The Devil Wears Prada Sequel in the Works at Disney With Screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenn

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  851 words  |  Martina Birk

20th Century Fox Film Corp/Everett Collection Gird your loins. Miranda Priestly is set to deliver more withering glances in a sequel to “The Devil Wears Prada.” Disney is developing a sequel to the hit 2006 movie starring Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, the high-powered fashion magazine editor from hell (or, more accurately, the editor-in-chief of Runway magazine) with Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt as her harried assistants Andrea Sachs and Emily Charlton. [Read More]

The Official Memes of the Paris Olympics

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  680 words  |  Billy Koelling

If being glued to the Games in Paris was a skill, the people running the official Olympics social media accounts would have earned gold—and they want you to know it: Their post, picturing Simone Biles’ multiple medals with the caption “Me if watching every second of the Olympics was an Olympic sport,” that was shared Monday on X and other platforms is just one of the many times the social media accounts of the Olympic Games and Paris 2024 have embraced or created memes—typically humorous or relatable images, videos, GIFs, and/or pieces of text that spread across the internet and which can often make reference to an existing trend. [Read More]

The Real Lessons of Sri Lankas War: A Global Power Shift and the End of Human Rights

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1122 words  |  Martina Birk

The grandly named “Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission” submitted its final report to Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday. The document is meant to account for the failure of a 2002 ceasefire and the events leading up to the end of the country’s 26-year-long war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who were defeated in May 2009. On paper, the LLRC looks something like the Truth and Reconciliation Commission convened after the end of apartheid rule in South Africa — more than 1,000 witnesses testified before the LLRC, and the Sri Lankan government has trumpeted the LLRC as an effort to help the country move on after a generation of ethnic conflict. [Read More]

This is why cockroaches are becoming almost impossible to kill

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  356 words  |  Martina Birk

With over 3,500 species of cockroaches existing all over the globe, these resilient creatures can be found in our homes, cupboards, and everywhere you don't want to see them. Now, a new study has found proof that they are becoming even more resilient than we thought. According to researchers from Purdue University, German cockroaches - the most common species worldwide - are no longer dying as fast as they used regardless of how much insecticide you use on them. [Read More]

Uses of bubble wrap | Pulse Nigeria

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  295 words  |  Tandra Barner

We explain what you can use bubble wrap for, even the one used after opening the package. Among the unusual uses of bubble wrap are those that will improve our gardening, and protect clothes and shoes. We explain what you can use bubble wrap for, even the one used after opening the package. Uses of bubble wrap Bubble wrap is an invaluable aid in everyday activities. Its versatility and availability make it worth having it always at hand. [Read More]

What We Get Wrong About Drugs Like Ozempic

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1459 words  |  Patria Henriques

Imagine a new medication was developed that not only provided meaningful improvement for the debilitating chronic condition it’s prescribed, but also helps to treat and prevent a myriad of other serious diseases. Imagine this same drug markedly improved a person’s quality of life with noted reductions in pain and improvements in mobility along with increases in confidence and mood. Now imagine that the media and medical coverage of its release are almost uniformly negative or sensationalistic. [Read More]

What you need to know about Zakat, Islams version

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  249 words  |  Martina Birk

What exactly is this? It is the Islamic equivalent of Christian tithing but is also more than that. ADVERTISEMENT In Arabic, the word ‘Zakat’ translates as ‘to cleanse’ or ‘purification’. Basically, it t means purifying your wealth by acknowledging that everything comes and belongs to Allah. Muslims see it as a religious obligation, ranked after prayer in importance. Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) has said: “Whoever pays the zakat on his wealth will have its evil removed from him” (Ibn Khuzaimah and at-Tabaraani). [Read More]

Why Actor Hill Harper Is Running for Senate

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2186 words  |  Billy Koelling

Hill Harper is best known for playing a medical examiner on CSI: NY and a surgeon on The Good Doctor. Those hit shows have given him fortune and fame, but he is determined to not let them define him in the coming weeks, as the 57-year-old auditions for a different role, that of Michigan’s next Senator. In jumping into an open race, Harper is testing whether the state’s Black and progressive voters can overpower the preferred pick of national Democrats and many of the state’s most powerful figures. [Read More]

Why I Celebrate My Single Mother on Father's Day

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  347 words  |  Billy Koelling

June 17, 2016 5:04 PM EDT I spent the majority of my childhood being raised by a single mother. From age 6 to 16, it was just me, my younger sister and my mom living in our suburban Colorado house. My sister and I loved this: We could crawl into our mother’s bed at all hours of the night without feeling like burdens, we could walk around the house with little to no clothes on and we could talk about anything and everything at the dinner table. [Read More]

Why Texas Is Our Future

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  21 minutes  |  4304 words  |  Patria Henriques

Correction Appended: Oct. 21, 2013 They say the Lone Star State has four seasons: drought, flood, blizzard and twister. This summer 97% of the state was in a persistent drought; in 2011 the Dallas–Fort Worth area experienced 40 straight days in July and August of temperatures of 100° or higher. The state’s social services are thin. Welfare benefits are skimpy. Roughly a quarter of residents have no health insurance. Many of its schools are less than stellar. [Read More]