Top, $3,900, skirt, $6,200, Gucci, gucci.com. Ring, Cartier, $12,900, cartier.com.Cass Bird“Miniature enthusiast” is how Olivia Wilde describes herself in her Instagram bio. And with her sophomore directorial effort, Don’t Worry Darling, the actress-turned-auteur has created her own self-sustaining ecosystem—the Stepford-like 1950s community of Victory. You can imagine Wilde gazing down, Godlike, at a maquette where every detail is perfectly period-accurate. “Designing this world made me Frank,” she says, referring to the alpha-male founder of Victory, played by Chris Pine. “Because I was saying, ‘This color will never be seen in my town, and I want everyone to wear these dresses,…
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Doctor Who’s whole existence has been that of a metamorphosing thing. Due in part to the show’s baked-in rubrics of time travel and regenerating protagonists, it’s the kind of series that gets a new cast—and in some cases a new showrunner—every few years. The whole point is that the person who plays the Time Lord changes, giving the character a new attitude and giving fans the opportunity to fight over which actor’s take is the best. But as Jodie Whittaker’s time in the TARDIS came to an end following this weekend’s feature-length episode, “The Power of the Doctor,” one thing…
Tanya Lewis: Hi, and welcome to COVID, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series! Josh Fischman: This is your fast-track update on the COVID pandemic. We bring you up to speed on the science behind the most urgent questions about the virus and the disease. We demystify the research, and help you understand what it really means. Lewis: I’m Tanya Lewis. Fischman: I’m Josh Fischman. Lewis: And we’re Scientific American’s senior health editors. Today, we’re going to discuss the new alphabet soup of variants and subvariants likely to be around this winter… Fischman: And we’ll talk about the way boosters add…
There are few former rock music couples more famous than Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson, so perhaps it’s no great shock that Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox dressed as them for Halloween this year. Likewise, the fact that fans have reacted in a multitude of ways is no less surprising.As reported by Entertainment Weekly yesterday (Oct. 29), the romantic pair attended tequila brand Casamigos’ Halloween party in Beverly Hills this past Friday (Oct. 28). While there, they captured how Lee and Anderson looked at the 1995 grand opening of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.Specifically, Kelly emulated Lee’s famous white…
Armageddon Time review – a bracing portrait of grief and turbulance 3 && args[2] === 2 && typeof args[3] === ‘boolean’ ) { gdprApplies = args[3]; if (typeof args[2] === ‘function’) { args[2](‘set’, true); } } } else if (args[0] === ‘ping’) { var retr = { gdprApplies: gdprApplies, cmpLoaded: false, cmpStatus: ‘stub’ }; if (typeof args[2] === ‘function’) { args[2](retr); } } else { if(args[0] === ‘init’ && typeof args[3] === ‘object’) { args[3] = { …args[3], tag_version: ‘V2’ }; } queue.push(args); } } function postMessageEventHandler(event) { var msgIsString = typeof event.data === ‘string’; var json = {}; try…
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Convergence? Life themes overlap and flow through time. Our past flows into the present. Present events trigger past memories. Convergence is about how these themes are present in the life and work of psychologist Dr. Bryce Davison. What’s your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write? Yes, I love psychological thrillers, but of all varieties, including legal thrillers and crime thrillers. All of these are heavily psychological in nature. What books are on your TBR pile right now? I often turn to…
Anyone of a certain age who enjoyed watching The Waltons during its original run in the 1970s is pleased to see the show return in a similar form on The CW. They’re also thrilled that Richard Thomas, the original John-Boy Walton, is along for the ride. In anticipation of A Waltons’ Thanksgiving, premiering on Sunday, November 20, on The CW, we spoke with Thomas about his career and returning to the role that made him a household name. Good. Thank you so much for talking with me today. Oh, it’s my pleasure. I have to tell you, of course, as…
I’m pretty lucky. Not only do I have a job where I get to experience, write, and learn about the newest beauty products and beauty trends hitting the beauty industry, but I also get to interview and get to know the artists and experts who execute and create them. That said, I also feel lucky to have a beauty-loving, 73-year-old makeup artist mom who I can consult about anything and everything. (My poor father never gets a word in when we have a family catch-up call. Sorry, Dad!) Being a 73-year-old product junkie and also a Tucson-based makeup expert who specialises in educating older women about…
General Motors said late on Friday it had temporarily halted paid advertising on Twitter after Elon Musk completed his takeover of the social media company.The largest US automaker said it was “engaging with Twitter to understand the direction of the platform under their new ownership.”Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Musk is also the Chief Executive of GM rival Tesla.GM said “as is normal course of business with a significant change in a media platform, we have temporarily paused our paid advertising.” The Detroit automaker added its “customer care interactions on Twitter will continue.”Ad sales accounted for more…
To win at the card game of bridge, which is played between two sets of partners, one player must somehow signal to their teammate the strength of the hand they hold. Telepathy would come in handy here. But telepathy isn’t real, right? That’s correct. For decades, however, physicists have suspected that if bridge were played using cards governed by the rules of quantum mechanics, something that looks uncannily like telepathy should be possible. Now researchers in China have experimentally demonstrated this so-called quantum pseudotelepathy—not in quantum bridge but in a two-player quantum competition called the Mermin-Peres magic square (MPMS) game,…
The Rolling Stones have only released one studio album since 2005. But the influential English classic rock band is now recording a new one, per reports. And it will feature their late drummer, Charlie Watts, on “some of the tracks,” a Rolling Stones member said — plus at least one other percussionist.Watts, the longtime drummer of The Rolling Stones, died last year at 80.”We are recording the new album now, and we are going to LA in a few weeks to carry it on and finish it off,” Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood told The Sun in a new quote.”Charlie is on some…
Charlotte Wells: ‘Adults are locked in the roles that they perform for kids’ 3 && args[2] === 2 && typeof args[3] === ‘boolean’ ) { gdprApplies = args[3]; if (typeof args[2] === ‘function’) { args[2](‘set’, true); } } } else if (args[0] === ‘ping’) { var retr = { gdprApplies: gdprApplies, cmpLoaded: false, cmpStatus: ‘stub’ }; if (typeof args[2] === ‘function’) { args[2](retr); } } else { if(args[0] === ‘init’ && typeof args[3] === ‘object’) { args[3] = { …args[3], tag_version: ‘V2’ }; } queue.push(args); } } function postMessageEventHandler(event) { var msgIsString = typeof event.data === ‘string’; var json =…
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Charlie Utopia? The end of a fourteen-year relationship in my own life shocked me into taking a deeper look at my own issues. Had I sacrificed love to chase utopian visions of success? After separation, I was confused by four conflicting possibilities: take time to heal and grow; explore total freedom; revive an old flame; or be open to a new relationship close at hand. The fictional character Charlie Utopia gave me the distance to have perspective on this dilemma, and to try to convey the more universal emotional…
With one episode of The Walking Dead left to go, we’re wondering what we usually wonder at the end of a season: how are our favorite survivors going to beat the bad guys and save the day? We’ve had 11 seasons of “the group” emerging victorious over a variety of nasty, and often not entirely sane, villains. From the Wolves to the Claimers, from Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) to the Governor (David Morrissey), we’re looking back at some of the biggest antagonists from the show by ranking them from worst to best. Read The Full Article Here
An artificially intelligent algorithm has learned to recognise people from the way their hands shake when they hold a smartphone Technology 16 August 2022 By Jeremy Hsu The small movements you make when holding a phone may be enough for it to identify youShutterstock/A_B_C Your phone may be able to recognise you just from the vibrations in your hand. An algorithm trained to identify people this way did so with more than 90 per cent accuracy. Gentian Jakllari at the Toulouse Institute of Computer Science Research in France and his colleagues trained an artificially intelligent algorithm to identify an individual based…
Photography by Getty Images From painted-on tears to purposely flushed cheeks, “crying makeup” is about wearing your emotions on your sleeve. But can we only accept sorrow when it’s pretty to look at? By Natalie Michie Date November 2, 2022 There’s nothing quite like marinating in your ennui. Sure, being happy is great, but there are days when I’d rather listen to grim music, revel in the gloomy weather and scribble my surly thoughts in a notebook. Sometimes, we all just want to be sad. And that feeling comes to life in TikTok’s latest beauty trend: crying makeup. A distant…
Four times in the past year, the parents, teachers, and police officers of the small, neighboring Minnesota cities of Cloquet and Esko briefly believed that their children were about to be murdered in their classrooms. The calls began in the spring with two bomb threats. In the first, a man claimed to have seen a suspicious backpack with wires coming out of it at Cloquet and Esko high school. In July, he called again, this time reporting a bomb in a red backpack at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, according to police records. Then, in September, the same…
As promised, The Black Dahlia Murder returned to the concert stage on Friday night (Oct. 28), playing their first show since the death of frontman Trevor Strnad earlier this spring.Strnad died back in May at the age of 41, and in the period after his death the band contemplated the best way that they could honor their singer. In September of this year, the band revealed that they would play a memorial show at Detroit’s St. Andrew’s Hall with co-founding guitarist Brian Eschbach occupying the role of frontman while guitarist Bryan Knight returned to the group to take over guitar…
ComingSoon is excited to debut a batch of exclusive images from Wednesday’s Thanksgiving episode of The Goldbergs.MORE: Exclusive Missing Clip Previews Japanese Crime DramaTitled “Another Turkey in the Trot,” the newest episode is set to premiere on Wednesday, November 16 at 8:30 ET/PT on ABC. Fans can watch episodes on demand and on Hulu the day following their premieres.“It’s Thanksgiving, and no one crushes Turkey Day like Beverly Goldberg; though, with the loss of Murray, this holiday feels a bit different,” reads the episode’s logline. “Geoff and Erica are stressed over the new baby; and even more worrisome, an unexpected Goldberg relative arrives. With…
Ling Li, assistant professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has unlocked a mystery in the porous microstructures of sea urchin exoskeletons that could lead to the creation of lightweight synthetic ceramics. His findings were published in Nature Communications on Oct. 14. Ceramics are highly resistant to heat, which makes them a favorite choice in managing the brutal thermal demands of high-speed vehicles that travel faster than the speed of sound. At those breakneck speeds, compressed air creates significant friction against the vehicle, resulting in a rapid rise in the heat it encounters. Heat resistance may be the strength…
The Story Behind The Secrets She Buried Like many people, I’ve grown weary of all things COVID-19; as a novelist, the pandemic presents a conundrum. Write about it? Ignore it? After all, many people read to escape the messy realities of life—I know I do. I’ve chosen to acknowledge the pandemic in my fictional world, but mostly in passing. It feels too big to ignore but I can’t bring myself to spend several months immersing myself (and my readers) in the writing of a story depicting the tragedy. My readers seem to approve of this approach—or they’re too polite to…
Matt’s Rating: No one knows DVDs are so yesterday more than Netflix, key contributor to the digital streaming revolution that put video-rental stores like Blockbuster out of business. All but one. A wisecrack about the pervasiveness of Netflix opens this mildly amusing workplace comedy set at a fictional last Blockbuster outpost in a Michigan suburb. (The real store is in Bend, Oregon.) It’s a sweet and inspired setting for a show extolling the virtues of endangered small businesses as a rare locus of human connection. As the store’s primary cheerleader and hapless store manager Timmy (Fresh Off the Boat‘s affable…
Marks and Spencer is one of those classic high-street stores that never have to yell to be heard. Rather, it quietly goes about its business creating time-tested, affordable staples for its loyal fan base. Every now and then, the brand also drops a serious gem, and naturally, we regularly check the site to be the first ones to spot said wardrobe winner. Well, this summer, we are happy to announce that this has manifested in one very cool pair of sandals. Read The Full Article Here
What is the chance that your hobby will kill you? This isn’t something you need to think about if you’re into, say, knitting, but most base jumpers will have felt the niggling fear that each jump could be their last. Intuitively, we know that some hobbies really are way riskier than others.In 1980, a Stanford engineering professor named Ronald Howard came up with a simple way to convey this difference in risk: He coined a unit of measurement called the micromort. Each micromort equals a one-in-a-million chance of death. Scuba diving, for example, is pretty risky at 5 micromorts per…
One of the more poetic aspects of the universe is that frighteningly powerful and raging forces can sculpt objects of graceful symmetry and beauty. And, as an added bonus, such forces may also lend a hand in our own existence. WR 140 is a binary star system, meaning two stars orbiting one another, some 5,400 light-years from Earth. Both stars are absolute beasts, blasting out fierce amounts of light, but across that astronomical distance their brilliance is diminished to naked-eye invisibility. However, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has far keener eyesight than we mere humans, plus it peers at…
Weyes Blood has released a new video for her single “Grapevine.” The song was released earlier this month, and is set to appear on songwriter Natalie Mering’s upcoming album And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow. Watch Mering navigate the aftermath of a car crash in the visual below.“Grapevine” follows “It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody,” which got its own nautical-themed music video directed by Charlotte Ercoli.And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow is Mering’s first Weyes Blood album since 2019’s Titanic Rising. She co-produced the record primarily with Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado, although she co-produced one song, “A Given Thing,” with Rodaidh…
Every movie lover has an origin story; the moment they realized the awesome power and alchemical magic of cinema. The Fabelmans begins with Steven Spielberg’s. Steven — Sammy in the film — is taken by his parents on his first trip to the movie theater, where they watch Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth. A nervous Sammy watches in horror, then mouth-agape fascination, as a pair of circus trains collide. To 2022 adult eyes, the crash effects are crude and the illusion is flimsy. To Sammy in 1952, it really is the greatest show on Earth.On the ride home, Sammy’s parents debate whether the movie…
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Sea of Storms: A Norse Mythology Retelling? I have a master’s degree in history and culture, so this book is epic to me in so many ways. I have written historical adventures before, but I’ve had one on the back burner for years about a shipwreck. While Sea of Storms is different in many ways, I was FINALLY able to write my island adventure. Not only that, this book has “all the things” I love writing. I was able to give it that historical Norse feel and weave in…
Did Homer prove to be the best hero? On The Simpsons Season 34 Episode 7, He embarked on a high-stakes mission as Lisa threatened to expose his terrible parenting. Meanwhile, Marge tried to comprehend the big changes in the Simpsons family home. Elsewhere, Bart didn’t believe his dad was a hero and set out to get answers, Use the video above to watch The Simpsons online right here via TV Fanatic, Catch up on all your favorite shows and reviews and join in the conversations with other fanatics who love TV as much as you. TV Fanatic is your destination…
Of all the luxury items out there, designer bags are my most coveted. And since I’ll sadly never have Kylie Jenner’s color-coded closet filled with immaculate purses touting labels like Hermès, Chanel, Balenciaga, and more, I settled for the next best (realistic) thing: a Vivrelle monthly membership ($39 and up). The rental subscription service offers those without Hollywood budgets the opportunity to borrow designer handbags and jewelry on a monthly basis, providing access into the world of luxury in a sustainable way. I tested the subscription alongside POPSUGAR Editor in Chief Sade Strehlke and Fashion Director Jessica Andrews, who both…