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Including Ilia Beauty’s expansion into skincare. By Lauren Knowles Date January 20, 2023 Emily Ratajkowski fronts Viktor & Rolf’s Flowerbomb fragrances Photography Courtesy of Viktor & Rolf There was no one better suited to become the new face of Viktor & Rolf’s Flowerbomb fragrances than Emily Ratajkowski, according to the designers. “We have admired Emily Ratajkowski for a long time and we’re happy to welcome her to the Viktor & Rolf family,” share founders Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren in a press release. “As her work clearly testifies, Emily is a multifaceted talent. Her wide range of qualities and talents…

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Over just a little more than a decade, the crypto world has exploded from a single currency to millions of coins and assets, each promising a small share in the next big thing. The challenge for anyone putting their money into that minefield-posing-as-a-goldmine is to distinguish digital treasure from the many, many scam-ridden penny stocks of the digital economy. A new study has put a number to just how prevalent those garbage assets have become: About a quarter of the new crypto tokens launched last year—counting only those that gained any value at all—were clear-cut, short-term cons, scamming buyers within…

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Record Store Day has revealed the extensive list of limited edition vinyl, box sets, and other speciality releases that will be available as part of its 2023 edition taking place on Saturday, April 22nd, 2023. This year promises exclusive wax from Taylor Swift, The 1975, Beach House, Pearl Jam, Brian Eno, Tori Amos, Nas, and even Peppa Pig. You can find specifics on some of the most notable releases below, and find many more detailed at the Record Store Day website. Taylor Swift will release the first vinyl edition of folklore: the long pond studio sessions. The 1975 will release Live…

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Love is in the air on HBO Max in February. James Bond movies are romantic right? Mannequin Two: On the Move, that’s a classic rom-com, yes? A Marc Maron comedy special titled From Bleak to Dark sounds like perfect viewing for a Valentine’s Day date, correct?Oh sure. And also for your Valentine’s Day viewing pleasure, HBO Max will have a new “very problematic” Harley Quinn special, along with a new season of Last Week Tonight, the Oscar nominated films Empire of Light and All That Breathes, and a brand new installment of the Puppy Bowl. Ah, the Puppy Bowl.Here’s the full list of what’s coming to HBO Max in…

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More than 1.2 million years ago, an unknown group of human relatives may have created sharp hand axes from volcanic glass in a “stone-tool workshop” in what is now Ethiopia, a new study finds.This discovery suggests that ancient human relatives may have regularly manufactured stone artifacts in a methodical way more than a half-million years earlier than the previous record, which dates to about 500,000 years ago in France and England.Because it requires skill and knowledge, stone tool use among early hominins, the group that includes humans and the extinct species more closely related to humans than any other animal,…

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. If I had a nickel for every TBR spreadsheet, list, or stack of books I’ve abandoned, I’d have several dollars, probably. I want to prioritize a million different things in my reading — reading across genres, reading both new and old, reading a diverse array of authors — but in the end, I am a mood reader. A compelling tweet or an enticing library display catches me at the right time, and my lists go out the window. Luckily, I have a lot…

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NCIS is about to celebrate another milestone in its 20th season, and it’s quite the feat: its 450th episode. The previous milestone hour, the 400th as part of Season 18, revealed how Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and Ducky (David McCallum) met, and fans were treated to returns from Mark’s son Sean Harmon and Adam Campbell to play their younger selves in the flashbacks. While we wait to see what 450 brings, we’re taking a look at all the milestones the procedural has marked so far. They’ve brought a team member on officially, introduced an agent’s relative after years of only hearing…

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A 2,000-year-old “lost book” discussing the dynasties that succeeded Alexander the Great may finally be deciphered nearly two millennia after the text was partially destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and, centuries later, handed off to Napoleon Bonaparte.The reason for the breakthrough? Researchers are using machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, to discern the faint ink on the rolled-up papyrus scroll. “It’s probably a lost work,” Richard Janko (opens in new tab), the Gerald F. Else distinguished university professor of classical studies at the University of Michigan, said during a presentation at the joint annual meeting…

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Kylie Jenner was spotted at the Jean Paul Gaultier spring 2023 couture show in Paris on Wednesday, Jan. 25, wearing a corseted look that feels so iconic of the nearly 50-year-old fashion house. Posing ahead of the show, she wore a dress that boasted a blue and pink satin corset top, a delicate front cutout, and a long black skirted bottom that fit slim without feeling tight. Jenner’s outfit choice seems apt, as Gaultier is responsible for some iconic corsets over the past few decades. Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” cone bra is arguably the fashion house’s most recognizable design. But…

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According to Mark Zuckerberg, the “metaverse” – which the Meta founder describes as “an embodied internet, where instead of just viewing content – you are in it” – will radically change our lives.So far, Meta’s main metaverse product is a virtual reality playground called Horizon Worlds. When Zuckerberg announced his company’s metaverse push in October 2021, the prevailing sentiment was that it was something nobody had asked for, nor particularly wanted.Many of us wondered what people would actually do in this new online realm. Last week, amid announcements of new hardware, software, and business deals, Zuckerberg presented an answer: the…

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Y La Bamba—the group led by vocalist and producer Luz Elena Mendoza Ramos—have announced a new album: Lucha arrives April 28 via Tender Loving Empire. Today, the group has shared lead single “Dibujos de Mi Alma,” which was written for Mendoza Ramos’ romantic partner right before the onset of the pandemic. “It’s a song of longing for this person but at the same time trying to detach myself from the unhealthy parts of connection,” Mendoza Ramos explained. Hear the song below and scroll down for the LP artwork and tracklist and the band’s tour itinerary.Lucha follows Y La Bamba’s 2019…

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Manodrome – first-look review – Little White Lies 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)…

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. What do we mean when we talk about genre-defying sci-fi books? Do we mean experimental formats, like epistolary novels or books told entirely through texts? What about books that blend together multiple genres or upend science fiction conventions to create something entirely new and unconventional for the genre? Well, why not all of the above? Books that defy genre conventions rarely do so in ways that make it easy to categorize — that’s kind of the point. So one genre-defying sci-fi book might…

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There’s something about court shows that satiates an indescribable urge, whether it be its voyeuristic format, seeing drama, conflict, and judgment unfold or learning more about the law and justice system. Although the genre first began on broadcast radio in the 1930s before transitioning to television in the late ‘40s with shows such as Court of Current and Your Witness, it began to take on a life of its own during the ‘90s. Arbitration-based reality court shows such as Judge Judy, Judge Joe Brown, and Judge Mathis sprung up and permeated network daytime television. As such, the titular judges of…

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The brain’s cerebral cortex produces perception based on the sensory information it’s fed through a region called the thalamus. “How the thalamus communicates with the cortex in a fundamental feature of how the brain interprets the world,” said Elly Nedivi, William R. and Linda R. Young Professor in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT. Despite the importance of thalamic input to the cortex, neuroscientists have struggled to understand how it works so well given the relative paucity of observed connections, or “synapses,” between the two regions. To help close this knowledge gap, Nedivi assembled a collaboration within…

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Year after year, NET-A-PORTER is the premium place to find the most talked-about pieces during the sales, and the site is always a hot topic in the Who What Wear group chat. This winter, it’s offering discounts up to 60%, and that includes some of our favourite pieces from The Row, Chloé, Manolo Blahnik and The Frankie Shop. So whether it’s a party dress you’re after or the perfect winter coat, you’re in luck. Keep scrolling to see and shop everything we’re looking at from the NET-A-PORTER winter sale. Read The Full Article Here

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The trend of smartphone brands giving their upcoming devices a touch of Web3 seems to be picking pace around the world. Vertu, a London-based luxury mobile phone brand recently announced that its next flagship named the ‘Metavertu’ will come with an array of Web3 capabilities. The device, for instance, will be able to run its own blockchain node and convert visual files into non-fungible tokens (NFTs) with just one click. The Metavertu phones will be going on sale starting November 3.“We want to reinvent the smartphone to de-complicate Web3,” a Decrypt report quoted Vertu CEO Gary Chan as saying recently.Users…

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Last week, thrash legends Anthrax kicked off the second leg of their 2023 North American tour (alongside Black Label Society and Exodus). Unfortunately, it looks like drummer Charlie Benante will be absent from a few upcoming shows due to having “a minor procedure done” (as noted by the band).So, who’ll be taking over while Benante recovers? None other than Derek Roddy (Hate Eternal, Aurora Borealis, Nile, Serpents Rise).Yesterday (Jan. 20), Anthrax posted the following statement to their official Facebook and Instagram pages:Our man who beats the beat – Charlie Benante – has stepped away from the tour for a few days…

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More DC Comics TV shows are coming to an end.The latest are two of HBO Max’s biggest live-action series: Titans and Doom Patrol. Both shows started on the now-defunct DC Universe streaming service; Titans in 2018 and Doom Patrol in 2019. When that service was shut down shortly after the launch of HBO Max, both series migrated over to the new streaming site. But their upcoming fourth seasons will both series’ last.Here was HBO Max’s comment on the news, via Variety:While these will be the final seasons of ‘Titans’ and ‘Doom Patrol,’ we are very proud of these series and excited for fans to see their climactic endings. We…

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 Jupiter was already the king of the solar system, and new discoveries give the massive planet another way to reign supreme: It now has the most moons.Twelve new moons discovered orbiting Jupiter have been confirmed, bumping the count from 80 to 92, and knocking Saturn — which has 83 moons — down a peg. The newly discovered moons are small, ranging from 0.6 to 2 miles (1 to 3.2 kilometers) wide, and most of them have wide orbits. Nine of the 12 moons take more than 550 days to orbit the gas giant, Sky and Telescope reported (opens in new tab).…

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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Queer history is an essential part of Black history, and Black history is an essential part of queer history, so I can’t think of a better way to celebrate Black History month than by diving into some queer Black history. There is so much of it! Queer Black people have been a vital part of many of the most monumental moments in Black and queer history, from the civil rights movement to Stonewall. And while there aren’t as many specifically queer Black history…

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Welp, this is going to be a tearjerker. The only thing tougher than Billy’s (Taye Diggs) death is how everyone picks up the pieces in the aftermath. The CW shared a promo for All American Season 5 Episode 12, and it will be a difficult hour for fans and their favorite characters. “When an unexpected event rocks both the Beverly Hills and Crenshaw communities, they come together to support each other in an unexpected way,” the official logline for “The Lost One” reads. The trailer shows everyone in a somber mood as they prepare for Billy’s funeral. Laura (Monet Mazur)…

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Seasonal infections are set to spike, while the cost-of-living crisis is also expected to affect some children’s mental and physical health Health 23 November 2022 By Jason Arunn Murugesu Children in the UK may be more at risk of infections and other health complications this winter compared with previous yearsSuzi Media Production/Getty Images/iStockphoto A perfect storm of health issues could be facing children in the UK this winter. While UK children went fully back to in-person schooling in 2021, after covid-19 lockdowns in 2020, the country is approaching its first winter in years where people of all ages can mix…

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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. Dressing a small chest can have its challenges — bras that never fit quite right and straps that seem to always fall down, to name a few — but it also has perks. For instance, you don’t even think twice about going braless. And you get to experiment with many silhouettes and shapes without worrying about nip slips. In fact, having too many options…

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Lauren Goode: Yeah, I have Pets.com.Michael Calore: Yeah, I saw your tats.Lauren Goode: All right, let’s take another quick break, and when we come back, we’re going to give you our very human-generated recommendations.[Break]Lauren Goode: All right, Will, as our guest of honor, what’s your recommendation this week?Will Knight: OK, I wasn’t really prepared, so I’ve pulled this out of some recess of my brain. I was wondering the other day whether the cat circus that I went to with my nieces was still touring. The original name was the Amazing Acro-cats. It was started by this lady who somehow…

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Jeff Tweedy has shared his own take on “Union Maid,” a labor standard written by Woody Guthrie. The Wilco frontman covered the song as a bonus cut for the soundtrack to Jesse Eisenberg’s When You Finish Saving the World. Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard star in the A24 comedy-drama about an aspiring teenage musician in his mother. Check out Tweedy’s “Union Maid” below.Guthrie championed organized labor and working class solidarity throughout his work, writing “Union Maid” in 1940 amid some of his other best-known numbers, such as “So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Ya,” “Tom Joad,” and “This Land…

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Dead Space has drifted aimlessly in space since 2013 after Electronic Arts unceremoniously severed its umbilical cable. It died on its worst entry, one plagued by bloat, a lopsided appetite for action, and a ridiculous ending that was both too silly and not silly enough. It was almost a mercy killing, but still a premature one at that. A remake of the original was the smartest way to reset the franchise, and that’s the route Motive Studio went down with its 2023 remake. Instead of just mindlessly reconstructing the 2008 hit, the studio has honed in on its many strengths,…

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16 Feb 2023 Books to Read for Fans of Knives Out Whether you’re looking for a whodunit to investigate, or a thrilling game of cat and mouse to follow along, these new mystery and thriller releases will have you at the very edge of your seat. Check out our picks for books to read for fans of Knives Out, there may or may not be a Detective Benoit Blanc present… Happy Reading! Lucy In the Sky (Hart’s Ridge Book 2) by Kay Bratt Release Date: February 13, 2023 Lucy is the youngest and most stubborn of the Gray sisters, always…

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Sitcoms often defy the laws of reality in pursuit of serving a comedic or narrative purpose. Real-life rules just don’t allow for the absurdity needed sometimes. The entire premise behind Night Court Season 1 Episode 6 would never play out IRL. A bunch of tweens disrupt a courtroom to protest for a graffiti artist who admits to vandalizing city property? No way they aren’t hauled home by their parents and grounded. But the purpose here is to explore the character of Bailiff Donna Gurgs beyond the extreme jolliness she’s become known for. What does it look like when Gurgs gets…

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The severity of immune-mediated intestinal diseases such as graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) or inflammatory bowel diseases is known to be associated with alterations in the gut microbiome, but what leads to such disruption in the microbial community has remained a mystery. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Michigan and collaborating institutions working with animal models of GVHD report today in the journal Immunity that alterations in the gut microbiome are connected to an increase in oxygen levels in the intestine that follows immune-mediated intestinal damage. Pharmacologically reducing intestinal oxygen levels alleviated the microbial imbalance and reduced the severity…

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