All posts tagged: Looked

Thought The New Stars Of The Gentlemen Season 2 Looked Familiar? Where You've Seen Them Before

Thought The New Stars Of The Gentlemen Season 2 Looked Familiar? Where You've Seen Them Before

Published by Sam Flores

Kaya Scodelario, Theo James and Ray Winstone all return in The Gentlemen’s second season After a two-year absence from our screens, Netflix is inviting audiences back into the loud, brash and bloody world of The Gentlemen. Inspired by the 2019 Guy Ritchie film of the same name, the well-received second season of The Gentlemen sees power players like Theo James’ Eddie, Kaya Scodelario’s Susie and Ray Winstone’s Bobby returning, alongside a host of new stars, as their criminal empire expands to Italy. As well as recruiting some huge acting talent for season two, the casting team has cast a wide net, plucking some of the biggest talents from the world of sport, reality TV and beyond to play characters in the new run of episodes. Here’s our guide to who has joined The Gentlemen this season – and where you may have seen these newbies before… Hugh Bonneville   Hugh Bonneville in Downton Abbey Hugh Bonneville is a new addition to the cast of The Gentlemen as Lord Hawthorne, a well-connected member of the House of …

Dick Cheney’s cardiologist: Trump ‘has not looked well’

Dick Cheney’s cardiologist: Trump ‘has not looked well’

Published by Sam Flores

Dr. Jonathan Reiner, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s cardiologist, wrote Wednesday that President Trump “has not looked well” during his second term. Reiner, who is also a professor of medicine and surgery at George Washington University, penned an op-ed in The New York Times noting past presidents who have hidden the state of their health,… Source link

Being Looked at Is Not the Same as Being Seen

Being Looked at Is Not the Same as Being Seen

Published by Jenni Sidey

We live in a time when it is easier than ever to be looked at. We can post a photo, appear on video, update a profile, check our reflection, track our image, and watch ourselves through the imagined eyes of others. Much of modern life now involves being visible: on social media, in meetings, on dating apps, in professional spaces, and even in the quiet moments when we catch sight of ourselves in a mirror or phone camera. And yet many people still feel profoundly unseen. That is one of the paradoxes of contemporary life. A person can be praised, followed, admired, evaluated, photographed, desired, or constantly available and still feel unknown. The reason is simple: being looked at is not the same as being seen. Attention Is Not Recognition Being looked at means someone notices the surface. They may notice your appearance, role, performance, productivity, usefulness, or the impression you create. Being seen means something deeper has been recognized. Someone registers your effort, feeling, intention, vulnerability, complexity, or inner life. They do not simply …

‘Euphoria’ Looked for Epiphanies and Found Nonsense

‘Euphoria’ Looked for Epiphanies and Found Nonsense

Published by Sam Flores

The following contains spoilers through the series finale of HBO’s Euphoria. Euphoria’s troubled protagonist, Rue (played by Zendaya), spends much of the drama’s final season dodging one potentially violent death after another. As a drug mule turned strip-club employee turned arms dealer turned informant, she barely survives being buried up to her neck, getting dragged by a horse down a dirt path, and becoming target practice in multiple shoot-outs. Yet when she does die, midway through the series finale, which aired last night, the scene unfolds quietly: Rue, recovering from a long day of double-crossing her employers and suffering a wound on her palm, overdoses on the fentanyl with which her painkillers have secretly been laced. The sequence stands out for its contemplative beauty. Rue, asleep, dreams of walking through her childhood home and seeing her mother, reaching for her before being embraced in return. Reality and fantasy blur. She smiles even as she gasps for air, then drifts off into endless slumber. If only Euphoria had maintained that restraint across the rest of its …

I ditched Spotify for a self-hosted music server and never looked back

I ditched Spotify for a self-hosted music server and never looked back

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Spotify and YouTube Music are convenient until you start noticing the cracks. Tracks disappear when licensing deals fall through, algorithms push convenience over your own preferences, and anything you download is just a temporary rental you don’t really own. If you’ve been frustrated by any of that, self-hosting your music library is worth looking into. There’s a great app that runs on surprisingly modest hardware while giving you full control over your collection, your metadata, and your listening habits. If you’re frustrated with Spotify, it’s time to switch. Related This Streaming Service Is the Best Way to Find Unique New Music If you’re done with Spotify’s lacklustre curated playlists, give this a whirl instead. The limitations of mainstream music platforms Streaming services are just a rental model that can fail at any time Shaheer Khan/MakeUseOf Music streaming was supposed to make things easier, but many people are finally hitting the walls that come with apps like Spotify or YouTube Music. These downsides show that we don’t really own the music we pay for. We’re renting …

New megafauna looked like spiky, 30-pound hamster

New megafauna looked like spiky, 30-pound hamster

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In the latest episode of old museum collections revealing new discoveries, two researchers in Australia have solved a paleontological mystery with an Ice Age fossil first discovered over  100 years ago. The fossil was found in  the underground Foul Air Cave in Buchan, Victoria, Australia. It’s the partial skull of an Owen’s giant echidna (Megalibgwilia owenii), a now-extinct giant echidna that weighed 33.1 pounds and grew up to 3.3 feet-long. The genus name, Megalibgwilia, consists of “mega” (great or mighty in Ancient Greek) and “libgwil” (the Wemba Wemba word for echidna).  “The apparent absence of the extinct large-bodied Owen’s Giant Echidna Megalibgwilia owenii from Victoria is unusual in light of its wide distribution across the continent’s southeast including Tasmania,” the researchers write in a paper recently published in the journal Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. “It is the first example of Megalibgwilia identified from Victoria, and reconciles the taxon’s otherwise disjunct southern distribution across mainland Australia.” Though the …