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Bridgerton Season 4: 11 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About How The Show Was Made

Bridgerton Season 4: 11 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About How The Show Was Made

Published by Sam Flores

Luke Thompson and Yerin Ha in Bridgerton season four Bridgerton is back for a new run of episodes with more dramatic romances, extravagant costumes and even bigger wigs. The second half of season four follows bohemian Benedict Bridgerton as he continues his search for the mysterious Lady in Silver, after meeting her at a masquerade ball, not realising she’s actually Sophie Baek, who a maid he has also fallen for. As the love story between Benedict and Sophie – played by Luke Thompson and Yerin Ha – unfolds, the pair must overcome a societal divide in order to be together. With season four proving just as popular with Netflix users as ever, we’re going behind the scenes to find out how the team brought Julia Quinn’s books to life – and how the actors made those steamy love scenes look so realistic… Yerin Ha initially had doubts about playing Sophie in Bridgerton as she was worried her British accent wasn’t up to scratch Australian actor Yerin Ha has admitted she was surprised to land the …

Beyond Hard Facts: How Leaders Actually Move People to Action

Beyond Hard Facts: How Leaders Actually Move People to Action

Published by Jenni Sidey

By Tarek Issa and Joe Navarro “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” Often attributed to Joseph Stalin but likely originating in a 1924 French satirical work, this observation endures because it reflects something fundamental about human cognition: scale dulls emotion. The larger the number, the more distant the experience feels. Yet introduce a single face, a single story, and indifference can rapidly give way to concern. This is not a moral failing of the human mind—it is a feature of what makes us human. Across decades of observing human behavior, whether in investigative settings, corporate boardrooms, or everyday interactions, we have seen repeatedly that facts alone rarely persuade. Numbers can inform, but they seldom inspire trust or action. That is because trust is not primarily a product of logical reasoning. It is an emotional assessment filtered through experience, identification, and rapid cognitive shortcuts we all rely on to navigate complexity. History offers powerful demonstrations of this dynamic. During World War II, public messaging did not rely …

Where is Super Bowl 2026 held? Stadium capacity, location, facts and figures

Where is Super Bowl 2026 held? Stadium capacity, location, facts and figures

Published by Daniella Wilson

The Super Bowl provides a generational boom for any host city with a torrent of tourists, fans, celebrities and media washing through Santa Clara right now. The Bay Area stands to benefit from a $500 million injection into the regional economy as a result of 60 minutes of NFL action being played out at Levi’s Stadium in 2026. Not everyone is particularly enthused about hosting duties, however. Levi’s Stadium is the home of the San Francisco 49ers, divisional rivals of the Seattle Seahawks, whose logo has been proudly sprayed onto the endzone. The natives aren’t pleased. Radio Times brings you all the details about the Super Bowl stadium for 2026. Read more: Super Bowl TV coverage | Super Bowl halftime show performers | Who will sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl? Where is the Super Bowl 2026 held? Super Bowl LX will be held in Santa Clara, California in 2026. The game will be played at Levi’s Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers. It is the second time this stadium has hosted …

America Is Losing the Facts That Hold It Together

America Is Losing the Facts That Hold It Together

Published by Daniella Wilson

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. The CIA World Factbook occupies a special place in the memories of elder Millennials like me. It was an enormous compendium of essential facts about every country around the world, carefully collected from across the federal government. This felt especially precious when the World Factbook went online in 1997 (it had previously been a classified internal publication printed on paper, then a declassified print resource), a time when the internet still felt new and unsettled. Unlike many other pages on the World Wide Web, it was reliable enough that you could even get away with citing it in schoolwork. And there was a special thrill in the idea that the CIA, a famously secretive organization, was the one providing it to you. Memories are now the only place the World Factbook resides. In a post online yesterday, the agency …

Groundhogs don’t poop during hibernation and 6 other random facts

Groundhogs don’t poop during hibernation and 6 other random facts

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Despite advances in meteorological technology, we still keep a close eye on a rodent’s burrow every February 2 for a weather forecast. While groundhogs—also called woodchucks—have been associated with the end of winter and beginning of spring for centuries, there’s more to know about our rodent friends than their amateur Al Roker’ing.  No pee or poop Unlike bears, groundhogs are true hibernators. During hibernation, they don’t eat and rely on the fat stores they have built up and go into a deep and full sleep during the winter.  “They don’t wake up and walk around, go to the bathroom or anything like that,” Karen McDonald, STEM program coordinator at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Maryland tells Popular Science. “The waste is actually being recycled in their body.” When they are awake in the spring, summer, and fall, groundhogs use restroom chambers in their burrows to limit odors and fecal contamination in their main chambers. They also reduce their …

Column: Facts about Alex Pretti’s death are undeniable. The White House is denying them anyway.

Column: Facts about Alex Pretti’s death are undeniable. The White House is denying them anyway.

Published by Sam Flores

The killing of Alex Pretti was unjust and unjustified. While protesting — a.k.a. “observing” or “interfering with” — deportation operations, the VA hospital ICU nurse came to the aid of two protesters, one of whom had been slammed to the ground by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent. With a phone in one hand, Pretti used the other hand, in vain, to protect his eyes while being pepper sprayed. Knocked to the ground, Pretti was repeatedly smashed in the face with the spray can, pummeled by multiple agents, disarmed of his holstered legal firearm and then shot nine or 10 times. Note the sequence. He was disarmed and then he was shot. That’s why the killing is undeniably unjust and unjustified. Unjust because Pretti didn’t deserve to die, even if he’d been fully “obstructing” federal agents, death is not a just price for that. But he wasn’t obstructing an agent from deporting an immigrant. He was obstructing an agent from further assaulting a woman in the street. The killing was unjustified because a gang …

DNA from wolf pup’s last meal reveals new facts about woolly rhino’s extinction

DNA from wolf pup’s last meal reveals new facts about woolly rhino’s extinction

Published by skeptic

The woolly rhino, Coelodonta antiquitatis, would have been an impressive sight to the ancient people who painted images of them on cave walls and carved figurines of them out of bone, antler, ivory and wood. The sadly now extinct rhino lived on the steppes and tundra of Europe and Asia, living alongside people for thousands of years. And a new study of woolly rhino DNA, extracted from the stomach of a wolf challenges a long held belief about species at risk of extinction. The species, which evolved in the middle of the Pleistocene era, approximately half a million years ago, weighed up to three tonnes. It was similar in size to the two largest rhino species alive today, the white rhino of southern and eastern Africa and the one-horned rhino of India. The woolly rhino was well adapted to live in ice age conditions. It had a thick layer of fat below the skin, a warm, woolly fleece and small ears and tail to minimise heat loss. It also had a shoulder hump to store …

Why people believe misinformation even when they’re told the facts

Why people believe misinformation even when they’re told the facts

Published by Sam Flores

When you spot false or misleading information online, or in a family group chat, how do you respond? For many people, their first impulse is to factcheck – reply with statistics, make a debunking post on social media or point people towards trustworthy sources. Factchecking is seen as a go-to method for tackling the spread of false information. But it is notoriously difficult to correct misinformation. Evidence shows readers trust journalists less when they debunk, rather than confirm, claims. Factchecking can also result in repeating the original lie to a whole new audience, amplifying its reach. The work of media scholar Alice Marwick can help explain why factchecking often fails when used in isolation. Her research suggests that misinformation is not just a content problem, but an emotional and structural one. She argues that it thrives through three mutually reinforcing pillars: the content of the message, the personal context of those sharing it, and the technological infrastructure that amplifies it. 1. The message People find it cognitively easier to accept information than to reject it, …

Facts vs. Clicks: How Algorithms Reward Extremism

Facts vs. Clicks: How Algorithms Reward Extremism

Published by José Betancourt

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube On this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. He examines the many actions President Donald Trump has taken that run counter to the ideals articulated in 1776, and considers how the Founders’ constitutional genius may ultimately be what frustrates Trump’s attempt to consolidate power. David is then joined by his Atlantic colleague Charlie Warzel, a staff writer and the host of the Galaxy Brain podcast, to discuss the temptations that come with launching a new podcast and the challenge of serving an audience that often rewards extreme content. Together, they talk about the responsibility that comes with hosting a podcast in a media environment that prizes clicks over truth. They also explore how conspiracy theorists have come to function as an alternate reality of “mainstream media,” and why the fight for truth may not yet be lost. Finally, David closes with a discussion of Edward …