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CEO Picks - The best that international journalism has to offer!  S34How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)   Think back to your last off-site meeting. You and the rest of your team likely poured over reports and spreadsheets, facts and figures. Strewn about the table were probably the tools of your trade: reams of data, balance sheets and P&Ls. Managers understand that clear-eyed analysis — both quantitative and qualitative — is the key to building a resilient business. And yet when it comes to measuring and strengthening our own ability to adapt, grow, and prosper, rarely do we apply the same methodical approach.
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S45The Next Big RPG from Persona's Publisher Feels Entirely New Despite Retro Inspirations  I’ve written a lot about Unicorn Overlord here at Inverse, from its gorgeous characters art to the welcome ability it gives you to smooch your teammates. But while we knew that it’s a tactical RPG inspired by old-school strategy games, exactly how its combat works remained a mystery. But thanks to a recent hands-on preview, I can confidently say that its battles are nothing like what I expected — and they’re far more interesting as a result.My time with Unicorn Overlord covered roughly four hours at the beginning of the game, from a prologue introducing its story’s political struggle to the campaign’s first major boss battle. You play as Alain, wayward prince of Cornia. After an introductory scene where the country’s revered General Valmore overthrows your mother, Queen Ilenia, the game picks up years later, as Alain fights to free the world from Valmore’s dominion.
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S4236 Years Later, a 'Deadpool 3' Easter Egg May Solve A Major Wolverine Mystery  The first Deadpool & Wolverine trailer is full of noteworthy moments. From Wade Wilson's (Ryan Reynolds) canon-altering run-in with the Time Variance Authority (TVA) to the blink-and-you'll-miss-it return of Pyro (Aaron Stanford), the teaser trailer is practically brimming with details that are meant to further promote Deadpool & Wolverine's position as a can't-miss addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Based on the responses that the trailer has received, it seems safe to say that it's done just that, too.There's even one brief moment in the trailer involving Hugh Jackman's Logan, who is largely absent from the teaser itself, that may answer one of the biggest questions that fans have had about the forthcoming film ever since Wolverine's involvement in it was first announced. That question is: How will Deadpool & Wolverine bring Jackman's fan-favorite X-Men hero back without invalidating the events of 2017's Logan, which famously ends with its titular hero's demise?
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S31How China stifles dissent without a KGB or Stasi of its own - The Economist (No paywall)  Much thought has gone into making the Beijing Police Museum a family-friendly attraction. Housed in a classical mansion near Tiananmen Square, the museum is big on crime-fighting heroics. Glass cases show guns used by Chinese police. A model of a police dog sports a bullet-proof vest, commando-style helmet and protective boots on its paws. During the lunar-new-year holidays, a recent weekday found parents and children admiring displays about police helicopters, drug squads, traffic patrols and cyber-officers keeping the internet “healthy”. Political repression earns a passing mention—but in a historical section. An old photograph shows student protesters being arrested by plain-clothes agents, decades before the Communist Party took power.
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S4327 Years Later, X-Men Will Finally Explain its Biggest Cliffhanger  The ’90s X-Men are back! On March 20, Disney+ will drop a new series called X-Men ’97, which is essentially not new at all. In terms of both style and continuity, it appears to be a direct sequel to the beloved ’90s animated series that ran from 1992 to 1997. But it seems Marvel is futzing with the fate of Charles Xavier and adding a new layer to the show’s infamous final episode, “Graduation Day.”Does this mean X-Men ’97 is changing the events of the original series? Maybe. The trailer includes scenes from the final episode of the original cartoon, “Graduation Day.” In it, a dying Professor X left Earth and entrusted the survival of mutants to the remaining X-Men. And, for almost three decades, that was it for animated X-Men.
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S28"That's a good girl": how women are infantilised during obstetric care and labour  The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) updated their guidance on intrapartum care – care during labour and immediately afterwards – in 2023 to direct UK National Health Service (NHS) staff to treat all women in labour with kindness, dignity and respect. Respectful communication that recognises women as capable decision makers during pregnancy and childbirth improves physical and mental health outcomes for patients during and after the birth.It is likely that the widespread use of patronising language, contributes to an environment in which women patients are objectified and their perspective dismissed or undermined. That means that patients lose opportunities to contribute to decision making, or even to give consent for interventions, during labour and birth.
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S7Zendaya's robot suit at the Dune: Part Two premiere and Thierry Mugler's wildest looks  There was a distinctly futuristic vibe on the red carpet for the Dune: Part Two premiere in London this week. Timothée Chalamet wore metallic trousers, Florence Pugh wore a sequined black hooded dress by Valentino. But no one understood the assignment more than Zendaya, who showed up in a silver cyborg suit proving that, when it comes to fashion, she's in not just another league – but another world.Zendaya's stylist Law Roach sourced the bodysuit from French fashion designer Thierry Mugler's 1995 couture collection. The robot suit was originally created with artist Jean-Jacques Urcun, and inspired by the character Futura from the 1925 novel Metropolis. Constructed from chrome, and featuring plexiglass cutouts, it took six months to make. The futuristic look was the perfect choice to launch a sci-fi movie – and if Zendaya was looking to create an iconic red carpet moment, then she chose wisely. Because if there's one designer whose creations are almost guaranteed to turn heads, it's Thierry Mugler.
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S12The Quest 3 Needs a UI Refresh and the Vision Pro Proves It  Now that people have been experimenting with Apple’s spatial computer for a couple of weeks, we’re starting to see just how it stacks up against the Quest 3 and Pro. There are a lot of differences — just ask Mark Zuckerberg — and while the Quest 3 scores points in fields like price, hand tracking, and games, there’s one arena that Apple is extremely hard to beat: UI.According to Meta’s CTO Andrew Bosworth, who spoke about Quest headsets in an Instagram AMA, the company is currently working to change that Apple advantage by revamping the UI for Quest headsets. More specifically, Bosworth said that Meta is “reworking some of the core UI infrastructure to be able to enable a richer environment.” Apparently, Meta has been working on this for a while, but we shouldn’t expect it anytime soon, Bosworth added.
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S14The Best Horror Game of the Decade Just Got an Upgrade  In a world of deadly viruses and heinous creatures walking the earth, an espionage story is surprisingly a perfect fit. In a similar vein as the outstanding Resident Evil 4 remake, the Separate Ways DLC takes the original’s retelling through the eyes of spy Ada Wong and refines it in almost every way. And if you missed it when it first launched on September 21st, the recent release of Resident Evil 4 Gold Edition makes for the perfect excuse to experience the memorable alternate trip.The premise of the original Separate Ways is fairly simple. Ada Wong, Leon Kennedy's long-time acquaintance, also happens to be on a mission during the events of Resident Evil 4. The characters cross paths multiple times in the main story, but for the most part, Ada just happens to be at the right place at the right time to help Leon. Separate Ways provides the chance to see what the agent has been up to through a much more condensed playtime.
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S1565 Years Ago, a Legendary Director Invented a Terrifying New Trick -- And Launched a Trendy Gimmick  The haunted house is one of the true icons of horror. Its simple set-up has inspired countless stories over the centuries, making the trope almost as old as the genre itself. In 1959, director-producer William Castle released one of the most iconic versions of this tale, House on Haunted Hill. It's a familiar enough plot: an eccentric millionaire (played, of course, by Vincent Price) invites a group of people to a party in his crumbling gothic mansion, and whoever spends an entire night there wins $10,000. Could you survive it? Could you even survive watching the movie itself?Castle made sure that everyone who saw House on Haunted Hill would remember the experience, and his tricks kickstarted a new era of interactive cinema.
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S18S21AI has a large and growing carbon footprint, but there are potential solutions on the horizon  Given the huge problem-solving potential of artificial intelligence (AI), it wouldn’t be far-fetched to think that AI could also help us in tackling the climate crisis. However, when we consider the energy needs of AI models, it becomes clear that the technology is as much a part of the climate problem as a solution.The emissions come from the infrastructure associated with AI, such as building and running the data centres that handle the large amounts of information required to sustain these systems.
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S25Harry Potter online fanfiction lovers might not be too happy to see Manacled become a book  The upcoming publication of Alchemised, a fantasy romance book that began its life as the Harry Potter fan fiction story Manacled by Sen Lin Yu, is part of a relatively small, but curious trend of fan fiction (amateur fiction writing by fans) being rewritten and published as original work.Perhaps the most famous is Fifty Shades of Grey, which began as Twilight fan fiction called Masters of the Universe in 2009, but there’s evidence it may date back to 2007.
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S27Alexei Navalny: reported death of Putin's most prominent opponent spells the end of politics in Russia  Reports of the death of Russia’s most famous opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, in an Arctic prison camp are shocking, but not entirely unexpected. It draws a line under Russia’s political development over the past two decades by highlighting that a challenge from within is no longer possible.Navalny was the last public politician to pose a real challenge to the Kremlin, but his attempt to overthrow the regime failed long before what appears to be his untimely death in prison.
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S29Navalny dies in prison - but his blueprint for anti-Putin activism will live on  Long lines of Russians endured subzero temperatures in January 2024 to demand that anti-Ukraine war candidate Boris Nadezhdin be allowed to run in the forthcoming presidential election. It was protest by petition – a tactic that reflects the legacy of Alexei Navalny, the longtime Russian pro-democracy campaigner. Authorities say Navalny, a persistent thorn in the side of Russian President Vladimir Putin, died in prison on Feb. 16, 2024.For more than a decade, Navalny fought Russian authoritarianism at the ballot box and on the streets as the most recognizable face of anti-Putinism, filtering support to candidates brave enough to stand against the Kremlin’s wishes.
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S36Why pet owners are spending thousands of dollars on 'human-grade' food  When Amy Barkham adopted her dog named Wednesday, she already knew she wanted to feed the German Shepherd-Husky mix premium dog food. She scoured websites, and read labels and reviews to select UK brands of kibble that positioned themselves as grain-free, nutritionally balanced and bursting with the goodness of top-notch ingredients, including free-range chicken and "vegetables and botanicals that match your dog's ancestral diet".Wednesday, whom Barkham describes as "the biggest bundle of energy I have ever come across", was uninterested in the grain-free kibble her owner had searched for high and low. (She preferred to play with her plush toy pumpkin instead.) After a month, she began refusing the food entirely, dramatically losing weight during her hunger strikes.
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S37How Google is sticking to - and soaring past - its DEI goals  Commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are forward-looking investments for companies. Research consistently shows embracing diversity makes companies more innovative – and ultimately more profitable.In recent decades, many global companies launched new initiatives to improve their DEI efforts, bringing in new executives and bolstering their hiring of diverse candidates. However, the landscape shifted in 2022, when many tech companies made significant cuts and downsized DEI programmes. In many cases, workers of colour were among the first affected by layoffs.
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S39The childhood WW2 trauma that inspired Yoko Ono  In 1945, Yoko Ono's parents sent her and her younger sibling to the Japanese countryside to escape the attacks on major cities in Japan during World War Two. The United States had firebombed Tokyo, Ono's hometown at the time, killing up to 100,000 people. The now 90-year-old artist was then 12 and from an affluent family, but food shortages during the war meant that Ono, her brother, Keisuke and sister, Setsuko, often went hungry.According to Ono's son, 48-year-old American-British musician and producer Sean Ono Lennon, his mother, who now lives in New York, would play "imaginary meal games" with her siblings where they would pretend they were eating food. "You could say that the conceptual origins of her work started there in World War Two – being hungry and realising the power of imagination," says Ono Lennon, who runs her day-to-day affairs now that the artist has retired."You could even say it led directly to the song Imagine, which became this world-famous anthem," he tells BBC Culture. The 1971 song Imagine was co-written by Ono and her husband, John Lennon, though at the time of the song’s release, only Lennon was credited.
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S41This Unhealthy Activity Could Alter Your Immune System Forever  Smoking shapes your adaptive immune system into something more overreactive and pro-inflammatory even long after you quit.Smoking does not do a body good. We’ve known this universally acknowledged truth for at least the past 60 years. Still, researchers are constantly finding new ways that it harms our health. In a study out this week in Nature, scientists detail how smoking influences the immune system, revealing how it affects a person’s pathogen-fighting abilities even years after they’ve quit.
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S49Look! Epic Images Show 'Odysseus' Lander On Its Way To the Moon  Round two of NASA’s newest Moon project is now underway, following the successful launch of the Intuitive Machines-1 (IM-1) mission in the early morning hours of Thursday.IM-1 is now on a journey to reach the Moon on February 22, aiming to place a lander dubbed Odysseus on the surface of Earth’s natural satellite. If it does, the Houston-based company would become the first private lander on the Moon. In addition, the touchdown would usher in a special delivery service developed by NASA to make lunar trips more frequent and less expensive.
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S1610 Years Later, Nintendo's Most Underrated Platformer Is Still A Step Above The Rest  Donkey Kong has had a long and fruitful career as a mainstay of Nintendo’s playable menagerie.Donkey Kong has had a long and fruitful career as a mainstay of Nintendo’s playable menagerie. After early rounds of spaceships and generic cowboys, DK was the first named character of Nintendo’s modern era, one that now boasts the most valuable stable of I.P. this side of Disney. But it was his Donkey Kong Country games, first developed by Rare and then Retro Studios, that gave him a franchise of his own to run and jump through. Since the first in 1994, there have only been five games in the series (not counting Game Boy ports or remakes which included some unique content). The last, 2014’s Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, is inarguably the high point of the series, and is maybe the finest 2D platformer in that genre’s long and lustrous history.
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S24State-owned energy companies are among the world's most polluting - putting a price on carbon could help  Existing measures to cajole companies to decarbonise, with subsidies for renewable energy and carbon taxes, have failed to prevent global emissions rising. Does state ownership, particularly in the energy sector, make this process easier? State-owned energy firms that search for, produce and refine fossil fuels are among the most polluting organisations in the world. But because governments have a big say in how they operate, it might be considered easier for their emissions to be rapidly phased out by treating them as extensions of the government, without needing to rely on the incentives, fines or sanctions usually necessary to make private firms act.
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S47Netflix's Biggest Sci-Fi Show of the Year Has an Unexpected Rival  The epic story of alien first contact, slow invasion, and virtual reality is coming to TV as an epic streaming series. Yes, Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem has been turned into a compact Netflix series, created by Game of Thrones producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, along with Alexander Woo. On Netflix, the first season of the 3 Body Problem series will consist of eight episodes. But, over on Peacock, you can watch a show called Three-Body which has a staggering 30 episodes.Confused? Here’s what’s going on: The Peacock Three-Body and the Netflix 3 Body Problem are completely different shows, though both adapt Liu’s groundbreaking novel. Other than the length, Peacock’s version is different for two crucial reasons: It was made in China, and the characters and plot are much more faithful to the novel. Mild book spoilers for The Three-Body Problem ahead.
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S11This Beastly Electric Truck Has More Horsepower Than the Hummer EV  Hummer has some serious competition. Scarbo Vintage introduced its third EV, the SV Rover, which packs more horsepower than GMC’s massive Hummer EV. The California-based automaker is claiming the SV Rover as the “world’s first street-legal Hypertruck,” which isn’t much of a defined vehicle segment yet. Still, it does embody the performance expected of the hypercar label when it comes to racing in the desert.Scarbo Vintage says the SV Rover was originally meant to be a desert race truck specifically designed for racing in Baja, but later updated the design to be street legal. That means you could see this monster of an electric truck on off-roading trails, but also on the highway.
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S22Teacher apprenticeships may encourage more people into the profession - but greater change is needed to get them to stay  The latest figures show yet another failure to meet teacher recruitment targets in England. In eight of the past nine years there have been too few people entering the teaching profession in the UK. In 2023-24, only half of the targeted secondary trainee teacher places have been filled. Current indications show that the government needs over 13,000 more secondary teachers to meet the 2023-24 teacher recruitment target – not to mention the hangover caused by previous years’ shortfall. And, of course, the shortage of teachers is being felt by schools.
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S23S26A brief history of the diss track - from the Roxanne Wars to Megan Thee Stallion  Released last month, Houston-born rapper Megan Thee Stallion’s hit song Hiss is a textbook diss record. Fans and critics have suggested the track takes aim at multiple artists including Tory Lanez, Nicki Minaj and Drake. Minaj responded with her own track, Big Foot (a reference to Megan’s tall stature), but its weaker metaphorical content and flow mean it has failed to make the same impact. Diss records are songs which intentionally dismiss, disrespect or mock others, usually fellow musicians. They are particularly prominent in hip hop. But although the diss record came to prominence in rap songs during the mid-1980s, the concept is nothing new. Artists such as Lee “Scratch” Perry, Queen, The Beatles and Sex Pistols have all insulted a variety of people, bands and record labels in their music.
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S30How Alexei Navalny defied Putin - The Economist (No paywall)  ALEXEI NAVALNY did not like tragedies. He preferred Hollywood films and fables in which heroes vanquish villains and good triumphs over evil. He had the looks and talent to be one of those heroes, but he was born in Russia and lived in dark times, spending his last days in a penal colony in the Arctic permafrost. A fan of “Star Wars”, he described his ordeal in lyrical terms. “Prison [exists] in one’s mind,” he wrote from his cell in 2021. “And if you think carefully, I am not in prison but on a space voyage…to a wonderful new world.” That voyage ended on February 16th.
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S33Why We Set Unattainable Goals - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)  There is merit in setting stretch goals, but we need to manage how we react to failure. If we don’t, we may ultimately end up demotivating ourselves. Try celebrating small wins. Suppose your goal was to read 100 books in the year and you read only 12; it’s proof enough that you’re capable of making a change for the better. Don’t dwell on the failure. Think about what worked and what didn’t. Then, use that information to be more strategic next time. Think about “accidental” or related benefits. It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey. What did you learn about yourself along the way? Ask a trusted friend why they think you failed. Sometimes a reality check from a good source can help you better understand yourself.
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S35Weight wasn't the only thing I lost when I took a weight-loss drug - Business Insider (No paywall)  I can't count how many times Levain's cookies sabotaged me â a day of disciplined dieting broken as I got sucked into those buttery black holes. Often I fought the temptation; sometimes I won, but too frequently I felt my body pulse in anticipation of the dopamine reward (mouth salivating, throat tensing) before caving to the cookies, resenting my choice, and feeling the familiar shame.So when I realized I suddenly didn't care about stepping inside, I didn't trust it. I forced myself to visualize that first perfect bite, waiting for my mouth to water and jaw to ache ⦠but nothing. When it dawned on me that I could win my daily battle without even fighting it, I felt like I'd learned how to breathe underwater, as if I'd lost enough weight to levitate.
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S1Stop Basing Your Self-Worth on Other People's Opinions - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)  Self-worth is our set of core beliefs about our value as a human being. It’s how we see ourselves and who we perceive ourselves to be. People differ in what they believe they must be or do to have worth or value. When we externalize our self-worth, we get emotionally and chemically rewarded when we succeed. This inevitably turns into a never-ending loop in pursuit of instant gratification. To undo this, we need to develop an awareness of where our self-worth is internally anchored.
Author of the popular HBR article How to Stop Worrying About What Other People Think Of You, high-performance psychologist Michael Gervais argues that our fear of other people’s opinions — what he calls FOPO — may be the single greatest restrictor of human potential. In his new book, The First Rule of Mastery (Harvard Business Review Press), Gervais, who works with world-renowned athletes, artists, and musicians, as well as Fortune 100 leaders and teams, shares the mental skills and practices we need to overcome FOPO. This excerpt, which is lightly edited, explores our tendency to outsource our self worth — or look to others for external validation.
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S2ChatGPT's 'memory' experiment offers a glimpse into what AI assistants will become - Fortune (No paywall)  Today, we’re starting with some breaking news. OpenAI this afternoon unveiled its first ever text-to-video model, called Sora, which it says can turn short text prompts into strikingly realistic, high-definition videos up to a minute long. The model is still in the research phase and not generally available, but the sample clips the company shared appear impressive (though most weren’t anywhere near a minute). MIT Technology Review, which got a preview ahead of the announcement, said the firm “has pushed the envelope of what’s possible with text-to-video generation.” Wired said the model “shows an emergent grasp of cinematic grammar.” But at the same time, the model is being met with some appropriate skepticism. MIT Technology Review said the samples “were no doubt cherry-picked to show Sora at its best” and gave a disclaimer detailing how OpenAI hasn’t released a technical report, hasn’t demonstrated the model actually working, and made the publication agree to “unusual” conditions in order to preview the model. Either way, OpenAI is planting its stake in generative AI video, making Sora one to watch. This brings us to today’s main story, which is similarly about a new OpenAI experiment. Despite people marveling over ChatGPT since its debut more than a year ago, it’s lacked a key capability that would help make it the all-knowing personalized digital assistant many want: memory, or the ability to connect together all the interactions you have with the chatbot. But finally, the missing feature is becoming a reality.
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S3MrBeast, the world's biggest YouTube star, brings in $700 million a year, but he relies on a trusted compliance officer to control the purse strings: His mom - Fortune (No paywall)  The reason Donaldson doesn’t believe he’s wealthy at the moment is because all the money he makes from his work gets reinvested back into making more videos. Donaldson’s YouTube channel, which is the most followed on the platform, has issued more than 750 videos since it launched in 2012. Most of his content features either elaborately designed competition-show–style challenges or generous acts of charity such as paying for a cataract surgery or giving homeless people large sums of money. Each video now regularly tops 100 million views and brings in several million dollars in ad revenue and brand sponsorships, according to Time. He’s also branched out into several other business ventures—most notably in the packaged goods space with a line of chocolate bars called Feastables, which he says brings in $100 million a year in revenue. In a testament to his promotional power, Feastables was a success out of the gate, selling 1 million bars in the first 72 hours of its launch in 2022. The brand now has a jersey sponsorship with the Charlotte Hornets. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen praised Donaldson and other influencers who launched consumer product lines, calling their efforts the “future of brands.”
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S4Secret Mathematical Patterns Revealed in Bach's Music - Scientific American (No paywall)  Baroque German composer Johann Sebastian Bach produced music that is so scrupulously structured that it’s often compared to math. Although few among us are emotionally affected by mathematics, Bach’s works—and music in general—moves us. It’s more than sound; it’s a message. And now, thanks to tools from information theory, researchers are starting to understand how Bach’s music gets that message across.By representing scores as simple networks of dots, called nodes, connected by lines, called edges, scientists quantified the information conveyed by hundreds of Bach’s compositions. An analysis of these musical networks published on February 2 in Physical Review Research revealed that Bach’s many musical styles, such as chorales and toccatas, differed markedly in how much information they communicated—and that the musical networks contained structures that could make their messages easier for human listeners to understand.
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S5Investing in commodities has become nightmarishly difficult - The Economist (No paywall)  Only a few years ago, analysts and investors were aflutter with talk of a new “supercycle” in commodities. Some believed the world was about to repeat a surge in raw-material prices that began in the early 2000s, and lasted until the global financial crisis of 2007-09. This time the prompt was meant to be a mixture of a fast economic recovery, as the West emerged from covid-19 lockdowns, combined with a shift to green energy.
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S6Anatomy of a Fall's Messi: The dog who deserves an Oscar  In the pantheon of great canine actors, from Rin Tin Tin and Lassie onwards, none has yet had much sway at the Academy Awards. Enter: a placid, blue-eyed border collie named Messi, seven years of age and currently living what appears to be a blessed life on the pre-Oscars press circuit thanks to his key role in Justine Triet's Palme d'Or-winning courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall – this week, charming Hollywood's great and good at the Oscars nominees luncheon.As ever, the French seem to be light years ahead in their cinematic nous, as the latest big canine talent to hit our movie screens has, at least, picked up the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious Palm Dog award for his stellar performance. And while Messi may not have actually been nominated for a little gold man – despite a clamour from fans online saying he should have been – his swell of popularity has proven that perhaps the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences should reconsider an animal acting category.
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S8'Joker 2's Unique Genre Could Be the Cure for Superhero Fatigue  The sequel to Joker had to be something big. The original film rocked the superhero movie world with a completely new take on the villain while paying homage to classic films like Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy. A sequel had to capture that same energy, but with a different take so as to not be derivative. Joker: Folie à Deux seemed to have the perfect combination: in 2022, The Hollywood Reporter announced Lady Gaga would join the cast as Harley Quinn and the sequel would be a musical. But a recent quote from the film’s cinematographer casts doubt on this, despite the fact Joker 2 is perfectly set up to not only top its predecessor, but once again cut through the monotony of the superhero genre.
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S9'X-Men' Star Reveals How the MCU Can Fix the X-Men  James McAvoy is the symbol of a bygone superhero era. As Charles Xavier in the X-Men prequel films, he took the character Patrick Stewart embodied and made him a young, hip academic who wore a lot of corduroy and rocked shoulder-length hair. But superhero movies have moved on to the ever-expanding MCU, allowing McAvoy to look back at his X-Men movies with a critical eye. With the X-Men now on the verge of entering the MCU, could his misgivings actually be rectified? In conversation with GQ, McAvoy discussed his time playing Charles Xavier. “It was one of the most positive experiences I’ve had with a studio,” he said. “I don’t really [see them as just] money gigs. Days of Future Past I think is one of the better films that I’ve been involved in.”
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S10A Giant Baby Star Is Hiding In This Rare Hubble Space Telescope Snapshot  A star, hiding in plain sight within a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope, is one big baby.Stars fascinate astronomers. Not all of them are like our Sun, the 4.6-billion-year-old heart of the Solar System that has already reached middle age. Some, like the star at the center of a recently published image from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), are like rapidly growing teenagers. The star in the middle of the picture is a fraction of the Sun’s age, but already several times heftier. But studying it is tricky: Thick mats of stardust cover this jumbo-sized baby star.
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