Archaeologists excavating an unusual “death jar” in Laos have discovered that it was used to collect the partly decomposed remains of multiple generations of people around 1,200 years ago. And rather than being the deceased’s final burial spot, the jar may represent one step in a complex mortuary process.The large death jar, called Jar 1, is also the first of its kind on record to contain undisturbed human remains, the excavation team reported in a new study. Thousands of centuries-old death jars have been found in Southeast Asia over the decades, and while researchers suspected that the vessels may have…
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NBC One “Star Trek” Mirror Universe episode reigns supreme in the minds of fans, and it’s an action-packed thrill titled “Mirror, Mirror” in “Star Trek: The Original Series” (which we ranked as the best “Star Trek” series). Season 2, Episode 4 aired in 1967, premiering as the franchise’s first-ever episode taking place in a parallel universe. The story transports audiences to a new reality where Captain Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and the others’ Enterprise counterparts work for the tyrannical Terran Empire. Forced to go undercover as their alternate selves…
You could imagine the high priest of bureaucratic cynicism himself, Franz Kafka, watching this film about a Christian-Conservative couple being passed through the meat-grinder of the Norwegian Child Services system and saying, “No, sorry lads, it’s too much.” The usually very reliable Romanian New Wave lynchpin Cristian Mungiu returns with a big, beautiful bomb in the form of Fjord, a film which appears to demonstrate that the usually-fastidious and astute filmmaker has waylaid his mojo and fashioned a story that is so hysterical about apparent top-down government oppression in the Scandinavian ruralities that it might play as the less-entertaining half of a double bill with…
A worldwide release date for the Slipknot members’ Look Outside Your Window album has officially been revealed.The record will be available on six new vinyl variants (Blue Transparent Leaf-Filled, Clear Purple, Bubblegum Pink, Silver Nugget, Golden Pearl and Eco Black) and a Digipak CD June 12 according to a post on the Look Outside Your Window Instagram page. All of the vinyl variants except for Eco Black are limited pressings.The vinyl variants of Look Outside Your Window run for about $26 — except for the Blue Transparent Leaf-filled edition, which is priced at $100 — and the Digipak CD is $14.The album can…
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What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write this book? I wanted to write a cozy mystery that felt warm and familiar on the surface, but was more reflective of the community and identity I live in. The Cash Kristiansen books are built around the things I love in the genre: a tight-knit group, food, secrets, found family, and a main character who is still figuring himself out while getting pulled into things he probably should have left alone. With The Lies in the Lefse, I wanted to lean further into Salt Cliff Isle as a place…
A beach in Southampton, New York, treated with olivine sandChayenne Moreau The first trial to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide by adding crushed olivine to the ocean had no adverse effects on the seafloor ecosystem in its first year. While the results of the trial in New York state are promising for this carbon-removal technique, researchers warn they may not have captured all potential negative impacts. The addition of olivine to the ocean should still be carefully regulated, “but there might be ways that it could work and have a minimal effect”, says Emilia Jankowska at the non-profit group Hourglass Climate,…
CBS Every day, TVLine’s What to Watch column spotlights new and returning English-language shows (and select movies) premiering or airing fresh episodes across broadcast, cable and streaming — organized below by release time and alphabetically within each slot. On TV this Monday: “FBI” and “CIA” wrap for the season, and Brooke Shields and Tom Cavanagh star in “You’re Killing Me.” If you’d like a recommended watch-list like this delivered to your inbox each morning, you can sign up for our free What to Watch newsletter here! Showtimes for May 18,…
A new Netflix crime drama, from the creator of Starz’s Power series, is a major success for the streaming giant. In less than a week, the new show, Nemesis, has made a strong impression and quickly captured viewers’ attention. Nemesis is trending high on Netflix among other streaming shows According to FlixPatrol’s report for May 17, Nemesis is #3 on Netflix’s Top 10 TV Shows in the United States. Furthermore, the series is #2 on Netflix’s global ranking as well. It debuted on the platform last week on Thursday, May 14, and has since maintained a respectable ranking on the…
The Smashing Pumpkins have announced a North American tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of their double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Each night of “The Rats in a Cage Tour” promises a full performance of the album along with a second set drawing from the band’s nearly four-decade catalog of hits and deep cuts. The 27-date arena tour opens on September 30th at Columbus’ Schottenstein Center, with additional dates scheduled at Boston’s TD Garden, Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, Pittsburgh’s PPG Paints Arena, Montréal’s Centre Bell, a hometown stop at Chicago’s United Center, Austin’s Moody Center, Denver’s Ball Arena, Las…
If you want to see an example of what good style is in 2026, just look at some of Kendall Jenner’s recent outfits. She wears only the strongest seasonal trends and always looks cool and elegant at once. Accordingly, the innately stylish It girl just wore the exact denim trend to help her achieve her signature cool yet elegant look, and it’s one I’ve been talking about for weeks: white jeans. Just in time for summer, white jeans are very much a thing again—but not ones that are high-waisted or tight. The 2026 version of white jeans is the exact…
Once configured, setup proceeds much like the Aiper and pricier Irrigreen apps: You create a zone, then use the app to define its boundaries. Similar to the aforementioned systems, Oto’s sprinkler is designed for precision watering, firing water in a beam in a single direction instead of a wide spray. That said, Oto’s spray is comparably narrow, only hitting a single, designated patch instead of producing a two-dimensional curtain of water like Irrigreen’s “water printing” system. You get a nice preview of this as you set the boundaries of your yard.Like its competitors, Oto lets you set each zone as…
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the stories we covered ourselves on Book Riot this week. Most of this week’s bestsellers are familiar titles, and there are five that all the lists can agree on, including the tradwife thriller Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. Two titles appearing here for the first time: King of Gluttony by Ana Huang, which is the sixth book in the Kings of Sin romance series, and Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About: A Memoir by Isabel Klee. I really enjoy Isabel Klee’s videos…
Imagine a laptop that never gets hot, a phone that holds its charge for days, or a computer memory chip designed to permanently retain data, even when the power goes out. This is the possibility sitting inside a remarkable family of materials that a team of researchers from the University of Ottawa and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has spent years trying to understand, and they just published a comprehensive roadmap of the field to date in the journal Newton. View Original Source Here
Emma Mcintyre/Getty Images Many years before Ali Larter was one of the leads on the Paramount+ hit “Landman,” she had to make do with less than a minute of screentime. Larter’s first TV break was a one-off part as a delivery woman in “The Ways and the Means,” an episode of “Suddenly Susan” Season 1 that aired in 1997. NBC developed that sitcom as a showcase for Brooke Shields, who played magazine columnist Susan Keane. However, Larter’s brief time on the series didn’t include any scenes with Shields. Instead, Larter’s…
The Batman Part II is adding some heavy hitters to its cast.As unveiled on social media by writer and director Matt Reeves, the movie will star far more than just Robert Pattinson reprising his role as the young Dark Knight. (Maybe not so young anymore; the first movie will have come out five years ago by the time the sequel hits theaters.)The biggest new names are two Marvel stars: Scarlett Johansson, who used to play Black Widow, and Sebastian Stan, who still plays Bucky Barnes (AKA the Winter Soldier) and will be seen in Marvel’s upcoming Avengers sequel later this year.In a series of…
Sir Paul McCartney was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live on May 16, taking on the slot for the first time since 2012 to ring in the show’s Season 51 finale. The 83-year-old artist performed opposite host Will Ferrell, playing his new song “Days We Left Behind” and a Wings classic, “Band on the Run.” Watch highlights from the episode below.McCartney kicked off his Saturday Night Live stint with an appearance during Ferrell’s monologue. The skit began with Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith—who, when suited up the right way, bears an uncanny resemblance to Ferrell—standing in for…
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form video libraries from their own apps — Chinese artificial intelligence groups have moved ahead of US rivals in video generation, a key battleground in generative AI … View Original Source Here
Dearest Curious Reader, This week, we reflected on how reading feels like being transported to another destination, whether to a real-life location or to another place and time. After all, books do more than make us think and feel new things. They help us go places outside of our ordinary lives. A few years ago, I loved reading Tangerine, Christine Mangan’s psychological thriller. Set in 1950s Tangier during the waning days of French colonial rule, it follows an estranged friendship between two women, Alice and Lucy, amidst oppressive heat and a claustrophobic Moroccan backdrop. I felt the heat on every…
We have been on a years-long campaign of satellite remote sensing of the vast desert landscapes in Eastern Sudan.This involved using satellite aerial imagery to systematically and painstakingly search for archaeological features in Atbai Desert of Eastern Sudan, a small part of the much larger Sahara.Our team — which includes archaeologists from Macquarie University, France’s HiSoMA research unit, and the Polish Academy of Sciences — wanted to tell the story of this desert region between the Nile and the Red Sea, without having to excavate. You may like One mysterious archaeological feature stood out. We kept finding large, circular mass…
Fox Every day, TVLine’s What to Watch column spotlights new and returning English-language shows (and select movies) premiering or airing fresh episodes across broadcast, cable and streaming — organized below by release time and alphabetically within each slot. On TV this Sunday: “Family Guy” airs its Season 24 finale, Ncuti Gatwa hosts “Saturday Night Live UK,” and the Academy of Country Music Awards streams on Prime Video. If you’d like a recommended watch-list like this delivered to your inbox each morning, you can sign up for our free What to…
Sarah Leavitt (Abbi Jacobsen) is caught between two worlds. On the west coast of the United States, there’s the life she’s built for herself in San Francisco, defined by self-expression and freedom she never quite felt growing up on the east coast. She’s politically engaged, has a group of like-minded friends and works for a queer magazine who occasionally let her contribute her art; back in the small Maine town where her mother Midge (Julie Louis-Dreyfus), father Robert (Bryan Cranston) and sister Hannah (Beanie Feldstein) still reside, she’s still a little ill-at-ease. But the Leavitts are close emotionally if not physically, and Sarah’s…
Kylie Minogue has accidentally confirmed she is planning to tour in celebration of her 40th anniversary in music — letting the news slip in a candid new interview ahead of the premiere of her Netflix documentary. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Speaking to The Sunday Times‘ Style magazine, the 57-year-old pop icon was asked whether she had plans to mark the milestone with a tour. “I’m probably not meant to say this, but yes, I am,” she said. Minogue launched her pop career in 1987 — while still starring in Australian TV soap Neighbours — with a cover…
With Zara’s chic, vast offerings, it’s not unheard of for a fashion person to subsist solely on pieces from the popular brand. I know I could pull it off easily and without complaint, especially with the stellar collections on the site for May. With spring already underway, I did a deep dive of each department to pick out my favorites that I know I could live in for the month of May (and beyond). I found so many great pieces that narrowing them down was tricky, but I managed in the end.Below, you can check out my roundup of standout…
As states seek out much-needed supplies of clean, reliable energy, some are looking to an unconventional source: abandoned oil and gas wells harnessed for geothermal heat.Millions of inactive wells are littered across the United States, the relics of earlier eras of fossil fuel production. A large number of the sites have no official owner, and many are still polluting groundwater and leaking heat-trapping methane. The country has barely scratched the surface in dealing with this problem.Policymakers in both Republican- and Democratic-led states are exploring whether these sites could instead be converted into new wells for producing geothermal energy. The holes are…
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write this book? I’ve always loved stories that feel deeply emotional and a little dangerous—the kind where love, power, and survival are all tangled together. Labyrinthine started with the idea of a heroine trapped between duty and freedom, and grew into a story about grief, identity, and the terrifying things we become to survive. I also wanted to write a dark romantasy that leaned fully into lush, emotional prose and complex relationships, while still keeping the stakes high and the world dark and dangerous. If you had to pick theme…
The hybrid known as khipshang is bigger than a wolf but smaller than a dogMorup Namgail There’s no doubt. The greyish coat, the effortless trot over soft snow, the way it stops, stalks, then strikes, picking off a marmot and ending it with one bite: it’s a wolf. That’s what I’m watching at nearly 5000 metres of altitude here in the Indian-administered part of Ladakh, a region in the Himalayas. Life in the heights is harsh, but these wolves are among a cast of mammals making a living, along with snow leopards, Himalayan brown bears and Tibetan foxes. Himalayan wolves are…
CBS For three seasons, “Tracker” has slowly unraveled the mystery surrounding Colter Shaw’s father. What once seemed like a simple story about a paranoid man dying in the woods has since spiraled into something much bigger. At this point, we know Ashton Shaw (Lee Tergesen) was tied to government contractors, secret research, and a mysterious Alaska facility that may have been conducting dangerous experiments. We also know Colter (Justin Hartley) spent years believing his brother Russell (Jensen Ackles) killed their father, while their mother, Mary (Wendy Crewson), quietly hid key…
Universal Pictures and Blumhouse’s 2025 supernatural horror movie starring Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke has finally found a new streaming home. During its theatrical run, the film garnered an approval rating of 72% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 198 reviews. Even though it received mostly positive reviews from critics, the sequel’s rating is still 9% lower than the first installment’s Certified Fresh score. What Ethan Hawke horror movie is now on Netflix? As of today, Hawke’s 2025 R-rated horror film Black Phone 2 is now officially available to stream on Netflix. In the sequel, Hawke reprised his villainous role as…
Despite tattoos being a major part of rock and metal culture, some of the biggest heavy music stars don’t have any tattoos of their own.Tattooing goes all the way back to ancient times. According to Smithsonian Magazine, Egyptians are known to have been the first to tattoo ink on themselves because of markings that have been found on mummies.The origins of how tattoos became a part of rock ‘n’ roll culture aren’t quite clear, although Janis Joplin was one of the first musicians in the genre to have a visible tattoo. In the ’70s, permanent ink became more prominent as other artists such as…