What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Search for Complete? I was inspired to write this story after a conversation my husband and I had had over brunch with some friends, the husband commented on how similar I was to his wife, and that when I spoke, he could swear I was his wife talking. This got me to think about a man who possessed both a male and female essence. If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of Search for Complete, what would they be? For Christopher it would be A…
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The effects of the ground on propeller noise have been measured experimentally for the very first time by researchers in the Aeroacoustics research team at the University of Bristol. In findings, published in the Journal of Sound and Vibration, the team found clear differences in the noise characteristics of propellers when over ground, known as ‘Ground Effect’, compared to when operated normally. They noted an overall noise increase when measuring at angles above the ground, with hydrodynamic and acoustic interaction effects being a key factor to the overall noise trends. It is hoped this research, tested in the National Aeroacoustic…
The 2023 BET Awards red carpet kicked off live from Los Angeles on Sunday night, celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop in particular. This year’s nominations in music, television, film, and sports categories counted Drake, Lizzo, and Beyoncé with the most nods, with Beyoncé maintaining her spot as the most decorated musician in BET Awards history. Taraji P. Henson played host for the past two years, setting the standard for plenty of high-fashion moments to come moving forward. This year’s turnout saw plenty of naked dresses, with sheer and peekaboo panels sported by Ice Spice and Latto and intriguing cutaways…
Chromecast with Google TV is now receiving a firmware update, with the operating system receiving a major bump to Android TV 12, up from Android TV 10. The standalone streaming device from Google was launched globally in 2020, but only made it to India in 2022, and runs on Android TV software with the Google TV user interface on top. The new software update is now rolling out to Chromecast with Google TV 4K devices, and also features some improvements in the settings for HDR format and surround sound selection, among other things.Gadgets360 has verified that the update is now…
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 albums from Lil Uzi Vert, Joanna Sternberg, Lucinda Williams, Sweeping Promises, Tainy, Veeze, Chester Watson, and Hayden Pedigo. 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.)Lil Uzi Vert:…
Small, Slow but Steady review – a touching sports drama about the here-and-now 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 =…
Multiple reunions occur on The Witcher Season 3 Episode 3, and it’s hard to tell which the title refers to or if it’s meant to encompass all of them. When Yennefer is reunited with her Aretuzan sisters, Ciri discovers a different side to her mentor and friend. This triggers all the entitled outrage a Cintran princess can muster. Not a good look for her, really, even if it does attract the Wild Hunt. Meanwhile, Geralt reconnects with Anika and, in a way, his mother. In Redania, Dijkstra and Philippa bring Vizimir back into their fold. And, in Cintra, Ehmyr and…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Laughter and humor are potent tools that can significantly impact our well-being, according to researchers from the University of Warwick. Professor Dr. Stephanie Schnurr and Yanyan Li, at the University of Warwick’s Department for Applied Linguistics, have shown how laughter and humor can be incorporated into our lives to achieve greater well-being. Their research over the past 15 years on laughter and humor in both the workplace and in health-related circumstances show that they possess remarkable properties that can alleviate worry, diminish feelings of isolation, and instill a sense of control over one’s mental and emotional…
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Shadow Realm? Since I was a kid, I loved all things horror and paranormal. Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Clive Barker are just some of my inspirations. I love how they twist something normal into the terrifying. I watched many Angels, Demons, and Exorcists movies. One of my favorites is Constantine. I did not want to write a book about the same old demon and angel storyline. I wanted to create a story that took the reader beyond what humans understand about these beings and crafted the storyline into…
Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). She previously held positions at InStyle and Cosmopolitan. When she’s not working, she loves running around Central Park, making people take #ootd pics of her, and exploring New York City. Read The Full Article Here
Moto E22s was launched in India on Monday as the latest affordable smartphone in Motorola’s E-series portfolio. The smartphone sports a 6.5-inch IPS LCD display with a 90Hz refresh rate. it is equipped with a 16-megapixel rear camera. The newly launched Moto E22s is powered by a MediaTek Helio G37 SoC and runs on Android 12 out-of-the-box. It comes with 64GB of inbuilt storage, which can be further expanded to 1TB via a microSD card slot. The handset packs a 5,000mAh battery and is equipped with a side-mounted fingerprint scanner, according to the company.Moto E22s price in India, availabilityThe Moto…
Neil Young is releasing his 1977 lost album Chrome Dreams for the first time on August 11, via Reprise. The 12-track album, recorded between 1974 and 1977, includes several originals eventually rerecorded or overdubbed elsewhere: “Powderfinger” and “Pocahontas,” later featured on Rust Never Sleeps; “Sedan Delivery” and “Hold Back the Tears,” later remade with new lyrics; and “Stringman.” Below, listen to “Sedan Delivery.”This month, Young announced his first tour in years—a solo acoustic run corralling tracks he has never before played live.All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail…
A new Special Ops: Lioness teaser trailer has been released for the upcoming Paramount+ spy thriller series led by Nicole Kidman, Zoe Saldaña, and Morgan Freeman. The series is set to debut on the streaming platform on July 23. “Based on a real-life CIA program, the series follows Cruz Manuelos, a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine recruited to join the CIA’s Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within,” reads the logline. “Saldaña will play Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program tasked with training, managing and leading her female undercover operatives.” Check out the…
Here is a wrap-up of all the TV news you need to know from Thursday, June 26, 2023. It’s game over for Reservation Dogs, which will wrap with its third season on Hulu. Series creator Sterlin Harjo made the announcement on his Instagram. “Aho young and old warriors!” he wrote. “Here it is: the coming third season of ‘Reservation Dogs’ will be the final season.” “That’s a difficult line to write and a more difficult decision to make,” he continued. “However, it’s the correct decision creatively for the show. I always knew what the end of this story would be,…
Artist’s impression of the Triassic reptile Tanystropheus hydroides being decapitated by a predatorRoc Olivé (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont)/FECYT Fossils of two Triassic reptiles show severed heads and necks with bite marks, highlighting a drawback of the extremely long necks common to many ancient sea creatures. “We provide the first tangible proof that this body plan was, at least in some animals, a weak spot,” says Eudald Mujal at the Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History in Germany. Tanystropheus, a genus of reptiles that lived in the Triassic Period, had stiff necks up to 2 metres long that may…
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Crystal Moth Conspiracy? The novel was an idea that has been floating in my head for a good 15 years. It had a loose premise and a setting, while the main story and characters weren’t defined. Crystal Moth Conspiracy is the first book in the new Ash Born series and is a great introduction to my other work found within one universe known as The Macrocosm. I began writing the first draft in 2020 during NaNoWriMo and wrote the first third. In 2021 I went back and scrapped a…
Cassius recently turned 120 years old, but experts say he has a few more years left in him. (Image credit: Marineland Melanesia Crocodile Habitat)Cassius, a 120-year-old crocodile living in captivity in Australia, is “happy and healthy” and will live “for years to come,” experts who conducted his annual health check say.”Cassius is such a magnificent, beautiful boy,” Sally Isberg, managing director at the Center for Crocodile Research in Australia who led the assessment, said in a video shared with Live Science. “He’s just an absolutely fascinating character.”At 18 feet (5.5 meters) long, Cassius is the world’s largest crocodile living in…
My ultimate tips? Try out the petite sections first—anywhere with an option to choose a shorter leg length saves a lot of hassle. M&S and ASOS impress me the most. But don’t let that stop you shopping elsewhere. Zara and Mango trousers are often much too long in the leg for me, but make friends with your local tailor or download the Sojo app, and your options are endless. Our favourite petite influencer Monikh swears by alterations.Lastly, if you’re shopping online from non-petite collections, don’t be fooled by the length of the trousers on the (usually very tall) models. I always look for styles that look slightly cropped on…
Samsung M54 5G specifications have surfaced online, and the purported successor to the Samsung Galaxy M53 5G is tipped to launch later this year or in 2023. The company launched the Galaxy M53 5G in India earlier this year. The phone was an upper mid-range smartphone offering with a starting price of Rs 26,499. It has been a few months since the launch of the Galaxy M53 5G and Samsung is tipped to refresh the lineup with the launch of the Galaxy M54 5G.The South Korean tech giant is yet to announce any details of plans to launch the Samsung…
Earlier this year, Guns N’ Roses announced dates for their massive world tour. Now, as the North American shows approach, they’ve locked in some pretty stellar talent to provide support at those shows.Country superstar Carrie Underwood, Rock and Roll Hall of Famers The Pretenders, the legendary Alice in Chains and rock upstarts Dirty Honey and The Warning will all take turns in the opening slot on their forthcoming run. You can see who is playing which date as noted in the North American tour itinerary below.Get Guns N’ Roses Tickets HereIt should also be noted that Guns N’ Roses have…
Amazon Studios has dropped The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 2 teaser trailer for the upcoming return of its coming-of-age romantic drama. The next installment will be available for streaming on Friday, July 14 with the first three episodes, exclusively on Prime Video. The video provides fans a glimpse of what to expect in the highly anticipated next season which will be based on creator Jenny Han’s It’s Not Summer Without You novel. It also previews Belly and Conrad’s budding relationship. Check out The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 2 teaser below (watch more trailers): Who’s the Cast of The…
The John Wick franchise continues with Peacock‘s The Continental, premiering September 2023, and the streamer has just released new photos from the season featuring stars Colin Woodell, Ayomide Adegun, Mel Gibson, and more. A three-part event, The Continental takes viewers back to where John Wick began, focusing on a young Winston and Charon, characters made famous by Ian McShane and Lance Reddick in the films alongside Keanu Reeves‘ titular character. The Continental will explore the origin behind the hotel-for-assassins centerpiece of the John Wick universe through the eyes and actions of a young Winston Scott (Woodell) as he’s dragged into…
Second-order nonlinear effects from GaSe-transferred microfibers. Credit: Compuscript Ltd Second-order optical nonlinear effects have received widespread attention from researchers since its first discovery in the 1960s. Based on second-harmonic and sum-frequency effects, the lasers ranging from ultraviolet to far infrared bands have been generated, greatly promoting the development of laser techniques, optical information processing, high-resolution microscopic imaging. According to nonlinear optics and polarization theory, even-order nonlinear optical effects are strongly determined by the crystals’ centrosymmetry, and the second-order nonlinear susceptibility is nonzero only in non-centrosymmetric medium. However, as the most fundamental second-order nonlinear effect, the centrosymmetry of the silica fiber…
Maribelle’s Shadow by Susannah Marren What’s it About? The only thing that spreads faster than gossip in Palm Beach is news of a mysterious death. Once again from the excess and folly of Palm Beach society, the novelist Susannah Marren has woven an intricate tapestry of secrets and foreboding. The third volume in her trilogy about the Florida haunt for the wealthy and famous, Maribelle’s Shadow comes to life with biting dialogue and the inner monologues of three sisters who are at cross-purposes with each other and their elegant, imperialistic mother. The Barrows women just can’t shake their personas and…
Photograph by Craig Blankenhorn/Max With a healthy dose of ridiculousness and not much practicality, the fashion in the ‘Sex and the City’ spinoff is still the main character. By Natalie Michie Date June 23, 2023 It’s impossible to predict what kinds of outlandish outfits will come from And Just Like That… — and that’s what makes it fun. On June 22, the polarizing Sex and the City revival came back for season 2. Just two episodes in, the dramedy is already treating viewers to a feast of entertaining, surprising, and often unwearable fashion, courtesy of costume designers Molly Rogers and Danny…
Moto X40 — the purported successor of the Moto Edge X30 — specifications have surfaced online. Motorola appears to be working on a successor to the Moto Edge X30 that debuted in China last year. The smartphone is reportedly powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. A notable tipster has also shared a couple of other specifications of the Moto X40. Furthermore, this smartphone has been reportedly spotted on the China Compulsory Certification (3C) database. It is expected to arrive later this year sometime after the debut of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset.According to a report by…
Steel Panther rocked America’s Got Talent when they brought their tongue-in-cheek hair metal to audition for the Season 18 premiere of the TV competition on Tuesday (May 30).And while the performance video itself leaked early (May 29), we now know how the four-person panel of America’s Got Talent’s celebrity judges actually responded to the band.America’s Got Talent viewers also reacted to the Steel Panther audition once the show aired Tuesday. And with such a response to the rockin’ group’s performance of their song “Eyes of a Panther,” we have to ask — is glam metal making a mainstream comeback?See the judges’ responses in the video directly below.’America’s Got Talent’ Judges React to…
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The various plot threads come together on The Witcher Season 3 Episode 4 to set us up for the Volume 1 finale. While Ciri is protected by Yennefer’s spell and effectively taken out of play, Jaskier and Radovid are finally honest with each other in the relative safety of the woods. The real narrative tension centers on the conclave ball, where Philippa and Dijkstra have something in the works, and Geralt and Yennefer look to trap Stregobor for the disgusting old villain that he is. Several story decisions here have contributed to a plodding sort of progress despite including elements…
The Eden Geothermal well at the Eden Project in Cornwall, UKEden Geothermal The first new deep geothermal heating plant in the UK since 1987 has opened today at the Eden Project in Cornwall, with its developers hopeful the scheme will help to inspire a new wave of geothermal energy projects across the country. Geothermal energy, which involves extracting the heat from deep underground and using it for heating and to generate electricity, currently delivers less than 0.3 per cent of the UK’s annual heat demand. Eden’s new geothermal well, which stretches almost 5 kilometres beneath Earth’s surface, is now pumping…