky confessed to what ordinary folks had long known: “To be frank‚ we are responsible for some pretty dramatic‚ pretty public mistakes—from testing to data to communications.” The list of COVID-related CDC miscommunications‚ missteps‚ and‚ yes‚ “disinformation” is long: Masking was initially ineffective‚ and then it was a crucial necessity; COVID-19 was transmissible from hard surfaces‚ until it wasn’t; natural immunity from infection was ignored‚ and then it contributed to relaxing previous restrictions imposed during the medical emergency. And then‚ there are the vaccines. In December 2020‚ the Food and Drug Administration issued an Emergency Use Authorization for the COVID-19 vaccine. In a news release‚ the FDA stated‚ “At this time‚ data are not available to make a determination about how long the vaccine will provide protection‚ nor is there evidence that the vaccine prevents transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from person to person.” Nevertheless‚ on Jan. 7‚ 2021‚ less than a month later‚ Walensky tweeted: “I’ve never had more faith in the promise of science and the power of hope to get us through this. I urge all Americans to get vaccinated as soon as you’re able‚ wear a mask and stop the spread.” Today‚ I received my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at @MassGeneralNews. I've never had more faith in the promise of science and the power of hope to get us through this. I urge all Americans to get vaccinated as soon as you're able‚ wear a mask‚ and stop the spread. pic.twitter.com/8sEycBxr6U— Rochelle Walensky‚ MD‚ MPH (@RWalensky) January 7‚ 2021 Walensky’s tweet was flatly inconsistent with the FDA’s statement and basic scientific principles of empirical data and fact-based reasoning. And it got worse. President Joe Biden in 2021 claimed—without supporting data—that the pandemic was a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” and proposed an unprecedented set of mostly illegal vaccine mandates. Meanwhile‚ the CDC‚ without collecting the relevant hospital data‚ simply attributed the sharp increases in hospitalizations in 2021 to persons who had not been vaccinated. In fact‚ as analysts from The Heritage Foundation demonstrated by 2022‚ the accumulating data proved that most hospitalized COVID-19 patients were indeed vaccinated. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) Current CDC Director Mandy Cohen has been urging people to get a full range of vaccinations against respiratory diseases‚ while emphasizing that “this new COVID vaccine is updated to match the changes in the virus.” Thanksgiving is 2 weeks away — make a plan today to get vaccinated against flu‚ Covid‚ and RSV to protect yourself and your loved ones this holiday season! pic.twitter.com/IowZCkmAW3— Mandy K. Cohen‚ MD‚ MPH (@CDCDirector) November 9‚ 2023 Cohen says COVID-19 vaccination is for everyone “six months and older.” Of course‚ she does mention that the risk/benefit calculations for the coronavirus vis-à-vis the vaccine vary dramatically from persons six months to 60 years and older and vary also with the presence or absence of underlying health conditions.   The tepid public response to her exhortations is a “communications” problem in Cohen’s view‚ and is attributable to a combination of information overload and vaccine hesitancy. “I worry‚” she says‚ “with so much information that were not going to break through with a couple of key points.” The well-documented federal mismanagement of the COVID-19 crisis has indeed resulted in a dangerous increase in vaccine hesitancy beyond just COVID-19 vaccines‚ generating a broader skepticism about vaccination against various illnesses‚ some of them serious. Even Dr. Anthony Fauci‚ former medical adviser to Presidents Donald Trump and Biden‚ now concedes that the ill-conceived COVID-19 vaccine mandates could have contributed to this unhealthy growth in general vaccine hesitancy. American citizens deserve to be treated like intelligent and resilient adults. Public health officials should be fully transparent‚ provide the best data-driven information available‚ admit their own fallibility upfront‚ and freely acknowledge their uncertainty about a specific vaccine‚ medication‚ or recommendation. Science should drive policy‚ rather than policy—let alone politics—driving science. The failure of the CDC during the pandemic was attributable not only to a series of inconsistent recommendations and mixed messaging‚ but also to a growing perception among millions of Americans that politics—not science—were influencing its COVID-19 recommendations. It was a perception reinforced by revelations that a powerful teachers union influenced CDC guidance on school reopenings.   Science is not static. By presenting not only demonstrable‚ evidence-based results‚ but also repeatable and certifiable research methods and studies‚ scientists have been open to scrutiny and civil debate to improve collective understanding. With COVID-19‚ unfortunately‚ we witnessed attempts to suppress scientific dissent. Officials at the National Institutes of Health attempted to marginalize prominent epidemiologists who dissented from the prevailing views of federal public health officials on the wisdom of comprehensive social and economic lockdowns. Scientific study‚ properly performed‚ is not in the business of “canceling” dissenters. Rather‚ it invites questioning‚ and it needs debate and continual intellectual investigation as the essential condition for scientific progress. Instead of “here are the facts‚” too often the official data-free response was “because I said so.” Restoring public trust in public health agencies will take time. But the task is nonetheless urgent‚ and it begins with public health officials themselves. Have an opinion about this article? To sound off‚ please email letters@DailySignal.com and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the URL or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state. The post Restoring Trust on Public Health Issues After COVID-19 Rests Squarely on Public Health Officials appeared first on The Daily Signal.