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 =…
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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…
Off the coast of Southern California, amid a literal sea of troubles—warming waters, microplastic pollution, overfishing—is a 96-square-mile conservation success story. Santa Cruz Island once teemed with feral pigs and invasive Argentine ants until the Nature Conservancy unleashed a coordinated campaign of eradication. That’s allowed the adorable island fox to bounce back from the brink of extinction. The battle was won, but the war wasn’t over, because the Nature Conservancy now has to defend that territory from yet another invader: rats. The scourge of islands everywhere, rats get ashore and breed like crazy, devouring just about everything in their paths—native plant…
Like the flash of a garden snake darting through the grass, an undulating stream of plasma shoots across the sun in a new time-lapse video from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Solar Orbiter. The phenomenon is caused by a stream of cool plasma flowing along a long filament of the sun’s magnetic field. Relatively cool plasma, that is — plasma is a state of matter that is so hot that its electrons are stripped away, leaving it with an electrical charge. This electrical charge enables it to interact with magnetic fields, including those in the sun’s atmosphere. The images were captured by…
Pulp will return to the stage next year for the first time since their 2011-12 reunion dates. Jarvis Cocker and the band (minus bassist Steve Mackey) will play a string of festival, arena, and stadium shows around the United Kingdom and Ireland. Check out the dates below.In a press release, Cocker said:Three months ago, we asked, What exactly do you do for an encore?”Well…An encore happens when the crowd makes enough noise to bring the band back to the stageSo…We are playing in the UK & Ireland in 2023Therefore…Come along & make some noiseSee you thereCocker announced the reformation in…
Channing Tatum gyrates back into our hearts in the trailer for Magic Mike’s Last Dance – Little White Lies 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…
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Hot Bench has changed things up a bit for Season 9, with two new faces next to the show’s veteran judge. Joining Michael Corriero on the #1 original daytime court show are criminal defense attorney Yodit Tewolde and experienced litigator Rachel Juarez to take on cases from various courtroom cases around the country in the popular three-judge format. The series, created by Judge Judy Sheindlin, also offers viewers a look at how the court functions as they watch the judges hash out the facts and law during deliberations. Majority rules. Here, the judges share their experiences on the show and…
After months of delay, the most powerful space rocket ever built has blasted off from its Florida launchpad, embarking on the first of two test journeys preceding the mission that will return humans to the moon for the first time since 1972.The $20 billion Artemis 1 rocket — made up of the six-person Orion capsule perched atop the 30-story Space Launch System (SLS) ‘mega moon rocket’ — fired 8.8 million pounds (3.9 million kilograms) of thrust to lift off at 1:47 a.m. ET Wednesday (Nov. 16) from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, embarking on a…
At Who What Wear, we believe that age is just a number. While there might be a societal rule book for choosing an “age-appropriate” hairstyle as you move from decade to decade, we’re here to tell you that you can wear your hair however you damn want. You might have tried a number of different hairstyles throughout the years, and one of the positives of that is that you know what suits your look, your style and your personality the best. Many stylish women have an iconic hairstyle that they wear throughout their whole lives. Take Anna Wintour and her…
Redmi Note 11 Pro (2023) smartphone has allegedly been spotted on Geekbench, hinting that the smartphone could come with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 732G SoC with 8GB RAM. Meanwhile, the company has already announced the launch of Redmi Note 12 series earlier this week. This will not be the first time when the Chinese smartphone will be releasing an updated version to older models after the launch of successor. Meanwhile, it is being reported that the Redmi Note 11 Pro scheduled for launch in 2023 will be an updated version of this year’s Redmi Note 11.A Xiaomi smartphone was spotted on Geekbench…
Drake and 21 Savage’s collaborative album, Her Loss, debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Nov. 19) with the year’s biggest week for an R&B/hip-hop set and the fourth-largest streaming week ever for any album. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Her Loss launches with 404,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 10, according to Luminate. Streaming activity drove the bulk of that sum, to the tune of 513.56 million on-demand official streams of its 16 tracks. Her Loss is the 12th No. 1…
Clara Sola review – Metaphor gets in the way of emotion 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…