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Singer-songwriters Finneas O'Connell and Billie Eilish
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Guitar Songs is the second extended play by American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish. Written by Eilish and Finneas O'Connell (both pictured), it was released through download and streaming services on July 21, 2022, as a surprise. Eilish decided on the surprise release because she wanted to share new music with her fans as soon as she could. Guitar Songs consists of two realist sentimental ballads, combining simple acoustic guitars that emphasize Eilish's soft vocal performance with personal lyrics that derive from contemporary life events. One of the tracks, "The 30th", is titled after the day of a friend's near-fatal car crash: November 30, 2021. In the lyrics, Eilish ponders over whether the friend would have survived had some circumstances in the accident been different. The other track, "TV", discusses eating disorders, disillusionment, and a desire for numbness to distract oneself from pressing world issues. "TV" also references the June 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade. (Full article...)

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The Japanese sports anime television series Yuri on Ice had a total of 12 episodes. The series first premiered on TV Asahi on October 6, 2016, and finished airing on December 22, 2016. It was produced by MAPPA, directed by Sayo Yamamoto and written by Mitsurou Kubo. The character designs were by Tadashi Hiramatsu, and the music was composed by Taro Umebayashi and Taku Matsushiba. The series revolves around the relationships between Japanese figure skater Yuri Katsuki, also known as Yuri K., his idol, Russian figure-skating champion Victor Nikiforov, and up-and-coming Russian skater Yuri Plisetsky, also known as Yuri P. The series was made available for streaming by Crunchyroll shortly after its broadcast in Japan, and then Funimation provided an English dub of the series, starting on October 24, 2016. (Full list...)

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Jeanette Scissum is an American mathematician, space scientist, and diversity advocate. Born in Guntersville, Alabama, she gained bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics at Alabama A&M University. After a brief teaching career, Scissum joined NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in 1964, as an entry-level mathematician, the first African-American mathematician to be employed there. Her career achievements included techniques for improved forecasting of the sunspot cycle and leading activities in Marshall's Atmospheric, Magnetospheric, and Plasmas in Space project. After returning to Alabama A&M to complete a PhD, Scissum worked at the Goddard Space Flight Center as a computer systems analyst. This NASA photograph shows Scissum at her desk at Marshall Space Flight Center in the 1960s or 1970s.

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