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Not every character can be a favorite. Sometimes they aren’t even our favorite love-to-hate characters. Between baffling plot decisions, strange developments, or irritating personality moments, there are the ones who annoy us when they’re on our TV screens. The 2022 TV season was a good year for romantic relationships and juicy character arcs, but this list is about the other side of the coin. The most annoying TV characters we couldn’t ignore (even when we tried). Below, we at TV Fanatic came together to pick out those frustrating characters and shine a light on them. Did your choice make the…

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Antibiotic resistance, when infection-causing bacteria evolve so they are no longer affected by typical antibiotics, is a global concern. New research at the University of Tokyo has mapped the evolution and process of natural selection of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria in the lab. These maps, called fitness landscapes, help us better understand the step-by-step development and characteristics of E. coli resistance to eight different drugs, including antibiotics. Researchers hope their results and methods will be useful for predicting and controlling E. coli and other bacteria in the future. Have you ever felt queasy after eating an undercooked burger? Or…

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Photography courtesy of Dior A look at the reinvention of a cult classic. By Natasha Boateng Date December 23, 2022 “Life isn’t black and white; it’s gold.” If you’re a beauty history buff, then you likely know that famous tag line from the original 1999 Christian Dior J’adore fragrance advert starring Estonian supermodel Carmen Kass walking through a pool of liquid gold (actor Charlize Theron has taken over as the face since 2006). With its signature gilded bottle inspired by the figure-eight (a nod to Christian Dior’s 1949 cyclone dress) and adorned with what looks like fine, golden jewellery around…

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“There’s definitely a stigma in the industry. I wouldn’t really say from the audience’s perspective—a good film is a good film. But within the industry, I think there’s a stigma.” She ended up working with Nick Cooke, who she says, like her, viewed using a phone as a challenge rather than an obstacle.  Stettner believes this reluctance to take phone cameras seriously stems from the fetishization of high-end equipment in the film industry. Using a professional cinema camera can make your work feel like it’s “professional,” even if that’s not always the case. Students also come to film schools to…

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Dave Grohl and Karen O Play Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Heads Will Roll” 0){ var regexp = /pwtv=(.*?)(&|$)/g; var matches = regexp.exec(purl); if(matches.length >= 2 && matches[1].length > 0){ profileVersionId = ‘/’+matches[1]; } } var wtads = document.createElement(‘script’); wtads.async = true; wtads.type = ‘text/javascript’; wtads.src = url+profileVersionId+’/pwt.js’; var node = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; node.parentNode.insertBefore(wtads, node); })(); ]]> Karen O and Dave Grohl (YouTube) December 23, 2022 | 7:41pm ET The dreidel won’t be the only thing rolling on the floor this Festival of Lights: For the sixth night of his 2022 Hanukkah Sessions, Dave Grohl recruited Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs for…

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The official trailer for Blumhouse Television and MGM+’s forthcoming horror thriller titled There’s Something Wrong With The Children has been released. The video highlights a weekend trip gone wrong when a pair of kids start acting sinister after exploring a mysterious cave with their parents and friends. The film will be available on January 17, 2023, digitally and through video-on-demand. It will then debut on MGM+ (formerly Epix) on March 17, 2023. Check out the official There’s Something Wrong With The Children trailer below: There’s Something Wrong With The Children is directed by Roxanne Benjamin from a screenplay written by…

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Several species of ant have been observed producing a liquid while in a pupal stage that is consumed by ant larvae and adults, and this is likely to occur across all ant species Life 30 November 2022 By Jason Arunn Murugesu Clonal raider ants (Ooceraea biroi) and their larvae may be nourished by a liquid secreted by pupae of the speciesDaniel Kronauer A nutrient-rich liquid that could be produced by all ant species while the insects are in their pupal stage is consumed by adults and larvae. The creation of this fluid hadn’t been reported by researchers before, according to an editorial accompanying the…

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Goodbye Poop by Clay Robinson What’s it About? This humorous take on Goodbye Moon will definitely make you laugh through the potty training process. Potty training is an important milestone, but every parent dreads it — because yes, messes do happen. Accidents can be embarrassing, especially if you’re caught off-guard in a public place. However, potty training is an essential part of growing up. So, where do you begin when there are so many tips, tricks and techniques on the Internet? For parents who are getting ready to potty train their young’uns, Goodbye Poop by Clay Robinson is a good…

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Sharon Osbourne reportedly fell ill on the set of a paranormal TV show on Friday, December 16, and was taken to the hospital. According to TMZ, the 70-year-old had a medical emergency on Friday while shooting the show at the Glen Tavern Inn in Santa Paula, CA. The Ventura County Fire Department told the site that emergency medical personnel answered a “medical call” at the inn at 6:30 local time on Friday night and transported a patient — whom Santa Paula Police Chief Don Aguilar confirmed to be Osbourne — to Santa Paula Hospital. A manager at the Glen Tavern…

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A new computational analysis by theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and Wayne State University supports the idea that photons (a.k.a. particles of light) colliding with heavy ions can create a fluid of “strongly interacting” particles. In a paper just published in Physical Review Letters, they show that calculations describing such a system match up with data collected by the ATLAS detector at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). As the paper explains, the calculations are based on the hydrodynamic particle flow seen in head-on collisions of various types of ions at both the LHC and the…

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Photography by Getty Images Remembering Dame Vivienne Westwood, the iconic British fashion designer who brought punk to high fashion. By FASHION Staff Date December 29, 2022 Vivienne Westwood, who died December 29 in London at age 81, is widely credited for being the “high priestess of punk.” But she was so much more than that. Westwood was a visionary whose designs always led, never followed. She was a wit who could skewer aristocratic snobbery with a shrewdly mangled plaid. She was irreverent and provocative, receiving her Order of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace panty-less and putting the Queen with…

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Congratulations: You’ve been chosen for a Yeti Hopper M20 Cooler. You’ve been chosen many, many times. It’s right there, in your inbox. The email is from Dick’s Sporting Goods. Never mind that it reads as Dicks Sporting Goods, minus the apostrophe, or Dicks SportingGoods, or Dicks SPORTING Goods. Search for “Dicks” in your Gmail and you’ll find it. Search for “Dicks” on Twitter and—well, something else might come up. But then you’ll see them, the complaints from people who, like you, have been getting incessant emails from “Dick’s Sporting Goods” about the Yeti Hopper M20. The emails urge the receipts to click the link…

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‘Tis the season to listen to Christmas songs on repeat without thinking, “Is it too soon?” Like many other artists across genres, Latin acts have been releasing back-to-back bilingual (Spanish and English) holiday songs — whether original or covers — to get in the spirit navideño. Among those who recently dropped a cover of their favorite Christmas song is Kenia Os, who released her version of “Blanca Navidad.” “It’s a classic that’s never missing in my house when Christmas begins,” the influencer and singer says in a statement about the recording. “When they asked me to choose a song that represented that magical moment…

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The following post contains SPOILERS for Glass Onion.A good murder mystery can be watched twice: Once to be surprised, and once to see how the movie surprised you. There are clues you missed, red herrings that tricked you, and plot threads you didn’t fully understand until the final solution was revealed. In the case of Glass Onion, it’s only on second viewing that you realize that Rian Johnson essentially spoiled his big structural twist within the movie’s first minutes.The scene in question involves the arrival of several elaborate boxes at the homes or offices of a group of friends. The boxes…

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29 Dec 2022 Laugh and Cry With These New Nonfiction Books Looking for a new biography or memoir to read this December? These books will have you laughing, crying, and everything in between. Don’t miss out on these must-read nonfiction books! Gingered by Ryan G. Murphy Release Date: December 16, 2022 True short stories that find comedy and heart in the universal experiences that bind us. Gingered is at once laugh-until-you-cry hilarious, achingly human, packed with nostalgia, and full of life. Buy on Amazon The Frog’s Bottle: A Zany Recollection Of Relapse & Rehab by Charlie Gray Release Date: December…

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The Season 1 finale of Shantaram will now be its series finale: Apple TV+ has canceled the Charlie Hunnam drama. The news of Shantaram’s demise hit Deadline on Thursday, December 15, the day before the season finale started streaming. Based on the bestselling 2003 novel of the same name by Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram starred Hunnam as Lin Ford, an escaped convict who starts working as a medical for the poor and neglected in 1980s Bombay and “finds unexpected love, connection, and courage on the long road to redemption.” That road brings Lin into contact with an “enigmatic and intriguing”…

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The Carina star-forming region imaged by the JWST. Credit: NASA It is no exaggeration to say the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a new era for modern astronomy. Launched on December 25 last year and fully operational since July, the telescope offers glimpses of the universe that were inaccessible to us before. Like the Hubble Space Telescope, the JWST is in space, so it can take pictures with stunning detail free from the distortions of Earth’s atmosphere. However, while Hubble is in orbit around Earth at an altitude of 540km, the JWST is 1.5 million kilometers distant, far beyond…

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Edward BerthelotGetty Images If you haven’t been gifted a Dyson AirWrap just yet, there is still hope for your hair. Hair dryer brushes are all the rage these days, owing to their simplicity, powerful motors, and ability to give you that trendy ’90s blowout, minus curling irons, hot rollers, or contortionist skills. As beauty editors, we consider ourselves connoisseurs of the topic. But trust us when we say that as much as we love a traditional blow dryer and round brush combo, there is something intensely satisfying about getting a two-in-one product that makes our lives so much simpler. And…

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A fine wine can be a lot of things: oaky, fruit-forward, maybe even chewy. But wines of recent vintage also have the bouquet of a logistical nightmare, due to a brutal convergence of natural and human-made crises: drought and extreme heat, plus lingering supply chain hang-ups that have made it harder to get glass, cork, the aluminum for screw caps, and the metal capsules that wrap the tops of bottles. Winemaking is a delicate agricultural ballet embedded within a delicate logistical ballet, and both ballets are going off script simultaneously. “It’s a perfect storm,” says UK-based wine importer Daniel Lambert. “Most…

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Love was an overriding theme in R&B in 2022 — and given what people have been enduring over the last several years, between the pandemic, incessant social and political issues as well as economic uncertainty, it’s not surprising. The various iterations of the emotion were rhythmically and lyrically dissected: from new love, spiritual love, toxic love and love lost to, above all, self-love. Established and emerging stars alike embraced the oftentimes complicated subject in refreshing and illuminating ways. Songwriter Muni Long staked her claim to a solo career with “Hrs and Hrs,” her sensuous, no-time-limit take on lovemaking. On the…

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When it comes to watching movies, film critics and the majority of theatergoers are going to have a very different experience. Critics are going into a movie with the intention of reviewing it, making note of things they liked and disliked. Sure, everyone is subconsciously doing that when they view a film, but critics are tasked with putting those feelings into words.What’s interesting, though, is that critics and audiences often disagree about the quality of a movie. Things that appeal to reviewers may not sit well with those who just popped into the local theater on a Friday night. And,…

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Our built environment—from houses to offices, schools and shops—is not environmentally benign. Buildings and the construction industry are, in fact, the world’s biggest consumer of raw materials and contribute 25–40% of global carbon dioxide emissions (F. Pomponi & A. J. Moncaster Clean. Prod. 143, 710–718; 2017). Making buildings part of a circular economy that minimizes the waste of materials could therefore yield huge environmental rewards. Conversely, failure on this front could have dire consequences. “Buildings can, and must , work in a circular way,” says Francesco Pomponi, who studies the built environment at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. “Otherwise, there’s no way out…

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20 Dec 2022 Literary fiction readers are in for a treat. This week’s latest releases list is full of intriguing reads you won’t want to miss! The new releases list includes so many bestselling authors like Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Marguerite Duras, Luke Dumas, and many more. Enjoy your new literary fiction books. Happy reading! Related grant scrolls_pure; if (shouldBeFixed && !isFixed) { header.addClass(“sticky”); isFixed = true; } else if (!shouldBeFixed && isFixed) { header.removeClass(“sticky”); isFixed = false; } e.preventDefault(); }); }); }); ]]> Read The Full Article Here

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At the risk of sounding trite, The Witcher: Blood Origin Season 1 Episode 3 proves that no matter how the mission to kill the Empress turns out, the real success is the friends we make along the way. Having passed the series’ halfway point, we finally have our entire company, but seven — even The Seven — cannot stand and defeat the Golden Empire’s army. It’ll take a clever mind to gather the resources needed. Meanwhile, the birth of the first witcher is just as messy, terrifying, and painful as we expected. It just wasn’t the person we were led…

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The holiday season is upon us again. With it, many of us brace for dinner-table debates. In an era of social discord, viral misinformation and pandemic-induced stress, arguing with other people is an invitation to exasperation. One common scene plays out as follows. You want to convince a friend or a family member of something you know they disagree with you about, so you share information and walk through your reasoning with them. They reject your case. Undaunted, you brush up on the issue and try again, optimistic that more facts will shift the other person’s thinking. You repeat yourself—maybe…

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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. For her first venture into the world of fashion, Ryan Destiny had a single philosophy in mind: create clothing she would actually step out in at any given moment. “A lot of the pieces I definitely personally would wear,” Destiny, 27, tells POPSUGAR. “That’s where my headspace was at: I wanted to give people a little bit of me through these pieces, but I…

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Except, of course, it can’t. Virtual reality has been hovering on the cusp of success for decades now, never quite able to attract the masses. In an essay written for WIRED just before Facebook became Meta, writer and academic David Karpf outlined how the culture-shaking promise of VR had repeatedly failed to materialize, despite major advances in hardware and software. “The technology is always about to turn a corner, about to be more than just a gaming device, about to revolutionize fields like architecture, defense, and medicine. The future of work, entertainment, travel, and society is always on the verge of a huge virtual upgrade,” he…

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Dame Vivienne Westwood, the rule-breaking fashion designer who helped bring the British punk movement into the mainstream with her clothing, has died. In a statement, her representatives confirmed that she died today (December 29) “peacefully and surrounded by her family, in Clapham, South London.” Westwood was 81 years old.Born Vivienne Isabel Swire in Hollingworth, England, on April 8, 1941, she began working with jewelry when her family relocated to Harrow, Middlesex and she took a silversmith course at the University of Westminster. t After marrying Hoover factory apprentice Derek Westwood in 1962, she gave birth to her first son, Benjamin…

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Rumors surrounding the upcoming sequel Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny have continued popping up, with director James Mangold recently taking to social media to deny any reports that alternate endings and scenes were filmed. In a recent tweet sent out over the weekend, Mangold noted that he’d taken a small break from the platform for his birthday but wanted to say that there are no new scenes or alternate endings being filmed for the upcoming fifth entry in the Indiana Jones franchise. Mangold went on to say that the film is “99% finished” and is in the process…

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Writers of the Future, Volume 38 by L. Ron Hubbard In the World of Science Fiction & Fantasy, this Anthology stands out for the stories, art, and extras. Which will you love most? Discover 25 award-winning authors and illustrators. The best new stories selected by some of your favorite authors—including Brandon Sanderson, Orson Scott Card, Nnedi Okorafor, and Jody Lynn Nye. These diverse stories will fill you with wonder. And a few just might break your heart. “The Writers of the Future collection is exciting and engrossing, across the spectrum of SF and fantasy, space opera and epic fantasy. These…

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