Jimmy Tingleâs string of seven comedy shows blend themes of politics and pandemic
By Grace Griffin Globe Correspondent,Updated December 23, 2020, 2:33 p.m.
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Jimmy Tingle performed his last indoor live show in February at Sanders Theatre.Prentice Visual Media
When Jimmy Tingle delivered his comedy set to the audience at Cambridgeâs Sanders Theatre at the end of February, he had no idea it would be his last indoor live show for the foreseeable future.
Just weeks after the February show, COVID-19 closed venues nationwide. Coincidentally, Tingle had recorded his Sanders Theatre performance in hopes of turning it into a special, and, while stuck inside during lockdown, thatâs what he did.
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Big new report from a Princeton University group released last week.
The report presents 5 alternative scenarios, none of them designated as the “right” way to go, but each with its own set of challenges. Some scenarios include technology like carbon capture and storage, as well as nuclear, and one scenario is “renewables only”, with no exotic technologies.
One important finding, none of the scenarios envisions spending more than 3 percent of GDP above the reference (no action) case – and all would be less than that, if prices for fossil fuels rise.
With a massive, nationwide effort the United States could reach net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 using existing technology and at costs aligned with historical spending on energy, according to a study led by Princeton University researchers.
Former IBM Official and NUST Executive Appointed as Chairman Special Technology Zones Authority
Prime Minister Imran Khan has appointed Amer Ahmed Hashmi as Chairperson for the Special Technology Zones Authority (STZA), according to a notification issued by the cabinet division.
In accordance with the Ordinance for the establishment of Special Technology Zones Authority on December 2, 2020 by President Arif Alvi, the new authority will focus on the growth of the scientific and technological ecosystem in the country, primarily through fostering the development of technology zones and high-tech industrial parks, thereby contributing to the acceleration of the evolution of the national system of innovation.
I would like to echo what a good friend from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government has said: “Today is a good day to invoke the 25th Amendment.”
Now and then, we must recalibrate to consider what an extreme situation we are asked to accept. A mentally-incapacitated president has fueled a pandemic that has now caused more than 300,000 deaths unnecessarily, economic struggles that rival the Great Depression with little relief, a climate crisis that has now become an imminent existential threat, and a culture of violence that is encouraging civil conflict, extrajudicial killings, and the revival of federal executions, as he fails to protect the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Treasury from Russian hacking.