This week鈥檚 Nose shows no hails from the surface or sub-space chatter. No interplanetary traffic. Not one orbital dock.
This week, NASA released the first images sent back from the James Webb Space Telescope. They are . They are . They are 鈥� ?
Sort of relatedly: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is the 11th Star Trek television series and the fifth series in Alex Kurtzman鈥檚 . It tells the story of Christopher Pike鈥檚 time as captain of the USS Enterprise in the years before Captain Kirk. Its first season concluded last week on Paramount+. A second season is currently in production.
Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take:
- Norman was commissioned to create the score for the first Bond movie, Dr. No, and wrote one of the most iconic guitar riffs in the process
- The top three spots get a shake-up in our annual power ranking.
- Humans are sending ever more rockets up into space 鈥� bits of them falling back to Earth could result in casualties, unless action is taken
- In FX鈥檚 surprise hit, the 31-year-old actor plays a tormented culinary genius who returns home to run his family鈥檚 Chicago sandwich shop. We caught up with White in his native Brooklyn to learn what it took to get in the kitchen.
- Modern romance can feel cold and alienating. Feeld, by encouraging open-mindedness and respect, suggests a way forward.
- A televised 1990s killing in Zambia has striking similarities to Delia Owens鈥檚 best-selling book turned movie.
- 鈥楽quid Game鈥� and 鈥楢bbott Elementary鈥� defied the odds while sentimental favorites were snubbed, but in the end, maybe there鈥檚 just Too Much TV
- What is it about the once virtually unknown song that inspires so many musicians to make it their own?
- The auto industry is racing towards a future full of microtransactions
- Even before Page鈥攁nd his character on 鈥淯mbrella Academy鈥濃�攃ame out as trans, he had a gift for playing people who were restless in their identities.
- Office workers work in offices, for better or for worse.
- A new study refutes the widespread idea that woodpeckers have shock-absorbing heads.
- The late James Caan slipped a few syllables of gibberish into 鈥楾he Godfather.鈥� Now they have their own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.
GUESTS:
- Jim Chapdelaine: An Emmy-winning musician and a patient advocate for people with rare cancers
- Mercy Quaye: Founder and principal consultant for and the cohost of the podcast with John Dankosky
- Bill Yousman: Professor of Media Studies at Sacred Heart University
Colin McEnroe and Cat Pastor contributed to this show.
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