Month: July 2024

It’s clear from the jump of Jasmin Graham’s marvelous Sharks Don’t Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist why the author feels such a kinship with the titular fish. Sharks, who have survived five mass extinctions, are survivors. As Graham narrates her journey to becoming a marine biologist, from a childhood spent fishing with her
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It’s busy and Twister-y at the box office this weekend, but a few indies are hoping to catch a breeze with very well-reviewed Oddity looking to expand the market for high-end horror and Widow Clicquot to attract fans of good period films and bubbly. Oddity from IFC Films, is a supernatural home-invasion horror from writer-director
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Amazon Prime Day 2024 sale is currently underway in India. It commenced at midnight on July 20 for Amazon Prime users and will continue through July 21. The popular e-commerce platform is presenting significant markdowns on a diverse range of products, spanning fashion items, home furnishings, large appliances and personal electronic gadgets. Tablets from leading
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My Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. “Zatanna the Magician!” Sometimes you hurt the ones you love. Zatanna and her talent agent, Jeffery Sloane, had just returned to her father’s mansion after a grueling magic show audition, when they were attacked by one man they counted on the most. Zatara, once a loving father
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In the BBC documentary “Haunted London”, now streaming on SCREAMBOX, eyewitness accounts and dramatic reconstructions tell the spine-chilling stories that have helped earn London its reputation as the world’s most haunted capital. “Ghostly addresses include London’s oldest theatre, the Theatre Royal, where clown-actor Joe Grimaldi’s severed head has been seen floating around the auditorium. At
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BUSAN, South Korea — The European Space Agency will allow a proposed mission to the asteroid Apophis to proceed to a next stage of development to keep it on schedule even though it is not yet fully funded. ESA announced July 16 that its space safety program, which includes planetary defense, has given the Ramses
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The Season 4 finale writes off a Vought movie just like the DC film. The Batgirl movie has remained a unique part of the superhero movie landscape, after it was surprisingly and unceremoniously cancelled by Warner Bros. Discovery in the summer of 2022. Production on the DC film had already been completed prior to the
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New Orleans rapper Rob49 and Cardi B have come together for the new song “On Dat Money.” The single is produced by LunchMoney Lewis and Schife, and George Buford, Frederick Buford, and DirectedByFrankie directed its accompany music video, which you can find below. In a press release, Rob49 said, “I’ve been grinding hard all summer,
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Why did the experience of consciousness evolve from our underlying brain physiology? Despite being a vibrant area of neuroscience, current research on consciousness is characterised by disagreement and controversy – with several rival theories in contention. A recent scoping review of over 1,000 articles identified over 20 different theoretical accounts. Philosophers like David Chalmers argue
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The live-service bubble has been bursting for a while. That much is clear. But with how long most triple-A (and even double-AA) video games take to make nowadays and how absurdly huge the possible wins are, it comes as no surprise it’s taking a bit of time to partially retreat from a model that’s grown
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. On the Life-Changing Joy of Re-Reading Books I hardly ever re-read books. It’s not that I am against
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There is a sudden movement in the Western World to take smartphones away from kids.   It started in the summer of 2022 when social psychologist Jonathan Haidt at New York University, the father of two adolescents, was writing a book about what he called “the pervasive negative effects of the internet and social media on
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Cable is obviously very expensive, but when it comes to a cord cutter alternative, there are a few options out there. I always come back to Sling TV as the one to recommend as it sits in a nice middle-ground of being both affordable and offering a variety of live channels, with the choice to
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