One of – if not the — most distinctive voice in comedy has died.Gilbert Gottfried passed away today. His official Twitter account confirmed the news in a statement, writing “in addition to being the most iconic voice in comedy, Gilbert was a wonderful husband, brother, friend and father to his two young children. Although today is a sad day for us all, please keep laughing as loud as possible in Gilbert’s honor.” Gottfried was just 67 years old.Gottfried was a ferocious and fearless presence on the standup comedy scene for decades, known for that grating voice and his edgy material. (For…
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Lakes across the world have seen an increase in algal blooms that strangle freshwater ecosystems, according to an analysis of satellite images from 1982 to 2019 Environment 3 February 2022 By Chen Ly An algal bloom in Lake Erie photographed by a Landsat satellite in September 2017Joshua Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory using Landsat 8 data from the U.S. Geological Survey Blooms of algae that strangle freshwater ecosystems are occurring more often in lakes across most of the world, according to the first study to map their incidence globally. An algal bloom is the rapid build-up of algae in a body of…
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The fate of another CBS bubble drama has been confirmed. S.W.A.T. has been renewed for Season 6, according to series star Shemar Moore, who posted about the pickup on social media. “Aaaayyeeeee!!!! Homies, Fans, n Baby Girls,” the Tweet reads. “You heard it here first!!!! @swatcbs is renewed for SEASON 6” “Another year of Kicking Ass coming your way … ROLL SWAT BABY ” CBS later confirmed the news on the show’s own Twitter account. S.W.A.T. Season 5 is currently averaging 6.6 million viewers and a 0.8 rating among adults 18-49 with live + 7 factored in. S.W.A.T. is the…
Infants whose mothers participated in a mindfulness-based program during pregnancy had healthier stress responses at 6 months old, a new UC San Francisco study found. This is the first known study to show that a prenatal social intervention may improve health outcomes in offspring, as measured by autonomic nervous system responses, said Amanda Noroña-Zhou, PhD, first author of the study in Psychosomatic Medicine. “It is really well established that maternal stress in pregnancy increases the risk for health problems in the children,” said Noroña-Zhou, PhD, a clinical psychologist affiliated with UCSF’s Center for Health and Community. “But we haven’t had…
If I could live in any decade, it would hands down be the ’70s—not because I find anything about the way of life particularly endearing, but rather I’m absolutely head over heels for the aesthetic. From flared jeans to supersized sunglasses, when it comes to ’70s fashion, I’m all in.However, as a beauty editor, I feel somewhat inclined to say that the single best thing about the ’70s was the hair. I’m so obsessed with ’70s hairstyles, in fact, that I have rocked the same ’70s-style, long, middle-parted mop for well over 10 years. But it’s not just super-long hair that really defined the decade. Everything from shaggy…
Ten days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, TikTok announced it had suspended new posts from Russian accounts due to the country’s new “fake news” law. But the company was quieter about a second policy shift—one that blocked TikTok users in Russia from seeing any content posted by accounts located outside the country.Findings by social media research collective Tracking Exposed suggest that TikTok enfolded its Russian users in a vast echo chamber intended to pacify president Vladimir Putin’s government. Inside that digital enclave, a network of Russian accounts posting pro-invasion content somehow kept operating. “There was clear manipulation of the information…
Swedish House Mafia and the Weeknd are replacing Kanye West as the Sunday night headliners of the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Their performances will take place on April 17 and 24. Find the new Coachella poster below.“I’m so looking forward to this moment with Swedish House Mafia and the Weeknd finishing out the Sunday night slot this year,” Paul Tollett, president/CEO of Coachella promoter Goldenvoice, said in a statement to Variety. “Coachella has a special relationship with Abel [Tesfaye aka the Weeknd] and I’m so thankful to have this upcoming performance with these iconic artists all on…
With Spider-Man: No Way Home now out on Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD, and digital, Sony Pictures has released a brief look at the behind-the-scenes featurettes from the home releases’s special features, showing off Willem Dafoe as he returns to the role of Green Goblin.RELATED: Spider-Man: No Way Home Review: A Superhero ExtravaganzaIn the teaser for the special features, actors Jamie Foxx, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland are all interviewed, and all praise the legendary actor for his ability to completely transform into the sinister Green Goblin.Check out the brief look at the Spider-Man: No Way Home special features below:Spider-Man: No Way…
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A dramatic dead end of heavy-handed storytelling, AMC‘s 61st Street loads its deck so obviously that its best intentions and first-rate cast barely stand a chance. Emmy winner Courtney B. Vance (American Crime Story) is, as always, excellent as an underdog public defender Franklin Roberts, who’s taking on one Last Big Case. And should you think it’s mere coincidence that he keeps struggling for breath and appears to be nursing a private pain all the time, welcome to the melodramatic style of series creator Peter Moffat, whose devices here are only slightly less ludicrous than in his Showtime series Your…
Climate change poses a potentially devastating economic threat to low-income cattle farmers in poor countries due to increasing heat stress on the animals. Globally, by the end of this century those producers may face financial loss between $15 and $40 billion annually. Farmers in tropical regions — including large parts of South America, Asia and Africa — are likely to suffer significantly, particularly when compared with producers in the world’s wealthier temperate zones, according to a study by an international team of scientists and economists published in the Lancet Planetary Health. The researchers, including Mario Herrero, professor of sustainable food…
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. Whether you’re the person who needs the trendiest set every season or the one who prefers to keep it classic, 2022 is your year, because there’s a perfect swimsuit for everyone. And no matter what style you choose, you’re going to look amazing. But, if you want to get specific, there are a few styles we love that are guaranteed to turn heads. Firstly,…
Now a Californian startup has taken the same approach, but this time with poplar trees. In a non-peer-reviewed preprint first posted on February 19, scientists at Living Carbon claimed that by inserting new genes into poplar trees, they can make the plants grow 53 percent more quickly than their non-edited equivalents. Both sets of trees were grown under controlled conditions that differ significantly from the ones the plants would face in the wild, but Hall hopes that the edited trees will supercharge tree-planting plans by drawing down atmospheric carbon more quickly.“Our belief is that climate change is a problem of…
Gucci Mane and Alison Wonderland will officially headline Milk + Cookies Atlanta, a dessert-themed music festival that’s expecting more than 5,000 guests this summer. The dynamic duo will be joined by DJ collectives WERC Crew and Perreo404, as well as fellow artists across various genres set to perform at the spring Block Fest. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Milk + Cookies Atlanta will take place outdoors on Saturday, June 4, at Centennial Yards from 2 to 10 p.m. local time. In addition to its musical offerings, Milk + Cookies Atlanta will…
Episode 3 of Moon Knight deepens the mysteries around the central character. Who is the real Moon Knight? Who is his third personality? (We told you he had a third personality! We told you!) Why was Khonshu banished? Who is really the hero and who is the villain here? The video also introduces several key Moon Knight characters, including Anton Mogart, played by the late Gaspard Ulliel, who eventually becomes Moon Knight’s arch-nemesis Midnight Man.That’s just one of the little Easter eggs, Marvel references, and tiny details you might have missed in the latest Moon Knight episode. In our new video, we go through this…
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write The Frequency – False Flag? This book actually started out as a television pilot that came about as a result of a screenwriting contest writing prompt. Contestants had to write the first fifteen pages of a script based on a logline: a teenage girl whose home is destroyed and sets out on a journey. I am a big fan of The Wizard of Oz and grew up with family lore of a horrible Easter Sunday tornado that destroyed my great-grandparents’ home in Michigan. I swirled in a dash of…
Talisa Garcia has been cast in Disney+’s Willow series, making history as the first openly trans woman to be cast in a Lucasfilm production. Garcia (Baptiste) will play a queen who is the mother of Tony Revolori’s (Spider-Man: No Way Home, Servant) character. The role is small, Deadline reports, but her casting is monumental for trans representation in television. And it is reportedly the first known time a trans actor has played a cisgender character in a Disney+ production. Garcia’s casting is especially noteworthy given that Disney and its CEO, Bob Chapek, have been under fire for the company’s actions…
Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as those sung in English even though there are significant cultural differences in musical tone and scales Humans 3 February 2022 By Jason Arunn Murugesu A woman playing a koto, a traditional Japanese musical instrumentShutterstock/PixHound Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as English language ones even though they are sung in different tones and scales. Patrick Savage at Keio University in Japan and his colleagues analysed the musical notation of more than 10,000 folk songs, including the well-known Child Ballads from the pre-20th century. Around 4125 of the songs were…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Across languages and cultures, words that help direct caregivers’ attention are likely to be among the first children learn and use frequently, according to a new Cornell study that is the largest ever, by sample size, of early vocabulary development in an Indigenous language. The early use of words like “this” and “that” has been documented in widely spoken languages such as English, Spanish and Mandarin, which have relatively simple systems for demonstratives, said Amalia Skilton, a linguistics scholar and Klarman Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). Skilton observed similar patterns among 45…
It’s February 2020 and the world has yet to be upended by the coronavirus pandemic. While designers, in the throes of New York Fashion Week, are sending stone-faced models down the runway, Susan Alexandra (née Korn) is staging a musical. There’s lively dancing, acting, and singing, peppered by a chorus of laughs from the usually stoic audience. Both onstage and in the crowd, you can see a splattering of her famous beaded bags: in rainbow checkered print, in watermelon colors, littered with cherries or clouds or butterflies. This burst of unadulterated joy — at a time before we even knew…
Scientists are almost halfway through the process of aligning the 18 hexagonal mirror segments of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most powerful observatory ever sent to space. NASA has said that the scientists have completed the second and third out of the total seven phases of mirror alignment. With the completion of these phases, called Segment Alignment and Image Stacking, the team will now start making minor adjustments to the positions of James Webb’s mirrors. The agency has said that completing this process was key to making all these mirrors work in unison, as a team.NASA added that…
Papa Roach guitarist Jerry Horton recently spoke about the main mistake he sees other guitarists make when attempting his memorable single-note riff in the rock band’s signature hit, “Last Resort.”After all, a cursory Google search for “Last Resort” instruction will reveal many different video lessons and guitar tablature for the tune. But Horton, who’s been in Papa Roach since their 1993 formation, said there’s a primary error he usually comes across, and it involves where the player’s fretting hand is.”The common mistake, especially for ‘Last Resort,'” Horton told Ultimate Guitar on April 11, “is they’re playing it in the wrong position. And they’re using their pinky…
A new trailer for the upcoming second season of Netflix’s Pacific Rim: The Black anime series has been released, which highlights some huge fights between the Kaiju and Jaeger mecha. It will release on the streamer on April 19.RELATED: Pacific Rim: The Black Season 2 Gets Release Date, First Look ImagesThe new trailer focuses squarely on more of the epic clashes fans will get the chance to see in the second season. It also hints at sibling pilots Taylor and Hayley happening upon a mysterious group who are out to get them.Check out the new Pacific Rim: The Black Season 2 trailer…
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American Idol heads to Hawai’i as the Top 24 are set to perform beginning with the April 10 episode, and at least one of the judges may be getting a bit too dramatic, as seen in TV Insider’s exclusive sneak peek. Katy Perry clings onto the side of a surfboard, with a seagull figure on it. “I’m not gonna make it,” she calls out theatrically. “Now go. Go now, fly away, find land.” She hits the seagull away before calling out her goodbyes to her fellow judges Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie. But where exactly are they? And where is…
Great white sharks, (Carcharodon carcharias), also known as white sharks, are the largest predatory fish in the world. They belong to a partially “warm-blooded” family of sharks called Lamnidae, or mackerel sharks, that are able to maintain an internal body temperature that’s warmer than their external environment — unlike other “cold-blooded” sharks, which can’t, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History.Great white sharks are the only living members of the genus Carcharodon — inspired by the Greek words “karcharos,” which means sharpen, and “odous,” which means teeth. This name is well-chosen, as great white sharks have rows of up…
Regé-Jean Page, the heartthrob of Bridgerton season 1, is taken. A source confirmed to Entertainment Tonight in February 2021 that the actor is dating copywriter and part-time soccer player Emily Brown. On September 1, 2021, Brown and Page attended the GQ Men of the Year awards together in London. They were photographed by paparazzi holding hands. Ricky VigilGetty Images Reports of the two first dating emerged in mid-February 2021 after The Daily Mail ran photos of the two hugging on the sidewalk in North London. The Mail reports that this is a long-term relationship and that the two bought a…
The supply chain is in chaos—and it’s getting worse. Air freight warehouses at Shanghai Pudong Airport are log-jammed as a result of strict Covid testing protocols imposed on China’s biggest city following a local outbreak. At the city’s port, Shanghai-Ningbo, more than 120 container vessels are stuck on hold. In Shenzhen, a major manufacturing hub in the country’s south, trucking costs have shot up 300 percent due to a backlog of orders and a shortage of drivers following the introduction of similar Covid restrictions. Major ports the world over, which used to operate like clockwork, are now beset by delays,…
Heart’s Ann Wilson says that there isn’t a feud between her and her sister Nancy but there is a real divide. Here’s what’s going on between the two bandmates/siblings.Ann Wilson has said that when it comes to keeping a marriage together versus a band together, “I think it’s harder to keep a band together – in my experience.” She compared bands to a revolving door while on The Mistress Carrie Podcast. She made the statement after her younger sister Nancy revealed her plans to go on tour without Ann as Nancy Wilson’s Heart.In an interview in the 300th issue of Classic…