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 S66This Gene May Explain Why Some Develop Long Covid   Individuals carry this a version of the gene FOXP4 had a 1.6-fold higher odds of developing long Covid.It’s a mysterious constellation of symptoms — brain fog, fatigue, heart palpitation, and others — that bind together those living with long Covid. It’s estimated 65 million or more people around the world are experiencing this complex yet poorly understood condition.
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S1Love's Work: Philosopher Gillian Rose on the Value of Getting It Wrong  Each month, I spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars keeping The Marginalian going. For seventeen years, it has remained free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. I have no staff, no interns, not even an assistant — a thoroughly one-woman labor of love that is also my life and my livelihood. If this labor has made your own life more livable in the past year (or the past decade), please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. Your support makes all the difference.“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet, which fails so regularly, as love,” the humanistic philosopher and psychologist Erich Fromm wrote in his classic on the art of loving. In some sense, no love ever fails, for no experience is ever wasted — even the most harrowing becomes compost for our growth, fodder for our combinatorial creativity. But in another, it is indeed astonishing how often we get love wrong — how, over and over, it stokes our hopes and breaks our hearts and hurls us onto the cold hard baseboards of our being, flattened by defeat and despair, and how, over and over, we rise again and hurl ourselves back at the dream of it, the delirium of it, the everlasting wonder of it. How to go on doing it undefeated is what British philosopher Gillian Rose (September 29, 1947–December 9, 1995) examines in her part-memoir, part-reckoning Love’s Work (public library), written in the final years of her prolific and passionate life, and published just before her untimely death of ovarian cancer.
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S3 Thriving in the New World of Work  Our summer special report helps leaders gain a comprehensive view of risks, learn how to overcome market disrupters, and manage the analytical tools that provide predictive insight for decision-making.Our summer special report helps leaders gain a comprehensive view of risks, learn how to overcome market disrupters, and manage the analytical tools that provide predictive insight for decision-making.A presenter at MIT SMR’s symposium on the future of work answers attendees’ questions about the risks of pessimism, the difference between self-efficacy and self-esteem, and how to build resilience.
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S4When a job raises red flags immediately, should workers cut and run?  Nicole noticed a red flag within hours of starting her new job at a Miami-based boutique PR firm in 2022. The CEO didn’t bother introducing her to clients on her first-ever company Zoom call; he dominated the conversation, leaving no room for other employees to speak. Nicole tried to carry on but was shocked on her second day when the CEO swore at a colleague in the middle of a team meeting.On day three, Nicole worked up the courage to ask that colleague if outbursts like that were normal. “She said, ‘That’s just how he is’,” recalls Nicole, who is in her mid-20s. “Everyone’s scared of him.”
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S5France's illustrious blue 'Breton lobster'  "On Channel Three, they said the wind was coming from the east. On Channel Two, they said it was coming from the west. So, Cédric… what do you say?"Lobster fisherman Cédric Delacour smiled at the driver, a retired fisherman himself, idling alongside the port of Omonville, in the Normandy region of northern France. But to this question posed almost like a riddle, Delacour offered no response. Indeed, over the next few hours, he would prove to be a man of few words – understandable, perhaps, seeing as he spends most of his days alone on the water in search of spider crabs, brown crabs and the illustrious "Breton lobster," a term that makes the proud Norman baulk.
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S6Planet of the Bass: How a ridiculous Eurodance parody song became the most addictive song of the summer  "All of the dream, how does it mean?" This is the existential question posed by Ms Biljana Electronica on Planet of the Bass, the addictive Eurodance parody that is fast becoming a song of the summer. Flanked by rapped imperatives from DJ Crazy Times – "let's go, everybody go!" – the effect is not just hilarious, but also irresistibly nostalgic."For many, Eurodance is intrinsically linked to summer," says Connor Gotto, editor of Retropop magazine. He points out that several classics of the 1990s genre, including Whigfield's party anthem Saturday Night, became hits in the UK "after they were brought back by Brits who first heard them on holiday in [continental] Europe". The genre's integral elements – euphoric choruses, pounding beats and gloriously unrestrained vocals, whether rapped or sung – evoke balmy dance floors from Málaga in Spain to Mykonos in Greece.
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S7S8Women get far more migraines than men - a neurologist explains why, and what brings relief  A migraine is far more than just a headache – it’s a debilitating disorder of the nervous system. People who have migraines experience severe throbbing or pulsating pain, typically on one side of the head. The pain is often accompanied by nausea, vomiting and extreme sensitivity to light or sound. An attack may last for hours or days, and to ease the suffering, some people spend time isolated in dark, quiet rooms.
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S9Despite giving students chances to cheat, unsupervised online exams gauge student learning comparably to in-person exams  Students don’t have to be supervised during online exams. That’s because unsupervised online exams can accurately assess student learning, according to our study published in July 2023 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Our data set comprised nearly 2,000 students from a public university in the Midwest. We analyzed exam scores from the first half of the spring semester of 2020, when tests were administered in person, and the second half, when the pandemic forced schools to shift online. This enabled us to compare how students performed on in-person exams versus online exams taught by the same instructor in the same course.
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S10S11S12Babies almost all try crawling to get from Point A to Point B, but CDC says it's not a useful developmental milestone  Infant milestones can be a source both of pride and anxiety for a new parent. Baby’s firsts – first tooth, first steps, first word – are moments of joy that many parents immediately compare with charts listing “normal” age ranges for each achievement to occur.For a pediatrician, these milestones are useful indicators of typical or atypical development. When they occur outside that normal range, it might be time to look for some underlying cause, which could enable early detection and intervention if something’s amiss.
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S13Researchers dig deep underground in hopes of finally observing dark matter  Physicists like me don’t fully understand what makes up about 83% of the matter of the universe — something we call “dark matter.” But with a tank full of xenon buried nearly a mile under South Dakota, we might one day be able to measure what dark matter really is.In the typical model, dark matter accounts for most of the gravitational attraction in the universe, providing the glue that allows structures like galaxies, including our own Milky Way, to form. As the solar system orbits around the center of the Milky Way, Earth moves through a dark matter halo, which makes up most of the matter in our galaxy.
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S14A brief illustrated guide to 'scissors congruence' - an ancient geometric idea that's still fueling cutting-edge mathematical research  In math class, you probably learned how to compute the area of lots of different shapes by memorizing algebraic formulas. Remember “base x height” for rectangles and “½ base x height” for triangles? Or “𝜋 x radius²” for circles?Modern mathematicians refer to Euclid’s concept of “having equal area” as “being scissors congruent.” This idea, based on cutting up shapes and pasting them back together in different ways, has inspired interesting mathematics beyond just computing areas of triangles and squares. The story of scissors congruence demonstrates how classical problems in geometry can find new life in the strange world of abstract modern math.
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S15S16The heroic effort to save Florida's coral reef from devastating ocean heat  Armed with scrub brushes, young scuba divers took to the waters of Florida’s Alligator Reef in late July to try to help corals struggling to survive 2023’s extraordinary marine heat wave. They carefully scraped away harmful algae and predators impinging on staghorn fragments, under the supervision and training of interns from Islamorada Conservation and Restoration Education, or I.CARE.Normally, I.CARE’s volunteer divers would be transplanting corals to waters off the Florida Keys this time of year, as part of a national effort to restore the Florida Reef. But this year, everything is going in reverse.
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S17Air travel is in a rut - is there any hope of recapturing the romance of flying?  Director of Public Scholarship, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis Amelia Earhart broke a transcontinental speed record 90 years ago, in July 1933, by flying her signature red Lockheed Vega from Los Angeles to New Jersey in just 17 hours, seven and a half minutes. Earlier that year, Earhart had flown as an observer on a Northwest Airways winter flight across the U.S., testing the possibilities of a “Northern Transcontinental” route.
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S18S19The fast, furious, and brutally short life of an African male lion  The death of a lion in Kenya’s picturesque savannas rarely tugs at people’s hearts, even in a country where wildlife tourism is a key pillar of the nation’s economy. But when one of the most tracked male lions in Kenya’s famous Masaai Mara was killed on 24 July 2023 the world took notice. Known as Jesse, he was killed during a fight with a coalition of three male lions from a rival pride, drawing attention to the brutally risky and dangerous lives of male lions.Lions are organised in family groups known as a pride. Each pride is comprised of several related lionesses. One or more adult male lions will also be present. In the public imagination, male lions are better known by their popularised image as kings of the jungle. Their bravery, strength, and size (only tigers are larger) fits this profile.
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S20Women's World Cup: why are there so few female coaches in football?  The enthusiasm and excitement surrounding the Women’s World Cup – fielding a record 32 teams – shows that women’s football is in a healthier state than ever.According to the FA’s women’s and girls’ football strategy update, across all levels the number of registered female players in England increased by 17% between October 2021 and 2022, while there was a 30% increase in the number of female teams. The number of female referees has increased by 21%, and female coaches have risen by a whopping 75%.
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S21S22Interest rates: the case for cutting them permanently to zero  In 1937 the English economist Joan Robinson proposed that “when capitalism is rightly understood, the rate of interest will be set at zero and the major evils of capitalism will disappear”. John Maynard Keynes, who had taught Robinson, suggested something similar a year earlier in slightly more qualified and technical terms, arguing that this would be “the most sensible way of gradually getting rid of many of the objectionable features of capitalism”.Robinson and Keynes were writing during the great depression, when spending and investment were moribund and interest rates seemed like a stranglehold on the economy. Unlike the sort of temporary measure we saw from 2009-21 when rates were close to zero, they believed interest rates should be set at zero permanently as a way to purge capitalism of its most objectionable and destabilising features.
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S23Depression isn't just sadness -  It’s often thought that if someone is depressed, they will feel sad or low most of the time. But what many don’t realise is that these aren’t the only symptoms of depression. Another common symptom of depression that is sometimes overlooked is the feeling that you no longer find the things you used to enjoy to be interesting or pleasurable. Known as anhedonia, this symptom is present in up to 75% of adults and young people with depression. But despite how common this symptom is, it remains one of the most difficult symptoms to treat and manage.
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S24S25The new technology that is making cars easier for criminals to steal, or crash  There is much talk in the automotive industry about the “internet of vehicles” (IoV). This describes a network of cars and other vehicles that could exchange data over the internet in an effort to make transportation more autonomous, safe and efficient.The IoV could help vehicles identify roadblocks, traffic jams and pedestrians. It could help with a car’s positioning on the road, potentially enable them to be driverless, and provide easier diagnoses of faults. It’s already happening to some extent with smart motorways, where technology is used with the intention of managing motorway traffic in the most effective manner.
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S26S27Ditching the young entrepreneur myth: research shows over-50s are the more radical innovators  Julie Wainwright – working as a CEO for almost two decades – was in her mid-50s when she created The RealReal platform for secondhand luxury. Harland Sanders was 62 when he started Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurant chain, and Bernie Marcus was 50 when opening the first Home Depot home-improvement store. But just how common is such innovation potential in older entrepreneurs?As populations are ageing in many developed countries and people are working longer, it is important to know how we can best take advantage of the experience of more mature individuals.
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S28Bats are avoiding solar farms and scientists aren't sure why  As our planet continues to warm, the need for renewable energy is becoming increasingly urgent. Almost half of the UK’s electricity now comes from renewable sources. And solar accounts for one-fifth of the energy capacity installed since 2019.Solar farms are now a striking feature of the British landscape. But despite their growth, we’re still largely in the dark about how solar farms impact biodiversity.
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S29S30S31Why Meta is allowing users to see the inner workings of its new AI chatbot  The AI division of Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta recently unveiled its Llama 2 chatbot. Microsoft has been appointed as Meta’s preferred partner on Llama 2, which will be available through the Windows operating system.This strategy has sparked a vast wave of discussions. Will it foster greater public scrutiny and regulation of large language models (LLMs) – the technology that underlies AI chatbots such as Llama 2 and ChatGPT? Could it inadvertently empower criminals to use the technology to help them carry out phishing attacks or develop malware? And could the move help Meta gain an advantage over OpenAI and Google in this fast-moving field?
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S32Deadly wildfires burn across Maui - it's a reminder of the growing risk to communities that once seemed safe  Wildfires, pushed by powerful winds, raced through Lahaina, Hawaii, on Aug. 8 and 9, 2023, leaving a charred and smoldering landscape across the tourist town of about 13,000 residents that was once the capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii. At least 36 people died, Maui County officials said. Others were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard after going into the ocean to escape the flames.Fires were still burning on Aug. 10, both in Maui’s tourist-filled west coast and farther inland, as well as on the Big Island of Hawaii. Dry grasses and strong winds, influenced by Hurricane Dora passing far to the south, heightened the fire risk.
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S33S34S35Canadians are unprepared for natural hazards. Here's what we can do about it  Over the last year, Canada has made important progress toward making it easier for people to determine if they’re at risk from natural hazard disasters. But many people across the country still lack awareness about the risks they face and the steps they can take to prepare for them. The summer of 2023 has been marked by record-breaking wildfires, floods and heat waves across Canada.
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S36Oppenheimer has an epic, layered soundtrack - but its real power is in the silence  Christopher Nolan’s biopic on the theoretical scientist Robert Oppenheimer, who became known as the “father of the atomic bomb”, has an epic soundtrack. We follow Oppenheimer’s early work in Europe, establishing the Los Alamos lab, the creation of the atomic bombs released on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, his later activism against nuclear development and its repercussions in his later life.
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S37S38S39Telling stories of our climate futures is essential to thinking through the net-zero choices of today  It has been a year of devastating climate impacts with humanity around the world experiencing a bitter taste of what climate scientists have been warning about for years. The dire prospect is that we are on the precipice of a “new abnormal.” Observers of climate change, and its victims, are desperate for action while the manifold political and economic obstacles remain tough to overcome. However, what is even more evident is that we lack a clear vision of our future to guide our pursuit of climate action.
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S40From outdoor classrooms to gardens, how Nova Scotia youth are creating healthier school communities  Youth and young adults hold unique, creative and diverse perspectives and approaches compared to their adult counterparts. Think about the advocacy of Greta Thunberg and Mikaela Loach around climate change and climate justice or Malala Yousafzai’s advocacy for all children’s rights to receive an education.While these advocates have challenged the marginalization of children’s and young people’s voices in the context of countries’ governance typically structured around adult participation, countries around the globe have ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and many organizations work to amplify youth voices.
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S41S42Meet 5 marvellous mammals of the South Pacific you've probably never heard of  Islands are renowned for their weird and wonderful wildlife. These isolated ecosystems present unparalleled opportunities to study evolution, and the archipelagos of the southwest Pacific are no exception. This vast and diverse region encompasses 24 nations and territories. It also includes four “biodiversity hotspots”: the East Melanesian Islands, Polynesia-Micronesia, New Caledonia and New Zealand. Each contains at least 1,500 plant species found nowhere else on Earth. So their total land area may be small, but south-west Pacific islands punch well above their weight in terms of their contributions to global biodiversity.
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S43Ageing in a housing crisis: growing numbers of older Australians are facing a bleak future  Our report, Ageing in a Housing Crisis, shows safe, secure and affordable housing is increasingly beyond the reach of older people. This growing housing insecurity is system-wide. It’s affecting hundreds of thousands of people across all tenures, including home owners and renters. The federal government released Australia’s first national wellbeing framework, Measuring What Matters last month. It recognises “financial security and access to housing” as essential for a secure, inclusive and fair society. However, urgent policy action is needed to reshape the Australian housing system so all older people have secure, affordable housing.
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S44S45S46Why a Queensland court overturned a ban on religious knives in schools  Renae Barker is provides advise to the Anglican Diocese of Bunbury and Anglican Diocese of Perth The Supreme Court of Queensland last week overturned a law banning children from bringing “knives” to school for religious reasons. This will allow Sikh students, parents, and teachers to carry a ceremonial dagger known as a “kirpan” at schools in Queensland.
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S47Politics with Michelle Grattan: Labor president Wayne Swan on the party's coming national conference  Next week the Labor Party will hold its national conference in Brisbane. It’s the first face-to-face conference in five years. These conferences don’t have anything like the bite they once did, but there’s still a chance for the party’s rank and file to have a shout about issues. More than 400 delegates will be there. Most of the delegates are aligned to a faction, and for the first time in decades the left will have the largest slice of the numbers. AUKUS and the Stage 3 tax cuts are expected to be among the hot topics, but the conference will be carefully managed – there will be no defeats for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Ahead of the conference, we have already seen the government change its stance on Palestine, a sensitive subject among the left and right factions of the party.
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S48S49Atlantic collapse: Q&A with scientists behind controversial study predicting a colder Europe  Your study understandably attracted much media attention, with some of the coverage conflating a collapse of the Gulf Stream with a collapse of AMOC. What did you make of this at the time?Susanne Ditlevsen: I think there are two aspects to this question. One is that the general public might confuse the Gulf stream and the AMOC and, in a certain sense, that’s just wording. So there is a current that brings warm water up and this is in danger of collapsing – whether we call it the AMOC or the Gulf Stream even though the Gulf Stream is something different in a certain sense doesn’t matter if it’s just a question of wording.
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S50Voguing as Vigil for O'Shae Sibley  On a recent evening, hundreds of people converged at the northeast corner of Coney Island Avenue and Avenue P, in Midwood, Brooklyn, to remember O'Shae Sibley, a dancer who had been stabbed to death at that spot a few days earlier. They shouted, "Say his name!," and then said his name over and over, in different ways, sometimes chanting its four syllables, sometimes almost singing. "O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o'Shae! O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o'Shae!" The sound echoed off the glass front of the apartment building across the street and got louder as more people showed up. The name filled the intersection, ringing with unity and power, but you could hear the keening of absolute bereavement underneath.Sibley and a few friendsâdancers, like him, who specialized in the drag-queen-influenced, pose-striking dance style known as voguingâhad been on their way back from a day at the beach when they stopped for gas at the Mobil station on this corner. They began voguing by their car. A group of young men standing nearby yelled insults. According to some reports, the young men objected to the dancing and to the skimpiness of what the dancers wore. The dancers yelled back, a confrontation ensued, and employees of the Bolla Market, the convenience store behind the gas pumps, came out and defused the situation. The dancers were getting back in their car when the trouble blew up again, and a seventeen-year-old boy among the young men allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed Sibley in the side. Sibley bled on the sidewalk and died at a local hospital.
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S51Tracking Down a Meme Thief in "It Feels Personal"  Clegg's hunt raises questions about online privacy, intellectual property, and what we aim to get out of social media, either as producers or consumers.Memes have become part of Internet life. In the late nineties, a GeoCities Web page titled Hamster Dance featured rows of GIFs of rodents dancing to a sped-up version of a song from Disney's "Robin Hood"; recent memes include the Disaster Girl, an image of a young girl smirking in front of a burning building, and the self-explanatory Kamala Harris Laughing. As these works of creativity become viral sensationsâby being repeatedly clicked, copied, and sharedâthey can lose any connection to the person who dreamed them up. When the filmmaker Hugh Clegg, a recent graduate of England's National Film and Television School, found that a video he had filmed of a friend and posted to YouTube had been reëdited and sharedâwidelyâwithout giving him any credit, he launched a search.
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S52The One-Per-centers Pushing the Democrats to the Left  Andrew Marantz, in the August 14, 2023, issue of The New Yorker, wrote about Leah Hunt-Hendrix, a major donor to progressive causes whose grandfather was a politically conservative oil tycoon. Hunt-Hendrix’s use of her money and influence to support progressive social movements is remarkable in that the goals of these projects run counter to her class interests, and even aim to put her family’s company out of business: raising taxes on the rich, pushing for more corporate regulation, and passing a Green New Deal. She funds grassroots organizations, and also co-founded the political organization Way to Win, which works to elect candidates on the left. In this episode of the Political Scene, Marantz, a guest host, invites the writer Anand Giridharadas to discuss the unexpected nexus between big money and movement politics. Giridharadas is the author of four books, including, most recently, “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World” and “The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age.”By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
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S53"Anatoly," by Oleh Sentsov  This is the sixth story in this summer's online Flash Fiction series. You can read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction from previous years, here.Anatoly was given a seven-year sentence in a medium-security prison for wanting to blow up the Israeli Embassy and its Ambassador. It was difficult to understand exactly how the Jewish people had got on Anatoly's bad side. Maybe Moses hadn't been polite when asking Anatoly's ancestors for directions to the promised land? Still, although Anatoly was filled with burning hatred for Jews, he didn't admit his guilt in an assassination attempt. It wasn't so much his conviction that upset him as the fact that he wasn't put in a high-security prison, where, Anatoly believed, the real terrorists went. Terrorism, as a rule, is considered a serious crime that could earn you a strict sentence of life imprisonment, but for some reason the court decided to take pity on Anatoly. Either the criminal, in the court's opinion, was not dangerous or the evidence was inconclusive. Or maybe the leniency was due to the fact that, as the state of Israel apparently noted in black and white in the accusation against him, there were no victims, no damage, and no claims.
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S54You Need to Watch the Twistiest Crime Thriller on Hulu ASAP  The first season of Only Murders in the Building was lightning in a bottle. A comedy murder-mystery about a trio of true-crime fanatics who decide to start a murder podcast, Only Murders is a strange concoction that shouldn’t have worked, a fact embodied best by its unlikely leading trio of Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez. Martin and Short are longtime collaborators who co-starred in comedy classics like The Three Amigos and Father of the Bride, but the leads of Only Murders sound like a Mad Libs dreamed up by a lazy corporate executive. “Let’s get Steve Martin and Martin Short back together, and throw in… Selena Gomez!”But the trio worked. They sang. The odd-couple dynamic between Martin and Short got a shot of cynical energy from Gomez, whose thorny ennui played well against Short’s outsized buffoonery and Martin’s hapless vulnerability. It’s their chemistry that carried Only Murders in the Building through its heightened, stylish first season, which saw washed-up TV star Charles-Haden Savage (Martin), struggling Broadway director Oliver Putnam (Short), and their mysterious fur coat-wearing neighbor Mabel Mora (Gomez) get involved in the apparent suicide of one of their neighbors at the Arconia, a fictional luxury apartment complex in New York City based on a real building. That chemistry — and the colorful supporting cast — carried the show through its more muddled second season, and now Only Murders in the Building is back and better than ever with Season 3.
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S5541 Years Later, DC's Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movie Is Getting a Big Update  In 1982, horror legend Wes Craven took a stab at the superhero genre with Swamp Thing, a tribute to the B-movie creature features of a bygone era. The film came relatively early in Craven’s career, after The Hills Have Eyes and The Last House on the Left, but just a few short years before A Nightmare on Elm Street. It’s one of Craven’s tamer films, but it might also be his most soulful. It helped that the title monster-turned-hero was perfect for Craven, who leaves plenty of room for traditional action setpieces, as well as some insightful commentary. Swamp Thing may technically be a member of the DC slate, but he’s clearly an homage to Universal’s classic monster films. At the time, he was a relatively new character, having been introduced in House of Secrets #92 in the ’70s. That allowed Craven to bring his own flair to his film. There are shades of Creature from the Black Lagoon and Bride of Frankenstein in Swamp Thing, which set the tone for the adaptations to follow.
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S56Marvel's Most Exciting New Movie May Be In Worse Shape Than We Thought  Back in 2019, comic book fans had a reason to celebrate. Through Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox, Marvel reclaimed the big-screen rights to the Fantastic Four (and also the X-Men). It didn’t take long after that for the studio to announce plans for a new movie starring the super-powered family, but ever since then, updates on the film have been few and far between. Fantastic Four, which is set to finally bring Marvel’s First Family into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has been seemingly stuck in development limbo for years.In 2020, Spider-Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts signed onto the project. Two years later, he was out. WandaVision director Matt Shakman was then hired to replace Watts, and that was basically the last major Fantastic Four update fans received. That is, to say the least, shocking, and not just because Fantastic Four is slated to hit theaters less than two years from now. The project is also, without a doubt, the most high-profile non-Avengers movie that Marvel has in development.
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S572023's Most Ambitious Indie Game Is a Good Idea Executed Poorly  The opening of every musical is meant to hook the audience into the next handful of hours of song and dance. The best also skillfully lay the groundwork for the story and character development to come. It’s why openings such as Into the Woods' titular track are so iconic.Five minutes into Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, protagonist Grace launches into the first song of the game. As the music swelled in anticipation of the first sung notes, I waited for a statement about what this game would be. The first bars are shaky at best and the song – titled 'Adrift' – can’t seem to find itself.
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S58Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 Review: Inching Towards Perfect  In its fifth generation, the Galaxy Z Flip 5 changes just enough and not enough at the same time.Foldable phones are in a very strange place right now, especially for Samsung. Five generations in, the company's newest flip-style foldable phone, the Galaxy Z Flip 5, still simultaneously feels new and old.
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S59New Marvel Theory Solves a Huge Phase 5 Dilemma  Thunderbolts is the anti-Avengers movie Marvel fans are waiting for. From the moment Julia Louis-Dreyfus appeared as Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine, the looming threat of a new group of anti-heroes (or villains) has hung over the MCU. We now know the team’s complete lineup, but there’s still a big mystery: why are they being assembled? Two ignored Marvel properties may hold the answer, which is quite literally in plain sight.
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S60'GTA 6' Team Doubles Down on a 2024 Release Date Window  There’s still no official word on when Grand Theft Auto 6 will release, but the game’s publisher has seemingly doubled down on a 2024 launch window. Back in May, Rockstar Games' parent company Take-Two Interactive said it expects to make a boatload of money during its next fiscal year, hinting that GTA 6 could launch in 2024. In the company’s most recent earnings call, Take-Two doubled down on this expectation, seemingly confirming that GTA 6 could launch in 2024. That also supports ongoing rumors that Rockstar may finally reveal the game later this year.
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S61'Honkai: Star Rail' Kafka Build Turns the New 5-Star Into a DPS Powerhouse  Honkai: Star Rail players have been waiting months for Stellaron Hunter Kafka to become a playable character. With the second phase of version 1.2 now officially released globally, that dream is now a reality, and she is one of the game’s strongest characters.Whether you want Kafka for her incredible damage-dealing potential, or you just want to have Honkai: Star Rail’s dommy mommy, pulling on her banner is worth it. If luck does smile upon you and you get Kafka, follow our build guide to maximize her utility on your team.
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S62200-Million-Year-Old Poop Contains Fossilized Parasite Eggs  Beware any rock that’s oblong and cylindrical, like a stubby stone finger. It might not be a rock. It could, very likely, be a coprolite. Yes, that’s another name for fossilized feces.And if you do find one, call Thanit Nonsrirach. A paleontologist at Mahasarakham University in Thailand, Nonsrirach estimates he’s examined over 500 coprolites. To date, just one has contained a surprise: eggs from not one but two parasite species, indicating that the poop’s host was carrying squatters.
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S63'Baldur's Gate 3' Is Missing a Vital RPG Feature  Baldur’s Gate 3 is a game all about freedom, embracing the spirit of Dungeons & Dragons by letting players approach every situation however they like, even reveling in failure at times. With all that freedom, however, there’s one aspect of Baldur’s Gate 3 that feels surprisingly lacking — customizing your character’s look. While there is an exhaustively detailed character creator, the game currently lacks any way to alter your appearance after creation, and it’s something that will hopefully be addressed as soon as possible.
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S64'John Wick' Spin-Off Unveils a Fresh New Direction -- And a Controversial Villain  The John Wick series has never been shy about its influences. There are glimmers of spaghetti westerns, Hong Kong actioners, and ‘70s crime thrillers in the four-film saga. Writer-director Chad Stahleski is an outspoken fan of films like Bullitt and The Warriors, and it’s turned these underdog revenge thrillers into slick homages chock full of fun Easter eggs. That ‘70s influence is set to continue in The Continental, a prequel series that will explore the origins of the eponymous hotel and its enigmatic manager, Winston Scott. While Ian McShane brought the character to life in the films, The Continental will turn the clock back to 1970s New York, before a younger Winston (Colin Woodell) came into possession of the establishment.
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S65Forget 10,000 Steps -- Scientists Discovered the Minimum Steps Needed to Improve Your Health  This oft-repeated number may seem daunting, but the barrier for entry to walking’s health benefits is actually much lower.At this point, the notion that we should all strive for 10,000 steps per day has been (like a certain other philosophy involving the number 10,000) debunked. Nobody’s arguing that reaching 10,000 steps a day is bad for you, but sometimes the bare minimum truly suffices when it comes to maintaining good health. The only question is where that minimum sits.
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S67'Ahsoka' Trailer Sets Up a Shocking Change to a Classic Jedi Rule  Ahsoka is one of Star Wars’ most dynamic characters. We’ve seen her as a padawan, a suspect, a former Jedi, a wise sage, a recluse, and now a Disney+ series protagonist. She’s played so many roles in so many series, and now that she’s in the spotlight it looks like she’ll take on one more job: master. A baffling new teaser for Ahsoka may rewrite one of Star Wars’ most important rules, and change some characters we know and love forever. The teaser starts with Yoda reciting his classic Rule of Two monologue: “Always two there are. No more, no less. A master and an apprentice.” As he speaks, we see multiple pairs of Jedi Master and padawan, including Luke and Grogu, Obi-Wan and Anakin, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, Obi-Wan and Luke, Luke and Rey, and Anakin and Ahsoka.
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S68S69'Red Dead Redemption' Team Defends Controversial $50 Port: "A Great Value"  The reveal of the Red Dead Redemption “conversion” for PS4 and Nintendo Switch hasn’t gone over as well as Rockstar Games probably would have liked. Upon its announcement, players expressed disappointment that the upcoming game won’t launch for current-gen consoles (or PC), won’t have new visual features and content, and will cost a whopping $50. When asked about Red Dead Redemption’s price tag during a recent Take-Two earnings call (as relayed by IGN), CEO Strauss Zelnick said, “That's just what we believe is the commercially accurate price for it.”
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S70Opel's New EV Concept Has a Retractable Steering Wheel  Opel may have not released any all-electric vehicles yet, but its Experimental concept is giving us a lot to look forward to when it does. As a concept, the Experimental features cutting-edge technology like projections instead of a traditional dashboard, reactive electrochromatic fabrics, and a steering wheel that can retract when it’s not being used. We’re used to carmakers putting out wild EV concepts, but there is a real chance that Opel draws on its Experimental for upcoming all-electric options.
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