Here were the simple instructions given by a Harvard University assistant professor to people participating in a recent cognitive science study: “Imagine the following scene. Visualize it in your mind’s eye, as vividly as you can: a person walks into a room and knocks a ball off a table.” The professor, Tomer Ullman, then asked those in the study about nine properties of their mental images, including the color and size of the ball, the shape and size of the table, and the person’s hair color and height. If you are anything like the people in the study, you only…
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04 Aug 2023 7 Books to Read for Fans of Terry Brooks From high-stakes quests to richly crafted realms, these reads are perfect for anyone who loves Terry Brooks’ enchanting tales. Get ready to embark on new adventures and lose yourself in these captivating reads that are sure to satisfy your craving for epic storytelling! Malfus: Necromancer Unchained (The Damned and the Dead Book 1) by Casey Sutton Release Date: June 28, 2023 “Spellbinding dark fantasy. Magic, redemption, and a captivating journey. “Malfus: Necromancer Unchained” will leave you breathless.” – Reedsy Discovery Malfus’s past has finally caught up with him.…
[This interview was conducted prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike authorization.] Hallmark fans will likely think of When Calls the Heart first when it comes to Erin Krakow (its star and an executive producer), but she’s also all over the network’s movies, both rom-coms and Christmas. When TV Insider caught up with Krakow in April about her latest Hallmark Channel film, The Wedding Cottage, we also took the opportunity to have her reminisce on some of her past work — including the first season of the long-running drama. “I feel like I’m really living it out with every project that [Hallmark]…
Credit: Amelie Funk In Africa, climate change impacts are experienced as extreme events like drought and floods. Through the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (which leverages expertise from USG science agencies, universities, and the private sector) and the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center, it has been possible to predict and monitor these climatic events, providing early warning of their impacts on agriculture to support humanitarian and resilience programming in the most food insecure countries of the world. Science is beginning to catch up with and even get ahead of climate change. In a commentary for the journal Earth’s Future,…
There’s a special shade of green—somewhere in between a yellowy chartreuse and a loud neon—that hits the trees in Philadelphia each spring and summer. I had never noticed it before, this green that enthusiastically and bossily announces that it is green, but then again, I had never noticed a lot of things before this year, when I first began wandering into the woods. As soon as the new leaves started to sprout in April, a break from the browns and grays of winter, I could feel myself channeling my former ecotherapist, Lauren Kahn, while staring out into the forested distance.…
Previously, scientists reckoned that Greenland iced over some 2.5 million years ago, and has been that way since. In 2021, Bierman and his colleagues determined that it was actually ice-free sometime in the past million years. Now, they’ve dated the tundra ecosystem captured in the Camp Century core to a mere 416,000 years ago—so northwestern Greenland couldn’t have been locked in ice then.Scientists also know that at that time, global temperatures were similar or slightly warmer than what they are today. However, back then, atmospheric concentrations of planet-warming carbon dioxide were about 280 parts per million, compared to today’s 422…
Travis Scott has released his long-promised new album Utopia. Beyoncé appears on the album track “Delresto (Echoes).” Drake appears on “Meltdown,” while both Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and Sampha appear on “My Eyes.” Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo is a co-producer on “Modern Jam.” SZA and Future appear on “Telekinesis,” while Kid Cudi appear on “Looove” (which also credits Pharrell). Give the album a listen below.In addition to his appearance with Bad Bunny on the single “K-Pop,” the Weeknd and Swae Lee appear on “Circus Maximus.” Playboi Carti and Sheck Wes feature on “Fe!n,” and Young Thug and India.Arie appear…
Disney+ has dropped the I Am Groot Season 2 trailer and poster for the next installment of Marvel Studios’ animated short-form comedy, featuring the return of Baby Groot. The series is scheduled to make its return on September 6 with five new shorts. The video previews Baby Groot’s next solo adventures, which will see the fan-favorite Guardian making a robot snowman, visiting a space dessert restaurant, and meeting a new friend. It also previews the appearance of Jeffrey Wright’s The Watcher, who was last seen during What If…? Check out the I Am Groot Season 2 trailer below (watch more…
Carolina Ciucci is a teacher, writer and reviewer based in the south of Argentina. She hoards books like they’re going out of style. In case of emergency, you can summon her by talking about Ireland, fictional witches, and the Brontë family. Twitter: @carolinabeci View All posts by Carolina Ciucci Carolina Ciucci is a teacher, writer and reviewer based in the south of Argentina. She hoards books like they’re going out of style. In case of emergency, you can summon her by talking about Ireland, fictional witches, and the Brontë family. Twitter: @carolinabeci View All posts by Carolina Ciucci Carolina Ciucci…
[This interview was conducted prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike authorization.] With The Witcher Season 3 Volume 2 now out, fans know how Henry Cavill‘s last appearance as Geralt of Rivia was staged. In the video above, we’re looking back at the full season with The Witcher stars as they shared their favorite sets and filming locations for the Netflix fantasy series’ third installment. For MyAnna Buring (who plays Tissaia), the answer was simple. “Aretuza sets are always my favorite, always,” she declared. “I mean, they’re usually where I hang out. But I have to say, in this season, oh boy,…
At my county coroner’s office, I regularly review cases of murdered women. They are victims of domestic violence, overwhelmingly ones shot to death by ex-husbands, ex-boyfriends or other men they knew. The Supreme Court is now poised to decide whether to put guns more easily into the hands of these abusers-turned-murderers, which would enshrine domestic violence as a warped historical privilege of the U.S. Constitution. Or the Court can make the lifesaving and legally sound decision and protect people such as the murder victims—mothers, daughters and children—I see in those case files. In February a federal circuit court in Texas…
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.Sandlercore strikes again. On July 20, Adam Sandler was unexpectedly spotted playing a casual game of pickup basketball with Timothée Chalamet. Once we got past the pure randomness of their friendship, we couldn’t help but notice — and chuckle at — Sandler’s fashion choice. He paired his basketball shorts with a gray T-shirt that, although very sweaty, clearly stated, “Let me ask my wife” in…
Dune: Part Two is arriving two weeks earlier than originally planned. Warner Bros. has brought the release date for the Dune sequel forward from November 17 to November 3, 2023. The news comes after Disney-owned Marvel Studios’ Blade evacuated the spot for September 2024. Returning director Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two had previously suffered a delay, moving from October 2023 to November 2023. The sequel, co-written by Villeneuve (Prisoners) and Jon Spaihts (Doctor Strange), is mainly set in the dystopian desert planet of Arrakis, as the war looms above.This new release date puts Dune: Part Two in an unopposed spot,…
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Joy Ride review – hands-over-eyes, wretched hilarity 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) {…
Black rhinos are dehorned to discourage poaching, but this may affect their social behaviourVanessa Duthe Black rhinoceroses whose horns have been removed to protect them from poaching seem to have a smaller home range and fewer interactions with other rhinos, but the practice wasn’t found to increase deaths from natural causes. The critically endangered black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) is often hunted for its horn. The animals are largely solitary, but social interactions are important for finding mates and establishing territories. Some research suggests that those with larger horns usually dominate in encounters between males. Since 2017, many reserves in South…
BookTrib BookTrib.com was created as a news source for people who love books, want to find out what’s happening in the book world and love learning about great authors of whom they may not have heard. The site features in-depth interviews, reviews, video discussions, podcasts, even authors writing about other authors. BookTrib.com is a haven for anyone searching for his or her next read or simply addicted to all things book-related. BookTrib.com is produced by Meryl Moss Media, a 25-year-old literary marketing, publicity and social media firm. Visit www.merylmossmedia.com to learn more. Read The Full Article Here
Every season of The Chi feels like the show has reinvented itself, keeping the same drift but with different strokes. The Chi Season 6 Episode 1 caught us up with where everyone was emotionally, economically, and of course, romantically. The cold open felt like a flashback as we met Keisha and Emmett in a familiar position where they still liked some morning glory action (okay, it was more Emmett than Keisha), but instead of Jada interrupting them, their choices did. The focus of the hour was Emmett, Douda, and their new partnership, which everyone who learned about it knew it was…
In a first, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have glimpsed a rare type of star that astronomers aren’t even sure exists. These stellar objects, called “dark stars,” might not have been fueled not by nuclear fusion but by the self-annihilation of dark matter—the invisible stuff that is thought to make up about 85 percent of the matter in the universe. The candidate stars seen by JWST will need more evidence to be confirmed, but if they’re real, the finding could change our story of how the first stars formed. Contrary to their name, dark stars could typically have…
Photography courtesy of Lauchmetrics.COM/SPOTLIGHT Cool down with these post-heat beauty treats. By Lauren Knowles Date July 26, 2023 As satisfying as sprawling out on a poolside lounger at the peak of summer can be, the moment of retreat into the cool comfort of an air-conditioned room or the refreshing drench of a post-sun shower may be its equal. Especially when you’ve fled to said room or shower to partake in some well-deserved self-care with after-sun products. RELATED: Air-Dry Your Hair Effortlessly With These Easy-to-Use Products From cooling aloe vera-enriched gels and mists that heal and hydrate to soothing lotions that…
Asset tokenisation is the process of creating digital units of a physical or virtual property that is held on blockchain networks. Each of the tokens of an individual property, amount for some percentage of the entity. For instance, Person A holds a property in New Delhi. Asset tokenisation of this property could chop up its ownership into 100,000 digital tokens (or even more). Each of these units can represent say, 0.0002 percent of the property.Tokenising an asset can help its owner churn quick capital by issuing tokens on a blockchain, that would allow people to purchase it and trade it…
[] × Skip to main content The band reigns for the first time in 13 years. Dirty Heads Travis Shinn Dirty Heads return to No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart for the first time since 2010, as “Rescue Me” jumps from No. 4 to the top of the tally dated Aug. 12. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news It’s the California band’s first ruler since “Lay Me Down,” featuring Rome, crowned the survey for 10 weeks in 2010. “Lay Me Down” also marked the six-piece’s first charted title. In between “Lay…
Alice Winocour: ‘Post-traumatic memory is something very specific’ 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)…
Public libraries are synonymous with children today, with story times and an inviting children’s section considered essential features. Arguments for increasing or maintaining library funding often reference the library’s role in literacy education for kids as well as the many happy memories even adults who no longer frequent the library still hold for childhoods spent there. But public libraries weren’t always welcoming to kids, and a lot of the book banning strategies and the policies they’ve inspired might just have those child-free libraries make a comeback. The first publicly funded library in the U.S. was the Boston Public Library in…
Have you been counting the When Calls the Heart episodes? This Sunday, August 6, When Calls the Heart Season 10 Episode 2 will be the series’ 100th episode, and that’s one heck of an achievement. Hearties, this is your time to celebrate the incredible milestone. Most series don’t survive long enough to celebrate 100 episodes but Hope Valley will soon join this exclusive club. Since premiering in 2014, the Hallmark Channel original primetime series has taken viewers through many moments of joy, tears and laughter. While there have been some changes to the show since its premiere, one thing has…
One of the world’s largest studies on the impact of cholesterol-lowering medication has highlighted an issue with a new class of drugs that could impair lung function in some patients. That’s the finding from a recent University of South Australia study, the first in the world to compare cholesterol lowering medications (LDL-C drugs) to a range of clinical and heart and brain MRI biomarkers. Genetic data from 340,000 UK Biobank participants was analysed to explore the risks and benefits of LDL-C drugs. The outcomes have been published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. In the vast number of cases,…
You can’t tell the story of “Sex and the City” and its revival/sequel “And Just Like That” without spending an inordinate amount of time discussing the fashion. Over the course of the original show’s six seasons, Carrie Bradshaw became a universal style icon. She inspired generations of women to waltz around New York City in tulle dresses, all while carefully dodging potholes in their Manolo Blahnik pumps. Styled by the inimitable Patricia Field, Bradshaw (played by Sarah Jessica Parker) delighted in getting dressed. Her style was immaculate, quirky, vibrant, romantic: she’d stop by McDonald’s in a pink Oscar de la…
Beaten, blinded by pepper spray, corralled like animals, and indiscriminately arrested for marching against police violence and racial injustice. Such was the fate hundreds of people suffered at the hands of New York Police Department (NYPD) officers in late May and early June of 2020, as thousands of people across the United States protested the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.Three years later, the City of New York has agreed to pay $9,950 each to some 1,380 protesters as part of a settlement of a class action lawsuit. Costing taxpayers more than $13 million, it’s the largest…
With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new releases from Travis Scott, Carly Rae Jepsen, Aphex Twin, Post Malone, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Jessy Lanza, and Bethany Cosentino. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.)Travis Scott: Utopia…
Did you catch the reference to “Dreykov” on this week’s Secret Invasion? That’s actually an important character in the lore of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He was first mentioned in the original Avengers movie (when Black Widow is referred to by Loki as “Dreykov’s daughter”) and then he was seen in the Black Widow movie, where he was played by Ray Winstone.That’s just one of the many Marvel references, hidden details, and Easter eggs you might have missed in the third episode of Secret Invasion, “Betrayal.” In our latest MCU video, we’ll point out dozens of those secrets, including why the latest Skrull reveal…