When book banning started to heat up two years ago, many wondered how long until a library worker would be seriously hurt over defending the right to read. Now, we know it’s not going to be long at all. Over the last month, several libraries have faced bomb and shooting threats as a direct result of the books housed in their collections. Books that were reviewed by professionals and deemed appropriate for those school and public libraries. Books that, of course, feature queer and/or BIPOC writers and characters who do not align with the views of those who believe that…
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Jesse Lee Soffer may have returned to Chicago P.D. as a director with the latest episode, “Deadlocked,” but what about seeing him back onscreen as Detective Jay Halstead? “You never say never. Who knows?” Soffer tells TV Insider. “P.D. could go forever. So you could see me come back and be Voight’s [Jason Beghe] age, could be 50 years old, and take over for Voight in like 20 years or something.” It was in the third episode of the current 10th season, “A Good Man,” that Halstead left his wife and partner, Detective Hailey Upton (Tracy Spiridakos), Intelligence, and Chicago…
Transformers change the voltage of electrical currentsShutterstock/style_TTT Across the US, new houses sit unfinished – construction can’t be completed until they are connected to the electricity grid. Utility companies worry about how quickly they can restore power after damage caused by hurricanes and other natural disasters. And nationwide efforts to modernise ageing electrical grids face delays of months or even years. All this is happening because of a national shortage of electrical distribution transformers. These devices convert the high-voltage electricity from power lines into lower voltages suitable for homes and businesses, … Read The Full Article Here
Let me preface this by saying that I have a very turbulent relationship with foundation. Any product that works to cover up all of the things that make skin look like yours is a big no-no if you ask me. And all too often, I find that so many foundations do just that. They leave skin looking flat, dull and void of life. Given the fact that every single aspect of my beauty routine is dedicated to bringing out my inner glow, trying to find the perfect natural-looking base that works to smooth and blur without totally repainting my complexion has…
The system works like this: The UNHCR delivers USDC, a crypto coin locked to a $1 valuation and hosted on the Stellar network, to a digital wallet that can be accessed via smartphone. The recipient then exchanges their coins for local currency at any MoneyGram facility.The UNHCR is also using standard bank transfers to distribute aid. However, as Hett says, although the Ukrainian banking system has so far proven resilient, if a bank were to fail, its customers would be left without access to the aid in their accounts. But a stablecoin is hosted on decentralized infrastructure and in the…
LCD Soundsystem will headline Format Festival in Bentonville, Arkansas, on Friday, September 22, with Jamie xx, Little Simz, and Digable Planets playing downbill the same day. The three-day arts and music festival, which takes place in forest-enclosed land in the Ozark Mountains, also features headliners Alanis Morisette and Leon Bridges. Modest Mouse, the Phracyde, Channel Tres, Sudan Archives, Sofia Kourtesis, and Serpentwithfeet are among the other Saturday and Sunday acts. Standard general admission tickets cost $199.There will also be art performances and installations including Guerrilla Girls’ I’m Not a Feminist but if I Was, JR’s Inside Out Project, and Serpentwithfeet’s…
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The Path to Emotional Greatness by Kenya Lee What’s it About? The Path to Emotional Greatness starts off as a memoir where she discusses how she overcame relatable life-challenging circumstances and self-limiting behaviors. “The fact is self-awareness is our key to making the right decision for our life’s path and ultimately obtaining happiness throughout our endeavors.” The world has changed drastically in the past few years, and it has become all the more apparent that society as a whole doesn’t necessarily have the tools to carry the burdens of life anymore. We are exhausted, mostly angry, and it feels like…
Love may be blind, but it’s not always enough! As Netflix gets ready to drop the fourth season of Love Is Blind on March 24, only a small fraction of the couples from the dating experiment are still together. Perhaps, though, Love Is Blind’s success rate will improve in Season 4. For the latest installment of the show, singles from Seattle will be falling in love sight unseen, and you can be sure we’ll see diamond rings in the Emerald City. In the meantime, here are updates on the Love Is Blind couples that have gone the distance — and…
In an advance they consider a breakthrough in computational chemistry research, University of Wisconsin-Madison chemical engineers have developed model of how catalytic reactions work at the atomic scale. This understanding could allow engineers and chemists to develop more efficient catalysts and tune industrial processes — potentially with enormous energy savings, given that 90% of the products we encounter in our lives are produced, at least partially, via catalysis. Catalyst materials accelerate chemical reactions without undergoing changes themselves. They are critical for refining petroleum products and for manufacturing pharmaceuticals, plastics, food additives, fertilizers, green fuels, industrial chemicals and much more. Scientists…
Photography Courtesy of Charlotte Tilbury Plus, a Spring-ready collection of press-on manicures from imPRESS. By Lauren Knowles Date March 10, 2023 Charlotte Tilbury’s iconic Magic Cream moisturizer is now also a body cream Photography Courtesy of Charlotte Tilbury Charlotte Tilbury’s latest skincare innovation is a hydrating cream with a “magic skin for every body” ethos. Inspired by the brand’s best-selling Magic Cream Moisturizer, the newly launched Magic Body Cream is infused with caffeine and hyaluronic acid to improve skin texture. Clinically proven to reduce the appearance of cellulite and stretch marks while boosting the skin’s hydration, this dream body cream…
On a clear afternoon late last May, Amy Yang leaned over the side of a small fishing boat. Her hands gripped a bow and arrow. She scanned the surface of Kentucky’s Cumberland River for telltale flickers of silver as the sky darkened. They’d been out for hours, and it was nearly dusk. She’d convinced her boyfriend to drive from her adopted hometown of Chicago to do this, and she didn’t want to miss her chance.She kept her gaze on the river. The boat bobbed along an especially unglamorous stretch of water, rocky banks dotted with the carp carcasses. “Smelly,” Yang…
Michigan rapper NF has given his fans plenty to look forward to with tickets to his 2023 global trek, called the “HOPE TOUR,” arriving just in time for his latest album of the same name (grab seats here). HOPE drops on April 7th behind the title-track single as well as the sure-fire, soon-to-be setlist staple, “MOTTO.” Get tickets here, and read on for more details including pre-sale dates. What Is NF’s Next Tour? The 47-date “HOPE TOUR” features two legs between North America and Europe starting this summer. The initial run launches in Columbus, Ohio on July 12th, then hits Minneapolis;…
The movie version of Tetris tells a story nearly as absurd as the notion of an Italian plumber traveling to a magic kingdom to fight a giant turtle and rescue a princess. It involves a mad fight over the rights to the original Tetris game, which was created in Russia by an unassuming computer engineer named Alexey Pajitnov.Taron Egerton plays Henk Rogers, an ambitious game designer and entrepreneur who stumbles upon an early iteration of Tetris at a trade show and becomes obsessed with it. Over the course of Tetris, directed by Jon S. Baird and written by Noah Pink, Rogers mortgages his home, leverages his company,…
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The band of light illuminated the skies above Denmark on March 23. (Image credit: Ruslan Merzlyakov)A bright red streak of light appeared in the sky above parts of Scandinavia last week after a surprise solar storm smashed into Earth and triggered stunning auroras across the planet. But the bright red band was not an aurora — it was something much rarer. The streak, which appeared as a river of hazy red light that stretched all the way across the night sky, was most prominently visible above Denmark. Astrophotographer Ruslan Merzlyakov (opens in new tab) snapped a spectacular shot (opens in new…
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Masked Singer, Season 9.] The fan-favorite guessing game of The Masked Singer is back as the show returned to Fox for its ninth season in February. Along with the new season comes a new set of celebrity contestants. Already, these performers are raising the shock factor as major stars unmask themselves in the competition. Hosted by Nick Cannon, it’s up to judges Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger, Ken Jeong, and Robin Thicke to provide plausible guesses regarding the identity of the season’s disguised celebrity singers. (Credit: Michael Becker/FOX) While some ideas draw close…
A rapid spike in cases of a potentially deadly, drug-resistant fungus has concerned public health officials across the nation. But a team of Southern Nevada researchers hope their new study applying wastewater surveillance can help health officials get a step ahead of this emerging global public health threat. The Pathogen Problem Candida auris is a fungus that can cause serious infections, particularly in patients who are immunocompromised, have pre-existing health conditions, are in long-term healthcare settings, or are undergoing treatment with invasive medical devices such as a catheter. Infection prevention and control is challenging because the fungus can grow on…
Photography courtesy of Imaxtree Beauty is back in its soft matte era, again. By Lauren Knowles Date March 10, 2023 Let’s get a little nostalgic, shall we? Imagine it’s the year 2016. Your brows are blocky and meticulously drawn on. Everything from your foundation to your liquid lipstick (Kylie Lip Kit, of course—your most prized possession at the time) is matte. You had no idea that a few years later, beauty would go through its “glazed donut” era. How were you to know that your makeup drawer full of ultra-matte products would soon be replaced with a much more minimal…
Honor is believed to be working on the successor to the Honor 70 series, which could bear the Honor 80 moniker. The rumoured lineup is said to include the vanilla Honor 80, Honor 80 Pro, and Honor 80 Pro+. The company has not confirmed the existence of these smartphones yet. However, a reliable tipster has shared some of the key specifications of the Honor 80 lineup. Depending on the model, the Honor 80 series smartphone could either pack a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset or a MediaTek Dimensity SoC.According to a post by tipster Digital Chat Station, the standard Honor 80 could…
Clairo unveiled the new charity single “For Now” via Bandcamp, with proceeds benefiting the non-profits For The Gworls, which supports Black, transgender people to cover rent, gender-affirming surgeries, and more, as well as Everytown, the coalition set on ending gun violence in the United States. The self-described demo, which the Boston singer-songwriter announced via Twitter on April Fools’ Day, offers few tricks but instead delivers a tender vocal take that embodies the fleeting bliss of a new romance. Backed by spare instrumentation aside from the keys-based bedrock and some light woodwind accompaniment, Clairo lets the devastation of her love’s limited…
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. A couple of years ago, fellow Rioter Jessica Avery wrote this article about Stephen King’s Misery and how it was an allegory for his opiate addiction. After reading that, I was eager for a reread of the novel while keeping that in mind. True to form for most voracious readers, I did not actually get to it until the end of last year, when it was selected for of my book club’s monthly pick. Within the first few pages of the reread, I…
Tariq has the biggest blind spot I have ever seen in the form of his girlfriend and best friend. It’s getting a little sad to see him hold them in such high regard each hour when they’re hiding this massive secret from him, and he’s placing all his trust in them. Tariq even went on one of his famous ‘I am NOT my father’ diatribes during Power Book II: Ghost Season 3 Episode 3, and while we’ve talked about whether that’s true or not to death, I’m not sure Ghost was ever so blindly loyal to anyone. He was far…
Scientists have a new idea to explain the strange behavior of ‘Oumuamua, our solar system’s first known interstellar visitor. In October 2017 astronomers first spotted the object by chance as it passed through the inner solar system on a slingshot trajectory around the sun that would send it soaring back out to interstellar space. The brief flyby offered only a few weeks for researchers to study ‘Oumuamua before it faded forever from view, leaving behind more questions than answers. Even now, more than five years after the object’s discovery, researchers are still struggling to make sense of the precious few…
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. Daisy Jones isn’t somebody’s muse, she’s the somebody. Somebody with incredible taste. And thanks to Free People’s capsule collection, you can now shop her closet. To get a better sense of what the characters from “Daisy Jones & The Six” would actually wear in real life, the brand worked alongside Denise Wingate, the show’s lead costume designer. With her insight, it created ’70s-inspired outfits…
The top ten metaverse projects have witnessed an 80 percent downfall in the third quarter of this year. Despite the volatility, however, the interest in metaverse project has shown no signs of dwindling, a report by analytics firm DappRadar claimed recently. Metaverse trading volume dropped 91.61 percent to $90 million (roughly Rs. 740 crore) in the third quarter of 2023. It is however noteworthy that despite the drop in trading volume, the sales around metaverse only saw a 11 percent decline on an average from Q2.“In September, only 0.7 percent of Decentraland’s more than 97,000 properties were listed and sold,…
[] Skip to main content Expanding to two days for first time in its three-year history, the event features Yolanda Adams, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Tamela Mann & more. Kirk Franklin Courtesy Photo Award-winning gospel artist Kirk Franklin and Live Nation Urban have announced the return of the Exodus Music & Arts Festival. Launched in 2018, the festival will mark its third year at The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory in Dallas by expanding from one to two days (May 20-21) for the first time. Performers who will be joining host/headliner Franklin onstage include Yolanda Adams, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Tamela Mann…
Focus Features has released a new A Thousand and One poster for the upcoming drama starring Teyana Taylor. It’s a final preview of the upcoming drama from writer and director A.V. Rockwell, which received its trailer last month, and is set to open in theaters nationwide on March 31. Its release comes after it won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Check out the official A Thousand and One poster below: “A Thousand and One follows unapologetic and free-spirited Inez (Teyana Taylor), who kidnaps her six-year-old son Terry from the foster care system,” reads the synopsis. “Holding…
Check out the interview here! Her award-winning and bestselling Outlander series has extended far beyond the pages. It is one of the hottest books-to-screen TV series ever. It wouldn’t be crazy to say she is indirectly responsible for a spurt in travel to Scotland. And how many authors can say their fans attend gatherings and conventions dressed up as her characters? She’s Diana Gabaldon, one of the headliners at the upcoming Santa Fe International Literary Festival, and BookTrib had the chance this week to go one on one with her discussing everything from the success of her series, what’s in…