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The Age
08-07-2025
- General
- The Age
A seismically moving account of living with the unimaginable
GRIEF Things in Nature Merely Grow Yiyun Li 4th Estate, $32.99 'There is no good way to state these facts,' Yiyun Li writes at the outset of Things in Nature Merely Grow. 'My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide'. Conceived as a fictional dialogue with her late son, Li's book for Vincent, Where Reasons End, appeared in 2019. Things in Nature Merely Grow, her attempt to describe James, is a revelation. Each book honours, in its address, the very different personalities of her two sons. Vincent, Li writes, felt deeply. James, by contrast, was a thinker. When Vincent, long-haired and 'flamboyantly handsome', dies, James stops cutting his hair. A subdued child 'who resisted drawing any attention to himself', such acts, Li suggests, reveal how close each boy was to the other. Li communes with James by abiding with the things he loved: geometry and Euclid, linguistic logic and Wittgenstein. Hers is an act of radical acceptance. She continues writing, continues teaching, continues gardening (gardening is a good discipline, she says, for a writer; it teaches patience). Life's activities are time-bound. They do not compete with her loss. How could they? Her children, she writes, are timeless. Confronted by acquaintances, strangers, well-wishers and passersby, Li must consider how to speak of herself, 'a mother who no longer has children'. The word 'mother' becomes dissociative, its noun form politely parting ways with the verb form. She is a parent who can no longer parent. Yet some verbs do not change. Li finds that the action 'to be' remains dutifully intact: 'Vincent was and is and will always be Vincent. James was and is and will always be James. We were and are and will always be their parents. There is no now and then, now and later; only now and now and now and now.' Often she finds herself explaining her situation to those who lack the courage or ability to face it. Some friends refuse to believe loss has not also claimed some portion of Li's essence ('not all of them treat me as the intellectual equal of my old self', she says – a bleakly harrowing admission). One friend, astonishingly, tells Li her own child is at college and thus compares her situation to Li's since she is unable to see the child very often. Li is stoically upbraiding ('Sometimes people want to play a part in a tragedy that is, thankfully, not theirs personally'). How brave, how abhorrent, how stark, how impossible, I thought, this clarity.
Sydney Morning Herald
08-07-2025
- General
- Sydney Morning Herald
A seismically moving account of living with the unimaginable
GRIEF Things in Nature Merely Grow Yiyun Li 4th Estate, $32.99 'There is no good way to state these facts,' Yiyun Li writes at the outset of Things in Nature Merely Grow. 'My husband and I had two children and lost them both: Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, James in 2024, at nineteen. Both chose suicide'. Conceived as a fictional dialogue with her late son, Li's book for Vincent, Where Reasons End, appeared in 2019. Things in Nature Merely Grow, her attempt to describe James, is a revelation. Each book honours, in its address, the very different personalities of her two sons. Vincent, Li writes, felt deeply. James, by contrast, was a thinker. When Vincent, long-haired and 'flamboyantly handsome', dies, James stops cutting his hair. A subdued child 'who resisted drawing any attention to himself', such acts, Li suggests, reveal how close each boy was to the other. Li communes with James by abiding with the things he loved: geometry and Euclid, linguistic logic and Wittgenstein. Hers is an act of radical acceptance. She continues writing, continues teaching, continues gardening (gardening is a good discipline, she says, for a writer; it teaches patience). Life's activities are time-bound. They do not compete with her loss. How could they? Her children, she writes, are timeless. Confronted by acquaintances, strangers, well-wishers and passersby, Li must consider how to speak of herself, 'a mother who no longer has children'. The word 'mother' becomes dissociative, its noun form politely parting ways with the verb form. She is a parent who can no longer parent. Yet some verbs do not change. Li finds that the action 'to be' remains dutifully intact: 'Vincent was and is and will always be Vincent. James was and is and will always be James. We were and are and will always be their parents. There is no now and then, now and later; only now and now and now and now.' Often she finds herself explaining her situation to those who lack the courage or ability to face it. Some friends refuse to believe loss has not also claimed some portion of Li's essence ('not all of them treat me as the intellectual equal of my old self', she says – a bleakly harrowing admission). One friend, astonishingly, tells Li her own child is at college and thus compares her situation to Li's since she is unable to see the child very often. Li is stoically upbraiding ('Sometimes people want to play a part in a tragedy that is, thankfully, not theirs personally'). How brave, how abhorrent, how stark, how impossible, I thought, this clarity.
Yahoo
07-07-2025
- Yahoo
Man, 73, killed in overnight fire in Euclid
EUCLID, Ohio (WJW) — An investigation is underway into what caused a house fire in Euclid. A battalion chief on scene said there are multiple victims. The fire happened about 2 a.m. Monday on East 239th Street in Euclid. It took the fire department about 30 minutes to get the fire under control. Unusual bee attack leaves 24 injured, 3 critically Euclid Fire Chief Jay Womack confirmed a 73-year-old man died. A 56-year-old woman was transported to a hospital. FOX 8 News spoke with a man, Jovonne Smith, who was driving by when he saw the house on fire. He said he was watching the flames when all of a sudden he saw a woman screaming from a window for help. He said he raced over and by the time he got to the house the woman had fallen down, injuring her leg. 'I stopped in front of the house when she was dangling out the window,' Smith said. 'By the time I opened my door to run to the window she had already dropped down. I picked her up from there and the fire was blazing. It was blazing so bad.' 7 displaced, 2 animals rescued in Cleveland house fire Smith carried the woman away from the flames down about two houses. He said he wished he could have done more but the flames were too intense. 'The woman was screaming, worried about the guy,' Smith said. 'I heard him screaming 'help, help' and that was sad. I wish I could have gone in and got him but I picked her up and got her to safety.' Family members on scene told us that the man in the house pushed his girlfriend out of the window to safety but he was not able to get himself out. The fire is still under investigation. There are multiple investigating teams on scene. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Express Tribune
03-07-2025
- Science
- Express Tribune
Third interstellar object detected racing through solar system
This handout image obtained on May 23, 2024 courtesy of NASA/ESA/CSA shows space telescope Euclid's new image of star-forming region Messier 78 (the central and brightest region), a vibrant nursery of star formation enveloped in a shroud of interstellar dust. The European Space Agency (ESA) unveiled on May 23, 2024 a first batch of scientific images of the cosmos taken by the Euclid space telescope, which will observe two billion galaxies over six years in an attempt to unravel the mystery of elusive dark matter. (AFP) Listen to article Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through our solar system — only the third ever spotted, though scientists suspect many more may slip past unnoticed. The visitor from the stars, designated 3I/Atlas, is likely the largest yet detected and has been classified as a comet, or cosmic snowball. 'It looks kind of fuzzy,' said Peter Veres, an astronomer with the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center, which was responsible for the official confirmation. 'It seems that there is some gas around it, and I think one or two telescopes reported a very short tail.' Originally known as A11pl3Z before it was confirmed to be of interstellar origin, the object poses no threat to Earth, said Richard Moissl, head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency. 'It will fly deep through the solar system, passing just inside the orbit of Mars,' but will not hit our neighboring planet. Excited astronomers are still refining their calculations, but the object appears to be zooming more than 60 kilometers (37 miles) a second. Read: Netflix, NASA team up for space content This would mean it is not bound by the Sun's orbit, unlike objects that remain within the solar system. Its trajectory also 'means it's not orbiting our star, but coming from interstellar space and flying off to there again,' Moissl said. 'We think that probably these little ice balls get formed associated with star systems,' added Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. 'And then as another star passes by, tugs on the ice ball, frees it out. It goes rogue, wanders through the galaxy, and now this one is just passing us.' A Chile-based observatory that is part of the NASA-funded ATLAS survey first discovered the object on Tuesday. Professional and amateur astronomers across the world then searched through past telescope data, tracing its trajectory back to at least June 14. The object is currently estimated to be roughly 10–20 kilometers wide, Moissl said, which would make it the largest interstellar interloper ever detected. But the object could be smaller if it is made out of ice, which reflects more light. Veres said the object will continue to brighten as it nears the Sun, bending slightly under the pull of gravity, and is expected to reach its closest point — perihelion — on October 29. An artist's impression of 'Oumuamua', the first known visitor from the stars to our Solar System. Photo: AFP It will then recede and exit the solar system over the next few years. This marks only the third time humanity has detected an object entering the solar system from the stars. The first, ʻOumuamua, was discovered in 2017. It was so strange that at least one prominent scientist became convinced it was an alien vessel — though this has since been contradicted by further research. Our second interstellar visitor, 2I/Borisov, was spotted in 2019. Read more: Pakistani astronaut to embark on space mission with China There is no reason to suspect an artificial origin for 3I/Atlas, but teams around the world are now racing to answer key questions about things like its shape, composition, and rotation. Mark Norris, an astronomer at the UK's University of Central Lancashire, that the new object appears to be 'moving considerably faster than the other two extrasolar objects that we previously discovered.' The object is currently roughly around the distance from Jupiter away from Earth, Norris said. Norris pointed to modeling estimating that there could be as many as 10,000 interstellar objects drifting through the solar system at any given time, though most would be smaller than the newly discovered object. If true, this suggests that the newly online Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile could soon be finding these dim interstellar visitors every month, Norris said. Moissl said it is not feasible to send a mission into space to intercept the new object. Still, these visitors offer scientists a rare chance to study something outside of our solar system. For example, if we detected precursors of life such as amino acids on such an object, it would give us 'a lot more confidence that the conditions for life exist in other star systems,' Norris said.
Yahoo
25-06-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
SpaceX rocket launch of Starlink satellites from Florida set for Wednesday afternoon
SpaceX plans to launch 27 Starlink satellites on Wednesday afternoon from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. What we know A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch the satellites at 12:39 p.m. Backup windows arte available through the afternoon and the following day. This will be the 20th time the first stage booster supporting the mission is used. It has launched missions like Ax-2, Euclid, Ax-3, CRS-30, SES ASTRA 1P, NG-21, and 13 other Starlink flights before. Following stage separation, the first stage will land on the Just Read The Instructions droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. FOX 35 News will stream the launch live using the video player at the top of this page. The backstory Starlink, SpaceX's satellite internet constellation, has been expanding rapidly, with frequent launches adding to its growing network in low-Earth orbit. The company's Direct to Cell capability aims to eliminate mobile dead zones by allowing standard cell phones to connect directly to satellites without requiring additional hardware. STAY CONNECTED WITH FOX 35 ORLANDO: Download the FOX Local app for breaking news alerts, the latest news headlines Download the FOX 35 Storm Team Weather app for weather alerts & radar Sign up for FOX 35's daily newsletter for the latest morning headlines FOX Local: Stream FOX 35 newscasts, FOX 35 News+, Central Florida Eats on your smart TV The Source This story was written based on information shared by SpaceX.
