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There’s a Glastonbury-shaped hole in Oasis’s 2027 tour announcement

There’s a Glastonbury-shaped hole in Oasis’s 2027 tour announcement

Published by Daniella Wilson

Oasis have announced another tour is on the way – and there is a very conspicuous gap in the schedule that could well point to a Glastonbury appearance for the Manchester duo. Following on from the massive success of their 2025 reunion shows, Liam and Noel Gallagher will be setting back out on the road for 38 concerts in the UK and Ireland, Europe and the US, including five nights at Celtic Park in Glasgow, two nights at Slane Castle in Dublin and four concerts at Knebworth, which will mark their return to the Hertfordshire locale after their historic 1996 performances. Dates in Munich, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, Boston and Las Vegas have also been confirmed, as well as a mammoth run at Manchester’s Etihad Stadium in June. Fans will have spotted, however, that the 11 listed dates at the Manchester arena include a two-day break on 23 and 24 June, which would allow the band to play at Glastonbury, which is taking place between 23 and 27 June. Full dates below. While Liam has …

The Eternal Allure of the Rabbit Hole

The Eternal Allure of the Rabbit Hole

Published by Daniella Wilson

Sylvia Meagher was 44 years old in the fall of 1965 and lived alone, except for her cat, Allegra, named after the ballet dancer Allegra Kent. She commuted from her one-bedroom apartment in the West Village to the United Nations, where she’d been working for nearly two decades at the World Health Organization. Although Meagher was a bureaucrat, her sensibilities were bohemian. She was acquainted with many of the painters, musicians, and writers who lived near her. In her foyer, Meagher displayed a painting of a nude figure given to her by a neighbor, the expressionist Alexander Dobkin. But the focal point of her living space was a bookcase laden with 26 reference volumes bound in dark-blue cloth. These were the supplemental materials of the Warren Commission Report. Only a few hundred private citizens in the United States purchased a copy of the 18,000-page, 54-pound series as soon as the Government Printing Office made it available. Far fewer had read it end to end. Perhaps only Meagher had nearly memorized it. Released in September 1964, …

Backrooms review: An unflinchingly eerie horror to take you down a creepy rabbit hole

Backrooms review: An unflinchingly eerie horror to take you down a creepy rabbit hole

Published by Daniella Wilson

Backrooms is in cinemas now. Add it to your watchlist Liminal space is the pervasive element of this unflinchingly eerie sci-fi horror from YouTuber-turned-film director Kane Parsons. For the uninitiated, liminal spaces are familiar areas (hallways, classrooms, stairwells) where the absence of living things, especially people, can produce a disquieting, almost otherworldly atmosphere. Images posted on the internet of the Backrooms, a vast expanse of interconnected rooms, went viral in 2019 and inspired a series of unnerving short films from Parsons in 2022, laying the foundations for the 20-year-old’s eagerly anticipated feature debut. Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Clark, a disgruntled American furniture-store manager, whose career as an architect has foundered along with his marriage and who’s now being encouraged by his therapist, Dr Mary Kline (Renate Reinsve), “to forge a new path”. But the man’s business – Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire – is not thriving either, obliging Clark to film an ad where he decides to dress as a one-legged pirate instead of a sultan, much to the bemusement of his stoner assistant (Finn Bennett). …

Ibram X. Kendi’s Conspiracy-Theory Rabbit Hole

Ibram X. Kendi’s Conspiracy-Theory Rabbit Hole

Published by Sam Flores

A conspiracy theory is soothing to the believer not just because it promises a complete explanation for all that appears wrong with the world, but also because it confirms the sense that something is wrong with the world. Society is in flux: New technology is altering how we work and think, centuries-old definitions of gender are collapsing, long-trusted institutions are crumbling, the weather itself seems to be in revolt. Any or all of these changes might make you feel unmoored, as if you are no longer in control. The conspiracy theorist comes along and says you are right. And more than that: Someone, or some group, is completely to blame; they are actively working to take away what you so recently took for granted. If this answer flies in the face of all observable truth, if it reduces life to a zero-sum game, it can still feel plausible because the conspiracy theorist is speaking to a human anxiety about the good and prosperous life being a limited commodity. As Naomi Klein put it in her …

Fill that Glasto-shaped hole! The 40 best UK festivals you can still book

Fill that Glasto-shaped hole! The 40 best UK festivals you can still book

Published by Sam Flores

Big names Live streamer … Creamfields. Photograph: Geoffrey Hubbel Download10 to 14 June, Donington, LeicestershireIf you needed another reminder of the cultural capital currently wielded by the sounds and styles of the early 2000s, witness nu-metal veterans Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park headlining the UK’s biggest rock festival alongside Guns N’ Roses, who continue to fly the flag for Donington’s Monsters of Rock heritage. Further down the poster you’ll find the really adrenalised stuff: Blood Incantation’s cosmic death metal; Drain’s febrile hardcore; and Die Spitz’s peerlessly cool doom-punk hybrid. Huw Baines Isle of Wight18 to 21 June, NewportHeadliner-wise, Isle of Wight offers the perfect arc for a festival weekend. Friday is all about hugging your mates while enjoying emotive, singalong bops with Lewis Capaldi; then on Saturday, with energy levels still high, Calvin Harris brings frenetic, star-studded bangers; while Sunday’s possibly dark-hued comedown is perfectly soundtracked by enduring goth titans the Cure. Inbetween, there’s the likes of everyone from Wet Leg to Rick Astley, via Teddy Swims and, why not aye, Five. Michael Cragg TRNSMT19 …

The widely reported “hole in the Universe” is a lie

The widely reported “hole in the Universe” is a lie

Published by Jenni Sidey

Somewhere, far away, if you believe what you can often find on the internet, there’s a hole in the Universe. There’s a region of space so large and so empty, a region that spans more than a billion light-years across, where there’s nothing located within it at all. There’s no matter of any type: no normal matter, no dark matter, no stars, no galaxies, no plasma, no gas, no dust, no black holes, and no anything else. There’s also no radiation emerging from it at all, either. It’s an example of truly empty space, and its existence has been visually captured by our greatest telescopes. At least, that’s what some people are saying, in a photographic meme that’s been spreading around the internet for years and refuses to die. Scientifically, though, there’s nothing true about these assertions at all. There is no hole in the Universe; the closest we have are the underdense regions known as cosmic voids, which still contain matter. Moreover, this image isn’t a void or hole at all, but a cloud …

Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole review | Nordic noir series plays the hits

Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole review | Nordic noir series plays the hits

Published by Daniella Wilson

A star rating of 3 out of 5. In the early 2010s, the entire world saw a Nordic noir boom, as the incredibly popular Scandinavian literary trend came to screens around the globe. The distinctive traits of the crime fiction sub-genre are as follows – each entry into it tends to follow a morally complex, troubled protagonist, who has a distinct knack for solving crimes amid a Scandinavian backdrop. They are also known for their presentation of particularly brutal violence and for their bleak, dark tone. With shows like The Killing and The Bridge dominating conversation, it wasn’t long before America and the UK tried to get on board the trend. A US adaptation of one of Jo Nesbø’s acclaimed Harry Hole books, The Snowman, was released in 2017 and was resoundingly panned. Now, almost 10 years on, comes a second attempt to bring Harry, one of Nordic noir’s most famous figures, to the screen. This time around, the adaptation is from Netflix, and they’re going right back to the source. A nine-part series, Detective …

Antarctica has a ‘gravity hole’

Antarctica has a ‘gravity hole’

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. A “gravity hole” beneath Antarctica sounds like the plot to a bad sci-fi movie, but it’s a very real situation deep beneath the Earth’s surface stretching back tens of millions of years. The phenomenon thankfully isn’t as apocalyptic as it sounds, either. In fact, researchers say these complex interactions between rock densities, gravitational pull, and sea levels are actually helping them understand how the southernmost continent’s ice sheets evolved, and what their influences mean for the planet’s climate. Most people experience gravity as a constant in their lives. In reality, the force exerts itself differently depending on the location and relationships between objects of varying mass. Inside the Earth’s mantle, rock density disparities gradually affect ocean environments. Areas of weaker gravity result in lower ocean surfaces compared to the planet’s center due to the fact that water inevitably flows towards areas of stronger gravity.  This decreased surface level is the most pronounced in the Antarctic Geoid Low (AGL), otherwise …

Physicists Think They Saw a Black Hole Explode

Physicists Think They Saw a Black Hole Explode

Published by José Betancourt

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Black holes are born from the explosive deaths of stars. But can black holes themselves explode? Nobody knows for sure — but if they can, a team of scientists argue they may have spotted evidence of such a catastrophe taking place. Their study, published in Physical Review Letters, suggests that the impossibly powerful collision of a subatomic particle called a neutrino into the Earth detected in 2023 could be explained by the explosion of a special kind of cosmic object called a primordial black hole. Black holes have expiration dates. It’s just that their lifespan is so long unbelievably long that there simply hasn’t been enough time to see one wink out. In 1974, Stephen Hawking hypothesized that the objects slowly release energy due to strange quantum effects near their event horizons. This slow trickle of energy is now called Hawking radiation, with modern calculations estimating it would take a time period of quadrillions upon quadrillions of times longer than the current age of the Universe …

Chicago’s Rat Hole? Science concludes it’s likely not from a rat

Chicago’s Rat Hole? Science concludes it’s likely not from a rat

Published by Miika Tikkanen

app: Short for application, or a computer program designed for a specific task. attention: The phenomenon of focusing mental resources on a specific object or event. biology: The study of living things. The scientists who study them are known as biologists. concrete: (in construction) A simple, two-part building material. One part is made of sand or ground-up bits of rock. The other is made of cement, which hardens and helps bind the grains of material together. crater: A large, bowl-shaped cavity in the ground or on the surface of a planet or the moon. They are typically caused by an explosion or the impact of a meteorite or other celestial body. Such an impact is sometimes referred to as a cratering event. evolution: (v. to evolve) A process by which species undergo changes over time, usually through genetic variation and natural selection. These changes usually result in a new type of organism better suited for its environment than the earlier type. The newer type is not necessarily more “advanced,” just better adapted to the particular …