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 S66Sword & Sworcery's Steam Deck Update Makes Its Unique Adventure Better Than Ever   It may not feel like that long ago, but 2011 was practically another lifetime ago in the world of video games. With the Wii U, PS4, and Xbox One still distant blips on the radar, the indie scene as we know it was just starting to get the attention of players and publishers, and iOS gaming was in its infancy. Outside of gaming, Twitter was still fairly new, yet to begin its transformation from communication platform to the nightmare bog of hate speech and AI garbage it is today.Into this landscape entered Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. Yes, that’s how it’s spelled.
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S2Gohona bori: India's heritage edible ornament  Jyotsna Maity fixed the large, circular brass plate with a meditative gaze. A bed of poppy seeds was neatly and evenly spread over the dish. She began to slowly extrude the lentil batter through the piped cloth bag she had in her right hand, holding it perpendicularly over the platter. Her nimble wrist delicately twisted and turned to form concentric circles, decorative curls and miniscule triangles with the gooey paste. With a sharp, controlled jerk of her hand, she completed the design that now resembled a dainty designer necklace.Maity was the head of the squad of women similarly occupied on the spacious terrace: their heads bent over brass plates and hands busy to create a culinary artform, the tricks of which have been handed down to them orally through generations.
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S3Barbie, Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon: The 20 best films of 2023  The numbers in this list do not represent ranking, but are intended to make the separate entries as clear as possible.This tough-minded, heart-breaking drama about race, class and motherhood was France's entry to last year's Oscar race, and I'm still mystified as to why it wasn't nominated. Alice Diop puts her experience making documentaries to good use, as she bases her story on the real-life case of a young Senegalese woman in France charged with abandoning her baby on a beach to die. Diop invents Rama, a pregnant novelist who goes to the town of Saint Omer to witness the trial, which plays into her own doubts and fears. As Laurence, the mother on trial, Guslagie Malanda is unnaturally calm, almost frozen in resignation. Kayije Kagame as Rama lets you see her mind racing and her heart pounding as she watches, even though her face is impassive. Diop based her dialogue on court transcripts, but the results go far beyond dry facts on the page to create an enthralling film with two profound and vivid women on screen. (CJ)
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S4Look to the mainstream to explain the rise of the far right  Javier Milei in Argentina. Geert Wilders in the Netherlands. These are the two latest “populist shocks” – the tip of the “populist wave” that comes crashing against the weakened defences of liberal democracies. At the same time, former UKIP leader Nigel Farage benefits from the same “funwashing” on I’m a Celebrity Get me out of Here! as Pauline Hanson, leader of the most successful extreme right party in Australia in recent years, did when she was invited on Dancing with the Stars just a moment after her political career plummeted.
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S6Climate adaptation funds are not reaching frontline communities: what needs to be done about it  Communities around the world face increasingly severe and frequent impacts from climate change. They are on the “frontlines” of droughts, flooding, desertification and sea level rise. International climate finance is supposed to help. In the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world’s wealthiest countries pledged US$50 billion annually to support climate adaptation among those “particularly vulnerable” to climate change. Climate adaptation is the adjustments humans make to reduce exposure to climate risk.
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S7S8Should People Have the Right to Say Awful Things Without Facing Legal Consequences?  Terrible times breed terrible words, and words have consequences—especially when what you say can be recorded and broadcast. Yet society cannot agree, perhaps more so now, on which views are acceptable and what the consequences should be for a person expressing them.Last week, Stuart Seldowitz, a former State Department official, was arrested and charged with a hate crime after videos of him delivering a series of bigoted rants against Mohamed Hussein, a twenty-four-year-old Manhattan street-cart vender, went viral. In these, Seldowitz called Hussein a terrorist, insulted his Muslim faith, and said, with a hysterical crack in his voice, “If we killed four thousand Palestinian children, you know what—it wasn’t enough.” Hussein, for his part, repeatedly asked Seldowitz to leave him alone.
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S9Why Trump's Trials Should Be on TV  On November 6th, Donald Trump emerged from a New York City courtroom, where he had testified in a civil trial alleging that he and others in the Trump Organization had committed fraud, and gave himself a great review. "I think it went very well," he told reporters. "If you were there, and you listened, you'd see what a scam this is." He meant that the case was a scam and not that his company was. "Everybody saw what happened today," he went on. "And it was very conclusive."In truth, everybody didn't see; the courtroom could seat just a few dozen spectators. There were two overflow rooms, but the closed-circuit feed shown in them went no fartherâthe trial was not televised. Afterward, New York's attorney general, Letitia James, who was present, said that Trump had hardly put the matter to rest: "he rambled and he hurled insults." There was a transcript, but, to assess Trump's demeanor and tone, members of the public had to rely on the small number of peopleâjournalists and lawyers, mostlyâwho witnessed them. And those reports differed, depending on, say, whether one watched MSNBC or Fox News.
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S10Do SAD Lamps Actually Work? Here's Why Psychologists Love Them  Meta-analyses show that light therapy has a positive effect, not only on SAD but also on major depression.Have you ever noted that you sleep more in the winter months? Or eat more carbs or have low energy? If you do, then you might be one of the around 6 percent of the higher latitude populations with seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
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S11The Longest Running Sci-Fi Series is Finally Streaming for Free  “Lost media” is becoming a more and more prevalent term as streaming services wipe entire series from existence, making them completely impossible to watch, even for digital purchase. But the concept is not new at all. Now, there’s an expectation that whatever show you want to catch up on is at your fingertips. But before the internet, you were limited to reruns. There’s no greater example of this than Doctor Who, the longest-running sci-fi series in TV history. The show has been running for 60 years, and yet there are countless fans who haven’t even seen all the episodes that still exist. However, that’s all changing now.
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S12Happy 10th anniversary to one of Nintendo's best Mario titles.  Few things in life are better than being right. Whether we’re talking sports scores, trivia or bitcoin, the pure dopamine hit of being absolutely correct is an unparalleled experience. The problem is that sometimes you can be right and not know it. Hindsight is only 20/20 when enough time has passed to bring things into focus. And for Nintendo, only with the 10-year anniversary of one of its most acclaimed games do we now know that it got a lot of things right.Super Mario 3D World launched on Wii U on November 21, 2013. As you’d expect, the reviews were glowing. It’s a flawless Mario game that ticks all the boxes: Great levels, approachable difficulty, and more. There’s always a lot to love about Mario. Still, it was impossible to know at launch what we know now — Super Mario 3D World was a trendsetter.
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S13Hollywood's Top Directors Keep Making the Same Mistake -- Here's the Solution  In 2005, Dan Gardner watched Peter Jackson’s King Kong (runtime: 201 min) in theaters and had a major problem: he had to pee, but didn’t want to miss any crucial moments from the giant ape. That inspired him to create RunPee, an app that informs those with needy bladders when to take a break without missing any integral plot points that would leave a viewer relieved, but confused. Looking back on cinematic history and even modern-day movies from outside the U.S., there’s a clear answer to long movie bladder fatigue: the intermission. And with movies only getting longer, it’s obvious why they should be brought back into vogue.
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S14S1554 Years Later, The Oldest TV Sci-Fi Hero Just Got A Massive Tech Upgrade  The Jedi have lightsabers. Members of Starfleet have phasers, preferably set to stun. But if you’re a lonely Time Lord from the planet of Gallifrey, you have ... a screwdriver. First introduced way back in 1964 for the 2nd Doctor (Patrick Troughton), the most beloved handheld sci-fi gizmo in all Doctor Who is easily the sonic screwdriver. While not all Doctors have consistently rocked this Swiss army knife of time and space, having a new sonic with a new Doctor has become something of a staple of the contemporary era, starting in 2005 with the 9th Doctor (Christopher Eccleston). Now, five incarnations and roughly four screwdriver designs later, the 14th Doctor (David Tennant) has a new sonic screwdriver. But, as revealed in “The Star Beast,” this new sonic seems to be able to do way more than previous versions could. The Doctor may have regenerated back into one of their old faces, and the sonic might seem superficially similar, but its functions are way more powerful than ever.
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S1650 Mind-Blowing Products on Amazon You'll Wish You Knew About Sooner  From genius solutions for everyday problems (like a roll-up dish rack that doubles as a trivet) to things that are just flat-out cool (like a safe that’s disguised as a can of corn) — you’ll be wishing that you knew about these sooner during your late-night Amazon scroll sessions.Make stuffed burgers at home with this burger press — fill them with any of your favorite ingredients, like cheese, veggies, or crumbled bacon. The nonstick coating makes it simple to slide the meat out once the patty is formed. The press can create burgers in three sizes all the way up to 3/4 of a pound each.
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S17'Rick and Morty' Trailer Reveals Summer's Secret Deal With Rick  Rick and Morty delivered its seasonal clip show earlier than usual last week with “Rickfending Your Mort,” in which the title duo winds up on trial after accidentally murdering an all-seeing sentient rock (and also for repeating their own adventures in a bit of classic meta-commentary). It made for a fun-loving and chaotic diversion after the seriousness of confronting Rick Prime the week before. Up next, it would seem we have some more terrestrial fun with a Summer and Morty hang.Here’s everything you need to know about Rick and Morty Season 7 Episode 7, including the release date and time, episode title, teaser trailer, and more.
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S18The Most-Anticipated Sci-Fi Episode of the Year Just Took a Powerful Stance on an Important Topic  On its 60th anniversary, this British institution made up for lost time and addressed an obvious influence.With long-running TV shows, there’s always a moment when it has to be acknowledged that the world we live in has evolved faster than the world within fiction. Apu in The Simpsons has been recast, Mac from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has come out as gay instead of just being the punchline to gay jokes, and even Jeff Probst’s Survivor catchphrase of “come on in, guys” has been shortened to not be deemed sexist.
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S19When People Assume You're Not In Charge Because You're a Woman  Role incredulity is a form of gender bias where women are mistakenly assumed to be in a support or stereotypically female role — an administrative assistant, nurse, wife, or girlfriend, for instance — rather than a leadership or stereotypically male role, such as CEO, professor, lawyer, doctor, or engineer. While this slight or mistake might seem innocuous, it can have real ramifications for women. Women must expend extra energy and time to assert and prove their role. Their words may lack the credibility and authority inherent in their position. And when women are not seen as a leader, they may be less likely to be hired into male-dominated roles or to be considered for promotions.
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S20You're Not Powerless in the Face of Imposter Syndrome  Research shows that high achievers from underrepresented backgrounds often find themselves confronting imposter syndrome or feeling they don’t fit in, are not welcome, or don’t belong. But understanding imposter syndrome does little to end it. The author, who studied underrepresented board members for his PhD and who interacts with hundreds of aspiring and existing board directors in his role at an executive search firm, has found that attributes of moxie — strength of will, self-discipline, and the ability to persist despite challenges — were vital to underrepresented directors’ success. He recommends four tactics to help make moxie your own super power.
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S21How to Keep Working When You're Just Not Feeling It  Motivating yourself is one of the main things that sets high achievers apart, and it’s hard. How do you keep pushing onward when your heart isn’t in it? In her research, Fishbach has identified some simple tactics: Set goals that are intrinsically rewarding, and make them very specific. If a task isn’t satisfying, focus on aspects of it that are or combine it with pleasant activities. Reward yourself in the right way for getting things done. To avoid slumps, break objectives into subgoals; look at how much you’ve accomplished until you’re halfway there; and then count down what you have left to do. And use social influence: Let high performers inspire you, boost your get-up-and-go by giving advice, and keep the people you want to succeed for front of mind.
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S22S23S24S25S26S27S28S29S30Are Children's Books Improving Representation?  Racial and gender disparities persist in award-winning kids’ literature despite recent gains in representationChildren's literature has become far more diverse in the past decade, helping more kids than ever to see themselves in their favorite books. Of the thousands of kids' and teens' books reviewed in a 2022 analysis, about 45 percent had a nonwhite author, illustrator or compiler, up from 8 percent in 2014. “There are just so many more choices of books [reflecting] the multifaceted complexity of individual lives,” says Tessa Michaelson Schmidt, director of the Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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S31Drones and AI Could Locate Land Mines in Ukraine  Signage indicates the presence of landmines at the position of a Ukrainian volunteer unit in a suburb of Kyiv on February 28, 2023.Finding and removing land mines is an excruciatingly slow process. Human deminers scour contaminated ground inch by inch with handheld metal detectors, waiting for the telltale beep of a magnetic anomaly. Although trained dogs are sometimes used, metal detectors have remained the go-to clearance method since the end of World War II.
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S32The Best Black Friday Deals on Electric Bikes and Accessories  We here at WIRED are big fans of bikes, electric bikes, bike accessories, and any vehicles, policies, or infrastructure that advance active transportation. Getting people more active as they go about their daily business provides exercise, builds resilient, close-knit, mixed-income communities, and helps develop safer streets. As Portland, Oregon, school teacher and bike advocate Sam Balto once told me in an interview, active transportation rules. “It's the shit! It's the best!”There are some great deals on electric bikes for Black Friday, meaning this is the perfect time to order your new ebike (or upgrade your existing one) and get started on your new commute plan after the holidays. Don't see anything you like? Check out our Best Black Friday Deals and Black Friday Outdoor Deals lists, as well as our Black Friday shopping tips for advice.
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S33The Best Black Friday Deals on Amazon Kindles  A Kindle is one of our most recommended products. It's a gadget that gives you access to thousands of books in an instant and isn't meant anything but good old reading. They're discounted during most deals holidays, including right now, as a part of Black Friday deals. Our Kindle guide has more details if you aren't sure which model to get. We've also rounded up the Best Ebook Readers overall (spoiler: the Paperwhite tops that list, too).We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. The discount amounts we show are based on actual street prices at retailers in the past few months. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out. We'll update this guide periodically.
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S34The Best Black Friday Coffee Deals  There's nothing quite like walking around in crisp autumn weather with a hot coffee in your hands—unless it's a coffee you brewed yourself, at home, with shiny new coffee gear. Black Friday coffee deals are here, and it's a great time to score savings on the tools you need to upgrade your rig, whether that's an espresso machine or a French press. If you're overwhelmed by the glut of deals on coffee gear out there, you're in the right place. Here we've curated exceptional sales on coffee gear the WIRED Gear team has tested, vetted, and put through the paces.We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. The discount amounts we show are based on actual street prices at retailers in the past few months. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out. We'll update this guide periodically.
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S35The Best Apple Black Friday Deals  It's the best time of year to buy Apple hardware, whether that's a new iPad, MacBook, Apple Watch, or even a MagSafe iPhone case—we've found plenty of Apple Black Friday deals right now. For more gadgets on sale, be sure to check out our Best Black Friday Deals roundup.We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. The discount amounts we show are based on actual street prices at retailers in the past few months. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out. We'll update this guide periodically.
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S36The Best Black Friday Deals on Cameras, Lights, Mics, and Lenses  Black Friday is an excellent time to upgrade your photo and video toolkit or snag a great gift for that aspiring TikTok star in your life. Right now, you can score some serious bargains on cameras, as well as our favorite gear for creating your own home video studio or mobile recording rig. These are the best Black Friday camera deals we've found so far, but we'll be updating this post throughout the weekend, the latest update was 6:30 AM, Saturday, November 25, 2023.We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. The discount amounts we show are based on actual street prices at retailers in the past few months. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out.
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S37The Best All-Clad Cookware Deals Right Now  Not all cookware is created equal. Anyone who has purchased a cheap starter set of pots and pans will know—after a few years (sometimes months), the nonstick coating flakes off, the handles loosen, or the entire surface becomes warped and uneven. Buying cheap gear only to replace it is a waste of time and money. It may be some of the most expensive kitchenware you can buy, but All-Clad comes highly recommended by WIRED reviewers and culinary experts. They're spendy, but these pots and pans are reliable and practically last forever. Like, forever forever.So how do you snag this coveted cookware at stomachable prices? One surefire way to save money on All-Clad is by shopping its Factory Seconds sale, which comes around every few months. We go into more detail and list our favorite discounts below. This current Factory Seconds sale ends on November 26 at 11:59 pm ET.
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S38The Best Black Friday Laptop Deals  Black Friday usually brings a ton of sales on every knick-knack and doodad you probably don't need, but good laptop deals are one of the gems of this season. You'll rarely get a better chance to nab a new computer, so we've rounded up the best deals we've seen this week. Updated November 25, 2023 at 8 pm.WIRED tests products year-round and handpicked these deals based on their actual discounts, not the discounts retailers claim to offer. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out. We'll update this guide through Black Friday.
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S39The Best Black Friday Kitchen Deals  The season of holiday cookies and family recipes you either dearly love or deeply despise is around the corner. We've scoured the internet for Black Friday kitchen deals that may be of interest if you're looking for gifts—or feeling woefully unprepared with the tools you have in your kitchen. Whether it's a new countertop appliance, the KitchenAid of your dreams, or a better coffee machine to survive your in-laws being in town, these are the best kitchen sales for you to shop this Black Friday.We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. The discount amounts we show are based on actual street prices at retailers in the past few months. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out. We'll update this guide periodically.
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S40Biggest aircraft since the Hindenburg cleared for test flights  A massive airship prototype developed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s startup is ready to hit the skies in California — and potentially help clean up the aviation industry in the process.The challenge: Aviation is responsible for about 1.9% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and while that might not seem like a lot, if the industry were a country, it would be the eighth biggest polluter, between Japan and Iran.
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S41The physicists who wanted to put an end to gravity  The rise of Big Science after World War II was pushed by massive Cold War and Space Race spending. There was, however, one fundamental area of physics that didn’t see federal dollars, at least at first. This was research into gravity and general relativity.Observations of light bending around the sun in 1919 confirmed Albert Einstein’s “elegant theory of gravitation,” as historians of science David Kaiser and Dean Rickles call this aspect of the general theory of relativity. After that confirmation, though, gravitational physics cooled down. Nuclear and quantum physics became where the action was. (The Nazi’s “crushing displacement of world’s most active centers for gravitational research” didn’t help.)
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S42The renewable energy disaster that was far deadlier than Chernobyl  Decades ago, a single energy disaster left three million acres of land uninhabitable to humans and killed between 85,600 and 240,000 people. A casual student of history might assume these shocking statistics refer to the Chernobyl nuclear accident, but that would be incorrect. No, this catastrophic specter was the fault of the Banqiao Dam collapse in Henan, China. By comparison, Chernobyl killed fifteen times fewer people and desolated an area of land one-sixth as large.Though sharply different in magnitude, the Banqiao and Chernobyl disasters occurred under similar circumstances. Constructed by the Chinese Communist party during the Great Leap Forward, with guidance from the Soviet Union, the dam was poorly designed and hastily constructed — just like the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Moreover, party officials wanted it to retain as much water as possible because it would be “more revolutionary.” Hydrologist Chen Xing, Chief Engineer of dam projects, warned against that superficial goal and advocated for additional safety features. He was overruled and later reassigned.
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S43S44Travis Kelce Is Another Puzzle for Taylor Swift Fans to Crack  The pop star’s relationship with an NFL player gives fans a peculiar form of gratification.This Thanksgiving, America is divided: One half knows why the word squirle is funny, and one half does not. Are you in the latter group? Then you should know that earlier this month, a series of tweets surfaced by Taylor Swift’s new boyfriend, the Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce. In one of them, from 2011, he offered this observation: “I just gave a squirle a peice of bread and it straight smashed all of it!!!! I had no idea they ate bread like that!! Haha #crazy.”
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S45Why America Abandoned the Greatest Economy in History  Was the country’s turn toward free-market fundamentalism driven by race, class, or something else? Yes.If there is one statistic that best captures the transformation of the American economy over the past half century, it may be this: Of Americans born in 1940, 92 percent went on to earn more than their parents; among those born in 1980, just 50 percent did. Over the course of a few decades, the chances of achieving the American dream went from a near-guarantee to a coin flip.
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S46'Post-Victimhood' Storytelling  In his Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, André Breton wrote, “The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.” That line came to mind when I stood before Mother Nature, a giant canvas depicting a killer whale lifting a naked man into the air, eye level with a flock of gulls. The image was a highlight of “The Bathers,” Chase Hall’s standout debut at the David Kordansky Gallery in Chelsea this fall.The show, of mostly immense paintings priced from $60,000 to $120,000, was billed as an investigation into “nature, leisure, public space, and Black adventurism.” The playful and enigmatic scenes involved men swimming, surfing, and sometimes levitating, in solitude or among a living bounty of fish and birds. They were at once beautiful and formally striking meditations on the richness and versatility of a single color: brown.
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S47Anger and Frustration Grow in the House  Anger and frustration are growing among some members of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s caucus over government spending. Johnson has a long legislative to-do list when the House returns to Washington after Thanksgiving, and with Republicans holding a razor-thin majority, his moves will be scrutinized by Republicans and Democrats alike.Joining this week’s guest moderator of Washington Week With The Atlantic, Lisa Desjardins, to discuss this and more are Carl Hulse, chief Washington correspondent at The New York Times; Nikole Killion, congressional correspondent at CBS News; Toluse Olorunnipa, White House bureau chief at The Washington Post; and Susan Page, Washington bureau chief at USA Today.
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S48Doctor Who 60: show has always tapped into political issues - but never more so than in the 1970s  Doctor Who hit television screens at a key period in British television history. It launched on Saturday November 23, 1963, at 5.15pm, being somewhat overshadowed by the assassination of US president John F. Kennedy the previous day. Set firmly within the BBC’s public service broadcasting ethos of informing, educating and entertaining, Doctor Who quickly became a mainstay of Saturday-evening viewing. By 1965, it was drawing in around 10 million viewers.
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S49UK's new back to work plan will make life even harder for disabled people  Richard Machin is a member of the Labour Party and a board member of Church Action on Poverty. As part of these plans, the government is planning to implement tougher sanctions for people who are judged to not be taking appropriate steps to secure work. The proposed punitive measures include suspending benefit claims altogether and stopping access to free medical prescriptions and legal aid.
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S50S51The way a sperm tail moves can be explained by mathematics worked out by Alan Turing  Alan Turing might be best known for his work helping to crack Germany’s “Enigma” communications code during the second world war. But he also came up with a theory where patterns can form just through chemical compounds spreading out (diffusing) and reacting with one another. This became known as reaction-diffusion theory for pattern formation. PhD student James Cass and I recently published a study in Nature Communications that revealed the tail of a sperm, known as a flagellum, generates patterns as it moves – and that these patterns can be described by Turing’s theory.
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S52India: how COVID enabled new forms of economic abuse of women  In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, the United Nations (UN) identified what it called a “shadow pandemic” of domestic violence against women. The UN includes in its definition of domestic violence what it refers to as “economic violence”, which it explains as: “making or attempting to make a person financially dependent by maintaining total control over financial resources, withholding access to money, and/or forbidding attendance at school or employment”. Economic abuse tends to involve controlling and coercive behaviour by a woman’s partner and sometimes their in-laws or other family members, threatening her economic security and potential for self-sufficiency. While economic abuse can take many forms, there are three main types: sabotage, restriction and exploitation.
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S53Napoleon is a hilarious love story -  This article was first published in our email newsletter Something Good, which every fortnight brings you a summary of the best things to watch, visit and read, as recommended and analysed by academic experts. Click here to receive the newsletter direct to your inbox.I went to see Ridley Scott’s Napoleon biopic last night. I’d been primed by the early reviews to expect something on an epic scale, sweeping his fearsome military career, formidable years as emperor of France and lonely final days in exile. What I didn’t expect was to get the giggles.
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S54S55Frozen's 10th anniversary: how the musical reignited our love for sing-along cinema  Ten years ago a musical phenomenon hit our screens, one which captured the hearts of a large and diverse audience and whose songs have already become classics. The 2013 film Frozen is now widely recognised as one of the most memorable and loved Disney animated films, whether measured economically or by popular critical reception. Frozen’s revision of the Disney Princess genre clearly resonated with audiences of all ages. Its message of empowerment and self-determination spoke to present day concerns about gender, sexuality and identity. Music was central to communicating these ideas, especially the showstopping song Let It Go.
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S56UK's failed asylum deportation plan puts Rwanda's human rights and refugee struggles in the spotlight  The UK Supreme Court ruled on 15 November 2023 that sending asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful. The plan would have seen tens of thousands of asylum seekers sent from the UK to Rwanda, which would then process and host such refugees indefinitely.The UK court’s decision is grounded in the view that Rwanda is unsafe for asylum seekers because it might force them to return to their home country. Forced return is against international human rights law as refugees and asylum seekers may be persecuted again in their country of origin.
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S57How minimum wage rises will affect the early years education and childcare sector  The early years sector – nurseries and childminders who offer services to children under the age of five – waited expectantly for news of investment in the UK chancellor’s recent autumn statement. But this was not delivered, even though Jeremy Hunt presented 110 economic measures designed to boost UK growth and productivity.Expanding access to early years care is vital for addressing socio-economic inequality, educating society’s youngest members, enabling early interventions in children’s lives and helping more parents access the labour market or increase their participation in work.
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S58S59S60Chicken doesn't need to be washed before cooking - here's why  Social media isn’t exactly known for being a welcoming place to have a productive discussion or share your opinions. Even the most inoffensive posts can breed noxious comments sections. Take this seemingly harmful post on TikTok, in which a woman shares a step-by-step recipe for spatchcocking chicken. While you might expect to find comments asking about the recipe or even sharing tips and advice, instead you find comment after comment of people expressing disbelief that the chef didn’t wash her chicken before cooking it.
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S61It's not a cost of living crisis - it's a poverty pandemic  There is a poverty crisis in the UK. But when outlining his 110 growth measures aimed at getting “the British economy working” during his autumn statement, the chancellor’s measures to tackle the cost of living crisis were limited to economic support payments focused on short-term wins.We argue that raising living standards should be seen as a long-term investment in the UK’s future, not a short-term capital expenditure.
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S62Honeybees cluster together when it's cold - but we've been completely wrong about why  For 119 years, a belief that the way honeybees cluster together gives them a kind of evolutionary insulation has been fundamental for beekeeping practice, hive design and honeybee study. More recently, California beekeepers have even been putting bee colonies into cold storage during summer because they think it is good for brood health. But my study shows that clustering is a distress behaviour, rather than a benign reaction to falling temperatures. Deliberately inducing clustering by practice or poor hive design may be considered poor welfare or even cruelty, in light of these findings.
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S63There are many reasons disabled people can't just work from home -- threatening to cut their benefits won't fix the wider problems  As part of the UK government’s latest economic plan, disabled people may have to look for jobs they can do from home or face cuts to their benefits. Previously, disabled people with limited ability to work may have received benefits without being required to look for work. Now, Laura Trott, chief secretary to the Treasury, has said that disabled people not in work must “do their duty” and work from home.While more disabled people have found work over the past decade (mirroring more general increases in employment), there remains a significant employment gap. In January to March 2023, 53.7% of disabled people were in employment compared with 82.7% of non-disabled people.
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S64This Cleanser Banished My Acne for Good (and for Evil)  I’ve tried everything to get rid of my lifelong acne, from special diets to pricey facials. So, when a strong northerly wind blew a frayed piece of parchment through my window inscribed with tales of a mystical tonic called Exorzits, I figured, Why not give it a shot? Here’s how it went:First off, Exorzits is definitely a splurge. A one-ounce bottle cost me five payments of $19.99, plus my soul. To top it all off, I had to trek all the way to Hell to pick it up, which was a real slog.
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S6530 Years Ago, Steven Spielberg Made a Sci-Fi Cash Grab That Killed a Whole Movie Studio  Jurassic Park’s monumental success turned the Tyrannosaurus rex into the biggest pop culture commodity of 1993. Michael Crichton’s novel returned to the top of The New York Times Best Seller List three years after its original publication, arcade game Cadillacs and Dinosaurs received the Saturday morning animated treatment, and even B-movie maestro Roger Corman got in on the act with the nonsensical schlockfest Carnosaur. A feature-length dinosaur tale from Amblimation, the animation studio founded by the man who’d sparked this wave of Dino-Mania, should have been a home run.But despite Steven Spielberg’s attachment, the adaptation of Hudson Talbott’s children’s book We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story didn’t exactly roar to the top of the box office chart. It grossed just $9.3 million, less than half its budget, having misguidedly opened the same week as Mrs. Doubtfire, the instant family-friendly classic which, ironically, saw Robin Williams’ voice actor mess around with a TV studio’s stash of toy dinosaurs.
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S67S68Sonos Should Make the One Thing Steve Jobs Always Wanted To  The speaker maker appears to have its eyes set on personal audio, but home theaters are due for a reimagining.As of Sonos’ fourth quarter earnings, CEO Patrick Spence was teasing the company’s entrance into an entirely new product category in 2024. Sonos is known for its speakers, but due to less-than-stellar performance in 2023 and a major loss to Google in a battle over speaker software, the company is looking to branch out.
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S69Apple's New Godzilla Show Understands the Sci-Fi Franchise's Secret Weapon  There’s no denying that Godzilla is the star of whatever movie he’s in — he’s a 300-foot nuclear metaphor with a cinematic legacy that’s lasted nearly 70 years. However, that doesn’t mean that the plotlines involving the humans are merely ways to waste time in between kaiju brawls and stomped cityscapes. The new series on Apple TV+, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, does a good job of focusing on the impact that the discovery of a Godzilla would have on mankind. While previous MonsterVerse entries weren’t well-known for their human-centric plots — at best, they’re typically there to react in awe or provide kaiju fight play-by-plays — Monarch centers around multiple generations of the monster-obsessed and the people left in the wake of their attacks. It’s a keen look into what a society trying to decide if it’s on the edge of an apocalypse would look like, and the main character, Cate Randa, symbolizes the push and pull between the terror of the new world and the process involved in figuring out its secrets. All the while, Godzilla looms.
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S70Fortnite Is Having an Eminem Crossover Episode  After a series of leaks, Epic Games has confirmed that Marshal Mathers III will be returning to Fortnite for its finale event, called The Big Bang, performing as Eminem for a live event in the hit game. What's more, Epic plans to begin selling three skins of Eminem's various looks, called Rap Boy, Slim Shady, and Marshall Never More starting on November 29. If you're thinking about the possibility that this means gamers will be reenacting Eminem's hit "Real Slim Shady" music video, you're not alone. Epic is inviting players to "Watch Eminem... as Eminem" after all.
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