All posts tagged: Violent

The sun’s violent death could look like this

The sun’s violent death could look like this

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. The sun still has a long life ahead of it, say five billion years or so. But our star is still on borrowed time. When its inevitable end arrives, the sun’s core will exhaust the last traces of hydrogen fuel and kick off the first stellar death pangs. At that point, our yellow sun will start swelling into a red giant star about 100 times its current size. Over the next one to two billion years, its outer layers will begin shedding as it transitions into its final phase as a white dwarf. The closest planetary neighbors—Mercury, Venus, and possibly even Earth—will be destroyed in the resultant collateral damage. But what about the fate of the solar system’s five other known orbiting planets? …

The strange, and occasionally violent, origins of American news

The strange, and occasionally violent, origins of American news

Early in my career, I landed a job at a local newspaper. It was a small-town daily with one editor and three reporters, and I only took the position because I was fresh out of college, and it paid 25 cents more an hour than my gig at the take-and-bake pizzeria. Looking back, I’m not nostalgic for the crushing grind or the strangely personalized abuse the paper’s readers could hurl over a simple spelling error. But if you caught me in a sentimental mood, I would admit that the experience ingrained in me an appreciation for good journalism and a love of the printed word. So, in some ways, reading Empire of Ink felt like tracing my professional roots. Alex Wright’s delightful history chronicles the evolution of the American newspaper, from its colonial origins to the turn of the 20th century. During this roughly one-and-a-quarter-century stretch, the country’s news landscape was a far cry from today’s middle-class profession. Our button-up permutation — with its standards, press passes, and structured prose — was organized by corporations …

Anatomical brain mapping separates structural deviations of violent psychosis from non-violent schizophrenia

Anatomical brain mapping separates structural deviations of violent psychosis from non-violent schizophrenia

Researchers have mapped how the physical structures of individual brains differ from a baseline norm in people who have a history of severe violence and schizophrenia. This analytical approach highlights individual differences rather than simple group averages, offering a potential path toward personalized psychiatric treatments. The findings were published in Translational Psychiatry. Forensic psychiatry attempts to understand why some individuals with severe mental health conditions commit violent acts. Finding biological patterns in the brain can help doctors provide better care and improve clinical evaluations in high-security settings. Previous brain imaging research has searched for structural abnormalities related to aggression. These older studies often grouped many patients together and compared their average brain structures to the averages of healthy people. A statistical group average can easily hide the wide variety of differences that exist from person to person. Two individuals with the identical psychiatric diagnosis might exhibit completely different physical brain alterations. Unn K. Haukvik, a researcher at the University of Oslo and the Centre for Research and Education in Forensic Psychiatry at Oslo University Hospital, …

America’s Politically Violent Have Their Own Ideology

America’s Politically Violent Have Their Own Ideology

There are three major problems when it comes to understanding political violence in America. First, Americans cannot seem to agree on a definition of political violence. Second, people are too busy blaming their perceived political foes to see the larger problem for what it is. And, third, the big one, nobody knows how to make it stop. I’ve reported on political violence for going on two decades (including in a cover story for this magazine in 2023), and I think some of what I’ve learned over the years can help—or at the very least might help sharpen people’s understanding of the problem. What even is political violence? Especially in a nation where every last corner of public life has been so thoroughly politicized, I favor the simplest definition: Political violence refers to violent acts intended to provoke or prevent political change. From the April 2023 issue: The new anarchy The question of who is to blame is fraught. It is quite obviously true that the left has a political-violence problem. Anyone telling you otherwise is …

Insurer refuses top British cyclist’s £15k payout because bike thieves ‘weren’t violent enough’

Insurer refuses top British cyclist’s £15k payout because bike thieves ‘weren’t violent enough’

A budding Team GB cyclist who had £15,000 worth of bikes stolen from a van has been left out of pocket because insurers say the hooded thieves weren’t “violent” enough. Gabriella McHugh, 17 – part of British Cycling’s development team – was heartbroken after the break-in outside her family’s flat in Clapham, south London. A neighbour’s CCTV shows the moment two men stole three cutting-edge Pinarello Dogma models which sell for about £5,000 each in the early hours of February 2. The pair in tracksuits enter the vehicle before shamelessly strolling away with their haul, leaving tyre covers strewn across the quiet residential street shortly after 2am. Gabriella’s father Matt McHugh said he was stunned when he claimed on his home contents cover from AA Insurance. In a rejection letter, the firm said: “Having considered your claim, there is no evidence of forced violent entry. “With this in mind, as per the policy wording, we are unable to provide any cover for your claim. “We understand that this is not the news you were hoping …

Taylor Frankie Paul’s ‘Bachelorette’ season canceled after violent video emerges

Taylor Frankie Paul’s ‘Bachelorette’ season canceled after violent video emerges

The latest season of ABC’s The Bachelorette has been canceled after a video circulated online of its star, Taylor Frankie Paul, hurling chairs at her ex-boyfriend in front of her toddler daughter in 2023. The Bachelorette was set to premiere on Sunday. Paul was already doing interviews for the show when ABC parent company Disney announced the cancelation. “In light of the newly released video just surfaced today, we have made the decision to not move forward with the new season of ‘The Bachelorette’ at this time, and our focus is on supporting the family,” a Disney Entertainment Television spokesperson said in a statement. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. Paul is a #MomTok influencer, with over 6 million followers, and the star of Hulu’s reality hit, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. That show recently paused production of its fifth season after reports came out that Paul and her ex, Dakota Mortensen, were being investigated by police in Draper City, Utah for an alleged domestic violence incident …

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man Is a Violent Delight From Netflix

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man Is a Violent Delight From Netflix

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, a new Netflix-BBC coproduction in US and UK theaters now, is a big-screen outing for Cillian Murphy’s anti-hero, Tommy Shelby, a traumatized WWI veteran and brutal gangster. Over the course of six blood-soaked seasons, Murphy has written Tommy’s legend into the long, proud tradition of British gangster stories. As a longtime fan of the show, I was eager to see how it would fare in the cinema. You needn’t have seen any of the series, which is kind of like a period Sopranos with distinctive Midlands accents and modern rock music on the soundtrack. With a minimum of exposition, the movie quickly fills you in on everything you need to know about Tommy and the Peaky Blinders gang — so named because they keep razors in their flat caps and do unspeakable things with them. Fans of the show needn’t worry, either — the movie is written by series creator Steven Knight and directed by Tom Harper, who directed some of the first series. Stylistically, it’s very much of a …

‘Violent’ prisoner due for deportation escapes custody for second time in a week | UK News

‘Violent’ prisoner due for deportation escapes custody for second time in a week | UK News

A “violent” prisoner with gang affiliations who is due for deportation is on the run for the second time in a week, Sky News understands.  Police are hunting for Daniel Boakye after he escaped from police custody in a hospital in Lewisham, south London. Boakye, 21, had been serving time at HMP Feltham for robbery charges. He is understood to be violent, has gang connections, and is due for deportation to Ghana. He had already gone missing after freeing himself from prison custody at West Middlesex University Hospital in the early hours of 10 February. The prison service said at the time they were “urgently” working with the Metropolitan Police, and were investigating how he was able to escape from hospital. Officers located him at an address in Thamesmead, southeast London, on Wednesday afternoon. On Sunday, Boakye again absconded from policy custody, this time at Lewisham Hospital, where he had been receiving medical treatment. Read more from Sky News:Unemployment hits highest rate in five yearsWhy the UK’s ‘lost’ teenage boys are in crisis Police are …

Ali Cherri on How Art Can Keep Us Empathetic In a Violent World

Ali Cherri on How Art Can Keep Us Empathetic In a Violent World

In Ali Cherri’s recent films, war maps itself onto the spine of those afflicted. The watchman, the titular figure of a 2024 short, stands rigid for unbroken hours, lost in a lineage of men stationed along the border of the internationally unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Cherri’s follow-up film The Sentinel (2025)—the second in an ongoing trilogy—debuts today. It centers on a French soldier, gently bent at the waist, a rifle lodged in his mouth. The rifle fires. Whether he dies or dreams is left unresolved, the decision deferred to the viewer. Source link

‘Landman’ Ends in Violent Cliffhanger, Jacob Lofland on End of Season 2

‘Landman’ Ends in Violent Cliffhanger, Jacob Lofland on End of Season 2

[This story contains major spoilers from the penultimate episode of Landman season two, “Plans, Tears and Sirens.”] The penultimate episode of Landman season two ended on a violent cliffhanger when Cooper Norris, the aspiring oil man son to Billy Bob Thornton‘s starring oil fixer who is played by Jacob Lofland, entered the back alley of the bar where his 22-year-old fiancée, Ariana (Paulina Chavez), works and found her being sexually assaulted by a former, disorderly bar patron. Cooper arrived after the man had beaten Ariana nearly unconscious and as he was removing her clothes in an attempt to rape her. Cooper launched onto the man and severely beat him until Ariana’s boss arrived. The episode ended by showing that a security camera was capturing the incident in the alley, and the police had been called. “This season, there were some twists and turns that you did not see coming. I tried to predict every bit of it before we read it, and some of it blew me off of feet. I was like, ‘I did …