A recent assumption about modern cinema – challenged by Caitlin Quinlan – is that if a film makes you cry, it must be good. I believe in horror a similar argument is often upheld: if it makes you jump, it must be good. The problem is, just as there are many dramas that evoke tears without becoming memorable, there are many horror films that...
O’Malley’s videos feature the wild plot twists and whiplash juxtapositions of a short-attention-span culture; watching them can be as abrasive as sitting next to a person on the bus flicking through Reels without earbuds in. What I’ve described above is only the pre-credit sequence of Coreys (which is, incredibly, only 12 minutes long). It soon descends into a frankly Lynchian odyssey of split and merged...
The pet food aisle has never been more crowded, which is exactly why Hillary Coles says she was skeptical when Atomic Labs came calling. “I had the same reaction you did,” Coles told me on a call Monday afternoon, a day before her new company, Golden Child, opened for business. “Surely that can’t be what people need.” Coles co-founded Hims...
Truecaller is one of the world’s most widely used caller identification platforms, with more than 500 million users. Now it’s entering a more challenging phase as growth slows in its largest market and competition intensifies across telecom networks and smartphone platforms. Much of Truecaller’s growth has been driven by India, which accounts for over 350 million users, or about 70%...
Maine Governor Janet Mills has vetoed a bill that would have temporarily brought permits for new data centers to a halt. If it had become law, L.D. 307 would have imposed the country’s first statewide moratorium on new data centers — lasting, in this case, until November 1, 2027. The bill also called for the creation of a 13-person council...
The holographic minaret of Al-Shafi’i drilled the Adhan straight into the mastoid bone behind my ear. A neural vibration, not a sound. Maghrib. Above the coral houses of Al-Balad, the Ministry’s drones buzzed back to their hives, glutted on our biometric data.I sat on my synthetic rug in a shop squeezed between a hissing falafel printer and a stall selling...
Iran had earlier said there were no plans for a direct meeting with a US delegation led by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Source link...
A driver was seriously hurt after police said they ran off the road and crashed into a tree in Louisa County on Saturday. Source link...
Is the tide finally turning on the bigotry, fear-mongering and manufactured division in our society, including on college campuses? The success of a joyful gathering last week at traditionally Baptist Baylor University in Waco, Texas, suggests it might be. This week on The State of Belief, host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush brings us with him to the Baylor campus, sharing...
Scientists have increasingly recognized that the gut microbiome plays an important role in overall health, including the brain. However, researchers are still working to identify which specific bacteria are involved in disease and exactly how they influence the body. One bacterium in particular, Morganella morganii, has been linked in several studies to major depressive disorder. Until recently, though, it was...
