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It's day one of the new lunar cycle, and over the next few days, a thin crescent will begin to appear as the Moon moves further along its orbit. It'll take a few days before it comes into view properly, but from tonight you should be able to see a sliver of Moon in the sky.

What is today’s Moon phase?

As of Monday, Jan. 19, the Moon phase is Waxing Crescent. According to NASA's Daily Moon Guide, 1%



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If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.

There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give


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The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is only one episode in, but there have already been some nods to the wider Game of Thrones universe.

Aside from the many moments of comedy, though, there was also a scene early on in the episode that may have contained an intriguing clue — even if we're not quite sure why it's significant yet.

So what happened, and why might it be relevant? Let's unpack.

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To be known as "The Tall" you'd have to be pretty tall, but how tall, exactly, are we talking?

This may not be your biggest question after watching A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, but we're willing to bet it's crossed your mind.

The show includes multiple mentions of everyone's favourite hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall (Peter Claffey), being of large stature. But how tall is the character in



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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has so far been a refreshingly amusing return to Westeros, but there was one scene that particularly tickled us in episode 1.

We're talking, of course, about the phlegm scene — a moment in the meeting between Dunk (Peter Claffey) and Master of Games Plummer (Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) that's so prolonged it's instantly hilarious.

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HBO's new Game of Thrones spin-off, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, features more knights than you can shake a lance at.

The House of the Dragon sequel takes place at a tournament (or "tourney") in The Reach's Ashford Meadow, where only knights are allowed to enter "the lists" — spaces for publicly demonstrating their combat and jousting skills. But what of Ser Duncan "Dunk" the Tall (Peter Claffey


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Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you're not steady.

Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's



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Part of Industry's brilliance is its capacity for reinvention. In Seasons 3 and 4, HBO's finance thriller shook up its own formula: Widening its scope, experimenting with form, and even getting rid of Pierpoint and Co. entirely. But even with these shakeups in mind, nothing could have prepared me for the haunting ghost story at the center of Season 4, episode 2, "The Commander and the Grey Lady."

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The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult to solve if you love money.

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and


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Troy Smothers was a sergeant when he separated from the US Marine Corps. Before that, he served in Ukraine for a short time, later returning after the war began to assist its troops with fiber optic drones.
  • Troy Smothers deployed with the USMC to Ukraine in 2005 to train its infantry to NATO standards.
  • By necessity, many Ukrainians are skilled at fixing electronics and keeping aging

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In my early 30s, I was working long hours as the editor in chief of a magazine, juggling deadlines and the looming "should we have kids?" question — all while feeling completely wrung out. I drafted a resignation email.

When my boss called me in, she surprised me: "Take some time off," she said. "Come back to manage a new launch later this year."

My plan for a year off


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