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Dozens of artists, cultural workers, scientists, and climate advocates are calling on outgoing British Museum Director Hartwig Fischer to rename the institution’s BP Lecture Theatre and end all sponsorship by companies and individuals in the fossil fuel industry. An open letter published August 4 by the advocacy organization Culture Unstained states that the ongoing involvement of BP and other oil …

A broader pool of potential candidates would help bridge skills gaps, a senior MP has claimed The British military could review its recruitment policies to allow it to access a wider pool of people, including those suffering from certain neurological conditions, MP Andrew Murrison has told the Financial Times. Murrison, who serves as parliamentary under-secretary of state for defence people, …

Over the weekend, thousands of fighting game fans descended on Las Vegas, NV for Evo 2023, the biggest fighting game event of the year. It was a reminder of how cool esports can be, especially when built of the passion and tenacity of grassroots communities. For some competitors there was just one problem: some of the PS5s running all the …

The Big Picture The film Walk the Line accurately covers many true-life events in Johnny Cash’s life and career, including his rise to fame, addiction struggles, and relationship with June Carter. However, the film changes and embellishes some aspects of Cash’s life to make it more Hollywood, such as his relationship with his family, first wife, and the beginning of …

Jay Peters / The Verge: Mark Zuckerberg says Threads plans to add several features this week: share posts to Instagram DMs, a mention button, and a way to add custom alt-text for media  —  Threads, Meta’s Twitter competitor, is getting some new features “this week,” according to a post from CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

A Security Council meeting in progress. Credit: United Nations Opinion by Tim Murithi (cape town, south africa) Thursday, August 10, 2023 Inter Press Service CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Aug 10 (IPS) – The world’s institutions are ill-prepared and poorly designed to effectively address global challenges such as major power conflicts, pandemics, the climate catastrophe, refugee crises, violent extremism, illicit profiteering from …

Niall Cunningham as Brady and Cathy Ang as Lily in ‘And Just Like That…’ Craig Blankenhorn/Max And just like that, there might be a new couple in the Sex and the City universe. Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) played amateur detectives in the Thursday, August 10, episode of And Just Like That as they investigated the …

It’s hot fold summer; there have never been as many folding phones on the market as now. Not only did Motorola just reintroduce a folding Razr smartphone (its first since 2020), but Google recently debuted its first-ever Pixel Fold too. OnePlus is also expected to unveil a folding phone later this year. And that’s just in the US. Samsung has …

Everyone’s talking about Baldur’s Gate 3’s sexy times, be it with a giant red demon lady, a smarmy vampire, or a bear. What you might not have known about the fantasy role-playing game is that Larian Studios hired (at least) one voice actor to exclusively make sex sounds. The Week In Games: What’s Releasing Beyond Baldur’s Gate 3 Read More: …

On the eighth day of Russia’s war in Ukraine, March 3, 2022, for the first time in history, an operating nuclear station was taken over militarily. “We couldn’t believe it,” an engineer who worked at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant told Al Jazeera. “We completely denied it, one can’t just seize a nuclear station, it’s the safest place on the planet.” On …