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The Love Hypothesis spoiler review: Prime Video romcom displays important lesson

The Love Hypothesis spoiler review: Prime Video romcom displays important lesson

Published by Daniella Wilson

A star rating of 3 out of 5. **Warning: contains spoilers for The Love Hypothesis on Prime Video** The chemistry between the two leads isn’t the only thing fizzing away in this science-flavoured romcom. That’s right – if you thought the genre had exhausted every setting and formula going, think again. Adapted from a novel that began life as Star Wars fanfiction, the story takes us to Stanford University, where grad student Olive (Lili Reinhart) is chasing funding for a pancreatic cancer project and a coveted research spot at Harvard, when she gets tangled up with moody professor Adam (Tom Bateman – who in real life is married to Daisy Ridley, whose character Rey was the basis for that fanfiction). Best friend Anh (Rachel Marsh) is the love of Olive’s life – they spend all their time together and form an alliance against the cocky men who fill their seminars. So, when the guy Olive has a crush on is revealed to be into Anh, Olive makes it her mission to stay out of the …

‘Godzilla’ of weight-loss drugs could provide other important health benefits

‘Godzilla’ of weight-loss drugs could provide other important health benefits

Published by Sam Flores

The ‘Godzilla’ of weight-loss drugs could help improve blood sugar levels, reduce inflammation and cut a person’s body weight by a quarter, according to the largest study of its kind. Retatrutide mimics three key gut hormones that help control appetite, blood sugar and metabolism: GLP-1, GIP and glucagon. Unlike other drugs such as Wegovy, which primarily targets the GLP-1 pathway to suppress appetite, or Mounjaro, which contains GLP-1 plus GIP to control blood sugar levels, retatrutide also engages the glucagon receptor, which helps increase energy expenditure. The drug has not yet been approved by any regulatory agency. But the results of the global trial in people living with obesity and type 2 diabetes suggest it could help them shift enormous amounts of excess weight while also providing other important health benefits. “Retatrutide demonstrated substantial reduction in body weight alongside glycaemic control and cardiometabolic risk factors, with a safety profile generally similar to other molecules with GLP-1 receptor agonist activity,” the researchers said. The findings from the study, funded by retatrutide maker Eli Lilly, were published …

The Higgs boson’s most important puzzle remains unsolved

The Higgs boson’s most important puzzle remains unsolved

Published by Jenni Sidey

In some ways, the deepest question one can ask about our physical reality is simply, “What is the Universe made of?” In the early 1800s, we thought we knew the answer: atoms. By the early 1900s, the answer had grown much richer: atoms themselves were composed of atomic nuclei and electrons, which were capable of both emitting and absorbing photons: particles of light. However, it was the 1932 discovery of the neutron — along with the puzzle of radioactive beta decay — that would kick off the series of events that led to our modern theoretical picture of particles in the Universe: the Standard Model of elementary particles, including quarks, leptons, and all of the force-carrying bosons. Even though the last of the undiscovered particles of the Standard Model was finally found in 2012 with the announcement of the Higgs boson, our understanding of what the Universe is made of is still not complete. From a holistic perspective, there’s much that we still don’t know, including: what dark matter and dark energy are made of …

I stopped sitting with my legs crossed for 30 days and realised one important thing about optimal desk posture

I stopped sitting with my legs crossed for 30 days and realised one important thing about optimal desk posture

Published by Jenni Sidey

I’ve worked at a desk for more than five years and sitting hunched over my laptop every day has taken its toll on my body. I deal with stiffness in my shoulders, neck and, most frustratingly, my hips. Another contributing factor to the physical strain is a habit of sitting cross-legged on my chair, rather than with both feet on the floor. Latest Videos FromFit&Well While sitting cross-legged occasionally isn’t a problem, doing it for longer periods can cause issues. “As with any position, sitting for extended periods of time can cause discomfort, simply because we function best when we move regularly,” says Helen O’Leary, physiotherapist at Complete Pilates You may like After a particularly bad period of hip stiffness, I decided to kick the habit for good and challenged myself to avoid this position for 30 days. What I noticed when I stopped sitting cross-legged 1. I developed greater body awareness Changing my desk posture meant I had to be more aware of my position throughout the day. Start your week with achievable workout …

Freedom Is Much More Important Than Democracy

Freedom Is Much More Important Than Democracy

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Democracy invites despotism. When understood as majority rule, democracy means that fifty-one of every hundred citizens can have their way with the other forty-nine. “But I want to keep my possessions, weapons, and children.” Too bad, the majority have decided to redistribute your property to those lazy bums over there, disarm you before you can do anything about it, and indoctrinate your children in public schools, so that they learn to resent you and love the State. Democracy is dangerous without guardrails. Unless a society has a strong sense of moral virtue that fosters personal discipline, duty, and honor, base selfishness becomes the driving motivation behind all political action. Unless certain constitutional protections exist to safeguard each individual’s inviolable rights, democratic majorities devour those rights whenever expedient. This should surprise no-one. Political philosophers such as Hobbes and Locke described humans’ pre-government “state of nature” as a chaotic, violent clash of self-interest. Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” regards self-interest as the engine of free markets. Consequently, it is easy to …

In protecting women from body-shaming, we lost something important

In protecting women from body-shaming, we lost something important

Published by Sam Flores

If you’re also a pop culture obsessive, it was probably around early 2025 when alarming photos of Ariana Grande began rolling up in your text messages and DMs; images of the star looking particularly gaunt, shoulder bones and clavicle protruding. With the recent release of her new music video for “Petal,” those messages intensified to establish a troubling refrain: “Is Ariana Grande OK?” It’s hard to tell when, exactly, raising legitimate concern about a woman celebrity’s appearance became synonymous with your run-of-the-mill misogyny or bullying. But somewhere between the “you go, girl” and #MeToo eras emerged a dishonesty around how we discuss women’s bodies. That was a total vibe shift from the tedious “extreme theater kid energy” discourse that popped up whenever Grande and her “Wicked” co-star, Cynthia Erivo, so much as breathed in the same room together throughout the film and its sequel’s exhausting two-year press tour. The new messages carry with them a deep sense of concern and bewilderment, because they come from people who are mere spectators with neither the medical degree, …

Why the Commonwealth Games are such an important platform for para sport

Why the Commonwealth Games are such an important platform for para sport

Published by Sam Flores

The Commonwealth Games, being staged this year in Glasgow, hold para events in the same place and at the same time as the general competition. Not only does this give equal opportunity to all athletes, but it also brings disability sport into the mainstream conversation. The multi-sport competition has been held every four years since 1930, when they were known as the British Empire Games. At the 1994 games in Victoria, Canada, disabled athletes were included in exhibition events. But in 2002 in Manchester, England, para athletes were fully integrated into their teams. This made the Commonwealth Games the first major event where para competition took place alongside the general programme, with disabled athletes’ medals counting towards their nation’s tally. Read more: Too many disabled young people are missing out on PE – here’s how that could change And over recent years, opportunities for elite para sportsmen and women have grown and coverage has expanded. A partnership between the International Olympic Committee and International Paralympic Committee, the increased media coverage of the Paralympics, and integration …

ITV’s Robert Peston: “AI revolution will be possibly be the most important”

ITV’s Robert Peston: “AI revolution will be possibly be the most important”

Published by Daniella Wilson

When Robert Peston is panicky – and right now he is – the rest of the world should probably worry, too. The political editor of ITV News is, after all, the man who predicted both Covid and the 2008 global financial crisis while others blithely downplayed the dangers. “I do have a feeling of, ‘Why don’t people listen to me when I say things are about to go awfully badly wrong?’” he admits. “In the spring and summer of 2007 I was warning that what was happening in the banking sector was going to cause enormous harm to us all, and lots of politicians and people in the City wrote to the BBC [where he was business editor] to say I was scaremongering and needed to be closed down. A few years later, I’d made a ton of documentaries about China, and knew it well, and had been to Wuhan, so when this mysterious new virus turned up at the end of 2019 I said to anyone in government who would listen to me, ‘This …

Who Was Robert Rauschenberg and Why Was He So Important?

Who Was Robert Rauschenberg and Why Was He So Important?

Published by Jenni Sidey

Rauschenberg, though, was always more maximalist than minimalist, and in 1954 he embarked on the combines that would occupy him for the next decade. These pieces were as loud as the White Paintings were mute—as action-packed as any action painting by Jackson Pollock and just as assaultive on the eye. Indeed, barraging the viewer with imagery was the point. “I was bombarded with TV sets and magazines, by the refuse, by the excess of the world,” Rauschenberg said. “I thought that if I could paint or make an honest work, it should incorporate all of these objects, which were and are a reality.” The combines included wall-hung compositions as well as freestanding assemblages, with Bed (1955) and Monogram (1955–59) being the most indelible. Bed started out as the solution to a problem: Rauschenberg didn’t have a canvas he could use. So he tucked together sheets, a pillow, and a quilt donated by the artist Dorothea Rockburne, presenting the ensemble vertically to afford an overhead view of the object. Rauschenberg covered Bed’s upper half with penciled …

The Most Important Document We’ve Covered

The Most Important Document We’ve Covered

Published by Jenni Sidey

It’s the shortest text we’ve covered so far, and the oldest of its kind in the world. Referred to as a trauma-informed document by one constitutional scholar (there’s your clue), it was born of a major screw-up in the aftermath of the American Revolution that left laws unenforceable and foreign policy a hot, hot mess. It’s one of the nation’s most important foundational documents, but as you’ll learn, a deeply imperfect one. We’re talking about the United States Constitution. In honor of America’s 250th birthday, Jeff and Rebecca sat down with historical content creator and political commentator Amanda Nelson (yes, Book Riot OG Amanda Nelson—real ones know!) for a deep dive into the U.S. Constitution. They talk about what the framers were reacting to when they outlined the foundation of a new government, what the Constitution does and doesn’t say about individual rights, and how a concept that is never specifically named in the document has shaped the country ever since. Listen to Zero to Well-Read on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to …