Joseph Morgan has played some great villains throughout his impressive career. He currently plays Sebastian/Brother Blood on Titans Season 4. TV Fanatic got the chance to chat with Morgan about Titans Season 4 Episode 6 — the midseason finale — an hour that changed the trajectory of the series. We’re now delving into spoiler territory so consider yourself spoiler-warned, Titans fanatics! Could you speak a bit about how you got involved with Titans? It came through my agent. I guess they submitted me for it. And the first I heard of it was talking to my agent, and he said,…
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Reducing redundant information to find simplifying patterns in data sets and complex networks is a scientific challenge in many knowledge fields. Moreover, detecting the dimensionality of the data is still a hard-to-solve problem. An article published in the journal Nature Communications presents a method to infer the dimensionality of complex networks through the application of hyperbolic geometrics, which capture the complexity of relational structures of the real world in many diverse domains. Among the authors of the study are the researchers M. Ángeles Serrano and Marián Boguñá, from the Faculty of Physics and the Institute of Complex Systems of the…
A complete map of the neurons inside the brain of a fruit fly larva is the largest example of a whole-brain “connectome”, and is a stepping stone to describing the brains of more complex animals, including mice and humans Life 2 December 2022 By Michael Marshall The fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) is a standard laboratory animalTomasz Klejdysz/iStockphoto/Getty Images The connections within the brain of a baby fly have been mapped in full, creating the largest whole-brain “connectome” described to date. It should allow researchers to understand how signals travel through a fly’s brain, how different regions of the brain interact…
Photography courtesy of NYX Cosmetics/Instagram. Graphic by Leo Tapel Plus, a sneak peek of Lunar New Year gifts from Oribe. By Lauren Knowles Date December 3, 2022 Escape to Pandora with NYX Cosmetics’s latest makeup collection Courtesy of NYX Professional Makeup After 13 long years, the sequel to James Cameron’s Oscar-winning Avatar film is due to hit theatres this month. To commemorate its return, NYX Professional Makeup has launched an otherworldly collection of limited-edition makeup to shop. Inspired by the film’s distinctly blue characters and their bioluminescent world of Pandora, this vegan and cruelty-free collection covers all your makeup…
Massage guns, also known as percussive therapy devices, help relax and soothe sore muscles, whether you’re an athlete or just hunching over a desk all day. Theraguns (made by Therabody) tend to be some of the most popular. We’ve tested and like the entire range, but they’re expensive. There are plenty of Theragun alternatives out there for hundreds of dollars less. In this guide, you’ll find a mix of both for all budgets—plus helpful information from a physical therapist and athletic trainer on how these devices can help our bodies. These are our favorite massage guns.Updated November 2022: We’ve added…
Ex-Journey singer Steve Perry has released a heart-tugging original holiday song, “Maybe This Year.” His first-ever original Christmas tune is newly-added to the album The Season (Deluxe Edition.)Perry released The Season last year around this time with covers of eight Christmas classics. On the Deluxe Edition, he tacks on “Maybe This Year” and a soul-leaning cover of Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas.” Blabbermouth reports Perry has dedicated these new songs to famous Motown era singer/songwriter Lamont Dozier.”I wanted to write an original Christmas song of my own, so Dallas Kruse and I began writing what became ‘Maybe This Year.’ I wrote the lyrical sentiment about how the holidays can…
The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 trailer opens with the team encountering a whole suburban housing development full of strange human animal hybrids. Where are they? Who are these people? And why are the Guardians all wearing matching uniforms?Those are just a few of the questions we answer in our latest Marvel video, which breaks down all the Easter eggs, secrets, and little details you might have missed in the new Guardians of the Galaxy trailer. We go into the history of the High Evolutionary, discuss exactly what and where Counter-Earth is, and why we think that’s the setting of that scene in…
Balloon Breath by Amanda Given Amanda Given, an author, speech language pathologist, yogi, mother, mental health advocate, and child at heart, has given us a charming story with colorful and playful illustrations that will help any child, young or old, open up and learn to deal with their feelings, all by learning about Balloon Breath. This obviously is an important topic for children and their parents or guardians. So much has been written about the difficulty of young children to understand and control their emotions, with strategies from learned scholars and therapists on how to cope. Yet sometimes, it’s the…
Tammy Wynette famously sang “Stand By Your Man,” but her husband George Jones didn’t always make that easy, as Showtime viewers will see in George & Tammy. The biopic series — which premieres on Sunday, December 4, at 9/8c with a simulcast on Paramount Network — will show how the couple’s “complicated but enduring relationship inspired some of the most iconic music of all time,” as Showtime says. “With over 30 No. 1 country songs between them, including duets ‘We’re Gonna Hold On,’ ‘Golden Ring’ and ‘Near You,’ George and Tammy’s legacy, both musically and romantically, remains one of the…
Of more than 140,000 Twitter users who announced they were moving to Mastodon, just 1.6 per cent have actually quit Elon Musk’s social media platform Technology 2 December 2022 By Chris Stokel-Walker How many people are really moving from Twitter to Mastodon?Andreas Prott/Alamy Only a handful of Twitter users who have threatened to leave the social network for open-source alternative Mastodon have actually deleted their Twitter accounts. An analysis of more than 140,000 Twitter users shows that although plenty of people have said they are leaving the site, only 1.6 per cent have wholly abandoned the platform, which was bought…
There’s no denying Ugg continues to churn out amazing footwear, with its more recent Fluff Yeah slippers being no exception. We saw countless A-listers like Hailey Bieber, Gigi Hadid, Megan Fox, and Selena Gomez sport the cute, cozy shoes practically everywhere last summer, and it seems these days you can’t run to the store or hit up a yoga class without spotting at least one pair on the sidewalk. Lucky for us and any other fans of the cult-loved style, select colorways of the pillowy slides are currently up to 64% off for Amazon’s Prime Early Access Sale.Spotted among the…
Realme 10 4G will be launched sometime in November, but ahead of its release, India price details, renders and key specifications of the phone have been tipped online. The Realme 10 4G is said to feature a 6.5-inch full-HD+ IPS LCD display and is expected to be powered by the MediaTek Helio G99 SoC. The upcoming phone could pack a dual rear camera unit led by a 50-megapixel primary sensor. The 4G smartphone is said to pack a 5,000mAh battery with support for 33W fast charging. Realme 10 4G is expected to debut alongside Realme 10 Pro+. The Realme 10…
New York rappers MIKE and Wiki have come together for three new songs produced by the Alchemist. One of the new tracks, “One More,” also comes with a music video directed and edited by Nicholas Stafford Briggs. Check out the songs below.The new music arrives as part of a new campaign from Tommy Hilfiger and Amsterdam-based streetwear brand Patta. The Patta x Tommy collection drops Friday, December 2.MIKE is readying the release of his new album Beware of the Monkey. The follow-up to last year’s Disco! is out December 21 and will include the singles “What Do I Do?” and…
As production continues on Ballerina, Lionsgate has announced that another John Wick alum has signed on to join the Ana de Armas-led action spin-off.RELATED: John Wick 4 Teaser Trailer Shows First Footage From Upcoming SequelFollowing the confirmation of Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, and Anjelica Huston’s involvement, it has now been revealed that Lance Reddick will also be reprising his role as Charon, the reliable concierge of the Continental Hotel.“Charon is an indispensable part of the world of Wick,” producer Erica Lee said in a statement. “It’s great to know that Lance will continue to make his mark on this franchise.”The project was…
For some reason, I’ve interpreted the umbrella of popular science books to mean speculative books with only a whisper of science in them. A better term, I thought, would be accessible science because these books aren’t fluff, but they aren’t hefty science journals, either. Popular science books are written for the average person. They are usually written by scientists who study the topic, but can also be written by science journalists or other writers who find themselves drawn to a particular facet of the world. I’ve come to love popular science books over the last few years, and it’s given…
Your favorite bard from The Witcher is coming to the prequel series The Witcher: Blood Origin. At the CCXP convention in São Paulo, Brazil on Saturday, December 3, Netflix unveiled its trailer and key art for Blood Origin, revealing that fan-favorite Joey Batey will star as Jaskier in the four-part event series. (Jaskier is the traveling bard behind The Witcher’s viral song “Toss a Coin to Your Witcher.”) “Set in an elven world 1,200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin will tell a story lost to time — the creation of the first prototype Witcher, and the…
University research has a legacy of doing harm to Indigenous communities. However, a new collaborative project is showing how research can be done in a better and inclusive way. Credit: Shutterstock A recent disclosure from Harvard’s Peabody Museum has brought attention, yet again, to the need to rethink the relationships between universities and Indigenous communities. Recently, the Peabody Museum announced that it has been holding locks of hair collected throughout the 1930s from more than 700 Indigenous children forced into residential boarding schools in the U.S. The museum has apologized, vowing to return the hair clippings to Indigenous communities. In…
Photography by Elaine Fancy For 50 years, Buffalo David Bitton has been helping people find their perfect pair of jeans. On one unpredictable outing in Utah, I learned how valuable that really is. By Natalie Michie Date October 24, 2022 As I struggled to keep my balance atop a bareback horse on a rustic ranch in Utah, I realized I had a problem. For starters, I was uncoordinated and nervous — a hazardous combination on its own. And it didn’t help that the horse I was on, Cricket, could sense my angst. At that moment, I felt particularly grateful for…
Sex tech has come a long way in the past 10 years—not only in terms of cultural acceptance and awareness, but also technology. Gone are the days of clunky, pink plastic rabbit vibrators and sex toys that feel like knockoff action figures. Today’s toys are designed by sex educators, medical professionals, and some of the world’s greatest sexperts. They feature ultra-premium, surgical-grade silicone, robust Bluetooth connectivity, programmable vibration patterns, and multiple motors all designed to help you have a good time. There’s never a bad time to invest in a little extra self-care. These are some of our favorite sex toys,…
Kris Wu has been sentenced to 13 years in prison by a Beijing court for charges that include the rape of three women, The Associated Press reports. The Chaoyang District court ruled that the Chinese Canadian pop star and actor, as well as others implicated in the case, supplied three women with alcohol in 2020 and raped them when they could no longer consent. Most of the 13-year sentence stems from that incident, but he also received one year and 10 months for a 2018 event where he “assembled a crowd” and assaulted two women they got drunk.Wu will be…
Disney first announced plans to close one of its signature Disneyland and Walt Disney World attractions, Splash Mountain, back in the summer of 2020. The plan all along has been to not so much replace it as update it — to maintain the basic layout and structure but to replace the characters and theming that had been from Disney’s controversial 1946 film Song of the South with ones from the popular 2009 film The Princess and the Frog.There have been occasional updates since then; the announcement of the new ride’s name (Tiana’s Bayou Adventure) and a tentative opening date of 2024. But…
People’s diet quality improved and their abdominal obesity and insulin resistance decreased in a one-year lifestyle intervention, new findings from the Finnish StopDia study show. Looking at 2,907 Finnish adults with an elevated risk for type 2 diabetes, the study is the first to examine the effects of a group-based lifestyle intervention implemented in primary health care on risk factors for type 2 diabetes. The lifestyle intervention made use of a digital app and multiple behaviour change theories. The findings were published in The Lancet Regional Health — Europe. The StopDia approach was developed in collaboration with multiple stakeholders In…
Apsara by Willard Thurston What’s it About? Twins separated at birth, the subject of clandestine study. Two cells of jihadi terrorists whose anti-Western activities range from the satiric to the downright deadly. Two Russian mafia brothers, one a patron of the arts and the other behind bars for brutally murdering a rival. An enraged Muslim exotic club patron with a vendetta or two to settle. These are just a few of the colorful characters and mirror plots populating Willard Thurston’s illustrated novel, Apsara. Like many of Thurston’s novels, Apsara defies ready summation. It’s a sprawling, interconnected web of hidden agendas,…
Owen Hendricks, Noah Centineo’s character in The Recruit, is thrown into the deep end in his first days as a lawyer for the CIA, as a new clip from the action-paced Netflix series reveals. The 40-second clip — which Centineo screened at the CCXP convention in São Paulo, Brazil on Saturday, December 3 — shows Owen going head to head with a former CIA asset named Max Meladze, played by Laura Haddock (Da Vinci’s Demons). “You know that making threats against the agency is a crime, right?” he says, visiting Max in prison. But Max says she knows “many things.”…
Seasons shifting: Tasmanias southern beech is Australias only native temperate deciduous tree. Credit: Shutterstock There’s a piece of gardening lore in my hometown which has been passed down for generations: never plant your tomatoes before Show Day, which, in Tasmania, is the fourth Saturday in October. If you’re foolhardy enough to plant them earlier, your tomato seedlings will suffer during the cold nights and won’t grow. But does this kind of seasonal wisdom still work as the climate warps? We often talk about climate change in large-scale ways—how much the global average surface temperature will increase. Nations are trying to…
I’ve spent most of my time as a beauty journalist working directly with hairdressers covering trends, news and advice. And for the most part, I treat the hair advice I’ve received as gospel, and I drill home the importance of listening to pro hairdressers about at-home maintenance. However, there is one point, in particular, where I veer from hairdressers’ advice: cheap shampoo. I use it all the time.Professional and salon-quality haircare and styling products are really important for healthy hair. I just needed to say that before we continue. For the most part, you’ll find that they have fewer filler ingredients and synthetics that cheat the feeling of smooth…
Gotham Knights is getting a series of patches. In a Twitter thread, developer WB Games Montréal has laid out problems it is looking to address via future updates, starting with the performance issues across PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S/X. A patch for the former is now live, aimed at fixing general keyboard input issues, co-op matchmaking invites, and stability, which resulted in game crashes for several players on PC. Those on PS5 and Series S/X will receive a patch later in the week, though the studio doesn’t offer many details.“For our console players, the next Gotham Knights patch is…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year for horror fanatic Kirk Hammett. Ahead of Halloween weekend, the Metallica guitarist is sharing his go-to movies and more in a new interview with Gibson TV’s “Metal and Monsters” series (Oct. 26) where he explains his love for all things spooky.Hammett admitted he was “totally and completely” a Halloween kid, and fondly remembers his first costumes as being an attempt to replicate Frankenstein (cardboard across his forehead eventually did the trick). “Even to this day I love Halloween,” he added. And of course that extends to horror movies.When asked by the show’s host…
As the title suggests, Sr. is a documentary about Robert Downey Sr., the provocative filmmaker who gave the world such cult classics as Putney Swope and Greaser’s Palace. But the film was also produced and features Downey’s son, a working actor you might be familiar with named Robert Downey Jr. In fact, the film is as much about the relationship between the two Roberts Downey than it is about Sr.’s life and career.As such, it offers a pretty interesting glimpse into the private life of one of the biggest movie stars in the world. Sr., directed by Chris Smith, includes scenes of the Downeys at home on Long Island…
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Symbiotech: An Eerden Novel (Ellinor Book 3)? Since Symbiotech is the third book in the Ellinor series, I’ll speak more generally to the reasons why this series was one I really wanted to write. After I finished writing my YA series, I really wanted to explore a twist on the kind of revenge and redemption arc that was/is so popular for a lot of fantasy main characters, especially female MC’s. I wanted to tie those themes in with the grief that so often gets ignored for the pure revenge…