‘Landscape With Invisible Hand’ review: Tiffany Haddish in a Sci-Fi comedy that lacks bite on February 5, 2023What would life on Earth look like in a future where humans are still very much alive but no longer in charge? Landscape With Invisible Hand – directed by Cory Finley (Thoroughbreds, Bad Education) and based on the 2017 young adult novel by M.T. Anderson – depicts a depressed, dryly humorous society crumbling away at […]
How long can a healthy human live? By: AFP on February 5, 2023The death of the world’s oldest person at the age of 118 has reignited a debate that has divided scientists for centuries: is there a limit on how long a healthy human can live? After French nun Lucile Randon died, Spanish great-grandmother Maria Branyas Morera, 115, has assumed the title of the oldest living person, […]
Twitter to share ad revenue with some content creators By: Agencies on February 5, 2023Twitter will start sharing revenue from advertisements with some of its content creators, Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Friday. Effective Friday, revenue from ads that appear on a creator’s reply threads, will be shared. The user must be a subscriber of Blue Verified, Musk said. Musk, however, did not give details about the portion […]
With frigid innovation, scientists make a new form of ice on February 5, 2023Using a device that might be described as a super-duper cocktail shaker, scientists have fashioned a previously unknown form of ice – one that might exist on our solar system’s icy moons – in research that sheds light on water’s behaviour under extreme conditions. The researchers said they employed a process called ball milling to […]
Key nominees for the 2023 Grammy Awards By: Agencies on February 4, 2023Here is a list of nominees in the major categories for the 65th annual Grammy Awards, which will be handed out on Sunday in Los Angeles. Beyonce leads all contenders with nine nominations, followed by rapper Kendrick Lamar with eight, and pop diva Adele and balladeer Brandi Carlile tied at seven each. Beyonce and her […]
‘When It Melts’ review: Childhood trauma is inescapable in a well-crafted but bottomlessly bleak debut on February 4, 2023A couple of times over in “When It Melts,” the directorial debut of Belgian actor Veerle Baetens, Eva, played as a morose, withdrawn adult by Charlotte De Bruyne, looks at a photograph of herself as a 13-year-old. In the picture, child-Eva (Sundance prizewinner Rosa Marchant) is grinning a lopsided, optimistic tomboy grin, unaware of the […]
After 102 children, Ugandan villager says enough is enough By: Agencies on February 4, 2023Musa Hasahya Kasera has so many children he can’t remember most of their names. The Ugandan villager is struggling to provide for his vast family that he says includes 12 wives, 102 children and 578 grandchildren, and now feels enough is enough. “At first it was a joke… but now this has its problems,” the […]
‘Knock At The Cabin’ review: M. Night Shyamalan’s best thriller in years on February 4, 2023If you believe his critics, M. Night Shyamalan jumped the shark a while ago. Breaking out with The Sixth Sense in 1999, before Signs and Unbreakable cemented his reputation, the master of suspense has since struggled to recapture the magic of his early thrillers. Sci-fi After Earth was dull, superhero flick Glass underwhelmed, and last […]
‘Milisuthando’ — poetic meditations on a complicated South African history on February 3, 2023The director Milisuthando Bongela opens her discerning documentary Milisuthando with this shrewd declaration. It is an invitation, a notice and a guiding principle for her poetic meditation on a childhood affected by the violence of apartheid South Africa. Underrfl Bongela’s direction, memories are pliant forces. They stretch into the past, haunt the present and creep […]
Social isolation linked to Dementia risk factors: Study By: Agencies on February 3, 2023Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) is a growing public health crisis, with an annual global cost of more than $1 trillion US. According to a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Kimia Shafighi of McGill University in Canada and colleagues, social lifestyle determinants, including social isolation, are associated with neurodegeneration […]