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Euphoria season 3 review – Generation-defining show paints a clear-eyed, unflattering portrait of modern America

Euphoria season 3 review – Generation-defining show paints a clear-eyed, unflattering portrait of modern America

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter “It’s cowboys and Indians, civilised man against the savage,” snarls a gun-toting kingpin in the third and final series of HBO Max’s Euphoria. As the strains of the score begin to twang – like the music of Ennio Morricone shimmering over America’s southwest – it becomes clear that Sam Levinson’s groundbreaking show, back after a four-year hiatus, is now a western. The western is, after all, the most American of all genres, and Euphoria, set in a tortured frontier, amid the gold rush of the attention economy, is a clear-eyed, unflattering portrait of modern America: the good, the bad, and the ugly. A lot has happened since high school. Rue (Zendaya) has become a drug mule, doing deadly runs across the Mexican border, until a new but equally lethal opportunity presents itself. Nate (Jacob Elordi) and Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) are engaged, …

Hallé/Chauhan/Helseth review – Muhly paints doom with Helseth’s gleaming trumpet | Classical music

Hallé/Chauhan/Helseth review – Muhly paints doom with Helseth’s gleaming trumpet | Classical music

Published by Sam Flores

Audiences can be fickle. The Hallé’s latest programme featured one of the world’s most celebrated trumpeters, a UK premiere from one of the world’s most high-profile living composers, and one of this country’s most successful young conductors – yet the Bridgewater Hall yawned with empty seats. Whatever the reasons, those who decided against booking missed an exhilarating evening. It started politely enough, with the rollicking baroquery of Britten’s Courtly Dances from Gloriana. A set of Tudorbethan pastiches, these dances encourage orchestral good behaviour. But conductor Alpesh Chauhan also allowed glimpses of a harsher, modernist world outside in the viciously chirrupping winds and off-kilter repetitions of the central Morris Dance and the gleeful snaps and rattles of the closing Lavolta. A Hallé co-commission, Nico Muhly’s trumpet concerto Doom Painting was composed for Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth and inspired by the instrument’s biblical roles. Muhly’s note on the piece points to distinct sections featuring the trumpet as a ceremonial instrument, as an expressive fixture of depictions of the apocalypse, and as a jubilant feature of the …

“Hindered by fear”: CBS producer paints picture of Bari Weiss’ “vision” in resignation letter

“Hindered by fear”: CBS producer paints picture of Bari Weiss’ “vision” in resignation letter

Published by Sam Flores

A producer for “CBS Evening News” worried about the direction the network is taking in a farewell letter to her colleagues, saying that the “excellence” employees “seek to sustain is hindered by fear and uncertainty.” The letter from producer Alicia Hastey was shared on social media by New York Times reporter Ben Mullin. While Hastey never mentioned Bari Weiss or newly appointed anchor Tony Dokoupil by name, she fretted about the “sweeping new vision” of the Tiffany Network. “There has been a sweeping new vision prioritizing a break from traditional broadcast norms to embrace what has been described as ‘heterodox’ journalism,” she said. “Stories may instead be evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.” Halsey said that the new era of CBS “pressures producers and reporters to self-censor or avoid challenging narratives that might trigger backlash or unfavorable headlines.”  She closed her letter with a nod to legendary CBS anchor Walter Cronkite, quoting his response to the idea that his news coverage leaned …

A Brief History of the Universe (and our place in it) review: A new tour of the cosmos paints a wide picture

A Brief History of the Universe (and our place in it) review: A new tour of the cosmos paints a wide picture

Published by skeptic

No tour of the cosmos is complete without a description of black holes MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A Brief History of UniverseSarah Alam Malik, Simon & Schuster (UK, 12 February) William Morrow (US, 5 May) IN 1988, Stephen Hawking published A Brief History of Time, an exploration and explanation of cosmology by the renowned physicist that became an unlikely, and huge, bestseller. Shameful admission: I set out to read an updated edition as a curious, literature-studying teenager, and struggled. I never finished it. Thirty-eight years later, particle physicist Sarah Alam Malik is here to help with her own exploration of cosmology, with a nod to Hawking in her title: A Brief History of the Universe (and our place in it). Hawking started with Aristotle arguing for a geocentric model of the universe in 340 BC. Malik opens her brief history earlier, around the 7th century BC, as the Babylonians track the movements of the sun, moon and stars in “astronomical diaries” written in cuneiform. But we are soon into Aristotle and Ptolemy, and then the …

Donald Trump ‘paints over black hand’ at Zelensky meeting sparks more health fears | World | News

Donald Trump ‘paints over black hand’ at Zelensky meeting sparks more health fears | World | News

Published by Sam Flores

Donald Trump appears to have “painted” over his “bruised hand” ahead of his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday. The US President was pictured outside his Florida residence with what appeared to be heavy makeup covering his hand as he met Zelensky to discuss a 20-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine. The 79-year-old has previously been pictured with plasters and makeup to cover his hand, sparking concerns about his health. The White House has long attributed any bruising to “constant” handshaking. Earlier this month, on December 11, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt reiterated a response from months prior, after a plaster on the back of Trump’s hand triggered speculation once again. “As for the bandages on the hand, we’ve also given you an explanation for that,” Leavitt told reporters. “The president is literally constantly shaking hands.” “He’s also on a daily aspirin regimen, which is something his physical examinations has said in the past as well, which can contribute to the bruise that you see.” His team were …

The paints, coatings, and chemicals making the world a cooler place

The paints, coatings, and chemicals making the world a cooler place

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Modern approaches, as demonstrated everywhere from California supermarket rooftops to Japan’s Expo 2025 pavilion, go even further. Normally, if the sun is up and pumping in heat, surfaces can’t get cooler than the ambient temperature. But back in 2014, Raman and his colleagues achieved radiative cooling in the daytime. They customized photonic films to absorb and then radiate heat at infrared wavelengths between eight and 13 micrometers—a range of electromagnetic wavelengths called an “atmospheric window,” because that radiation escapes to space rather than getting absorbed. Those films could dissipate heat even under full sun, cooling the inside of a building to 9 °F below ambient temperatures, with no AC or energy source required. That was proof of concept; today, Raman says, the industry has mostly shifted away from advanced photonics that use the atmospheric-window effect to simpler sunlight-scattering materials. Ceramic cool roofs, nanostructure coatings, and reflective polymers all offer the possibility of diverting more sunlight across all wavelengths, and they’re more durable and scalable. Now the race is on. Startups such as SkyCool, Planck Energies, Spacecool, …