It seems like Elon Musk is getting in on the raging culture war surrounding The Lord of the Rings: The Rings Of Power. The show has faced a significant amount of backlash since its release, on multiple fronts. Some people don’t like the pacing, others don’t like how action-packed it is for a Tolkien show, and others have less reasonable complaints.Reviews for the show were pushed back after it was the subject of a review-bombing campaign. A number of people claim that the show isn’t “true to Tolkien’s original vision,” which really just seems to be a roundabout way to say that they…
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Transcendent Kingdom is one of those rare books that is about so much, and yet fits together flawlessly. Yaa Gyasi tackles science, faith, work, addiction, grief, complicated family relationships, immigrant experiences, race, Black girlhood and womanhood, and more. It is a richly layered novel full of seemingly endless stories, and it is also intensely focused and full of a breathless interiority. The protagonist, Gifty, is working on her PhD in neuroscience, grappling with her relationship to faith, grieving the death of her brother to a drug overdose, and trying to untangle her uneasy relationship with her mother. I read it…
Netflix has debuted its first trailer for Ryan Murphy‘s latest project, DAHMER – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story which will premiere Wednesday, September 21. The dark limited drama series set between 1978 and 1991 focuses on Jeffrey Dahmer, the notorious serial killer who took the lives of 17 young men and boys, many of whom were people of color. The series also looks at the communities impacted by systemic racism and institutional failures of the police that allowed the serial killer to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for more than a decade. (Credit: Netflix) Evan Peters takes on…
Just as waterfront mansions are status symbols for today’s rich and famous, ancient artificial islands in the British Isles known as crannogs may have been used by elites to display their power and wealth through elaborate parties, a new study finds. A crannog is “an artificial island within a lake, wetland, or estuary,” Antony Brown of UiT Arctic University of Norway and colleagues wrote in a study published online Wednesday (Sept. 28) in the journal Antiquity (opens in new tab). Hundreds of crannogs were created in Scotland, Wales and Ireland, between 4,000 B.C. and the 16th century A.D., by building up…
Photography by Kim Simms/Netflix Whatever you think this movie is about — you’re probably wrong. By Natalie Michie Date September 22, 2022 Where would the teen movie genre be without the makeover montage? I mean, when it comes to on-screen high school hierarchies, it’s the oldest trick in the book. We’re all familiar with the formula: a reluctant, unfashionable new girl undergoes a complete transformation in the image of the queen bee character. But in Netflix’s Do Revenge, this trope — and all its problematic associations — is explored in a whole new way. Filled with plenty of pettiness, campy…
Tesla is expected to end its nearly two-year-long run of record quarterly deliveries as a prolonged COVID-related shutdown in Shanghai hit its production and supply chain, highlighting the risks of its reliance on China.While Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk has been pursuing the acquisition of social media platform Twitter, his crown jewel, Tesla, has grappled with production glitches in China and slow output growth at new factories in Texas and Berlin.Analysts expect Tesla to report deliveries of 295,078 vehicles for the second quarter as early as Friday, according to Refinitiv data. Several analysts have slashed their estimates further to about…
Wynonna Judd is sharing her emotional journey following the passing of her late mother, Naomi Judd, the other half of the Grammy-winning duo The Judds. In an interview with CBS News Sunday Morning, the country singer opened up about her relationship with her mother before her death in April, her experience of saying goodbye to Naomi and the various emotions she’s grappled with since. “I did not know that she was at the place she was at when she ended it because she had had episodes before and she got better,” the singer recalled. “And that’s what I live in is like, was…
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Researchers at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), have used detailed weather models to clearly tie increased temperatures to the historic cloudburst over Copenhagen in July of 2011. New method involving counterfactual weather forecasts could link the weather event to global warming for the first time. It is seven o’clock in the evening on July 2nd, 2011. A cloudburst of historic proportions has just struck north of Copenhagen. On the roof of his car, a taxi driver tries to save himself from the floodwaters as rain and hail plunge into the water and cars…
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It’s going to be a night of reindeer on CBS on Tuesday, November 29. The network has announced an all-new one-hour animated holiday special, Reindeer in Here, based on the award-winning Christmas book and plush set created by Adam Reed. It will air on November 29 at 9/8c, following the beloved classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. You can get a look at the characters — Blizzard, Smiley, Santa, and Candy — in the new special in the photo above. CBS Reindeer in Here is the heartwarming story of how Blizzard (Blizz), a young reindeer living at the North Pole who…
An Airbus A319 plane of the German Company Lufthansa stands at Frankfurt Airport; Lufthansa was named in a new Harvard report about social media greenwashing by fossil fuel interests. A commercial plane photoshopped with the tail of a shark, hashtags that misleadingly evoke sustainability, tokenistic use of minorities to distract and to signal virtue: a Harvard report published Tuesday highlights rampant greenwashing by leading companies on social media. The investigation, commissioned by Greenpeace Netherlands, involved analyzing the text and images of 2,300 posts by 22 of Europe’s largest carmakers, fossil fuel producers and airlines this June and July. “During this…
Photography by Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Baby2Baby What astrology can tell us about celebrity cheating scandals. By Jenisse Minott Date September 23, 2022 This week, the internet exploded when IG model Sumner Stroh posted a TikTok alleging that she and Adam Levine had an affair. The Cliffs notes? Let’s just say, Monday went exactly like this: Stroh’s confession led to more women coming forward, blessing the internet with screenshots so cringey that Levine’s lame pickup lines have been immortalized as memes. The “She Will Be Loved” singer took to Instagram to comment on his “inappropriate” behaviour. In his statement, Levine denied…
Dune Analytics: NFT trading volumes fell 97% from a record $17.2B in January 2022 to $466.9M in September 2022 — Volume Drop — NFT monthly volume has dropped 97% from 2022 highs — Source: Dune Analytics; Dashboard by @hildobby — Note: Cumulative data from OpenSea, NFTX, LarvaLabs, LooksRare, SuperRare, Rarible, Foundation Read The Full Article Here
Welcome to Dissected, where we disassemble a band’s catalog, based on the exact science of personal opinion, late night debates, and the love of music. In this installment, we rank Megadeth’s discography thus far. The origin of Megadeth is a tale of redemption for its central figure, Dave Mustaine. After being fired from Metallica for his erratic behavior and substance abuse, Mustaine was left to his own devices. He formed Megadeth as his new songwriting outlet, filling out the lineup with choice musicians who could execute his songs and ideas. Throughout the band’s career, Mustaine has been the central force…
Skateboarding games have seen a solid resurgence over the past few years thanks to quality releases such as OlliOlli and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2, novelties that didn’t quite hit the mark like Skatebird and Skater XL, and even upcoming titles like EA’s Skate reboot. And now Session: Skate Sim is leaving early access during this skating revival and coming out on consoles and PC. Most of the recent skateboard success stories have been through more arcade-like releases — skaters in OlliOlli World do ridiculous combos that could never be done in real life — so Session finds its niche by offering the most realistic skateboarding game to date, which is as compelling…
The overly confident Fujino and the shut-in Kyomoto couldn’t be more different, but a love of drawing manga brings these two small-town girls together. A poignant story of growing up and moving forward that only Tatsuki Fujimoto, the creator of Chainsaw Man, could have crafted. Read The Full Article Here
Netflix‘s hot competition series Floor Is Lava is gearing up for its Season 3 return beginning Friday, September 30 and we have your exclusive first look. Things are boiling in the trailer for this latest chapter which sees the return of host Rutledge Wood as he oversees competitors through the complicated obstacle courses in which participants need to avoid the floor as if their lives depend on it. The stakes are high as competitors battle for a chance to win the $10,000 grand prize. (Credit: Netflix) Across five new 30-minute episodes, fifteen daring teams will fight to race to the…
Camera lenses that ignore certain objects and only capture images they have been designed to recognise can be built in just hours from clear plastic with a 3D printer Technology 23 August 2022 By Matthew Sparkes These 3D-printed lenses can ignore certain objects in frameBijie Bai et al. A camera equipped with 3D-printed plastic lenses designed by artificial intelligence can take photographs that capture only certain objects and ignore everything else in the frame. The selective lenses use no power and instead rely on complex patterns printed into the plastic to diffract light in a different way. Aydogan Ozcan at…
Cow’s milk is an important source of phosphorus, magnesium, zinc and selenium, but tests show these nutrients are lacking in most plant milks except pea milk Health 24 August 2022 By Clare Wilson A wide range of vegan milk alternatives are availablecarlosgaw/Getty Images Most plant-based “milks” have lower amounts of four key micronutrients – phosphorus, magnesium, zinc and selenium – than cow’s milk. The exception is milk substitutes made from pea protein, which has broadly similar levels to cow’s milk. The findings come from the first large study to compare levels of these four minerals in eight different plant-based milk…
Update: Beyoncé will be removing a lyric from “Heated” following backlash for using ableist language. In the original song, she says the line, “Spazzin’ on that ass, spazz on that ass.”Spasticity, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine, is a muscular condition often seen in people who have cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, stroke, spinal cord injury, and others. Following the release of Renaissance, writer Hannah Diviney, who has cerebral palsy, called out the ableist slur in “Heated” in a piece for The Guardian. She had previously pointed out Lizzo’s usage of the term in her song “Grrls,” which was then removed after…
Dune Analytics: NFT trading volumes fell 97% from a record $17.2B in January 2022 to $466.9M in September 2022 — Volume Drop — NFT monthly volume has dropped 97% from 2022 highs — Source: Dune Analytics; Dashboard by @hildobby — Note: Cumulative data from OpenSea, NFTX, LarvaLabs, LooksRare, SuperRare, Rarible, Foundation Read The Full Article Here
She-Hulk Episode 6 was far from being just a meaningless filler as it teased the upcoming appearance of the Intelligencia.The latest She-Hulk: Attorney at Law installment focused on Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) dealing with her duties as a bridesmaid for an old school friend. While she was at the wedding, her trusted friends, Nikki Ramos (Ginger Gonzaga) and Mallory Book (Renée Elise Goldsberry), discovered the existence of an ill-intentioned group called Intelligencia. Alas, the much-anticipated Daredevil cameo didn’t go down this week. Let’s see who are the new characters debuting in the Marvel Cinematic Universe soon.Who Is the Intelligencia?She-Hulk Episode 6 teased the upcoming arrival of Intelligencia, a…
Veteran rock drummer Vinny Appice — he performed with the heavy metal legend Ronnie James Dio in the bands Dio, Black Sabbath and Heaven & Hell — has lashed out at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for not including more of the late singer in its museum.In fact, he called the institution “fucking assholes.”After all, the Rock Hall has a history of what many of us metal fans perceive as snubs to our favorite music. The Hall will finally include metal pioneers Judas Priest just this year, and in what some see as a rather backhanded way.As Appice shared with Talkin’ Bout Rock this month, he clearly feels the same way about its treatment of Dio.”They’re a bunch of fucking assholes,” Appice…
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Will love be found on a cruise this fall? That’s the hope with CBS’ new The Real Love Boat (premiering October 5). CBS has announced three of the crew members as well as 12 singles joining hosts Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O’Connell on a luxury Princess Cruises ship through the Mediterranean. Plus, you can watch the opening featuring the iconic theme song performed by the hosts. The ship’s crew members — Captain Paolo Arrigo, bartender Ezra Freeman, and cruise director Matt Mitcham — play pivotal roles in the matchmaking and navigation of the romantic yet sometimes turbulent waters, just like…
Aedes aegyptii mosquito biting a person. Credit: CDC Mosquitoes that spread Zika, dengue and yellow fever are guided toward their victims by a scent from human skin. The exact composition of that scent has not been identified until now. A UC Riverside-led team discovered that the combination of carbon dioxide plus two chemicals, 2-ketoglutaric and lactic acids, elicits a scent that causes a mosquito to locate and land on its victim. This chemical cocktail also encourages probing, the use of piercing mouthparts to find blood. This chemical mixture appears to specifically attract female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, vectors of Zika as…
The Hills was a groundbreaking show for many reasons. Aside from giving us some top-notch drama, it gifted fans some amazing fashion inspiration. Did all of it stand the test of time? Definitely not. In the interest of preserving The Hills’ spot in American fashion history, here are 42 memorable and slightly strange looks from this iconic show. Yes, that includes Lauren Conrad’s collection of headbands, Justin Bobby’s many hats, and more. Advertisement – Continue Reading Below When Lauren Wore These Sunglasses Sunglasses were strictly a hair accessory on this show. When Heidi Went to School in This Outfit Betsey…
As the soup collapsed inward toward the center of the solar system, its molecules would be squeezed closer together and the pressure would rise. It would take a few minutes for this pressure to build up to levels that would crush you. If you were in some kind of a soup bathyscaphe, the pressure vessels that people use to visit deep ocean trenches, you could conceivably last a little longer.There would be nothing you could do to escape the soup. Everything inside it would flow inward toward the singularity. In the regular universe, we’re all dragged forward through time with…
San Francisco’s Portola Festival at the city’s Pier 80 experienced a crowd issue Saturday (Sept. 24) when a large group of people rushed an early evening set by English producer Fred Again. The incident at the site occurred around 5 p.m. on the festival’s opening day. Video shared to social media shows members of the crowd jumping over the barricade surrounding the event’s Warehouse stage, a large enclosed space with two separate entrances for general admission and VIP attendees. The crowd waiting to get in through the GA entrance began gathering outside the Warehouse roughly 30 minutes before Fred Again’s set was…