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These Documentary Filmmakers Set Out to Make an Honest Film About BTS—and Got More Than They’d Hoped For

These Documentary Filmmakers Set Out to Make an Honest Film About BTS—and Got More Than They’d Hoped For

Published by Sam Flores

In one of the most highly anticipated comebacks in recent memory, global superstar group BTS has surged back into the spotlight after a nearly four-year hiatus. The K-pop boy band’s long-awaited return, following its members’ military service, has dominated news headlines—while its fans, known as ARMY, have once again set social media ablaze. The septet’s latest album, Arirang, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, with lead single “Swim” topping the Billboard Hot 100 upon its release. Jimin, RM, and V.Courtesy of Netflix. But BTS’s return to the pinnacle of pop wasn’t easy, as revealed in the new documentary BTS: The Return. Directed by Bao Nguyen (Be Water, The Greatest Night in Pop) and produced by This Machine, Hybe, and East Films, the 93-minute film follows members RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook as they gather in a Los Angeles studio to work on their comeback album, Arirang. The result is a raw, intimate portrait of their creative process—and the doubts and pressures that come with global fame as they attempt …

The Toyota C-HR is not the ,000 EV we hoped for

The Toyota C-HR is not the $30,000 EV we hoped for

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The 2026 C-HR was expected to be the $30,000 EV everyone was waiting for from Toyota. Although it’s a bit more expensive than anticipated, Toyota does offer an EV starting around that price. Does Toyota offer an EV for $30,000? Toyota is bringing the C-HR back as an EV this year. Since the now-retired gas-powered C-HR was one of Toyota’s most affordable SUVs, the new electric version was expected to start at around $30,000 to $35,000, positioned below the bZ (formerly bZ4X). Well, that won’t be the case. The 2026 C-HR is priced from $37,000, which is even more expensive than the bZ, starting at $34,900. Although it’s based on the same platform, the C-HR is about 6.7″ shorter than the bZ with a smaller wheelbase. So, why is it more expensive? Advertisement – scroll for more content The only reason we can think of is that the C-HR comes with standard all-wheel drive (AWD), while the 2026 bZ is also available in front-wheel drive (FWD). The cheapest 2026 bZ XLE model, which starts at …

Bridgerton Boss Hoped To Defy ‘Harmful’ Stereotypes About Bisexual Men In Season 4

Bridgerton Boss Hoped To Defy ‘Harmful’ Stereotypes About Bisexual Men In Season 4

Published by Sam Flores

Bridgerton showrunner Jess Brownell has said it was “really important” to her that Benedict Bridgerton’s queerness remain a key part of his character in season four, which sees him pursuing a long-term romance with a new female character. During a new interview with Variety, Brownell was asked about the fact that Luke Thompson’s character’s bisexuality was widely explored in the most recent season of the Netflix period drama. She responded: “It’s really important that just because someone might end up in a heterosexual-presenting relationship, that does not negate their queerness. “I think Benedict’s queerness will always be a piece of his identity. And when we were talking about representation, I don’t think there’s a lot of representation that I’ve seen of bisexual men.” Brownell continued: “There is a really harmful and untrue stereotype that bisexual men are actually just gay men. More often, we see bisexual men ending up in media in homosexual-presenting relationships. “And it felt fresh and important to see a bisexual man ending up in a heterosexual-presenting relationship and still owning the …

Giving astronauts tardigrade toughness will be harder than we hoped

Giving astronauts tardigrade toughness will be harder than we hoped

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Tardigrades can withstand exceptionally harsh conditions How can we protect space explorers from cosmic radiation without encasing spaceships in massive layers of lead? Some have suggested dosing them with the DNA-protecting protein from tardigrades – but it’s not going to be that easy. Corey Nislow and his colleagues at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver have shown that a tardigrade-produced protein called Dsup, short for damage suppressor, can protect against an even wider range of mutation-inducing chemicals than we knew, in addition to radiation. But it also has a trade-off: it reduces the fitness of cells and can even kill them. “There’s a cost for every benefit that we’ve seen,” says Nislow. Tardigrades are tiny animals famed for their ability to survive stresses, including being exposed to extreme temperatures, dried out, blasted with radiation, and even exposed to the vacuum of space. In 2016, it was shown that Dsup is one of the keys to their toughness. When human cells were genetically engineered to produce Dsup, they became more resistant to radiation without any …

NSS: Councillor who hoped no “heathens” at meeting breached code

NSS: Councillor who hoped no “heathens” at meeting breached code

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A councillor who said he hoped no “heathens” were present at a recent meeting has breached rules regarding respect and equality, the National Secular Society has said. The NSS has told Worcestershire County Council’s monitoring officer that Conservative councillor Tony Miller’s remarks during a meeting this month were in breach of the Councillor Code of Conduct. At the start of the meeting, Cllr Miller (pictured, right) objected to the fact that no chaplain was present to hold a prayer, calling this “disrespectful” because council meetings have “always started” with prayers. He said: “We are not heathens. I hope we’re not anyway”. He then invited “those who agree” to stand while he asked God to “bless this meeting” in the “name of our Lord Jesus Christ”. NSS: Councillor’s remarks “directly discriminatory” “Heathen” is defined as an “offensive” term for “a person who has no religion, or who belongs to a religion that is not Christianity, Judaism, or Islam”. The NSS told the council Cllr Miller was implying he “hoped nobody present in the meeting was nonreligious …