This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I have a complicated relationship with the now-memetic phrase “Disney Adult.” I will deny that I am a Disney Adult and then I will make sure to get to the parks just as they open. I will say that I’m a Disney Adult and then accidentally start a trading pin collection. I say that I am not a Disney Adult, but somehow I am always planning my next trip, if only in my mind. I can enjoy the wonder I feel whenever I’m…
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Don Lemon has been fired. He announced the news himself. “I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN. I am stunned,” Lemon wrote in a statement he shared on Twitter. “After 17 years at CNN I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly. At no time was I ever given any indication that I would not be able to continue to do the work I have loved at the network. It is clear that there are some larger issues at play.” He continued, “with…
THIS intriguing selection of images documents a catastrophic shipwreck that, after more than 300 years, has had some of its relics brought to the surface. They will be showcased in a new exhibition, The Last Voyage of the Gloucester, by the University of East Anglia and Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, both in the UK. 1682 painting of the wreck by Johan Danckerts.Royal Museums Greenwich/Wikimedia Commons In 1682, the warship HMS Gloucester set sail for Edinburgh carrying the future King James II of England and Ireland, who was also King James VII of Scotland. Not long into its journey,…
Out of all of the beauty categories, I think perfume brings me the most joy. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a confidence boost that comes with a new manicure or a blowout, but, if I’m after a “treat-yourself” investment purchase, I make a beeline for the perfume counters in any beauty hall. A scent has the power to influence your mood (read: feel-good scents) tap into a certain vibe (expensive smelling perfumes? Yes please) or to match a season or special occasion. It’s honestly my favourite beauty item to buy. Scent is also tied so much into our memory, too,…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said it is an honour for him to receive the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award and he looks forward to continuing to work with people across India to help them use technology to achieve more. Nadella, who plans to visit India next January, formally received the award for distinguished service, from India’s Consul General in San Francisco, Dr T V Nagendra Prasad, last week.The 55-year-old CEO of Microsoft was named one of 17 awardees earlier this year.On receiving the award, Nadella said: “It’s an honour to receive a Padma Bhushan Award and to be recognised…
Whether you’re afraid of dogs, needles or enclosed spaces, one of the most effective interventions for this type of anxiety disorder is exposure therapy in which you confront your fear in a safe environment. A new study led by researchers at Penn State College of Medicine finds that exposure therapy is also a promising treatment for adolescents with eating disorders. They found that exposure to feared foods — such as candy bars and pizza — helped kids who were in a partial hospitalization program for eating disorders experience decreased anxiety toward food. “As a society that is so heavily influenced…
The stars came out to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Monday for the 2023 Met Gala honoring late designer Karl Lagerfeld. Hosted by Penélope Cruz, Michaela Coel, Roger Federer, Dua Lipa, and, of course, Anna Wintour, this year’s Met Gala is tied to the Costume Institute exhibition, “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty.” Naturally, then, attendees dressed in homage to Lagerfeld, who served as the creative director for Fendi and Chanel for decades in addition to designing for Balmain, Chloé, and his own fashion house. Below, you can see what Rihanna, David Byrne, Phoebe Bridgers,…
Nida Manzoor: ‘As South Asian women, we don’t get to rage’ 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…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Even after the start — and stop — of using labels like #OwnVoices, and the increased effort for diversity across literature that began in 2020, publishing maintains its cis, white status quo. But why? Well, for one, success in publishing, as with many other fields, can depend on who you know. As a result, people from outside hiring managers’ ethnic purview can find themselves at a loss. Secondly, certain narratives surrounding marginalized groups — especially Black Americans — are cemented in the foundation…
Give it up for the marvelous Ms. Myerson! On The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 5 Episode 6, Susie finally gets her due for being the best damn manager in show business. The show is careening towards its finale with (even more!) new characters and enough time jumps to make your head spin. This episode will likely be polarizing for viewers. Some may love it, applauding its ambitious narrative style, while others may hate it, finding it too convoluted to enjoy. Like many of the Susie stories told by the comedians after the ceremony, the truth likely lies somewhere in between. Seeing…
Priyanka Chopra’s stylish press tour continues. After wearing a denim mermaid-style gown to the “Love Again” screening in New York City on May 4, the actor stepped out in her second look of the day for date night with husband Nick Jonas. Chopra changed into a pink cutout dress before heading to dinner at Sona, the Indian restaurant she co-owns. Made of a velvety material that caught the light as she walked the streets of Manhattan, her dress featured long sleeves, a twisted front, side and back cutouts, and a knotted skirt that created several more openings and strips of…
Microsoft is reportedly building an Xbox mobile application store, that will allow users to directly download and install games on mobile devices. The “next-generation” Xbox mobile store was first hinted at by the company in February this year, while announcing a set of “Open App Store Principles” that would apply to the Microsoft Store on Windows, and the yet-to-be-released marketplace for games. The principles were set up as part of a process of seeking regulatory approvals for Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion (roughly Rs. 5,67,600 crore) worth acquisition of Activision Blizzard, a deal which is currently under investigation by UK’s Competition…
When I was younger, I gazed at the stars at night and wondered how many possessed planets like Earth. Being a Star Trek nerd, I couldn’t help but imagine a universe where stars were fecund and planets were everywhere. But not knowing was agony. This story has a happy ending, though: Now we do know—the galaxy is filled with planets. Even better, this story also comes with a twist worthy of an eyebrow-raise from Mr. Spock (accompanied by a flatly intoned “Fascinating”): most planets orbiting distant stars—what we call exoplanets—do not circle around ones like the sun. Instead, the vast…
The roof of an Illinois concert venue collapsed in a heavy storm last night (March 31), killing an attendee of a metal show that was due to be headlined by Morbid Angel, The New York Times reports. Firefighters arrived at Belvidere’s Apollo Theater around 7:30 p.m. Central, scrambling through the wreckage to save the dozens hurt when the roof caved in after an early set by Brazilian death metal band Crypta. There were 260 people in the venue at the time of the collapse, 28 of whom were hospitalized, five with critical injuries.The venue’s front awning also collapsed, and an…
Since July of 2021, Netflix has maintained a site where anyone, subscriber and non-subscriber alike, can learn the service’s most popular films and shows in the United States and around the world. Updated each Tuesday, the site reveals the ten most-watched movies and shows in a given week, in English and other languages.Most of these titles are produced by Netflix itself, whose in-house programmers and executives have helped foster such film and TV hits as Stranger Things, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Wednesday, The Irishman, Bridgerton, and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. But even now that Netflix routinely churns out dozens of hours of original content every…
The Illinois Senate has passed HB 2789, a bill whose terms dictate that state funding from public or school libraries that remove books from circulation will be withheld. As per the bill, the $62 million of funding that goes to the state’s libraries will only be eligible for said funding if they “adopt the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights” or “develop a written statement prohibiting the practice of banning books or other materials within the library or library system.“ Alexi Giannoulias, Illinois’s newly selected Secretary of State, first drafted the bill in response to the 67 book bans that were attempted…
David Arquette has had a remarkable career playing interesting and sometimes off-kilter characters in a range of films and TV shows. In his latest role in Peacock’s Mrs. Davis, he plays Monty, the magician father to Betty Gilpin’s globetrotting nun searching for the Holy Grail to end a God-like AI. It’s a perfect role for Arquette, who admits he has always loved magic. “To be able to play a magician opposite such incredible actors, such amazing writing and producing director, I don’t know. I just felt really honored to be able to play this character,” he shared with TV Fanatic…
A group of astrophotographers captured a breathtaking image of the recent “hybrid eclipse,” which was visible in the skies above Australia last week. The image mainly shows off the ghostly filaments of the sun’s corona, or outer atmosphere, but it also caught a faint glimpse of an eruption of magnetized plasma, known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), exploding away from the sun. The rare eclipse, which occurred April 20, is known as a hybrid because it consisted of two separate eclipses occurring at the same time. These included a total solar eclipse — a fleeting yet complete occultation of the…
We can always count on Tracee Ellis Ross to take fashionable risks, and her outfit at the Amazon NewFronts event in New York City was no exception. On May 3, the actor dressed to impress in a pair of white Dries Van Noten pumps with a square leather toe that curved so that half of her foot remained exposed. “SHAPESHIFTER” she captioned an Instagram gallery showing off her look as she posed by a large windowsill to highlight her asymmetrical heels. Styled by Karla Welch, Ross wore the statement-making shoes with a structural JW Anderson jumpsuit so that her entire…
Delivery options: Two or four weeksOut of all the coffee subscriptions we’ve tried, Angel’s Cup has my favorite twist: blind taste testing. Every time a coffee arrives, it’s in an unmarked black bag. After you’ve decided whether you like a coffee or not, you can look it up in the Angel’s Cup app—that’s when you’ll find out what you’re drinking. It’s a good way to see what you really like without preconceived notions getting in the way.Angel’s Cup is more like a distance-learning coffee school than a box subscription service. WIRED senior reviewer Scott Gilbertson strongly recommends giving the Black…
AC/DC singer Brian Johnson has been honored with a sculpted likeness of his early AC/DC visage in Namur, Belgium. It’s the city where he played his first-ever show with the Australian rockers in 1980, after preceding the late frontman Bon Scott.The new Brian Johnson statue — the half-body sculpture appears like a cross between a bust and a full-size representation — was unveiled Sunday (April 16) after a local campaign spearheaded by the area broadcaster RTBF and several AC/DC fans in the region.See the statue in the video and photos below.READ MORE: Brian Johnson Releases Memoir About His LifeNamur is “a very special place for me,”…
Love According to Dalva review – tactfully-mounted drama 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 { if (msgIsString)…
Eating lots of fats increases the risk of metabolic disorders, but the mechanisms behind the problem have not been well understood. Now, University of California, Irvine biologists have made a key finding about how to ward off harmful effects caused by a high-fat diet. Their study appears in Nature Communications. The UC Irvine research centered on a protein complex called AMPK, which senses the body’s nutrition and takes action to keep it balanced. For example, if AMPK detects that glucose is low, it can boost lipid breakdown to produce energy in its place. Scientists have known that consuming high amounts…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. When has there ever been a wedding when there isn’t at least a little bit of drama? Couples spend thousands (and in some cases, tens of thousands) of dollars on a big event that is meant to declare their love to the world, but they’re also bringing in all their relatives, loved ones, and friends, and with that came come conflicting personalities, diverging motivations, and all sorts of friction. Most couples might only experience a bit of tension leading up to the big…
Erin Cahill stars in Hallmark’s Hearts In the Game as Hazel, a top publicist who puts her heart and soul into bringing her clients’ hearts and souls to the public. When her ex-boyfriend Diego, a pro baseball player (Marco Grazzini) freezes during Game 7 of the World Series, she receives the challenge of a lifetime restoring his image. During a recent publicity day, we chatted with Erin about the show and how she puts publicity to use in her own life, thanks to her role in the public eye. Erin is an absolutely delightful person to speak with, immediately connecting…
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. If there’s anything we’ve learned from the fashion trends of the past two years, it’s that both nostalgia and color have come back in a big way (thanks TikTok). We’ve seen it with Y2K fashion, and now with all the buzz surrounding Greta Gerwig’s upcoming “Barbie” movie, the Barbiecore aesthetic has already proven to be this season’s biggest style trend — and managed to…
Tesla’s advanced driver assistant software won’t gain regulatory approval in 2022, CEO Elon Musk said in remarks which indicate the company is not yet able to satisfy authorities that its cars can be driven without someone behind the wheel.The Silicon Valley automaker sells a $15,000 (roughly Rs. 12,45,000) software add-on called “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) which enables its vehicles to change lanes and park autonomously. That complements its standard “Autopilot” feature which enables cars to steer, accelerate and brake within their lanes without driver intervention.However, the cars still need to be driven with human oversight. A completely autonomous vehicle would require regulatory…
Ponderosa pine forests in the Sierra Nevada that were wiped out by western pine beetles during the 2012-2015 megadrought won’t recover to pre-drought densities, reducing an important storehouse for atmospheric carbon. “Forests store huge amounts of atmospheric carbon, so when western pine beetle infestations kill off millions of trees, that carbon dioxide goes back into the atmosphere,” said Zachary Robbins, a postdoctoral at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Robbins is corresponding author of a new paper published in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science about carbon stored in living ponderosa pines in the Sierra Nevada of California. “We also found that…
For the first time since penning a lengthy statement about her decision, Feist has discussed her departure from Arcade Fire’s tour following allegations of sexual misconduct against frontman Win Butler. (Butler has maintained that all of the alleged interactions were consensual.) In a new interview with The Irish Times, Feist recounted what was running through her head while playing the first two tour dates as an opener, both of which were in Ireland.“I was having an out-of-body experience,” Feist said. “Not to mention, I had brought all of these new songs. I thought, ‘Okay, maybe I’ll go do this tour…
Even after The Mandalorian Season 3, it’s not entirely clear why the title character and his adopted son Grogu showed up on The Book of Boba Fett for several episodes — and pretty much took over the entire series for a little while to continue their own storylines from the end of The Mandalorian Season 2.The Book of Boba Fett star Temuera Morrison still sounds a little befuddled (and maybe even annoyed) about the whole situation himself. At SUPANOVA Comic Con & Gaming convention in Australia, he joked (?) about how the Mandalorian “stole” part of The Book of Boba Fett, which in his words was “painful” to watch.Here’s…