This combo of images shows from the top, an 11th century Romanesque church partially exposed in a reservoir in Vilanova de Sau, Catalonia, Spain, Monday, June 20, 2022, and the same spot on Friday, Nov. 18. 2022. Credit: AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti Barcelona and large swathes of Spain’s northeast are going under water restrictions as a months-long drought that has devastated crops starts to put the pinch on human activities in the Mediterranean country. The measures will affect 6.7 million people, 80% of the population in the Catalonia region, Patrícia Plaja, spokeswoman for the Catalan administration, said Tuesday. Plaja said, for…
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It’s been quite the fashionable week in the nation’s capital. On Dec. 1, President Biden’s first state dinner — in which he and First Lady Jill Biden played host to President Emmanuel Macron of France and his wife, Brigitte Macron — brought out a slew of stylish celebrities like Jennifer Garner, John Legend, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, in addition to fashion tastemakers like Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and designers Christian Louboutin and Gabriela Hearst. Then, on Dec. 4, the 45th Kennedy Center Honors took place. The annual event pays tribute to notable figures in the performing arts for their contributions to…
Buying a smartphone on a medium-sized budget can be a confusing task, with so many smartphone models available across popular manufacturers such as Samsung, Oppo, Xiaomi, and OnePlus. These handsets are typically equipped with one or two features typically found on more expensive flagship phones, such as faster charging, high-end chipsets, or camera sensors. While it might be argued that you get more value for your money when purchasing a smartphone in this price segment, you might also have to make certain trade-offs.On this week’s episode of Orbital, the Gadgets 360 podcast, host Akhil Arora talks to Reviewer Pranav Hegde…
Actress and singer/songwriter Rita Wilson and Grammy-nominated Latin pop star Sebastián Yatra have teamed up to record the new track “Til You’re Home” for the upcoming film A Man Called Otto starring Wilson’s husband Tom Hanks. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I am extremely honored by Rita Wilson’s invitation to join her on ‘Til You’re Home’ for the A Man Called Otto soundtrack,” Yatra said in a statement. “The story behind the film is heartwarming and moving and I was inspired to convey that emotion in this song. Overall, this project has…
It’s been four years since the last Transformers movie, the surprisingly enjoyable prequel/spinoff Bumblebee. The franchise’s latest effort is a more typical sequel, with the full cast of the franchise back — along with new characters inspired by the 1990s Beast Wars series of cartoons, games, comics, and toys.Dubbed Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, it features mainstays like Optimus Prime (once again voiced by Peter Cullen) and Bumblebee, along with new characters like Optimus Primal (voiced by Ron Perlman), and a bunch of other “Maximals” and “Terrorcons.” The new human lead is Anthony Ramos, from Hamilton and In the Heights.Instead of Michael Bay, Rise of the Beasts was directed by Steven…
Colombian environmental engineer Germán Viasus Tibamoso, owner of Tierra Viva, holds a Hercules beetle in Tunja, Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. The company transforms solid, organic waste, with the help of beetle larvae’s digestive microorganisms, that transform the waste into a compost rich in nitrogen and phosphorous. Once adults, the beetles are sent to scientific labs and others to Japan where they are popular as pets. Credit: AP Photo/Fernando Vergara Three yellow-and-black beetles clung to the shirt of Germán Viasus Tibamoso, a Colombian environmental engineer who uses beetle larvae to transform food waste into fertilizers. As he encouraged them to…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I’ve always liked stories that work out okay. Once, when I was 15 or so, I threw a book across the room because the main character stepped aside so her best friend could marry the man she loved, because her friend loved him, too. (That book was, it turned out, a Jane Austen fan fiction retelling, so the pairing was predetermined. But that’s beside the point.) I loved the main character of this book and was furious that she ended up unhappy. I…
Things are finally starting to look up. A difficult rescue puts everyone at their anxiety threshold on Fire Country Season 1 Episode 8. This rescue also triggers some bad memories from Vince’s past when he lost his daughter. After a night of gambling, Manny comes to work sleep deprived and erratic. This puts him and Vince in a direct collision as each of them is not their true self. The episode was directed by Fire Country’s own Kevin Alejandro, who plays Manny. It is a common consensus that he did an exemplary job, and we can’t wait for him to direct…
America was unprepared for the magnitude of the pandemic, which overwhelmed many counties and filled some hospitals to capacity. A new paper in PNAS suggests there may have been a mathematical method, of sorts, to the madness of those early COVID days. The study tests a model that closely matches the patterns of case counts and deaths reported, county by county, across the United States between April 2020 and June 2021. The model suggests that unprecedented COVID spikes could, even now, overwhelm local jurisdictions. “Our best estimate, based on the data, is that the numbers of cases and deaths per…
I don’t know about you, but I love the start of a new season, particularly the start of autumn/winter. As the leaves turn to fiery orange, and we swap our summer footwear for winter boots, I can’t help but get swept up in that back-to-school feeling, pulling out my trusted knitwear and adding some new A/W trends to my wardrobe. Same for you? If so, it’s only natural that we’re also keen to update our hair as the seasons shift. While in summer, we might opt for lighter, golden hair colour such as balayage, in autumn and winter, it can be fun to embrace those warmer auburn and brunette shades. Nothing gives…
iPhone 14 series was unveiled during the company’s ‘Far Out’ event in September but rumours of next year’s iPhone models, speculated to be the iPhone 15 series, have already started surfacing online. A reputed market analyst has now suggested that the high-end models in Apple’s 2023 iPhone family will debut with solid-state buttons instead of physical volume and power buttons, similar to the home buttons on iPhone 7, iPhone 8 and iPhone SE units. Kuo forecasts that iPhone 15 smartphones would come equipped with three Taptic Engine vibration motors to simulate the feeling of a click. The analyst states that…
Dolly Parton has always been a woman of her word, and she’s holding true to the statement she made back in May. She’s making a rock album. But it’s who she’s got in mind that makes it even more thrilling – Parton wants to get Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and Jimmy Page to reunite for a new take on “Stairway to Heaven.”The country star, who originally pushed back on her Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination earlier this year, feeling she was unworthy of the title, vowed she’d make a rock record to mark the occasion if she was inducted.…
Every ten years since 1952, the British film magazine Sight & Sound has polled an international roster of critics and directors, in an attempt to answer a thorny question: What is the greatest film of all time?When Sight & Sound did their poll for the first time in 1952, the top choice was Vittorio de Sica’s Bicycle Thieves. Ten years later, the critics top pick was Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, and for the next 40 years, Kane remained at the top of the Sight & Sound list. Then, in 2012, it was finally dethroned for the first time in half a century by Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.It is 2022, and so, for the eighth…
07 Dec 2022 Discover Inspiring True Stories With These Biographies & Memoirs! Looking for a new biography or memoir book to get invested in this December? Then look no further! Check out our picks for this week’s must-read biography and memoir books. Happy Reading! A Nice Place Full of Good People by Andrew Rivas Release Date: December 6, 2022 A Nice Place Full of Good People is the story about the seventeen days I spent being illegally held in a psych ward after a suicide attempt, what drove me there, and the friends I made along the way. I hope…
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Wednesday Season 1, Episodes 1-8.] Netflix‘s Wednesday may have followed the titular character’s journey to uncovering a mystery across Season 1, but there are still plenty of unanswered questions, especially when it comes to the Addams Family daughter, Wednesday (Jenna Ortega). Thankfully, a second season seems likelier than ever considering the show broke the record for most hours viewed in a week for an English-language series on Netflix. The show unseated Stranger Things with 341.2 million hours viewed in a single week following its debut. Wednesday hails from showrunners Al Gough and Miles…
From affectionate foxes to ruby-eyed frogs and flamboyant flamingos, the shortlist of photographs selected for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award display the natural world in all of its awesomeness. Run by the Natural History Museum, London, the People’s Choice Award is open to voters worldwide, who can choose their favorite image at the contest website (opens in new tab) until Feb. 2, 2023. The winner will be showcased at the museum until the photography exhibit closes in July 2023. Highway hyenaA hyena outside of Harar, Ethiopia. (Image credit: Sam Rowley/Wildlife Photographer of the Year )A spotted hyena…
Gisele Bündchen gave a rare hint about her headspace amid media reports that she has hired a divorce lawyer and may be splitting from her husband of 13 years Tom Brady. Bündchen left a prayer emoji comment and liked a post from life coach Jay Shetty detailing how relationships with inconsistent partners do not work. “You can’t be in a committed relationship with someone who is inconsistent with you. Read that again,” the post read. In caption, Shetty added, “Love is a daily effort. Some days it may come easier than others and that’s OK, but what should always stay…
Rabenn remembers the atmosphere of that war room as more dead silence and sweaty, anxious tension than eagerness or anticipation. He knew the possibility of achieving a Ross Ulbricht–style arrest and seizing Cazes’ laptop in a live, logged-in state—not to mention his phone—was a long shot at best. Even after all their international meetings and planning calls over the past months, and in spite of his usual hard-driving enthusiasm, Rabenn found himself quietly expecting their plan to fail.Across the table, Sanchez was logged in to Roosh V. She checked Rawmeo’s profile and confirmed to the group that he was online…
Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith have announced a deluxe box set reissuing three of their albums: The Peyote Dance, Mummer Love, and Peradam. The collection also includes a seven-track remix record called The Perfect Vision: Reworkings. The remix album will include new interpretations by Brian Eno, Jim Jarmusch, Laraaji, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, and more. The deluxe release arrives November 25 via Bella Union. Find the album art and tracklist below. Also below, hear Brian Eno’s remix of “Peradam.”The group’s three albums were inspired by the writings of Antonin Artaud, Arthur Rimbaud, and René Daumal. The Peyote Dance was recorded in…
Every ten years, the British film magazine Sight & Sound polls hundreds of film critics and directors in order to create near-definitive lists of the best movies ever made. In 2012, critics named Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo as the finest motion picture of all time. Directors chose Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story as their top pick.The 2022 list is officially here — and the winners are Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles for the critics and 2001: A Space Odyssey for the directors. This time, the magazine (which is affiliated with the venerated British Film Institute) arrived at their answers by polling 1639 “film critics, programmers, curators, archivists and academics”…
Coal power: increasingly indefensible. Credit: Bilanol/Shutterstock The latest UN climate change summit (COP27) concluded, once again, with a tussle over the place of fossil fuels in the global economy. An agreement by the world’s governments to phase out all fossil fuels would have been a welcome progression from last year’s Glasgow climate pact. It called on countries to “[accelerate] efforts towards the phasedown of unabated coal power and phase-out of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies”, making it the first UN treaty to acknowledge the need to do something about the main source of greenhouse gas emissions. But at COP27, widespread anxieties…
Giggles Galore With winter on its way, it brings chilly snow days and cloudy skies filled with rain. Being stuck inside all day can really limit the amount of fun you can have in a day. In comes Giggles Galore by Carole P. Roman to save the day! Armed with this book, you will not only laugh until you cry but learn something along the way! Giggles Galore is much more than your typical joke book; it is filled to the brim with jokes, fun facts, and a short story featuring our beloved Susannah. This book will keep your little…
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune is back, and the celebrities came ready to play. The celebrity version of the iconic game show is a lot of fun, as the celebrities are as much a fan of the show as any other viewer out there. And this time, some very heavy hitters are taking a crack at the wheel and the big board. From RuPaul to Jack Black, the celebrities are gaming, and TV Fanatic got an exclusive featurette of some of the upcoming guests gushing about the famed series and hosts, as well as letting us know just how heavy that…
Early in 2022, the Arctic experienced its strongest cyclone on record, with wind speeds reaching 62 mph (100 km/h). Although storms aren’t rare in the Arctic, this one led to an extensive loss of sea ice that surprised Arctic researchers.In the Arctic, sea ice — frozen seawater that floats over the ocean in the polar regions — reaches its largest coverage in March and what is thought to be its thickest maximum in April, researchers told Live Science. But as sea ice was building up this year, it hit a major setback. Between Jan. 20 and Jan. 28, the storm…
Confession: I’ve never tried wearing Target’s outerwear (until now). I’ve spent a lot of time donning — and selfie-ing — the brand’s downright impressive selection of quarter-zips and trendy loungewear, but I haven’t so far ventured into the jacket or coat department. How did everything change? On Cyber Monday, I came across the wildly affordable A New Day Travel Puffer Jacket ($35), took one look at its nearly perfect five-star rating, and the rest was history. Keep reading to find out more. What I Like About This Puffer Jacket I’ll be honest: I wasn’t sure whether I’d like this jacket…
Apple announced the 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro (2022) and the redesigned iPad (2022) last week. These tablets have now gone on sale in India for the first time. The two new iPad Pro (2022) models come with the Apple M2 chip, whereas the Apple A14 Bionic SoC powers the iPad (2022). These new Apple tablets run on iPadOS 16 out of the box. The iPad Pro (2022) can detect an Apple Pencil hovering up to 12mm above their screens for precise sketching and more.Apple iPad Pro (2022) price in India, availabilityThe 11-inch iPad Pro (2022) costs Rs. 81,900 for…
The Ledger is a weekly newsletter about the economics of the music business sent to Billboard Pro subscribers. An abbreviated version of the newsletter is published online. After a miserable year for music stocks — and stocks in general — 2022 could end on a string of positive notes. As rising interest rates have hammered stocks and erased big gains made during the pandemic, the Billboard Global Music Index, a float-adjusted group of 20 publicly traded music companies, is down 36.1% in 2022, and shares of vital companies such as Spotify and Warner Music Group are down 65.7% and 20.5%, respectively.…
NEON has released a brand new Broker trailer for CJ ENM’s forthcoming South Korean drama. The film stars Parasite actor Song Kang-ho, whose performance as a baby thief won him the Best Actor Award at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. The film is set to make its U.S. debut in select theaters starting on December 26. RELATED: Bong Joon-ho’s Robert Pattinson-Led Untitled Film Starts Preproduction The video features two baby thieves as they try to find a new home for a baby boy abandoned by his young mother. However, the mother unexpectedly shows up in hopes of ensuring that her baby will be…
Our Book of Awesome “We live in overwhelming times. Highest-ever rates of anxiety, loneliness, depression, suicide. Nothing is more important — and vital! — today than cultivating the habit of positive thinking.” Those are the words of Neil Pasricha, who by necessity in his own life, turned his attention to the power of positive suggestion and created an entire brand around the idea of awesomeness. Pasricha is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including The Book of Awesome and The Happiness Equation, which together have spent over 200 weeks on bestseller lists and sold over a million…
It all comes down to this. Or does it? The Peripheral Season 1 Episode 8 promised a big, explosive finale, and while the episode’s quality was terrific, there was an audible whimper when the credits rolled. So, what happened? The season finale of any kind of epic series usually promises something of epic proportions. While The Peripheral’s finale didn’t lack in quality, it did leave us wanting a lot more. But we don’t just mean more of the series; we mean more from the episode. A cliffhanger isn’t usually a problem, but we never like seeing cliffhangers when the future…