Variety

Rebecca Yarros’ ‘Variation’ Film Adaptation Set at Amazon From ‘It Ends With Us’ Screenwriter; Obamas’ Higher Ground and Misty Copeland Producing

Along with “Variation” and “Fourth Wing,” other Yarros book-to-screen adaptations currently in the works include “In the Likely Event” movie at Netflix and “The Last Letter” as a film from Amazon MGM.
Wall Street Journal

They Found Relatives on 23andMe—and Asked for a Cut of the Inheritance

When Carmen Thomas was growing up in Boston, her mom told her that her absent dad’s name was Joe Brown. So when she sent a saliva sample to 23andMe in her 20s and got a match with a Brown, she was ...
The Economist

Switzerland votes decisively against inheritance tax

THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS, the youth wing of Switzerland’s Social Democratic Party, do not have any MPs in parliament, but they know how to make a stir. On November 30th the country held a referendum on ...
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New Routes, Partial New Routes, and Variations: What's the Diff?

Opening a new route is every climber's dream, but finding something new is getting harder all the time. The most obvious lines, whether in the Himalaya or the Alps, have already been done. The ...