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Are audience appetites for social satire being satisfied? 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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Though plants can serve as a source of food, oxygen and décor, they’re not often considered to be a good source of electricity. But by collecting electrons naturally transported within plant cells, scientists can generate electricity as part of a “green,” biological solar cell. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces have, for the first time, used a succulent plant to create a living “bio-solar cell” that runs on photosynthesis. In all living cells, from bacteria and fungi to plants and animals, electrons are shuttled around as part of natural, biochemical processes. But if electrodes are present, the…

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10 Jan 2023 Set off on an adventure to new worlds this week! This selection of new science fiction and fantasy books will surely please! Science Fiction fans should be excited about the latest from bestselling authors Stella Atrium, Brian Kaufman, Michael Chatfield, and more. If Fantasy is what your library needs, you’ll be able to pick up the latest from Michael Anderle, Brandon Sanderson, Leigh Bardugo, and more. Enjoy your new science fiction and fantasy books. Happy reading! Science Fiction Fantasy Related grant scrolls_pure; if (shouldBeFixed && !isFixed) { header.addClass(“sticky”); isFixed = true; } else if (!shouldBeFixed && isFixed) { header.removeClass(“sticky”); isFixed =…

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Are you ready to return to the world of Zoey 101? Nickelodeon today announced the start of production on Zoey102 (working title), an original full-length movie based on characters from the hit live-action Nickelodeon series Zoey 101. The movie follows Pacific Coast Academy alums as they reunite for a wedding in the present day. Production is underway in North Carolina, with a premiere slated for later this year exclusively on Paramount+. Thankfully, the cast has already been revealed, and it features plenty of returning stars. The movie will star Jamie Lynn Spears (Zoey Brooks), Erin Sanders (Quinn Pensky), Sean Flynn…

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As viruses such as COVID-19 spread, they can become endemic in new regions.  (Image credit: Peter Zelei Images via Getty Images)You may have heard the term “endemic” used to describe diseases, often in comparison with the terms “epidemic” and “pandemic.” Many health officials say that COVID-19 is likely transitioning from pandemic to endemic status in many countries. But what does that mean? More broadly, the term “endemic” refers to an organism that’s found in a specific region. In ecology, that means a species that lives only in one geographical area, like a plant or animal limited to an island, according to…

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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. No matter who you’re looking to treat this Valentine’s Day, we’re thinking it’s time to go above and beyond the usual box of chocolates. To make sure you really impress them, we searched the internet far and wide to uncover 20 ideas they’ll love, from treats and home decor to perfume and accessories. Whether you’re shopping for your girlfriend, wife, or best friend, there…

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PlayStation Plus’ monthly free games for November 2022 have been announced. These titles will be available to members of PS Plus Essential, Extra, and Deluxe/ Premium plans, starting next week. On November 1, PS Plus subscribers gain access to the Japan-set Soulslike sequel Nioh 2, the entire Lego Harry Potter Collection, and the atmospheric indie gem Heavenly Bodies. These titles can be added to your PS games library until December 5, after which you will be required to hold onto your subscriptions to play them.Sony confirmed the additions on the PlayStation Blog, late Wednesday, stating that the higher-tier PS Plus…

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Thom Bell, the legendary producer who revolutionized Philly Soul in the 1960s and ’70s, has died, Rolling Stone and The Philadelphia Inquirer report. Bell co-created “The Sound of Philadelphia” alongside songwriter Leon Huff and producer Kenny Gamble, who were known as the Mighty Three. Together, they founded Philadelphia International and crafted some of the most beloved records of the era. Some of Bell’s most renowned works include “La-La Means I Love You” by the Delfonics, “Backstabber” by the O’Jays, “Mama Can’t Buy You Love” by Elton John, and “Rubberband Man” by the Spinners. A cause of death has not yet…

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A Man Called Otto review – Tom Hanks stars in this maudlin mess 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 =…

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What’s it About? A delicious and psychologically astute side-by-side story about murder and a woman and her missing family Reef Road by Deborah Goodrich Royce is a delicious and psychologically astute side-by-side story expertly teased out by a crafty writer. On one side, Royce introduces an eccentric writer obsessed with the unsolved 1948 murder of her mother’s girlhood best friend. She observes, “I grew up in the shadow of a dead girl–a girl I had never met, whose family had never heard of me… the death of this girl long before I was born has clung like pollen to my life.” …

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The new year is setting off right for Al Roker, who will make his much-anticipated return to the Today show on Friday, January 6, his first in-studio appearance since taking a break due to health issues. “We have some great news to share this morning: Al is coming back to the show,” Savannah Guthrie announced on Tuesday’s (January 3) edition of the NBC morning show. Roker hasn’t appeared in-studio since early November when he was hospitalized for blood clots in a leg and lungs. “Everyone’s like, ‘When when?’ Well, we have our date,” added Today co-anchor Hoda Kotb. “He’ll be…

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Versatile, facile and low-cost single-cell isolation, culture and sequencing by optical tweezer-assisted pool-screening. Credit: Liu Yang Researchers from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have proposed a new technology, called optical tweezer-assisted pool-screening and single-cell isolation (OPSI) system, which achieves 99.7% purity of sorting target cells, with all done in real-time. The study was published in Lab on a Chip on Nov. 29. Current cell-sorting methods cannot effectively sort cells of various sizes while maintaining their viability for future testing. Compared with the currently used methods, the OPSI technology reduces…

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Fashion sense can run in the family. That at least appears to be the case for Selena Gomez. Despite her busy schedule filming multiple projects, working on a new album, and awaiting the Golden Globes, the star made time for a sweet “sister date night” with 9-year-old Gracie Teefey. The “My Mind and Me” singer shared mirror selfies of herself and Teefey in coordinating black ensembles on Jan. 6. Gomez wore an oversize cowl-neck sweater with black puddle pants and platform boots, while Teefey complemented her big sister’s look in a black turtleneck sweater, faux leather button-up skirt, lettuce-trim ankle…

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Rodti MacLeary started a Mastodon instance, mas.to, in 2019. By early November 2022, it had amassed around 35,000 users. But since Elon Musk bought Twitter and unleashed one chaotic decision after another, people have signed up for mas.to and other instances, or servers, in surging waves that have sometimes kicked them briefly offline. The influx of users is propelled by each haphazard policy update Musk professes from his own Twitter account. Last week, Twitter’s billionaire owner suspended several high-profile journalists and accused them of doxing him, and then briefly banned links to any social media competitors, including Mastodon. But the mas.to instance continued to grow, hitting 130,000 total users…

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Belarus, which has faced sanctions from the United States for allying with Russia throughout the country’s invasion of Ukraine, has passed a law legalizing the piracy of media and intellectual property made in “unfriendly” nations. As Vice reports, the law legalizes the piracy of digital goods like computer software, movies, and music that were made by rights holders residing in “foreign states that commit unfriendly actions against Belarusian legal entities and (or) individuals.” It also allows for the import of physical goods without the consent of rights holders in order to avoid “a critical shortage in the domestic market of…

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As the first season of Wednesday continues to break Netflix viewership records, the streamer has finally announced the long-awaited second season renewal of the massively popular supernatural coming-of-age comedy series. The Jenna Ortega-led hit is currently Netflix’s second most popular English-language series with 1.237 billion hours viewed within its first 28 days. “It’s been incredible to create a show that has connected with people across the world,” showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar said in a statement. “Thrilled to continue Wednesday’s tortuous journey into season two. We can’t wait to dive head first into another season and explore the kooky…

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By Michael Le Page The Amami spiny ratASATO KUROIWA For any mammal, the loss of the Y chromosome should mean the loss of males and the demise of the species. So how the Amami spiny rat manages without a Y chromosome has puzzled biologists for decades. Now, Asato Kuroiwa at Hokkaido University in Japan and her colleagues have shown that one of the rat’s normal chromosomes has effectively evolved into a new male sex chromosome. The Y chromosomes in many mammals, including us, have been shrinking over tens of millions of years and could eventually disappear, says Kuroiwa. The spiny…

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It’s a new year: a time of reflection and new beginnings and, for many, goal-setting. Whether or not you’re the type of person who sets resolutions for themselves at the new year, this calendric shift is a great opportunity for thinking about how to improve oneself. That’s the intent behind the vast majority of New Year’s resolutions, after all: self-betterment. Among the most popular New Year’s Resolutions for last year were goals pertaining to health, finance, interpersonal relationships, and self-care. It’s also pretty common for people to make goals like “learn something new” or “read more.” Why not bring those…

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Law & Order’s willingness to take on social issues is one of its trademarks. But sometimes, this show gives us too much of a good thing. Law & Order Season 22 Episode 11 made that mistake, throwing in questions about how ex-convicts are treated, marijuana dispensaries, and whether wealthy white people are held as accountable for crimes as their poor Black peers into one episode. And all of that got lost once Maroun became determined to win an unwinnable case. No wonder this episode felt like it was all over the place with all this going on! All the issues…

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Researchers have identified different pathways that lower a mouse’s desire to eat when it’s in pain – and a similar brain circuit could also occur in humans Health 29 November 2022 By Christa Lesté-Lasserre People who experience chronic pain often report being less hungryMariusz Szczawinski / Alamy Stock Photo The link between chronic pain and a loss of appetite may finally be understood – in mice at least. Zhi Zhang at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei and his colleagues injected mice with bacteria that provoke chronic pain. Ten days later, these mice were eating less…

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Photography by Getty Images From the runway to the red carpet, a dress with a hood is just about the coolest thing you can wear — just look to Margot Robbie for proof. By Jennifer Berry Date December 19, 2022 Margot Robbie has been owning the red carpet lately. While out and about promoting her latest projects, the Australian actor is looking positively effervescent. There was the moss green Bottega Veneta cut-out dress she wore to the Governor’s Awards in November, a flirty buttercup Gucci mini-dress chosen for the The Hollywood Reporter’s Women In Entertainment Gala on December 7, and…

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As internet shutdowns, platform blocking, and content filtering become increasingly common levers for authoritarian control around the world, Iran has presented an especially dramatic case study on the economic impact and humanitarian toll of connectivity blackouts. In response to mass government opposition and protests, the Iranian regime launched an extensive shutdown in September that drastically limited all digital communication in the country. And Tehran has ongoing campaigns to slow connectivity and access to popular services, including Meta’s Instagram. Dragging out the disruptions, though, is beginning to reveal the true economic toll of the brutal technique, according to new assessments by the…

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Fleetwood Mac’s hanging wooden balls, an unmistakable prop worn onstage and on the cover of 1977’s Rumours by Fleetwood Mac drummer and bandleader Mick Fleetwood, have sold for $128,000 at auction.The iconic wooden balls were part of a recent Fleetwood Mac memorabilia auction at Hollywood’s Julien’s Auctions, which specializes in rare rock items. A portion of the proceeds go to benefit MusiCares, which honored Fleetwood Mac as the organization’s Person of the Year in 2018.Other items sold at the auction included a Peter Green-gifted 1962 Fender VI six-string bass (which sold for $22,400), a DW Collector’s Series snare drum played on Rumours ($5,760), and…

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ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke with The Pale Blue Eye stars Christian Bale and Harry Melling about Netflix’s new gothic mystery film, which is now streaming. The duo discussed period pieces and filming that pivotal final scene. “A world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet,” reads the film’s synopsis. “Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case — a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.” Tyler Treese: I thought The Pale Blue Eye was fantastic and Christian, not…

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Presence, the Play by William Jefferson What’s it About? The tale centers on the spiritual journeys of Brother Script, a member of a group of storytelling monks, as he travels to hell and back, attempting to uncover and stop Satan and his nefarious plans to subjugate humanity. Cinema and live theater exist in two very different, albeit parallel, universes. They both contain storytelling and scenery, propelled along by the actions and words of characters and — preferably — a good director. That’s where the similarities end. Cinema contains immutable performances that may be replayed again and again in perpetuity (and…

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Get ready for a romance roller coaster. It’s a night of broken hearts and relationship drama on Ghosts Season 2 Episode 12. Between Freddie’s breakup over water and Sasappis’s cheating fears, Woodstone Manor has recently had its fair share of dating disasters. And that’s not even including Bela’s rom-com revival on Ghosts Season 2 Episode 10. At least we still have Sam and Jay to balance out the strong couples. “The Family Business” kept the flow going where we left things off on Ghosts Season 2 Episode 11. Everything from the plot to the characters felt like a natural next…

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Credit: ESA—European Space Agency Recently, Andreas Mogensen, now getting ready for his “Huginn” mission to the ISS in 2023, stopped by ESA’s ESOC mission control center in Darmstadt, Germany, to meet with some of the experts who keep our satellites flying. Andreas usually works at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston as an ISS “capcom,” and we don’t often see him in Europe. A few months back, while returning to Germany for some training at ESA’s Astronaut Center in Cologne, we seized the opportunity to ask him if he’d like to stop over in Darmstadt for a look behind the…

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[]A famous, 9,000-year-old human skull discovered near the biblical city of Jericho now has a new face, thanks to efforts by a multi-national team of researchers.[]The so-called Jericho Skull — one of seven unearthed by British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon in 1953 and currently housed in the British Museum in London — was found covered in plaster and with shells for eyes, apparently in an attempt to make it look more lifelike.[]This prehistoric design was “the first facial reconstruction in the world,” Brazilian graphics expert Cícero Moraes (opens in new tab), the leader of the project, told Live Science in an…

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Blonde is back in a big way for 2023, but this time around, it’s high-maintenance, polished and expensive-looking. “When you think of glamour, you think Hollywood blonde,” says Zoë Irwin, creative director at John Frieda Salons. “We’ve grown up with Hollywood blonde, but now, the association of glamour has shifted. It’s now the ’90s yellow blonde,” she says, explaining that creamy yellow blondes are in big demand right now. “It’s uptown because it is a high-maintenance look, so after a couple of months, a root will appear, so it becomes an entire new type of colour look. To maintain this, you’ll…

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For the past three seemingly glorious years, the 30-year-old boy wonder Sam Bankman-Fried, or SBF, crowned the “King of Crypto,” bore an uncanny resemblance to the legendary character Robin Hood. Using his quant and coding skills instead of a bow-and-arrow, he built, at breakneck speed, a $32 billion empire: the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, and the trading firm Alameda Research. But it was all supposedly for the cause of giving to the poor (via the fashionable new movement, effective altruism)—with former Alameda co-CEO Caroline Ellison acting as his Maid Marian and a stunning roster of A-listers (from top Democrats to star…

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