In this photo provided by the Pacific Rim Conservation, wildlife workers relocate Tristram’s storm petrels on Hawaii’s Tern Island, on March 29, 2022. Scientists are making a dramatic effort to save the birds in Hawaii by moving them to an island they never had inhabited. Credit: L. Young/Pacific Rim Conservation via AP In a desperate effort to save a seabird species in Hawaii from rising ocean waters, scientists are moving chicks to a new island hundreds of miles away. Moving species to save them—once considered taboo—is quickly gaining traction as climate change upends habitats. Similar relocations are being suggested for…
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When they met nearly three decades ago, The Last of Us star Pedro Pascal and American Horror Story vet Sarah Paulson couldn’t have known they’d one day appear together on Saturday Night Live. And yet there they were, joining forces for the “Fancam Assembly” sketch during Pascal’s SNL hosting debut on Saturday, February 4. In the sketch, Pascal plays Mr. Ben, a beloved teacher at St. Lawrence High School, who’s laying down a new rule for his students: No TikTok fan cams about faculty. “But we make them because you’re our beloved, and you have us in a chokehold!” Sarah…
It’s almost impossible to count the number of times that I’ve been stopped in the street and asked where an item I was wearing was from and the answer has been Marks and Spencer. What usually follows is surprise, but after years of uncovering hidden gems from the high-street hero, I’m always confident in the brand’s ability to deliver accessible takes on runway pieces, and it’s given me a lot of bragging rights. Marks and Spencer has had a particularly good run of transitional pieces and standout accessories in the last few months, and now that we’re fully in the throes of a crisp and cold autumn perfect for boot season, I’ve found…
Microsoft on Tuesday projected second-quarter revenue below Wall Street targets across its business units, stoking fear that macroeconomic headwinds are impacting the cloud business in addition to the PC unit.Revenue growth in the first quarter was Microsoft’s lowest in five years, and shares of the software giant fell 7 percent in extended trading.Microsoft’s cloud business, called Azure, has supercharged revenue growth at the software giant for years. But in its first fiscal quarter of 2023, that growth dropped to 35 percent and the company projects that to drop again in the current quarter, which is its second quarter. Microsoft missed the 36.5…
Lana Del Rey‘s ninth studio album, titled Did You Know There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, is coming soon. This LP will follow a pause from any full-length releases in 2022, which was preceded by two albums in 2021: Blue Banisters and Chemtrails over the Country Club. Between official announcements and news being rolled out via Del Rey’s (private) Instagram page, we’ve collected all the details available so far. The first look at the album, a track of the same name, has been released ahead of the full record. Take a listen to the dramatic, orchestral tile track below, and read…
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BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in advertising and famously wrote the Toys “R” Us theme song long before becoming an author. Whether you’re traditionally published or indie, writing a good book is only the first step in becoming a successful author. The days of just turning a manuscript in to your editor and walking away are gone. If…
Ritsumeikan University researchers suggest their developed framework is not restricted to plastic waste and can be applied to other waste-related problems that require interventions for desirable behavioral changes. Credit: Professor Takuro Uehara from Ritsumeikan University, Japan Plastics are quite commonplace in today’s world. Consequently, plastic waste is an environmental menace that is increasing at an exponential rate. The negative impact of plastic waste on global social-ecological systems is far-reaching and seems irreversible. The dispersal of micro- and nano-plastics into rivers, oceans, and soil environments further aggravates this issue. Retrieving these plastics is currently an impossible task. Directly or indirectly, these…
Nearly two years after playing the Titanic-sinking iceberg on Saturday Night Live, Bowen Yang played another news-making white object floating in the Atlantic: the Chinese spy balloon that the U.S. shot down off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday, February 4. Just hours after that Air Force operation sent the balloon plummeting into the Atlantic, NBC’s SNLparodied the diplomatic incident in the cold open of Saturday’s episode. “Good evening. It’s good to be with you,” Chloe Fineman said in the sketch, in character as MSNBC anchor Katy Tur. “Tonight, our long national nightmare is over. We got the balloon.”…
The hotel ballroom was packed to near capacity with scientists when Susan Yanovski arrived. Despite being 10 minutes early, she had to manoeuvre her way to one of the few empty seats near the back. The audience at the ObesityWeek conference in San Diego, California, in November 2022, was waiting to hear the results of a hotly anticipated drug trial. The presenters—researchers affiliated with pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, based in Bagsværd, Denmark—did not disappoint. They described the details of an investigation of a promising anti-obesity medication in teenagers, a group that is notoriously resistant to such treatment. The results astonished…
John Lamb There’s so much conflicting advice about removing body hair. Is shaving with a traditional razor an underrated classic? Should you be wary of ingrown hairs? Is laser hair removal the wave of the future or will you end up with scarring? Waxing: friend or foe? And if the hairy area in question is located in your nether regions, the advice only gets more confusing.In times of desperation, it may be easy to put a handy ol’ disposable razor to your private area. Stop! Before you book a wax or potentially cause unwanted ingrown hairs, consider investing in a…
Western Union is looking to expand into the virtual digital assets sector in the coming days. The money transfer service provider has filed for a bunch of trademarks in the US, seeking approvals to provide exchange and transfer services for virtual currencies. Western Union is an established facilitator of cross-border remittance services. In recent times, however, complaints about the platform charging really hefty fees for its services had dragged the platform under bad light.Western Union has shared three trademark applications, attorney Mike Kondoudis shared on Twitter.The platform is also planning to offer crypto trading services whenever it revamps.Back in October…
Marshall Tucker, the man who inspired the Marshall Tucker Band’s name, has died at the age of 99. The Southern rockers paid tribute to the individual in a post on their social media.Tucker wasn’t actually a member of The Marshall Tucker Band, however, he was a major part of their legacy in that they were named after him. He was a blind pianist from Columbia, S.C., about 94 miles from the band’s hometown of Spartanburg, S.C.After the band had already formed, they were rehearsing in a warehouse in Columbia, and the key to the space had a tag with Tucker’s name…
The Last of Us Episode 5 release date has been announced and it will air a bit earlier than other installments of HBO’s hit video game adaptation. Not wanting to clash with the Super Bowl next week, HBO will release The Last of Us Episode 5 on Friday instead. It will premiere on both HBO Max and HBO On Demand on February 10 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. It will then make its HBO linear premiere on Sunday, February 12 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. It will then go back to its familiar Sunday slot until its season finale on…
Lobster Wars by Mark E. Greene “Up and down the Maine coast, there’s a tough breed of men who make their living from the sea. They battle the wind and the weather and the tides, and sometimes, each other … Welcome to Tranquility. Welcome to Lobster Wars.” Words spoken by the voiceover at the beginning of an episode of a reality TV show which is at the core of author Mark E. Greene’s clever satirical look not only at the absurdity of the reality TV business but the foibles of our society in general. Lobster Wars (Koehler Books) tells the…
Physicists have created a mini sun with its own simulated gravity to investigate the causes of extreme space weather. The tiny sun — consisting of a superheated plasma inside a 1-inch-wide (3-centimeter) glass sphere — produced sound waves that constrained the swirling plasma much like gravity does the actual sun. Studying this mini-sun could help scientists predict the extreme stellar events that can cause power outages, cripple the internet and even send satellites tumbling to Earth, according to a study published Jan. 20 in the journal Physical Review Letters (opens in new tab).”Sound fields act like gravity, at least when it comes…
Songs can have the power to make or break a show just from their inclusion in a scene, but shows also have the power to reinvigorate songs because of their inclusion. Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (Make A Deal With God)” topped the charts because of its incorporation into the powerful fourth episode “Dear Billy” in Stranger Things. More recently, Linda Ronstadt’s “Long Long Time” was given new life after being used to tell the love story between Bill and Frank in the emotional third episode of The Last of Us. Scenes are sometimes only as compelling as the…
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. Some people pop Champagne when it’s time celebrate; Chlöe pops over to the beach for a dip in the ocean. On Jan. 26, the singer suited up in a rose-pink thongkini and launched herself off a boat to celebrate the release of her new single, “Pray It Away,” off of her debut album, “In Pieces.” “Alright, I’m jumping in honor of ‘Pray It Away’…
Over 3,000 students graduated from the first class of cyber ambassadors last year. And following the success of the first batch, the Telangana government—which is perhaps the first state in India to have come up with a novel concept like this—has started the second batch of the course with almost 10,000 students. Telangana has over 5 million students across more than 40,000 public schools.Sailaja Vadlamudi, one of the two teachers of the program, explains that with rising cybercrime cases, and the pandemic providing more digital access to people, the government wanted to help out the most vulnerable: students in public…
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Every year we expend so much effort on the Oscars. Who will win? Who should win? Who got snubbed? Who gave the best speech? It’s pretty much five straight months of this, non-stop.But can you name last year’s Best Picture winner off the top of your head? Okay, you might remember Moonlight because of the crazy wrong envelope kerfuffle. What about the Best Picture in 2020? How about the year before that? (It was Coda and Nomadland. I looked it up, because I didn’t remember.)The Oscars are fun, and yes, they are important for a lot of reasons. But they do not guarantee cinematic immortality. Plenty of the…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I adore romance novels. I read them by the boatload and find nothing more satisfying than reaching the end of a couple’s (or group’s) story. Then laughing and sighing and groaning and nail biting alongside the main characters as they deal with the emotional evolution of falling in love, and the personal growth that makes them the best person for their partner or partners. I pick them up because I can read without fear of tragedy, and because love stories are just…well, great.…
On a diet? Perhaps you’re avoiding sweets or carbs altogether or curbing late-night munchies. These are examples of behavior modifications and when it comes to food, avoiding those diet triggers can be pretty hard to do. To understand what drives people to overeat, scientists are looking more closely at a brain structure involved in motivation, called the nucleus accumbens. This small region drives reward-seeking behaviors underlying the pursuit of sex, recreational drugs like nicotine and alcohol, and food. “These brain motivation centers evolved to help us survive; finding food and having sex are essential to the survival of an individual…
Charles Kimbrough, an Emmy-nominated star of Murphy Brown, has died. He was 86 years old. The actor passed away on January 11 in Culver City, CA, as his son, John, confirmed to The New York Times. Kimbrough is best known for playing dignified anchor Jim Dial on Murphy Brown for the CBS sitcom’s original 10-season run between 1988 and 1998. His performance earned him an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1990. And when CBS revived the sitcom for another season in 2018, Kimbrough brought Jim back for a multi-episode arc. “Charlie Kimbrough ……
Bright multi-colored clouds shining in the night sky above Mount Jökultindur in Iceland on Jan. 25. (Image credit: Jónína Guðrún Óskarsdóttir) (opens in new tab)The dark skies in the Arctic Circle recently shone with ethereal multi-colored light. But this jaw-dropping spectacle was not caused by auroras. Instead, the iridescent rainbows were caused by clouds of tiny ice crystals floating higher in the atmosphere than is normally possible.The clouds, known as polar stratospheric clouds (PSC), only form when the lower stratosphere reaches temperatures below minus 114 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 81 degrees Celsius). Normally, clouds do not form in the stratosphere because…
Over the last few years, I’ve been trying to live more sustainably and although a large part of my job is spent researching trends, scrolling through new-in pages and writing about hot new collections, I don’t actually shop that much. Shocking, I know! That’s mainly because I truly believe in creating a capsule wardrobe full of favourites you can wear all year round, as well as trying to get as much usage out of your wardrobe as possible. This winter, my wardrobe consists of sweater vests (I’m currently on the look out for a vintage oversized version in navy FYI), which…
These troubles come during an economic downturn and a dampening of esports hype, with investors and sponsors growing impatient with the growth-before-profit model. 100 Thieves, the second-most-valuable esports team in the world, just laid off a sixth of its workforce. It’s not that esports is dying; it’s that investors are grappling with wildly exaggerated expectations, particularly in the US. Discussing the Overwatch League in the same breath as the NFL now seems premature, at the very least. “Those numbers were totally unrealistic,” says Tobias Scholz, an assistant professor at the University of Siegen for Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior and a…
The Bamboozle festival is returning for the first time in 11 years, with a lineup that includes Limp Bizkit, Rick Ross, Steve Aoki, Flyleaf, Papa Roach and more. The three-day fest will take place May 5th-7th at Bader Field in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Organizers have been rolling out the names of artists for several weeks, but have now unveiled the near-final lineup, with a few more additions yet to be announced. Among the other acts on the multi-genre bill are Yung Gravy, Boys Like Girls, Finch, Blackbear, Mayday Parade, Say Anything, Saosin, The Spill Canvas, Valencia, We the Kings,…
The Force might have awakened, but it was no match for The Way of Water.Avatar: The Way of Water had yet another dominant weekend at the box office, its seventh in a row. The movie grossed another $15.7 million in the U.S. alone. More importantly, over the weekend it passed Star Wars: The Force Awakens and its $2.071 billion worldwide gross. With $2.116 billion worldwide (and counting!), Avatar: The Way of Water is now the fourth biggest movie in history, behind only the original Avatar ($2.923 billion), Avengers: Endgame ($2.799 billion), and Titanic ($2.194 billion).Yes, as of this moment, James Cameron has directed three of the four biggest movies in…
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