Richard Preston

Sep 29, 2024 | winteriscoming.net | Richard Preston

The world of Arthurian lore is packed with great adventures, high drama. love, lust, betrayal, battles and conniving magic users. Camelot was born from pagan myths turned into chivalric romance, and its archetypes run deep and ancient. It is no surprise that filmmakers have long interested in the story of King Arthur, with varying results. The following list of 16 Arthurian-themed film and TV projects ranks the best of those ambitious cinematic efforts.

Jul 19, 2024 | medium.com | Richard Preston

I feel I should preface this piece by saying I'm not really all that worried about AI. At least, not in the sense that it will take over humanity and bomb us back to the stone age or subject us to eternal torment. I think that AI is a powerful tool that can really help humanity. Of course, powerful tools always come at a risk. A chainsaw in the hands of one of those people at your county fair who produce really cool sculptures out of wood can be an amazing tool.

Jul 16, 2024 | medium.com | Richard Preston

Do you ever find yourself lying in bed at an ungodly hour, staring at the ceiling and thinking about your own mortality? How will it all end? Will you die from something random, like a car crash, cancer, or some other C-word (Note to self: Change that so that people don't think of the C-word)? Or will you die peacefully in your sleep, surrounded by those who love you? Is that necessarily better, though?

Jul 11, 2024 | thetimes.com | Richard Preston

Some names just demand to be recited in pairs — Morecambe and Wise, Torvill and Dean, Truss and Kwarteng. For cricket lovers of a certain age, Compton and Edrich are similarly locked in eternal embrace. Thousands of spectators at the Lord’s Test this week will sit in the towering stands that bear their names. Plenty of them will be able to summon an image of dashing Denis Compton, probably from a Brylcreem ad, but what about his companion in arms, Bill Edrich?

Apr 19, 2024 | accp1.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Richard Preston |Emily Dumas |Thomas C. Marbury |Andrew Beelen

Introduction Trilaciclib is a novel drug that acts as an inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinases 4 and 6 (CDK4/6), which play a crucial role in regulating the cell cycle.1, 2 Specifically, CDK4/6 are responsible for facilitating the transition from the G1 phase to the S phase, during which DNA replication takes place. By impeding the activity of CDK4/6, trilaciclib can induce a temporary and reversible halt in the cell cycle at the G1 phase.