Supernatural star Jensen Ackles enjoyed a reunion with his former Smallville co-stars Tom Welling and Michael Rosenbaum last weekend as the trio of actors came together for Creation Entertainment’s Operation Las Vegas fan event. Ackles played Jason Teague in the fourth season of Smallville, the long-running superhero series that starred Welling as Clark Kent/Superman and Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor. The close connection between the actors continues to this day, as Welling now stars in the Supernatural spinoff The Winchesters, portraying Sam (Jared Padalecki) & Dean’s (Ackles) grandfather, Samuel Campbell. “Ran in to a couple of old friends in Vegas yesterday.…
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With an emphasis on fruits, vegetables and legumes, the Mediterranean diet has long been applauded for its multiple health benefits. Now, new research shows that it may also help overcome infertility, making it a non-intrusive and affordable strategy for couples trying to conceive. Conducted by Monash University, the University of the Sunshine Coast, and the University of South Australia, the review found that the Mediterranean diet can improve fertility, assisted reproductive technology (ART) success, and sperm quality in men. Specifically, researchers identified that the anti-inflammatory properties of a Mediterranean diet can improve couples’ chances of conception. Infertility is a global…
As much as Who What Wear loves to keep up with the latest trends, there are times when following what’s “new” can feel like a never-ending marathon. While we’re always on the lookout for names to know, burgeoning designers and new outfit inspiration, there’s also the equally important need for a carefully curated arsenal of timeless wardrobe staples, particularly in winter. How can you survive those bitter-cold days without a few key pieces that you can rely on year after year?When the temperatures drop, it can be all too easy to lean on the same outfit over and over, but there…
Vivo V25 5G powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 900 SoC was unveiled in India last month. Now, the Chinese smartphone brand is reportedly gearing up to release a 4G version of the handset soon. The date is yet to be officially confirmed by the brand, but a fresh leak suggests that Vivo V25 4G will go official in India by mid-November. The specifications of the Vivo V25 4G are expected to be similar to the Vivo V25e 4G, which launched in global markets in August.Tipster Paras Guglani (@PassionateGeekz), in association with Pricebaba, has suggested the India launch details of the…
[] Skip to main content Braun, who joined HYBE in 2021 via the company’s acquisition of his Ithaca Holdings, shared the CEO title with Lenzo Yoon until recently. Scooter Braun has taken the title of CEO, HYBE America, the U.S. division of South Korean music company HYBE. A HYBE representative confirmed to Billboard that Braun is now the sole CEO of HYBE America. Until recently, Braun shared the co-CEO title with veteran HYBE executive Lenzo Yoon. (Braun and Yoon appeared at No. 18 on Billboard’s 2022 Power List along with HYBE chairman Bang Si-yuk.) The HYBE representative declined to comment…
2023 marks the 15th anniversary of the found footage monster film Cloverfield, and in a recent interview with Syfy, director Matt Reeves spoke about how the backstory the team developed for the monster. Reeves — who directed the 2008 film — was asked about whether or not he ever had a backstory for the monster, which has since become affectionately known as “Clover.” According to Reeves, he did, mainly because, in order to direct the film, he wanted to understand what the monster was going through as well. With that in mind, the team behind the film conceived the monster…
Full Circle by Katherine Gomez In the 1980’s corporate world of Full Circle, Liz Castillo is a single professional woman trying to navigate the intricacies of a career-oriented life and what society deems is the role of womanhood. When it comes to the book’s discussion of the working woman’s struggles — everything from underpayment to sexual harassment — author Katherine Gomez has a knack for balancing serious topics with wisdom and wry humor. It seems that while Full Circle isn’t exactly a memoir, Gomez’s own time in the workplace was excellent inspiration for her story. Check out our Q&A below…
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is projected to continue rising and one in three Singaporeans currently has a risk of developing diabetes in their lifetime. Several early-life cardiometabolic complications make identifying high-risk populations and application of diabetes preventive strategies paramount. Among the high-risk groups are women who experienced diabetes during pregnancy, commonly known as gestational diabetes mellitus or gestational diabetes. Compared to the general healthy female population, these women may face a ten-fold higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Current known research has found that, instead of artificially- and sugar-sweetened drinks, drinking two to five cups of either…
Nicole Kidman is returning to HBO. The Big Little Lies and Undoing star has joined the cast of the premium cabler’s adaptation of the Leïla Slimani novel The Perfect Nanny, according to Deadline. She stars opposite Maya Erskine, the project’s creator, writer, and EP. The book was inspired by the real-life murder of Lucia and Leo Krim by their nanny in 2012. In the series, a seemingly perfect nanny goes to work for a couple with two young children, but her helpful personality eventually deteriorates into something sinister. Erskine created the hit Hulu comedy series Pen15 alongside Anna Konkle. She…
We’re well and truly into the party-season swing, and festivities are underway. As we count down the days to the end of the year, I’m keeping my eyes out for the festive nail designs that the fashion set is booking in for. While we love the timeless nail colours that come with winter, there’s something about this time of year that makes us want to experiment with nail art with a nod to the season.Among the winter nail trends and party nail designs of the season, we can’t help but get a little bit excited when the festive nail ideas start to crop up on our feeds—because…
Amazfit’s line of smartwatches may not offer all the bells and whistles of an Apple Watch or Samsung’s Galaxy Watch models, but they do offer incredible value given their competitive price tags. The latest model in Amazfit’s stylish GTR line-up aims to repeat the success of its predecessor, the GTR 3, but with a different approach to design, improvements to tracking , a bigger display and a bigger battery. Are all these changes worth upgrading to a GTR 4, and how well does it work with both Android and iOS smartphones? Read on to find out.Amazfit GTR 4 price in IndiaThe Amazfit GTR…
The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we’re sharing what our writers are playing obsessively and highlighting some of the Pitchfork staff’s favorite new music. The playlist is a grab-bag of tracks: Its only guiding principle is that these are the songs you’d gladly send to a friend.This week’s Pitchfork Selects playlist features Sabrina Carpenter, For…
Avatar: The Way of Water is a movie event a decade in the making. But if all goes as planned, it won’t be the last. James Cameron had already shot Avatar 3 (at least the motion capture for it) before The Way of Water ever opened in theaters, and he’s got the full franchise mapped out through Avatar 5.If these movies don’t do well at the box office, Avatar 4 and 5 might never happen, but Avatar 3 is pretty much guaranteed at this point because it’s already so far into production. And with The Way of Water now playing, we have some theories about where the franchise is…
Facile synthesis of functionalized dibenzo-fused azacyclooctynes (DIBACs) by click reaction and subsequent cobalt decomplexation. Credit: Laboratory of Chemical Bioscience, TMDU The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in part for what can be a quite difficult problem: precisely altering one aspect of biomolecules without affecting the rest of the cell. Now, in a study recently published in Organic Letters, researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) and coworkers have concisely synthesized a class of molecules that will greatly facilitate such work. Imagine experimenting with the preparation of bread by neglecting to add yeast. You’ll notice many effects—in addition…
Jesmyn Ward fans, rejoice! We officially have a title and release date for her next novel. Let Us Descend is slated for an October 3rd release from Scribner, a Simon & Schuster imprint. The book will tell the story of enslaved teenage girl Annis, turning an unflinching eye at the terrifying reality of a life violently robbed of physical agency. “It took years and multiple drafts to understand how Annis and enslaved people might have retained their sense of self, their sense of hope, in a time and place that attempted to negate both, day in and out,” Ward said…
In early October 2022 Jane Stadnik, a family resource specialist at the Parent Education & Advocacy Leadership (PEAL) Center in Pittsburgh, Pa., got a frantic call from the mother of a three-year-old boy who was about to be expelled from preschool. The school was tiring of his disruptive behavior, which, it claimed, included throwing blocks, not following directions, refusing to sit at “circle time” and periodically running from the classroom. Stadnik says that this would normally be seen as “typical developmental preschool behavior,” especially for a child with a speech impediment. The boy’s parents were already at their wit’s end:…
Ginny & Georgia Season 2 delivered plenty of drama, leaving viewers with lots of questions as we head into a possible third season. TV Fanatic got the chance to speak with showrunner Debra J. Fisher about the biggest twists. Scroll down for the full interview. At the beginning of Ginny & Georgia Season 2, the titular mother and daughter are at odds. How important was it for you to push them apart and showcase them repairing the relationship? It was very, very important. We broke those two characters down and pulled them apart during the first season. So in season…
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. Four days into 2023, and notorious trendsetter Emily Ratajkowski has already stepped out in what’s sure to be another controversial fashion choice. The “My Body” author and model was spotted in New York City in a coordinating Coperni set that featured a cropped belted jacket and a matching herringbone miniskirt with a wrap detail. While her top half looked tailored, her lower half descended…
The kitchen is full of gadgets and innovative tech, but the cornerstone on which a great meal is built remains simple: You need a good knife.But this seemingly simple device probably causes most of us more confusion and headache than a bevy of air fryers and Instant Pots. What makes the perfect knife for you will depend on many factors, including your comfort level with knives, the size of your hands, and what sort of food you like to cook.For most of us, the basic 6- to 8-inch chef’s knife is the place to start. It’s the most versatile knife,…
Could Taylor Swift be responsible for breaking up Live Nation and Ticketmaster? For anyone watching the three-hour U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, aside from frequent quotes of her lyrics, the connection between the pop star and the politicians’ probe is probably starting to feel tangential. And despite Live Nation president and CFO Joe Berchtold’s efforts to shift blame for Swift’s disastrous (yet record-breaking) ticket sale from Ticketmaster to scalpers and bots, most everyone else involved was focused on the m-word — monopoly. The senators’ line of thinking is that if the Live Nation-owned platform didn’t have such market dominance…
Update: Crystal Dynamics put out a post confirming most of the report. The game will be getting its final 2.8 patch on March 31, 2023. It will no longer receive new content after that. Official support will end on September 30, 2023. Find more details in our story here. Marvel’s Avengers has limped along since its rough launch in August 2020 with a seemingly never-ending stream of controversies. However, it seems as though those controversies will start winding down, as a new report alleges that Crystal Dynamics is going to imminently announce that it is moving on from its tepidly…
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A metal detectorist in Belgium has unearthed a fragment of a mysterious bronze artifact known as a Roman dodecahedron that is thought to be more than 1,600 years old. More than a hundred of the puzzling objects — hollow, 12-sided geometric shells of cast metal about the size of baseballs, with large holes in each face and studs at each corner — have been discovered in Northern Europe over the past 200 years. But no one knows why or how they were used.”There have been several hypotheses for it — some kind of a calendar, an instrument for land measurement, a…
Matt’s Rating: Imagine Law & Order told from the defendant’s point of view, laying out like a jigsaw puzzle the emotionally fraught circumstances that got them in this mess. Adapted from a British series by veteran producer H0ward Gordon (24, Homeland), Fox‘s Accused (premiering January 22) takes that riskiest of formats for commercial TV — the weekly stand-alone anthology — and grafts it onto the legal drama with morally challenging parables that take us out of our comfort zone. Not exactly a recipe for slam-dunk success, but kudos to Fox for even attempting something this ambitious and, more often than…
PHOTOGRAPHY BY FABIO LOVINO/HBO With a spirited style and ditzy demeanour, Daphne is easy to underestimate. But she knows exactly what she’s doing. By Natalie Michie Date December 12, 2022 At the beginning of The White Lotus season 2, Daphne Sullivan (played by Meghann Fahy) is introduced as a woman who has it all: a bouncy blowout that complements her vacation-ready wardrobe, two beautiful kids and a doting husband, and the kind of unbothered outlook that a certain level of wealth can buy. With her matching sets, floral patterns and persistently perky attitude, it’s almost too easy to write Daphne…
Shutterstock on Tuesday announced an extended partnership with OpenAI, which will see the latter’s text-to-image model, DALL-E 2, integrated into Shutterstock’s platform in the coming months. The move comes at a time when the rise of text-to-image and text-to-video artificial intelligence (AI) models have put the stock image and video provider industry at risk of being diminished or being made obsolete. The stock image giant seems to have answered this challenge by adopting a first-movers strategy that sees them selling AI-generated media content themselves.The stock-image giant has also announced the setting up of a “contributor fund” that will reimburse creators…
[] Skip to main content Selena Gomez shared a cryptic Instagram post, which led fans to believe a new album is in the works. Selena Gomez had fans buzzing with a mysterious Instagram post she shared on Wednesday (Jan. 25). The star posted a series of film snaps that look like they were potentially taken at a recording studio. In the two photos, Gomez is seen jamming out with blonde hair, and cleaning up a spilled drink on the floor. She simply captioned the post “3,” leading fans to speculate that the singer is working on her third studio album.…
According to THR, 20th Century Studios’ upcoming film adaptation of Stephen King’s short story The Boogeyman is officially changing its release strategy. Initially set to make its debut on Hulu, the horror thriller has now been slated to arrive in theaters on June 2, 2023. The outlet notes that this decision was made after The Boogeyman had strong test screenings last December. The Boogeyman is directed by Rob Savage (Host) from a screenplay adapted by Black Swan‘s Mark Heyman, based on the original drafts co-written by Akela Cooper with A Quiet Place scribes Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. The film stars…
A three-toed-sloth (Scientific name: Bradypus variegatus). Credit: Tauchgurke/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain A small team of researchers from the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, working with one colleague from the Cahuita Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica and another from Youngstown State University, has found that the brown-throated sloth has a powerful grip. In their paper published in the Journal of Zoology, the group describes how they measured the grip strength of several sloths and what they found by doing so. Sloths are known for moving very slowly, which prior research has shown is a means for surviving…
Ken Follett’s next novel will be published on September 26, 2023. It will be titled “The Armor of Light“ and will conclude the eight-volume Kingsbridge series that follows 1,000 years of Western civilization, from “Ethelred the Unready to the election of President Obama.” Readers will follow a group of linked families, starting in the fictional town Kingsbridge at the end of the 18th century. The members of the family experience everything from bread riots to forced military recruitment, as well as a British government that enacts new laws restricting criticism of the government. The role of women during times of…