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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Each human culture consists of a unique set of values, beliefs and practices. However, a common thread across cultures is the apparent importance of preserving aspects of those cultures throughout generations. In a new paper published in the journal Psychological Review, Cory Cobb, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Health Behavior at the Texas A&M University School of Public Health, and colleagues from the University of Texas at Austin, proposed a cultural continuity hypothesis stating that humans are universally motivated to retain and preserve key parts of their cultures across time and space. “These cultural…

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When Marvel announced they were releasing a gigantic popcorn bucket for The Fantastic Four: First Steps in the shape of Galactus’ head, they did not mention a price. Given that it was 17.5 inches tall and 20 inches wide, you knew it wouldn’t be cheap.Well, it is not. The AMC Theatres website lists the Fantastic Four Galactus popcorn bucket (complete with light-up eyes) at a price of $79.95. Your bank account better be the size of Galactus if you want one.READ MORE: The Shocking Connection Between Wanda and Doctor DoomThese fancy popcorn buckets are never inexpensive, but they’re not typically $80 a pop either.…

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Bruce Springsteen has paid tribute to the late Brian Wilson in a new statement praising The Beach Boys co-founder’s legacy and influence on his own music. “Brian Wilson was the most musically inventive voice in all of pop, with an otherworldly ear for harmony,” the Boss wrote on Instagram. “He was also the visionary leader of America’s greatest band, The Beach Boys,” Springsteen continued. “If there’d been no Beach Boys, there would have been no ‘Racing In The Street.’ Listen to ‘Summer’s Gone’ from The Beach Boys’ last album That’s Why God Made The Radio and weep. Farewell, Maestro. Nothing but…

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My mom and I have very different senses of style—she loves color and isn’t afraid of intricate prints, while I tend to gravitate towards more minimalist pieces. I’d describe her style as sweet, artistic, a little boho, and always comfortable. She loves relaxed tops, cardigans, soft knitwear, flowy dresses, and denim in pastels, jewel tones, and earthy shades.When she asked me of recommendations on where to shop, Madewell was one of the first places that came to mind. Their aesthetic feels laid-back but still put-together, with pieces that are casual yet intentional.It just so happens that they’re running a sale…

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What about bike thieves? The company has a suite of tools for theft prevention under the term Infinite Security. All Olto ebikes come with GPS and internet, so you can track yours via the companion app (iOS and Android will be available at launch). As a redundant measure, there’s a secure spot to install an AirTag for peace of mind. If someone tries to tamper with the bike, an alarm will ring and you’ll get a notification on your phone. The steering and motor also lock up, so it’d take considerable effort to move the 178-pound ebike. Much of this…

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center Turns 100 Happy 100th to NYPL’s Schomburg Center! The Schomburg holds “one of the world’s leading collections of material relating to the African diaspora,” as well as Langston Hughes’ ashes. Jennifer Schuessler of The New York Times wrote about the event kicking off a year of celebrating the Schomburg and the opening of the Division of Negro…

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A mysterious type of pitting on the dental enamel of Paranthropus, a genus of extinct human relatives, has baffled experts for decades. But new research suggests the clusters of pits are genetic rather than evidence of a disease, making them key to further understanding the human family tree.”Teeth preserve an incredible amount of biological and evolutionary information,” study co-author Ian Towle, a researcher in the Palaeodiet Research Lab at Monash University in Australia, told Live Science. “This specific type of pitting might turn out to be a unique marker for certain evolutionary lineages, helping us identify fossils.”Towle and colleagues detailed…

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A gang of small-town drug dealing gym rats are set upon by a murderous stranger in this satisfying Welsh genre piece. There are worse films to be obsessed with than Shane Meadows‘ Dead Man’s Shoes, and that film’s blood-flecked paw prints are all over writer/director Tony Burke’s witty, Welsh revenge yarn, Protein. The film cheekily adopts its title from the supposed nutritional qualities of human flesh among the more desperate echelons of the body building community, as our hooded, monosyllabic protagonist, Sion (Craig Russell), is in town to take out some tinpot trash and then feast on their freshly carved…

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The Recording Academy has unveiled its updated rulebook for the 2026 Grammy Awards. Key changes include the division of the Best Country Album category into two awards: The original category is now called Best Contemporary Country Album, and a new one, Best Traditional Country Album, has been added. Notably, Beyoncé won the 2025 Best Country Album Grammy in her first year of nomination in the category; her Lemonade song “Daddy Lessons” was controversially rejected by the country music committee in 2016.A shakeup in the packaging field has led to the creation of a new category, Best Album Cover, as well…

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While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here.I have a hard time finding flats that don’t dig into my heels or leave me with blisters. As a shopping editor, I always gravitate toward stylish pairs, but I’ve been craving a design that’s actually comfortable, too. So when I saw Meghan Markle wearing them (she was most recently spotted in them at Disneyland with her family), my interest was definitely piqued. I had to find…

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Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: An Interpol-led law enforcement action in 26 countries disrupted infostealer operations, leading to takedowns of 20K+ malicious IPs and domains and 32 arrests — An international law enforcement action codenamed “Operation Secure” targeted infostealer malware infrastructure … View Original Source Here

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The Island by Kerri King It’s as if the writing itself is a siren song, luring us to the boundaries between fantasy and reality, elation and dread. Have you ever read a book that you wished would never end? That’s the kind of book The Island is, and it’s a rare find. Written by Amazon bestselling author and filmmaker Kerri King, this speculative fiction novel follows the emotional journey of Mack, a novelist-turned-fisherman, whose sailing trip with his wife, Lily, takes an unexpected and troubling turn toward the “rich and strange.” Mack first encounters Lily on the docks near his…

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Minions are characters in films produced by Universal PicturesCinematic/Alamy Disney and Universal have filed a lawsuit against AI image generator Midjourney alleging mass copyright infringement that enables users to create images that “blatantly incorporate and copy Disney’s and Universal’s famous characters”. The action could be a major turning point in the legal battles over AI copyright infringement being negotiated by book publishers, news agencies and other content creators. Midjourney’s tool, which creates images from text prompts, has 20 million users on its Discord server, where users type their inputs. In the lawsuit, the two movie-making giants share examples in which…

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The Bachelorette star Jenn Tran and dancer Sasha Farber have reportedly had a breakup. The duo appeared on Season 33 of Dancing with the Stars and became really “good friends.” Though they have never officially confirmed the relationship, sources claim the duo dated for over a year. So, here’s everything to know about the split rumors surrounding Farber and Tran, as well as the truth behind the same. Have Jenn Tran and Sasha Farber split? Insiders claim that the DWTS duo has broken up after a year of being in a relationship. People reported a source who “confirmed” Jenn Tran and…

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Ananda Lewis, who had a celebrated run on MTV as a veejay and as the host of shows including Total Request Live and Hot Zone, has died at age 52. News of Lewis’ death was confirmed in a Facebook post by her sister, Lakshmi Emory. In 2020, Lewis revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, saying that she had long avoided mammograms and urged early testing. Her last post to Instagram was in February, when she wrote that “prevention is the cure. If you’re in a healthy body, you’re holding a winning lotto ticket. PLEASE learn how to…

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What words come to mind when you think of parents? I think of loving, hardworking, reliable—and now stylish. Yes, with sleepless nights and messy mealtimes, being a parent can sometimes feel not so stylish. But Bobby Schuessler and Nicole Eshaghpour, two of the chicest parents I know, have officially convinced me otherwise. Their street-style looks prove that even strollers and baby carriers can be used to express your personal style.”As a mom and fashion editor, I approach shopping for strollers the same way I do the accessories in my closet,” editor-at-large Nicole Eshaghpour says. “I want items that match my…

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A black hole 11.6 billion light years from Earth has unleashed a compelling jet, according to new observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Large Array (VLA). Seen when the universe was at its early “cosmic noon”, or about 3 billion years after the Big Bang, the jet is visible to telescopes due to its interactions with the dense cosmic microwave background (CMB), a faint glow left over from the universe’s birth. Researchers confirmed two jets from different black holes, their particles racing at up to 99% the speed of light, offering rare insight into…

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10 Jun 2025 Hold on to the edge of your seat as we hunt for clues and solve the case with these exciting new mystery and thriller books for the week! There are so many bestselling authors with new novels for you to dive into this week including Walter Marks, Joel W. Barrows, Kevin Hwang, and more. Enjoy your new mystery, thriller, and suspense novels. Happy reading! Related grant View Original Source Here

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Schematic of many-body interaction induced EPs and hysteresis loops in Rydberg atoms. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58850-y A research team has observed multibody interaction-induced EPs and hysteresis trajectories in cold Rydberg atomic gases. They revealed the phenomenon of charge-conjugation parity (CP) symmetry breaking in non-Hermitian multibody physics. The team was led by Prof. Guo Guangcan, Prof. Shi Baosen and Prof. Ding Dongsheng from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and their study was published in Nature Communications. CP-symmetry is an important discrete symmetry in particle physics. When certain physical processes…

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There are two options for getting married at a Taco Bell restaurant: You and your soon-to-be spouse will just have to do a little extra planning.Can You Get Married At Any Taco Bell Restaurant?Just because you’ve never been invited to a wedding at a Taco Bell doesn’t mean they’re not popular.Instead, interest in Taco Bell weddings has continued to grow to the point that the chain even addresses proper protocol on its website. They also rolled out a contest in recent years that awarded one lucky couple the chance to get married at a virtual restaurant in the Metaverse, complete…

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What would James Hetfield and Robert Trujillo be doing if there was no Metallica? That was a question posed to the two musicians during a recent episode of The Metallica Report podcast.Interestingly enough, both musicians initially offered answers that still kept them in the music industry in some manner. But both shared that they also had other things to fall back on for a career had music not taken them to the superstardom they both enjoy now.So what would Robert Trujillo and James Hetfield be doing had Metallica never existed?Hardwired to Construct?”I would probably continue to play music,” confesses Trujillo.…

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While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here.Sandals and summer go hand-in-hand, just like ice cream and beach days, or, since we’re talking fashion, flowy dresses and bikinis. But buying new ones yearly — or even replacing worn-out pairs — can get expensive. We know you already know that, which is probably why you’re here, checking out our guide to the best sandals and summer shoes Amazon has to offer. The retailer is one…

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What to Look for in Organic SheetsOrganic means many things. It’s often used to confirm that food was grown without toxic pesticides and chemicals, and doesn’t have things like growth hormones or GMOs, in order to label it as organic food. For bedding, it should mean both that organic materials were used to make the fabric—no toxic pesticides used in farming, etc.—and that they were produced organically with nontoxic chemicals.You’ll want at least two certifications to prove this. Most sheets have a Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) certification to certify that the material sourced is organic (it’ll say organically grown…

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. TIME’s Best Books of the Year So Far TIME published their list of the Best Books of the Year So Far and it’s a good mix of books considering they kept it to a mere 14 titles (how though?!). Katie Kitamura’s Audition seems to be required for any Best of So Far as does Ocean Vuong’s The Emperor of Gladness. Also, big kudos…

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Even before kindergarten, Autumn Huett feared other kids wouldn’t like her because she was twice their size.In high school, she lost more than half her body weight through a punishing and unsustainable regimen of diet and exercise, which was celebrated by her peers and even featured in a local newspaper.”Even though I excelled academically, I feel like it never quite mattered as much as this vanity piece,” Huett told Live Science. You may like When the weight later returned, as research shows it often does, Huett felt scrutinized, which led to her obsessively monitoring her eating and exercise in public,…

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