Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Train elementary school students how to be creative and you can help increase their resilience in the face of real-life problems, new research suggests. In a small study, researchers trained third, fourth and fifth graders to use literary techniques such as perspective shifting, counter-factual (what if) thinking and causal (why) thinking to improve creativity in dealing with difficulties. The techniques helped kids come up with new, creative and practical ways to solve problems, said Angus Fletcher, lead author of the study and a professor of English at The Ohio State University and member of the university’s…
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PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF GETTY, INSTAGRAM.COM/@barbieferreira Succinct. Stylish. Easily accessible. This pop-culture-famous garment makes a special kind of statement. By Natalie Michie Date August 23, 2023 In 2002, Britney Spears hit the streets of London with a Starbucks in her hand, pigtails in her hair and an important message printed on an itty-bitty baby tee: Dump Him. With this, fashion history was made. RELATED: What Does It Mean To Be “Iconic” in 2023? On the heels of a messy split from Justin Timberlake, the pop star’s decision to don such a pointed statement on a highly documented outing was iconic, slightly petty,…
Hip sling, bum bags, waist packs–whatever you call the popular small bags that you wear around your middle, I love them. Fanny packs are my favorite kind of everyday bag, making it no surprise that it’s the kind of diaper bag I looked for when my first child arrived.There are a few diaper-bag-style hip packs out there, but some seemed too expensive for being able to carry only the bare essentials. I wanted something that could double as my own purse and still hold a few baby necessities, like extra clothes and a bottle. After hunting around, I stumbled upon…
Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service united onstage last night to cover Depeche Mode’s 1990 classic “Enjoy the Silence,” as Stereogum points out. Dntel and Jenny Lewis, who complete the Postal Service lineup on Benjamin Gibbard’s double-duty tour, came out during the encore of the tour opener at The Anthem in Washington, D.C. Watch it happen below.The tour, which includes full-album performances of both Give Up and Transatlanticism, celebrates the 20th anniversaries of those records. Upon announcing the dates, Gibbard said, “I know for a fact I will never have a year again like 2003. The Postal Service…
If all goes according to plan — and, really, at this point, why would it? — Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom will, at long last, be the final installment in the DC Extended Universe. Admittedly, this is not the way anyone predicted this cinematic universe would wind down. But look: If you gotta go out, you might as well go out with a huge, wildly colorful, absolutely bonkers movie about an undersea king who rides giant seahorses. Nothing’s gonna top that anyway.The first teaser for the film is here, but really this is a trailer for a trailer; the full first look for…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Liberty Hardy is an unrepentant velocireader, writer, bitey mad lady, and tattoo canvas. Turn-ons include books, books and books. Her favorite exclamation is “Holy cats!” Liberty reads more than should be legal, sleeps very little, frequently writes on her belly with Sharpie markers, and when she dies, she’s leaving her body to library science. Until then, she lives with her three cats, Millay, Farrokh, and Zevon, in Maine. She is also right behind you. Just kidding! She’s too busy reading. Twitter: @MissLiberty View…
Fox’s The Masked Singer returns for a landmark 10th season tonight, Sunday, September 10, and executive producer Craig Plestis has big plans for this go-round. “First of all, we’re just honored that America has kept watching us for 10 seasons. That’s a surprise itself in today’s marketplace,” Plestis told Deadline in a new interview. “Since we’ve had lightning in a bottle since Season 1, for us, it’s just the idea of reinventing it, getting bigger names, and just making sure that we keep the fun within the show. For Season 10, this was the opportunity for how we can make…
There’s a rhythm to developing life. Growing from a tiny cell cluster into an adult organism takes precise timing and control. The right genes must turn on at the right time, for the right duration, and in the correct order. Losing the rhythm can lead to diseases like cancer. So, what keeps every gene on beat? Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor Christopher Hammell has found that in the worm C. elegans, this genetic orchestra has no single conductor. Instead, a quartet of molecules works in concert to time each developmental stage. Hammell says this process shares some similarities with…
Not everyone can commit to a fresh mani all year round, but ask any professional manicurist and they’ll tell you that summer is the time when bookings increase. After all, it’s the season of weddings, festivals, and holidays—exactly the kinds of occasions that align with a fresh new set of nails. If you want to be ahead of the latest nail trends for the month, then right now TikTok is the place to find them. From blueberry nails to milk bath nails, the app has kicked off what are set to be July’s biggest nail colour trends. Another tried and tested source? Our pro nail tech…
iQoo Neo 7 is confirmed to debut in China on October 20. The official announcement also showcases the rear panel design of this smartphone as well as confirms an orange colour option for this handset. iQoo has not delved into any of its specifications for now. However, we can expect more details to surface in the build-up to its launch. Rumours have suggested that the iQoo Neo 7 could be powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 9000+ SoC and is likely to support 120W fast charging.iQoo has announced that it will unveil the iQoo Neo 7 during a launch event that…
There’s no doubt Metallica have inspired countless musicians to pick up a guitar and start a band.Through many, many episodes of Gear Factor, we’ve heard shredder after shredder say the same thing. The first song they learned? The band that made them want to play in the first place? Their favorite riffs? The mighty Metallica, of course.READ MORE: Why Do Metallica Hate the ‘Ride the Lightning’ Song ‘Escape’ So Much?That’s why we decided to revisit a multitude of players, from Ghost’s Tobias Forge to GWAR’s Pustulus Maximus, gushing about the Metallica riffs that inspired them to learn to play and even…
We had such high hopes (and big expectations) for Secret Invasion. And the show got off to a pretty solid start, with the shocking reveal that Everett Ross was a Skrull and the tragic death of Agent Maria Hill. But the next five episodes gave Marvel fans one disappointment after another: Very little suspense, few genuine surprises, and a completely underwhelming finale involving Super Skrulls fighting each other using the powers of the Avengers.So what went wrong? That‘s the subject of our latest Marvel Cinematic Universe video, which examines all the reasons that Secret Invasion was in major trouble right from the get-go.…
Muhammad Rabnawaz, an associate professor in Michigan State University’s top-ranked School of Packaging and recent inductee into the National Academy of Inventors, has always believed that the most brilliant solution is also the simplest. That belief is reflected in his team’s new publication in the journal Advanced Sustainable Systems. Rabnawaz and his colleagues showed that sodium chloride — table salt — can outperform much more expensive materials being explored to help recycle plastics. “This is really exciting,” Rabnawaz said. “We need simple, low-cost solutions to take on a big problem like plastics recycling.” Although plastics have historically been marketed as…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Silvana Reyes is a Mexican book blogger. She enjoys all types of sub-genres, but loves a good love story. Romance fiction is her heart and joy and you might find her screaming about book releases on her Twitter account. View All posts by Silvana Reyes Lopez Silvana Reyes is a Mexican book blogger. She enjoys all types of sub-genres, but loves a good love story. Romance fiction is her heart and joy and you might find her screaming about book releases on her…
The Morning Show has been serving up some snappy dialogue since the series premiere in 2019 and is sure to deliver more honest takes in its third season beginning September 13. A credit to the writers, great quotes make for an even better Morning Show. In anticipation of the series’ return, we’re taking a look at some of the tough truths delivered onscreen by Jennifer Aniston‘s Alex Levy, Reese Witherspoon‘s Bradley Jackson, Billy Crudup‘s Cory Ellison, and Julianna Margulies‘ Laura Peterson. Scroll down for a look at some of their most memorable lines, and let us know your favorites in…
Photography courtesy of Lauchmetrics.COM/SPOTLIGHT Plus, all the products you’ll need to recreate them — wings, pencils, gels and all. By Lauren Knowles Date August 23, 2023 Winged. Smudged. On your lids. Under the eye. Along the waterline. These are just some of the many ways to wear eyeliner. Are images of dark black eyeliner floating through your head? If so, allow us to broaden your beauty horizons. Enter: white eyeliner, the underrated makeup weapon you may not have known you needed. With its illuminating capabilities, white eyeliner looks are able to brighten up your face with a single stroke of…
Ariyippu — the Mahesh Narayanan film with Kunchacko Boban and Divya Prabha in the lead — is now a Netflix original, the world’s biggest subscription-based video streaming service announced Wednesday. Known as Declaration in English, the Malayalam-language movie is about a struggling Kerala couple who work in a medical gloves factory near Delhi, who dream of migrating out of the country for a better life. But when an old video resurfaces among the factory workers during the COVID-19 lockdowns, it opens up a pandora’s box that threatens the couple’s jobs and marriage.Netflix has not set a release date, but said…
[CLIP: Show music] Natalia Reagan: Animal Tracks Inc is located about 40 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. This animal sanctuary takes in former exotic pets and entertainment industry animals and gives them a new lease on life. The menagerie includes several capuchin monkeys, kangaroos, wolf hybrids, a baboon named Chrissy and my BFF, a six-banded armadillo called Frank the Tank. [CLIP: Intro music] Reagan: And you might find something else at Animal Tracks. [CLIP: Monkey sounds] Reagan: That is the sound of a lesbian monkey love triangle: three monkeys, two species and one helluva love story. I’m Natalia Reagan,…
Tyler Childers is hitting the road next year. The Mule Pull ’24 Tour will take the country musician and his band the Food Stamps across North America and Europe with support from the likes of Sylvan Esso and Medium Build. Check out all the dates, which conclude at Madison Square Garden, below.The shows support Childers’ new album, Rustin’ in the Rain, led by the single “In Your Love.” The new project follows Childers’ 2022 triple album, Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our…
The full BFI London Film Festival line-up has been announced 3 && args[2] === 2 && typeof args[3] === ‘boolean’ ) { gdprApplies = args[3]; if (typeof args[2] === ‘function’) { args[2](‘set’, true); } } } else if (args[0] === ‘ping’) { var retr = { gdprApplies: gdprApplies, cmpLoaded: false, cmpStatus: ‘stub’ }; if (typeof args[2] === ‘function’) { args[2](retr); } } else { if(args[0] === ‘init’ && typeof args[3] === ‘object’) { args[3] = { …args[3], tag_version: ‘V2’ }; } queue.push(args); } } function postMessageEventHandler(event) { var msgIsString = typeof event.data === ‘string’; var json = {}; try {…
Flight of the Rondone by Patrick Girondi “I believe that my unique experiences and my goal of expressing and, in a certain sense, teaching the reader about those experiences, without giving consideration to offense, makes my writing different.” Those are the words of Patrick Girondi, indeed a unique storyteller who has burst onto the literary landscape with a series of raw and gritty books — most notably Flight of the Rondone (Skyhorse Publishing), the very personal story of how he took on Big Pharma while developing a cure for his son’s rare disease. Girondi’s narratives reflect his streetwise knowledge and…
When Netflix cracked down on password-sharing in North America, we were so sure it would fail. People on the social media service formerly known as Twitter galvanize for far pettier reasons. And this anti-consumer move, which Netflix used to be against, seemed like the perfect thing to come in arms over. There were viral memes about mass unsubscribing if the tactics that were being (successfully) tested in regions outside the U.S. actually came stateside. Well, it seems they finally decided to file for divorce pic.twitter.com/xioojmZ4Ty — Orge Castellano (@orgecastellano) February 1, 2023 Imagine our utter disappointment when it didn’t, and…
Average traffic flow before, during, and after the wildfire. Credit: Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2023.103610 During extensive wildfires, residents may need to evacuate to stay safe, but knowing when to leave is sometimes unclear. A new study from Lund University in Sweden, among others, shows that people fleeing their homes drive more slowly than usual, despite time being crucial. Enrico Ronchi conducts fire research at Lund University in Sweden, and is an expert on evacuations during wildfires—how people behave and how various government agencies can inform the public. Together with colleagues from other universities, he…
The pre-pandemic New York of 2016 is back in our lives again, at least in the form of Fleishman Is In Trouble, the newly Emmy-nominated FX series based on celebrated journalist Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s novel of the same name. In the wry drama, Jesse Eisenberg stars as Toby Fleishman, a recent divorcee hooked on hook-up apps whose ex-wife, the calculated publicist Rachel (Claire Danes), goes radio-silent without warning. She drops the kids off at Toby’s apartment and leaves for a retreat, only for days to pass without a second word from her. Lizzy Caplan stars as narrator Libby Epstein, a college…
As POPSUGAR editors, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you’ll like too. If you buy a product we have recommended, we may receive affiliate commission, which in turn supports our work.The Air Jordan 1 is often regarded as the most iconic of all sneakers, worn by Hall of Fame basketball player Michael Jordan during the last game of his Chicago Bulls tenure in 1998 at Madison Square Garden. The shoe itself, introduced in 1984, when the athlete signed a deal with Nike, is now a street-style symbol, which means that building outfit ideas around it…
Aadhaar holders who were issued the unique ID more than 10 years back but have not updated their details since then are being urged to update identification and residence proof documents, UIDAI said.In a statement, UIDAI — the government agency that issues Aadhaar numbers — said the updation can be done online as well as at Aadhaar centres.It said those who were issued the unique identification number more than 10 years back and have not done any updation since the issue are being “requested” to update their documents.UIDAI, however, did not say if this updation is mandatory.”Any person who had…
On Saturday (September 9), the corner of Ludlow and Rivington Streets in New York will be officially dubbed “Beastie Boys Square” with a celebration featuring appearances from Michael “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz. The historic locale was once home to Paul’s Boutique—the namesake of Beastie Boys’ pivotal sophomore LP, released in 1989. The eponymous shop was famously featured on the gatefold album cover. The ceremony will take place from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern and will include a guest DJ set by Jon Bless HiFi System.Beastie Boys Square gets its new name a decade after LeRoy McCarthy…
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Start Us Up by Lexi Blake What’s it About? She’s a high-tech boss who lost it all… He’s an up and coming coder… Can his close-to-home idea and her dreams to make it big again send them toward success? It could be a perfect partnership or absolute heartbreak. Is it dangerous to mix business and pleasure? For Ivy Jensen, the answer is yes. She’s been burned once before, by her former boyfriend turned business partner. When Nick watched the company go up in flames, he let the blame fall on Ivy and walked out unscathed, with plenty of other job…
Life is dealing the folks of Virgin River with heartwarming and heartbreaking cards. And frankly, we wouldn’t have it any other way, as Virgin River Season 5 Episode 4 served as a bit of calm before the storm, or in this case, before the wildfire. The hour served as a reminder that we must take the bad with the good in life and can’t take anything for granted. It made it a perfect precursor for what’s to come when the wildfires ravage through this small town we know and love. Do you know what’s winsome? A collection of women in…