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Tom Holland says sobriety journey paved the way for current career ‘blossom’

Tom Holland says sobriety journey paved the way for current career ‘blossom’

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 Tom Holland has no regrets about embracing a sober lifestyle, crediting the change with helping drive his acting success. The Spider-Man star, 29, quit drinking in early 2022 after participating in the “Dry January” challenge, which made him realize he had become “obsessed” with alcohol. In 2024, he launched his non-alcoholic beer brand, Bero. On Thursday, the British actor hosted his second annual Bero Padel Classic, a padel tennis tournament in Los Angeles sponsored by his company and attended by numerous A-listers, including his fiancée Zendaya, Simu Liu, Steve Aoki, Diplo and Jay Shetty. Asked by USA Today at the event whether his life’s blessings would have unfolded the same way had he not become sober, Holland replied: “That’s a really big question. “I’ve been so lucky in the last four years that my career has really blossomed in a really …

How social media paved the road to poetry for these Latina creatives

How social media paved the road to poetry for these Latina creatives

Published by Sam Flores

Over the decade it took Silver Lake author Yesika Salgado to achieve social media popularity with her writing, the jacaranda trees outside her neighborhood haunt Café Tropical have been witness to the triumphs and challenges that made her the poet she is today. Dropping out of high school, working as a cashier at CVS and falling in and out of love inspired Salgado to write poems that she would share on Instagram, where she has amassed over 170,000 followers. “Up until 2016, I had to work service jobs,” said Salgado, 41. “I worked as a cashier in a parking garage for like 10 years. I knew what it was like to be on your lunch break, eating your life, being tired, your feet sore, and scrolling on your phone just looking for something. I wanted my work to be something that would find those people in the most accessible place: on their phones.” In doing so, Salgado joined a growing community of poets on social media — helping revive an art form which is being …

How a Dream About a Little Known Bible Verse Paved the Way for Healing – OpentheWord.org

How a Dream About a Little Known Bible Verse Paved the Way for Healing – OpentheWord.org

Published by Sam Flores

Credit: Aaron-Burden/unsplash.com It was a strange miracle because it involved a dream, where Rick Francis was given a Bible verse that he needed to claim. What was even stranger is that the verse didn’t come from the great healing chapters such as Isaiah 53, but rather from the book of Ezekiel. The problems began when Rick started throwing up a lot. A blood test at the doctor’s office revealed his hemoglobin was dangerously low at 5.6. He was immediately admitted to the hospital. Rick was losing blood. The doctors suspected internal bleeding, but weren’t sure where, or why. When a blood transfusion did not shift Ricky’s hemoglobin numbers, they began testing for leukaemia and rare jungles diseases. Rick had now been the hospital six days and there had been no improvement. Things were so serious at this point, Rick gave his wife, Debbie, the details for his funeral. Then one night Rick had that strange dream where the words of a specific Bible verse, Ezekiel 16:16, were spoken to him. When he woke up that …

Fishing nets and recycled plastic trash are being paved into Hawaii’s roads

Fishing nets and recycled plastic trash are being paved into Hawaii’s roads

Published by Jenni Sidey

Sand, rock, and melted plastic now sit beneath the tires on a quiet residential street in Oahu. For nearly a year, cars have rolled over an experiment that could reshape how Hawaii deals with its mounting plastic waste. The test road looks ordinary. What sets it apart is what holds it together. Researchers at the Center for Marine Debris Research at Hawaiʻi Pacific University have been working with the Hawaii Department of Transportation to turn discarded plastic, including fishing nets pulled from the Pacific, into asphalt. Early results suggest the idea may be more than a symbolic fix. “This work investigates whether it’s responsible to use recycled plastics in Hawaii’s roads,” said Jeremy Axworthy, a researcher involved in the project. “By reusing plastic waste that is already in Hawaii, we can reduce the environmental and economic impacts of transporting waste plastics from the islands, incinerating it or dumping it in Hawaii’s overflowing landfills.” In Hawaii, researchers turn discarded plastic, including fishing nets pulled from the Pacific, into asphalt. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Roads …

Mass death paved the way for the Age of Fishes

Mass death paved the way for the Age of Fishes

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. About 445 million years ago, our planet completely changed. Massive glaciers formed over the supercontinent Gondwana, sucking up sea water like an icy sponge. Now called the Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME), Earth’s first major mass extinction wiped out about 85 percent of all marine species as the ocean chemistry radically changed and Earth’s climate turned bitter cold.  However, with great biological havoc also comes opportunity. During all of this upheaval, one group evolved to dominate all others—jawed vertebrates. This ultimately put life on a forward path that can be traced up to today, according to a study published today in the journal Science Advances. “We have demonstrated that jawed fishes only became dominant because this event happened,” Lauren Sallan, a study co-author and evolutionary biologist at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, said in a statement. “And fundamentally, we have nuanced our understanding of evolution by drawing a line between the fossil record, ecology, and biogeography.” Earth’s first …

The path to the Death Star is paved with lies: On “Andor,” as on Earth, disinformation defeats truth

The path to the Death Star is paved with lies: On “Andor,” as on Earth, disinformation defeats truth

Published by Sam Flores

Two years is not very long, especially when you suspect your time is running out. This is how much time the people of Ghorman have to wake up to the inevitability of their destruction — two years, which translates to eight episodes in “Andor” terms. This is also how long it takes for the Empire to persuade enough of the galaxy to believe that 800,000 Ghorman citizens deserve to be displaced or eradicated. As Imperial Security Bureau (ISB) head Major Partagaz (Anton Lesser) mentions in “One Year Later,” the second season premiere, this is no easy task. Ghorman, Partagaz warns, is not without political power. As for why that is, he doesn’t say. Instead, series creator and showrunner Tony Gilroy shows us, in what appears to be a tourism film, that Ghorman is a cosmopolitan fashion mecca reminiscent of Paris. People dream of visiting, and if not that, owning clothing made of its famous fabric, woven from fiber spun by spiders. But the Empire needs a mineral in the planet’s soil that not even its people, …