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Rolling Stone Crosby, Stills, and Nash Detail ‘Deja Vu’ 50th Anniversary Reissue In new interviews, members of the supergroup reflect on CSNY’s 1970 masterpiece and what to expect on an upcoming expanded edition By Henry Diltz The box set will span four CDs and one LP, containing the original record, unreleased demos, outtakes, and alternate takes. Its packaging replicates the original album’s deep-brown leather-like sleeve, paired with a hardcover book including rare p...

Texans were left in the cold and dark this February, following extreme cold weather that had the Texas competitive energy market unable to prevent deadly power failures. Leaving behind its historic commitment to power system independence and joining the larger U.S. grid can relieve some of the consequences of extreme weather events Texas is likely to see again, many energy analysts in and out of Texas said. "We designed this system for Ozzie and Harriet weather and we now have Mad Max," said Te...

Looking for Fixes to What Broke the Texas Power Grid Winterizing power plants and pipelines will be key, whether through regulation or market incentives. Adding more interregional transmission could also help — if Texas is willing. 9 February 22, 2021 After a week of the country’s worst power grid collapse in decades — an event thats taken a dreadful toll in dozens of lives lost and billions of dollars in economic damage — the lights are back on in Texas. But even as the freezing ...

The real story behind the Texas power outages Ula Chrobak © Provided by Popular Science Power plants can be built to be resistant to snow, but places without regular snow dont invest in those measures. A burst of Arctic air unleashed extreme winter weather on the central and southern US this week, and Texans were hit particularly hard. More than four million in the state were left without power in rotating blackouts conducted by the state’s grid operator, the Electric Relia...

Unusual Arctic weather caused power plants to stop working just as households needed more heat, pushing the state over the edge.

Texas blackouts explained: Arctic weather shut down power plants as demand for heat surged, and the states grid is on its own bjones@businessinsider.com (Benji Jones) © Ron Jenkins/Getty Images Service trucks lining up after a snowstorm in Fort Worth, Texas. Winter Storm Uri has brought historic cold weather and power outages to the state this week. Ron Jenkins/Getty Images Half a million Texans were still without power Thursday morning as arctic weather pummeled the state. T...

Unusual arctic weather caused power plants to stop working just as households needed more heat, pushing the state over the edge.

The Comedy Industry Has a Big Alt-Right Problem How safe spaces for transgressive humor, both online and in real life, helped breed a hateful ideology Illustration by Hunter French In the dark recesses of the internet lurks a man who goes by ToxicCisWhiteMaleFat. He makes his home on onaforums.net, a community named after the shock jock duo Opie & Anthony—a safe space to say what cannot be said offline. He’s posted in threads like “N----r hate thread #1,” “The K-ke Hate Thread,” “...