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. Jennifer Lopez’s first bikini shoot of the year captures summer in a nutshell. On Tuesday, May 31 the singer shared an Instagram of herself posing in a black string bikini by ViX Paula Hermanny. Captured poolside, the look featured a triangular top with gold beads embellishing the straps and a matching string-tie bottom. For a sultry touch, the recently-engaged star added a silky black…
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Astronomers have been able to detect a white dwarf eating fragments of planets that once orbited it using X-ray studies. They say distant X-rays may be the most direct evidence yet of the remains of a disintegrated planet colliding with a white dwarf. A white dwarf is a star that has burnt up all its fuel and shed its outer layers. It is usually the size of Earth and one day our Sun will also become a white dwarf. This won’t occur for billions of years, but it is inevitable that the Sun will turn into a white dwarf, says the study.More…
Rockabilly legend Ronnie Hawkins, who served as a mentor of The Band, died Sunday, May 29th at the age of 87. Hawkins’ wife told CBC that her husband passed away following a long illness. “He went peacefully and he looked as handsome as ever,” Wanda Hawkins said. Though a native of Arkansas, Hawkins experienced the majority of his success after relocating to Canada in the early 1960s. At one point, his band, known as The Hawks, featured Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, and Garth Hudson– who would later go on to form The Band and back Bob…
Lucile Hadžihalilović: ‘When I make a film, something unconscious comes out’ 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 { queue.push(args); } } function postMessageEventHandler(event) { var msgIsString = typeof event.data === ‘string’; var json = {}; try { if (msgIsString) { json = JSON.parse(event.data); } else { json = event.data; } } catch (ignore)…
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[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 Episode 5 “Spock Amok.”] What better way to get to know the one you’re going to marry than to swap bodies? That’s what happens to Spock (Ethan Peck) and T’Pring (Gia Sandhu) in the latest Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode, giving new meaning to “Walk a mile in someone else’s shoes.” “It was wild. To be faced with that sort of challenge this early on in this series was really terrifying for me as an actor because I’m still trying to get my footing in…
Who were the Anglo-Saxons? Biological anthropologist Alice Roberts’s informed, sophisticated new take digs deep to re-examine their true origins Humans 25 May 2022 By Michael Marshall FEW groups of people exert more power on English imagination than the Anglo-Saxons. They first appear in the historical record in the 1st millennium AD, in the wake of the Roman Empire’s retreat from Britain, and historians have seen them as playing a central role in the emergence of medieval English society. But were they a group who invaded Britain … Read The Full Article Here
One week after Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively served as co-chairs for the 2022 Met Gala, Us Weekly got details on what the couple’s private romance is like about 10 years into marriage and more than 10 years into dating. (The couple tied the knot on Sept. 9, 2012.) Reynolds and Lively keep their dates pretty low-key these days as the couple balances raising their three daughters James, 7; Inez, 5; and Betty, 2, with their packed careers.“Blake and Ryan are avid homebodies,” a source said. “Their typical date night is in a restaurant alone or with friends.” That source…
Jennifer knew that her pregnancy at the age of 37 was fraught with risks—so she was all the more excited to be expecting twin boys. However, detailed ultrasound images at 12 weeks showed that there were significant complications. Both fetuses were missing limbs, and fluid was accumulating in their brain cavities. An additional ultrasound and a more invasive test, where a tissue sample was taken from the mother’s amniotic fluid, confirmed a diagnosis of trisomy 18 (where someone has an extra copy of chromosome 18) three weeks later.While these tests were underway, one of the boys died in the womb,…
Rock radio personality and Sirius XM Liquid Metal figurehead Jose Mangin is doing something to give back to the metal community. He has launched “Headbang for Science,” a nonprofit dedicated to helping metal-loving high schoolers focused on science and medicine get into college.After all, as Mangin said in an announcement this week, education led him on the path to becoming the “Metal Ambassador” of the airwaves. Now, he wants to help other metalheads in their schooling.Headbang for Science “provides an annual scholarship award to a graduating high school senior majoring in science/medicine, has financial need, 3.5 GPA and is passionate about metal music,” Mangin…
J.J. Abrams (and the rest of the world) was met with some sad news recently when it was announced that his upcoming series Demimonde won’t be moving forward. The show had been greenlit with a proposed budget of $200 million for the whole series, which Warner Bros. and HBO later realized might not be all that feasible in reality.The show came as part of a package deal between Abrams’ production company, Bad Robot, and WarnerMedia. Bad Robot was paid $250 million for the deal, with the intention that Bad Robot would be responsible for developing movies, TV shows, and even video…
A study from the Missouri Ozarks highlights the importance of spatial aspects of biodiversity for healthy functioning of naturally occurring forests. Jacqueline Reu, first author of the study in the journal Ecology, graduated from Washington University in 2019 with a double major in environmental biology and in physics in Arts & Sciences. Credit: Jonathan Myers A study from the Missouri Ozarks highlights the importance of spatial aspects of biodiversity for healthy functioning of naturally occurring forests. Biologists from Washington University in St. Louis determined that tree beta diversity—a measure of site-to-site variation in the composition of species present within a…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Should romance novels reflect realities or indulge fantasies? Well, it’s a bit of a trick question. Romances can certainly both reflect reality and indulge fantasy. How it does those things, and for whom it does those things are the more interesting questions to investigate. I try my best not to be self-important or high-minded about my reading habits. Romances entertain readers because we enjoy tracing the arc of a relationship and getting deep into characters’ emotions, motivations, and actions. And some of us…
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Orville: New Horizons premiere “Electric Sheep.”] “She’s definitely coming in strong,” Anne Winters says of her character, a new navigator on The Orville, Ensign Charly Burke. She gets off to somewhat of a rough start with Captain Ed Mercer (Seth MacFarlane) and most of the rest of the crew when the sci-fi series returns for its third season (after a three-year break). But there does seem to be hope that she may change by the end of The Orville: New Horizons premiere. As flashbacks in the premiere reveal, Charly lost her best…
An international team of researchers have developed a method to assess sustainable levels of human-caused wildlife mortality, which when applied to a trawl fishery shows that dolphin capture is not sustainable. The study, led by scientists at the University of Bristol and United Arab Emirates University was published today in Conservation Biology. Human activities like commercial fishing can result in the accidental death of non-targeted wildlife, threatening protected and endangered species. “Bycatch and discarding of marine wildlife in commercial fisheries are major challenges for biodiversity conservation and fisheries management the world over,” said Dr. Simon Allen of Bristol’s School of…
There’s nothing quite like fragrance shopping. Even as a beauty editor, the thrill of entering a fragrance shop will never tire. Ever. There’s something incredibly exciting about finding a new fragrance. Whether you love a fruity fragrance or prefer a musk-based scent (one of the most popular fragrances of 2022) there are so many to discover. But with so many to choose from, it can be overwhelming–and not just for your nose. You might want to consider your scent for the time of year or occasion, perhaps.You might be on the scent for a summer perfume for your holiday, a maybe a cosy winter perfume to see you…
Is the Twitter account @ElonMusk a bot? One of the best algorithms for detecting fake accounts thinks it might be, which shows how challenging it is to quantify the proportion of fake accounts across the social network.Counting Twitter bots has become a point of contention in Elon Musk’s ongoing $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. Last Friday, the billionaire tweeted that he was putting his purchase “temporarily on hold” until the company provided details to back up its claim (as stated in its latest SEC filing) that fewer than 5 percent of “monetizable daily active users” on Twitter are spam or…
As he awaits the results of his defamation trial against Amber Heard, Johnny Depp hit the stage with Jeff Beck in Sheffield, UK on Sunday night. Depp joined Beck to perform a cover of John Lennon’s “Isolation,” which they previously released as a studio recording in 2020. The two also teamed up for covers of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” and Jimi Hendrix’s “Little Wing.” Watch fan-captured footage below. Though he appears unfazed on stage, Depp is no doubt eagerly awaiting the verdict of his aforementioned defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard. After closing arguments were heard on Friday, the…
Earwig review – A bizarre, befuddling, sensual fever dream 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 { queue.push(args); } } function postMessageEventHandler(event) { var msgIsString = typeof event.data === ‘string’; var json = {}; try { if (msgIsString) { json = JSON.parse(event.data); } else { json = event.data; } } catch (ignore) {} var…
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write Daughter of the Boricua? Ten years ago, I decided I wanted to write a book. I wanted to write about someone else’s family story and then my daughter said why don’t you write about your own. My books are inspired by my family’s history. I wanted to write down some of the stories I had heard about as a child that my parents and grandparents told me. I wanted to leave a legacy for my children and leave them a history of their family. I wanted to write about…
Shining Girls is leading towards its finale episode this Friday, June 3, and Kirby (Elisabeth Moss) is seeking answers in an exclusive first look at the installment titled, “30.” Following the penultimate entry’s devastating encounter between Harper (Jamie Bell) and Dan (Wagner Moura), it appears that the latter wasn’t able to survive the stab wounds inflicted upon him by the man who travels through time. While visiting the morgue in the clip, above, Kirby speaks to Iris (Hanna Dworkin) about Dan and needing to see his body. “Hi there, how can I help you?” Iris asks when she finds Kirby…
In many ways, the most important scientific battlefields have become the forums and meetings of local government. During the first year and a half of the pandemic, while I and many others were participating in local county council and board of education meetings virtually, a misinformed group was showing up in-person and dominating the public comments section of these forums. The group members’ wild conspiracy theories went completely unchecked as this vocal minority applied pressure to elected officials to go against accepted science. They continuously called for the dismissal of our top local health officials. We were naive to believe…
No, it doesn’t look like much, and no, it doesn’t smell like a spa and no it absolutely does not promise to totally fix your every skin concern overnight. However, it does remove every last trace of dirt and makeup from your face with zero fuss. It also smells somewhat comforting and promises to totally change the way you approach your evening skincare routine due to how remarkably easy and fuss-free it is to use.The state of my skin has been a real annoyance over the last few years—sometimes it would be plagued with spots, while a few weeks later,…
The administrators or creators of a WhatsApp group cannot be held vicariously liable for any objectionable content posted on it by any of its members, the Kerala High Court has held. The ruling by the high court came while quashing a POCSO case against the admin of a WhatsApp group one of whose members had posted child pornography on it.The court said that as held by the Bombay and Delhi High Courts, “the only privilege enjoyed by the admin of a WhatsApp group over other members is that he can either add or delete any of the members from the…
Stella Donnelly:09-11 San Diego, CA – Casbah09-12 Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda09-13 San Francisco, CA – Independent09-15 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios09-16 Vancouver, British Columbia – Biltmore Cabaret09-17 Seattle, WA – Neumos09-21 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line Music Cafe09-22 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall09-23 Detroit, MI – Sanctuary09-24 Toronto, Ontario – Longboat Hall09-26 Boston, MA – Crystal Ballroom09-28 Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere09-30 Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live10-01 Washington, D.C. – Songbyrd11-01 Leeds, England – Wardrobe11-02 Glasgow, Scotland – Mono11-03 Manchester, England – Band on the Wall11-04 Dublin, Ireland – Whelan’s11-06 Liverpool, England – Zanzibar11-08 Nottingham, England – Metronome11-09…
As production continues on Fast X, franchise star Vin Diesel took to Instagram to share a new update, confirming that Oscar winner Rita Moreno will officially be joining Universal Pictures’ tenth and penultimate installment of the Fast & Furious films. In the video, Diesel and co-star Michelle Rodriguez can be seen warmly welcoming the addition of the legendary actress, who will be portraying Dom Toretto’s grandmother.This marks Moreno’s latest project after recently starring in Steven Spielberg’s newest adaptation of the West Side Story. She will also next be seen in the sports comedy film 80 for Brady starring alongside acclaimed…
What’s the story behind the story? What inspired you to write The Crescent Moon Fox? The struggles of the Turkish Cypriot community in Cyprus during Colonialism and Independence; the stories of the illiterate rural women; the search for identity. If you had to pick theme songs for the main characters of The Crescent Moon Fox, what would they be? Mozart’s piano sonatas played by Mitsuko Uchida. What’s your favorite genre to read? Is it the same as your favorite genre to write? Fiction, history, and philosophy. What books are on your TBR pile right now? Into the Woods by John…
The cast of Peacock’s Days of Our Lives spinoff is growing for its second chapter — and you’ll recognize a couple of the newest additions. The streaming service has announced that the upcoming episodes will include the returns of Eileen Davidson as Kristen DiMera and Christopher Sean as Paul Narita. Joining Beyond Salem as Days of Our Lives newcomers are: Loretta Devine as Angela, Vince Van Patten (Davidson’s husband) as Phil Hellworth, Tanner Stine as Joey Johnson, Abigail Klein as Stephanie Johnson, Colton Little as Andrew Donovan, and Victoria Grace as Wendy Shin. The series will drop five all-new episodes…
In the past three decades, suicides involving guns have steadily dropped around the world. While down overall in the US since 1990, they began to climb in 2006 – coinciding with increased access to firearms Health 25 May 2022 By Grace Wade In the US more than 23,000 people died by firearm suicide in 2019Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Rates of suicide using a firearm have declined globally in the past three decades but remain high in high-income nations. In the US, rates are lower than they were in 1990, but they have been climbing since 2006. Irena Ilic…
Baking a mixture of saltwater and materials that mimic dust from the moon or Mars at a high temperature produced sturdy bricks that could be used to build human habitats in space Space 25 May 2022 By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan The dust and loose rocks that make up the moon’s surface could make sturdy bricksNASA/GSFC/Arizona State University Bricks made of a mix of saltwater and dust from the moon or Mars can withstand enough pressure to be used in any future extraterrestrial construction. But astronauts planning on making these will need to figure out how to bake them first. Ranajay Ghosh…