In late 2019, mere months before the COVID-19 pandemic would engulf the globe, much of the world was instead concerned with a ruddy, fading point of light more than 500 light-years away. Betelgeuse, the red supergiant star easily recognizable as the right “shoulder” of the constellation Orion, had suddenly and mysteriously dimmed by more than a factor of two. Some astronomers speculated that it was on the verge of exploding as a supernova—an event otherwise predicted to occur within the next 100,000 years or so. By early February of 2020, however, the fading had stopped, and within weeks the star…
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Michael Imperioli And Drea De Matteo on the set of “The Sopranos”. Photography courtesy of Getty Images In honour of the anniversary of the series’ controversial finale. By Jillian Morgan Date June 10, 2022 Fifteen years ago, Tony Soprano (played by the late James Gandolfini) sat down in a New Jersey diner, put some change in the jukebox on the table, and selected Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin.’” Carmela (Edie Falco) was the first to slide into the booth, and they talked about some mundane things (Meadow would be late, she was at the doctor changing her birth control prescription) and…
[Thread] A look at Kraken’s announcement of a culture overhaul, eschewing “stereotypical team diversity measurements”, as the crypto exchange touts hiring plans — Kraken, a U.S.-based crypto exchange, has announced they’ll be continuing to hire, and have announced a culture overhaul that promotes “diversity of thought” over “stereotypical team diversity measurements” and prohibits describing another’s words as “racist” or “x-phobic”. 🧵 Read The Full Article Here
Halsey surprised the crowd at their Governors Ball set on Saturday night by covering “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)” by Kate Bush. Watch a clip of the performance below. In fan-captured footage from the show, the pop singer is seen pacing the stage in a crop top and printed pants as she sings, “So if I only could/ I’d make a deal with God/ And get him to swap our places/ I’d be running up that road/ Be running up that hill/ With no problems.” At the end of the number she also tells the crowd, “I…
Frequent Fast & Furious director Justin Lin is set to direct the live-action film adaptation of the hit manga and anime One-Punch Man.MORE: Spy x Family Episode 10 Review: The Great Dodgeball PlanAccording to Deadline, the writers behind Venom and Jumanji: The Next Level, Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner, will be writing the film while Lin directs. Lin was previously set to direct Fast X but, following creative differences with star Vin Diesel, left the project.Avi Arad, the producer of various Spider-Man films, will be producing alongside Ari Arad of Arad Productions, as well as Lin. Sony Pictures acquired the One-Punch Man film rights from manga publisher Shueisha, and is reportedly hoping to…
16 Jun 2022 New Literary Fiction Book Recommendations | June 2022 Looking to add to your literary fiction list this June? Check out these new novels by bestselling authors Sarah Forester Davis, Susanne O’Leary, Hilary Tailor, Roberta Kagan, Daniel Hurst, and Shae Sanders. Enjoy your new literary fiction book recommendations! Her Name is Hazel by Sarah Forester Davis Release Date: March 21, 2022 Killian Lewis needs a break from his life as an actor, but he never thought during that break he would meet Hazel. She has secrets, ones she’s scared to talk about. He promised he wouldn’t fall in…
The Originals has been off the air for over four years, but the popularity of the world established in The Vampire Diaries reigns today. The second spinoff series, Legacies, got canceled after four seasons, and fans have been clamoring for it to be saved. We’re here to take a look at the Originals, and what the actors are doing now! Leah Pipes — Camille O’Connell Camille was a human bartender who got turned into a vampire by Aurora de Martel before being killed by Lucien. Leah Pipes amassed 65 episodes before her character got killed by the werewolf bite. Before…
CLIMATEWIRE | The U.S. Department of Energy released the results of a six-year initiative that provides a national road map for alternative ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector as electric vehicles slowly phase in. The report, called the “Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines,” or “Co-Optima,” involved 140 experts including 100 from nine DOE laboratories and an additional 40 experts from industry and universities. It concluded that a combination of lower-carbon fuels made from agricultural and forestry wastes, livestock manure, algae and waste fat, oil, and grease could be a substitute for gasoline and diesel to help…
Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world.What is balletcore? What does “gilded glamour,” the theme of the recent Met Gala, mean? Which menswear brands are sustainable? Is Lizzo’s new line of shapewear worth trying? These are all questions the TikTok-only fashion publication Rag Report is attempting to answer. Launched last year, Rag Report, which does not have a landing page or web component but does have 1.6 million followers, is part breathlessly worded explainers and introductions to new designers, and part zoomer swap meet. Under the umbrella of Gen Z media company Kyra…
[Thread] A look at Kraken’s announcement of a culture overhaul, eschewing “stereotypical team diversity measurements”, as the crypto exchange touts hiring plans — Kraken, a U.S.-based crypto exchange, has announced they’ll be continuing to hire, and have announced a culture overhaul that promotes “diversity of thought” over “stereotypical team diversity measurements” and prohibits describing another’s words as “racist” or “x-phobic”. 🧵 Read The Full Article Here
Flatbush Zombies rapper Meechy Darko has announced his first solo album. The studio record, Gothic Luxury, is out August 26 via Loma Vista. The LP’s first single is “Kill Us All (K.U.A.),” and it is co-produced by Tyler Dopps and Joshua “Budo” Karp, with additional production by Dot da Genius. The song arrives with a music video directed by Meechy Darko and Tyler Serebreni. Check out the new video below.Gothic Luxury is executive produced by Dot da Genius and mixed by Neal Pogue. “I had no choice but to make this the most personal thing I’ve ever done because fortunately…
Hardcore Marvel fans will get to see one of the company’s longtime heroes in his own TV series.Wonder Man — no relation to DC’s Wonder Woman — is reportedly up for his own Marvel Disney+ TV series. The show is being developed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton. Andrew Guest is the series’ head writer and producer.According to Variety, “the show will focus on Marvel hero Wonder Man.” Which version of Wonder Man is not clear in their report. Wonder Man, AKA Simon Williams, was initially an antagonist of the Avengers from the 1960s. (His…
Interactions between microbes and other organisms are mediated by a plethora of small molecules, also called natural products. A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology has now performed a systematic analysis of biosynthetic ‘dark matter’ and biological functions, thus creating a solid basis for future discovery and refinement of natural products. When bacteria interact with other organisms, a myriad of bacterial natural products are involved. In most cases, it is not possible to trace which bacterial strain produces which natural substance and what properties it has. And thus products such as colibactin from human intestinal bacteria…
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[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for 90 Day Fiancé Season 9 Episode 10 “In the Ring.”] We’re about halfway through Season 9 of 90 Day Fiancé and avid viewers are actively wondering if any of the seven participating couples will actually make it to the altar. If you haven’t indulged in the current season of 90 Day Fiancé yet, it’s still a perfect time to jump in and take the ride — don’t worry, we’ll catch you up! 90 Day Fiancé and its many spinoff shows center around American singles hoping to marry their partner who lives in another…
Some say it is indispensable if we are serious about hitting net-zero emissions targets. Others insist it is unnecessary and unconscionable. Here is what you need to know about nuclear energy now Environment 25 May 2022 By Michael Brooks Irena Gajic LUXEMBOURG’S energy minister described it as “a provocation”. Austria declared it would “destroy the future of our children”. And climate activist Greta Thunberg railed against “fake climate action”. Their anger was directed at a draft regulation from the European Commission, released earlier this year, that would designate nuclear power as a “green” source of electricity and thereby make nuclear…
Our editors are experts in all things beauty, fashion, home, wellness, and beyond. We test, try, and review countless products to share the very best ones with our readers, and we wanted to make it easier for you to find all of the top products — from mascara to skin care, sofas to shoes, and kitchen gadgets to workout gear — we’re obsessed with. That’s why we’re excited to share more about our POPSUGAR badges, our seals of approval for the items we can’t stop talking about. These badges will appear on some of the products in our posts, so…
When you turn off an iPhone, it doesn’t fully power down. Chips inside the device continue to run in a low-power mode that makes it possible to locate lost or stolen devices using the Find My feature or use credit cards and car keys after the battery dies. Now researchers have devised a way to abuse this always-on mechanism to run malware that remains active even when an iPhone appears to be powered down.It turns out that the iPhone’s Bluetooth chip—which is key to making features like Find My work—has no mechanism for digitally signing or even encrypting the firmware…
Netflix has officially renewed Squid Game for a second season. In a message accompanying the news, Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk confirmed that both Gi-hun and the Front Man would return for Season 2. “The man in the suit with ddakji might be back. You’ll also be introduced to Young-hee’s boyfriend, Cheol-su,” Hwang further teased. Season one of Squid Game centers on a contest in which participants, all in deep financial debt, play children’s games in an attempt to win a huge cash prize. While the winners take home billions, the losers are shot dead. Lee Jung-jae stars as Seong Gi-hun,…
We’re one episode away from the Obi-Wan Kenobi finale. With one hour of the story left to go there are still a lot of loose ends to tie up. Will Vader find Obi-Wan on Tatooine? Will Vader and Obi-Wan have one final lightsaber battle? Will Leia return safely to Alderaan? (Obviously, she will. Star Wars wouldn’t happen if Vader gets his hands on Princess Leia now.)Answering those questions is the subject of our latest Obi-Wan Kenobi video. Our panel of experts — ScreenCrush’s Ryan Arey, IDW editor Heather Antos, and media host Bevin — toss around their predictions for what will happen in the Obi-Wan…
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Two of the things I love most in this world are gay stuff and books. That makes June one of my absolute favorite times to celebrate queer books and writers. If you also love celebrating queer books during Pride month, then you’re in luck! We’ve got a ton of great bookish Pride content coming to Book Riot this month, including plenty of excellent reading guides. But don’t you need the perfect rainbow bag to tote around those books? Or some adorable swag to…
Kat Graham may be done with The Vampire Diaries universe… But it sounds like that universe is not done with the beloved star. Julie Plec, co-creator of the hit CW drama, opened up about the star’s comments on not wanting to play Bonnie Bennett again. In a new interview with Deadline, Plec said that “the door will always be open” if Graham changes her mind. “We’ve reached out to Kat plenty of times through the years for different The Vampire Diaries-related things and she’s always been very gracious,” Plec shared. “She’s very kind as she kindly passes. She feels like…
In an international collaboration, Earth scientists at the University of Cologne and Freie Universität Berlin discovered that some magmas on Earth, which made their way through the deep terrestrial mantle and erupted at Earth’s surface, originate from mantle portions that contain remnants of Earth’s earliest crust. This ancient material must have been buried in a ‘graveyard’ of old and cold crust more than 4 billion years ago and survived since then, maybe since the giant impact event forming the Moon. This finding is unexpected because the plate tectonic regime of our planet progressively recycles crustal material via large-scale mantle convection…
Image Source: Getty / RB Keke Palmer has a full schedule these days. The 28-year-old actress has three new films, recently joined the cast of “Legendary” on HBO Max, and just last year hosted the official Met Gala telecast. Between all that, she’s finding time to take a walk down memory lane with a nostalgia-infused rerecording of her song “Bottoms Up,” which was originally released in 2007. The song now has a 2022 spin but still has connections to the early aughts: the director of the video, Lawrence Murray, was one of Palmer’s street-team members who she met when she…
El Salvador introduced Bitcoin as legal currency in September 2021 and the move appears to have resulted in a significant increase in both national GDP and local tourism development. According to El Salvador’s Tourism Minister Morena Valdez, it is estimated that the tourist business in El Salvador has grown by more than 30 percent since the enactment of the Bitcoin legislation in September. Meanwhile, the country’s GDP rose by 10.3 percent in 2021, according to a separate announcement by President Nayib Bukele’s. As per Bukele, in January 2022, the country’s exports, which are a key source of economic development, rose…
Liam Gallagher is on track for his fourth post-Oasis U.K. No. 1, with C’Mon You Know (Warner Records). The Manchester singer leads the midweek chart with his third and latest solo album, and he’s poised to dethrone Harry Styles in the process, as Harry’s House (Columbia) dips 1-2. Gallagher already has chart crowns with 2017’s As You Were, 2019’s Why Me? Why Not and 2020’s live effort MTV Unplugged, and, with Oasis, a perfect seven No. 1s from seven studio albums. If C’Mon You Know holds its ground when the Official U.K. Albums Chart is published Friday, Gallagher will draw level…
This photo made available by NASA shows Hurricane Harvey over Texas on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, seen from the International Space Station. Studies show that climate change are making hurricanes wetter, because warm air can hold more moisture, and are making the strongest storms a bit stronger. Storms also may be stalling more, allowing them to drop more rain over the same place, like in 2017’s Harvey. They are also rapidly intensifying more often, experts say. Credit: Randy Bresnik/NASA via AP, File Batten down the hatches for another nasty hurricane season. Nearly every natural force and a bunch of human-caused…
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Get ready to set sail with the Revenge once again because HBO Max has officially (and finally) renewed Our Flag Means Death for Season 2. From creator and showrunner David Jenkins, Our Flag Means Death is loosely based on the true adventures of 18th-century pirate wannabe Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby). After deciding to trade in his charmed life on land for the swashbuckling ways of open water piracy, Stede finds himself captaining the Revenge. Stede’s efforts to earn the respect of his crew shift during a chance encounter with the infamous Captain Blackbeard, a.k.a. Edward Teach (played by Taika Waititi).…