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Richard Gadd on how much Half Man is influenced by the manosphere

Richard Gadd on how much Half Man is influenced by the manosphere

Published by Daniella Wilson

The synopsis for Richard Gadd’s new drama Half Man says that it explores “brotherhood, violence and the intense fragility of male relationships” – and it arrives at a time when those topics are front and centre of a societal and media conversation. Last year, Netflix hit Adolescence looked at violence among young men and touched on the manosphere and incel culture, while Louis Theroux’s most recent documentary, Inside the Manosphere, tackled the internet subculture head on when it was released in March. In spite of all this interest in the topic, Gadd has revealed that he didn’t intend Half Man to be a specific exploration of either toxic masculinity or the manosphere – and was instead based on a “general male problem” he wanted to look at. When speaking at a Q&A for the series, Gadd was asked whether he was inspired by toxic masculinity or the manosphere when writing to which he said: “I’m aware of them. I’m kind of aware of them even more now than I was when I was writing it. …

5 Artists Discuss How Marcel Duchamp Influenced Them

5 Artists Discuss How Marcel Duchamp Influenced Them

Published by José Betancourt

For the last six years or so, I’ve been writing about our engagement with glass and how it defines the past century. This was always an interest of mine, but I did grow up going to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where Duchamp’s shattered Large Glass (1915–23) lives. When I was young and didn’t know about art, the gallery there devoted to Duchamp confused me. I would go look at the Large Glass, but how it mattered and why it mattered was very far away from me. I thought it was so strange. Maybe I was drawn to his colors. There are these ochres, these browns, this really beautiful pink: those colors have a history or a humanity to them that doesn’t feel as saccharine and electro-pop as the world we know now. I love them so much. And then there’s his reverse glass painting, which I’ve long studied. This was all an entry point for my work. Early on, I was thinking about the clothes he wore and the material he was using, be …

5 Unexpected Philosophers Who Influenced St. Thomas Aquinas

5 Unexpected Philosophers Who Influenced St. Thomas Aquinas

Published by Sam Flores

Published: Apr 1, 2026written by John Tuttle, BA in Journalism & Mass Communications, Theology Summary The “Dark Ages” were not backward; the Islamic world preserved Greek philosophy, which was essential for thinkers like Aquinas. Aquinas heavily adopted Aristotle’s concepts of nature and his four causes for his own proofs for the existence of God. Aquinas and Plato agreed that the human soul is immortal and the seat of reason, though they differed on its relation to the body. Like Averroes, Aquinas argued the universe’s fine-tuned order points to a perfect, intelligent Creator rather than random chance. Islamic thinkers like Avicenna influenced Aquinas’s views on divine simplicity, the idea that God is a single, unified being. Show more   Born ca. 1225 AD, Thomas Aquinas is revered in some circles as highly as the ancient Greek and later Enlightenment-era thinkers. While the medieval philosopher’s works are still studied in many universities, ethicists and academics try to further interpret Thomistic thought, applying it to the issues of our day. Let’s dig into the philosopher’s own life and times before exploring the ideas from pagan …

‘Undertone’ Director Ian Tuason on the Films, Filmmakers, and Creepypastas That Influenced His A24 Debut

‘Undertone’ Director Ian Tuason on the Films, Filmmakers, and Creepypastas That Influenced His A24 Debut

Published by Jenni Sidey

Tuason: I watch their stuff. I see a shot that really hits me, then I write it down, and then I have this list, and then I draw from that list when I’m writing because once an idea comes to my mind to shoot a certain scene, if I’m clear on the intention of that scene, I feel like it’s the same intention as this other scene like in a Danny Boyle film, I’ll use it then. And then I don’t know if anyone would catch it, but feel free to match my shots with someone else’s and I’ll admit it if you get it right. Everett Collection I was drawing quite a bit from Psycho, but mostly just [Hitchcock’s] philosophy… I pretty much just told you there was a bomb under the table, but there was never an explosion. GQ: Without giving too much away, what was the hardest—or the most fun—sequence in the movie to pull off? Tuason: Well, hands down, it starts when we have that ghost POV that floats from upstairs …

This is the age at which your children are most influenced by your drinking

This is the age at which your children are most influenced by your drinking

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the Well Enough newsletter with Harry Bullmore for tips on living a healthier, happier and longer life Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore Get the Well Enough email with Harry Bullmore It’s a Friday evening and you pour a glass of wine while your teenager sits at the kitchen bench scrolling their phone. They barely look up. But they notice more than you think. My new study found the drinking habits parents model at home carry over to their children. The influence is strongest during a specific window: when children are aged 15 to 17. This is the stage when teens begin navigating social situations with alcohol and start deciding what “normal” drinking looks like. It doesn’t mean you have to give up alcohol altogether. But there are behaviours you can tweak to improve the chance your children will have a healthy relationship with alcohol as they grow up. Tracking influence over 23 years My study used 23 years of nationally representative Australian data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in …

Rubio suggests US strikes on Iran were influenced by Israeli plans | Israel-Iran conflict News

Rubio suggests US strikes on Iran were influenced by Israeli plans | Israel-Iran conflict News

Published by Sam Flores

The US secretary of state says he hopes Iranian people will overthrow the regime, as US military says six service members killed. Listen to this article | 3 mins info Published On 2 Mar 20262 Mar 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share plus2googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has suggested that a planned Israeli attack on Iran determined the timing of Washington’s assault on the government in Tehran. The top diplomat told reporters on Monday that Washington was aware Israel was going to attack Iran, and that Tehran would retaliate against US interests in the region, so US forces struck pre-emptively. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list “We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action,” Rubio said after a briefing with congressional leaders. “We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t pre-emptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties.” The state secretary’s comments came minutes before the …

How giant ‘Blobs’ of rock have influenced Earth’s magnetic field for millions of years – new research

How giant ‘Blobs’ of rock have influenced Earth’s magnetic field for millions of years – new research

Published by skeptic

While we have sent probes billions of kilometres into interstellar space, humans have barely scratched the surface of our own planet, not even making it through the thin crust. Information about Earth’s deep interior comes mainly from geophysics and is at a premium. We know it consists of a solid crust, a rocky mantle, a liquid outer core and solid inner core. But what precisely goes on in each layer – and between them – is a mystery. Now our research uses our planet’s magnetism to cast light on the most significant interface in the Earth’s interior: its core-mantle boundary. Roughly 3,000km beneath our feet, Earth’s outer core, an unfathomably deep ocean of molten iron alloy, endlessly churns to produce a global magnetic field stretching out far into space. Sustaining this “geodynamo”, and the planetary force-field it has produced for the past several billions of years (protecting Earth from harmful radiation), takes a lot of energy. This was delivered to the core as heat during the Earth’s formation. But it is only released to drive …

Trump foreign policy influenced by Monroe Doctrine, Roosevelt : NPR

Trump foreign policy influenced by Monroe Doctrine, Roosevelt : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

President Theodore Roosevelt’s philosophy of “speak softly and carry a big stick” prioritized diplomacy first, with military force as a last resort. William Allen Rogers hide caption toggle caption William Allen Rogers The Monroe Doctrine. Big Stick policy. Gunboat diplomacy. Until recently, the terms were relegated mostly to the pages of dusty history books. But President Trump is leaning heavily on his own understanding of these concepts to justify his attack on Venezuela, his bullying tactics aimed at acquiring Greenland and his latest threats to strike Iran. At a news conference this month, Trump said U.S. troops captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro because his actions amounted to a “gross violation of the core principles of American foreign policy dating back more than two centuries … to the Monroe Doctrine.” “And the Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we’ve superseded it by a lot, by a real lot. They now call it the ‘Donroe Doctrine,’” he said. What is the Monroe Doctrine? In 1823, President James Monroe cautioned Europe in his address to Congress, declaring …

How Heated Rivalry, Pillion Influenced by Edmund White on Gay Sex

How Heated Rivalry, Pillion Influenced by Edmund White on Gay Sex

Published by Daniella Wilson

Utterly Shameless, an upcoming documentary, arrives with impeccable timing, landing in a moment when queer storytelling is no longer confined to the literary margins but driving mainstream culture across books, television and fan communities. Directed by journalist Brian Montopoli and former Out magazine editor Aaron Hicklin, the film offers a candid portrait of Edmund White, a sex-forward novelist and non-fiction writer whose work helped make that shift possible. Utterly Shameless sets out to give White his long-overdue flowers, positioning him alongside other contemporary literary greats. White, whose novels including A Boy’s Own Story and The Beautiful Room Is Empty once felt radical simply for existing, is positioned here as both architect and witness to the queer experience. The filmmakers were the last to interview White before his death in June at age 85. The result is a writer in full command of his story at the end of his life, reflecting on a world he helped shape. Through archival footage, interviews and his own reflective narration, the film traces a life spent insisting that gay experience belonged not …