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‘Love Story’ Is Revealing Just How Much Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s Style Has Endured

‘Love Story’ Is Revealing Just How Much Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s Style Has Endured

Published by Sam Flores

Grainy paparazzi shots on social media show her hailing a cab in a black slip dress. Walking the streets of New York in an oversize coat. Wearing that signature red lipstick. Nearly three decades after her death at age 33, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy is back in the spotlight as one of fashion’s most powerful style influencers. The new TV series “Love Story” chronicles her relationship with John F. Kennedy Jr., and many fans are watching for the clothes. In an era dominated by conspicuous branding and obvious cosmetic enhancements, Bessette Kennedy’s enduring appeal lies in what she did not do. She had no platform, no brand partnerships, no social media presence. “She looks so different from the people we see now on Instagram,” said Ashley Traher, a 45-year-old attorney in Phoenix who grew up admiring Bessette Kennedy from afar. “I think we’ll be able to date today’s influencers immediately because of their makeup, clothes, even plastic surgery. But Carolyn had an effortlessness that always looks modern and cool.” Traher, who first encountered Bessette Kennedy as …

Volkswagen’s EV hot hatch drops its camo, revealing a new design

Volkswagen’s EV hot hatch drops its camo, revealing a new design

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Volkswagen is gearing up to launch its first electric GTI hot hatch later this year. Ahead of its big debut, the EV hot hatch was spotted testing in icy conditions with barely any camo. Volkswagen is launching its first electric GTI in 2026 It’s been over two years since Volkswagen first unveiled the ID. GTI at the IAA Mobility Show in 2023, 48 years after the original Golf GTI debuted. To celebrate the GTI’s 50th anniversary, Volkswagen is set to launch its first electric GTI later this year. We caught a sneak peek of it in September after VW revealed the ID. Polo GTI prototype at last year’s Munich Motor Show. At the event, Volkswagen’s sales boss, Martin Sanders, confirmed that the ID. Polo, the first of a series of more affordable entry-level EVs, will evolve into an electric hot hatch. Advertisement – scroll for more content The ID. GTI Concept will go into production in 2026 as the ID. Polo GTI, delivering “outstanding dynamics and plenty of driving pleasure,” according to Sanders. With its …

How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a ‘mind’ really is

How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a ‘mind’ really is

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We all struggle with self-control sometimes. We tell ourselves only one more piece of chocolate, one more glass of wine, one more episode of a binge-worthy series before bed, but then carry on regardless. But who, or what, even is this “self” engaging in this push and pull, before giving in to temptation? The cells in our gut somehow collaborate with those in our brain and hands to reach for the chocolate bar, the wine bottle or the “next episode” button. And, with ever-increasing complexity, at some point a line is crossed, and the whole becomes more than the sum of its parts. That is to say, a self – the entity which acts in the world in ways that serve your goals and desires – emerges.  What if, though, “selves” are present in those very cells, ahead of the point at which they merge to form a greater whole? It might sound outlandish, but biological simulations are indicating that those minuscule units of life, which we usually think about as passive machines – cogs blindly …

Student made cosmic dust in the lab revealing life’s early chemical origins

Student made cosmic dust in the lab revealing life’s early chemical origins

Published by Jenni Sidey

At the University of Sydney, a Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny slice of outer space and used it to make cosmic dust from scratch. Linda Losurdo, a doctoral researcher in materials and plasma physics at the University of Sydney School of Physics, led the work alongside her supervisor, Professor David McKenzie. Their findings, published in The Astrophysical Journal, show how the chemical building blocks of life may have formed long before Earth even existed. Recreating space chemistry on Earth The experiment starts with a simple setup. A mix of common gases, including nitrogen and carbon-based compounds, is sealed inside glass tubes. When high electrical energy is applied, the gases break apart and recombine under harsh conditions that resemble space environments around stars and stellar explosions. Cosmic dust analogue on a chip. The cocktail of chemicals was collected on a microchip. (CREDIT: Fiona Wolf) Over time, tiny particles form and settle onto small surfaces inside the tube. What you get is carbon-rich cosmic dust, the same kind of material that drifts between stars and later …

Joji review, Piss in the Wind – Revealing the human ghost in the machine

Joji review, Piss in the Wind – Revealing the human ghost in the machine

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Don’t let the crunchy industrial electronica and skittering trap beats of early singles “Pixelated Kisses” and “Last of Dying Breed” fool you. The majority of George Kunusoki Miller’s fourth album as “Joji”, Piss in the Wind, is saturated with the maudlin, self-defeating ruminations we’ve come to expect from the former YouTube memelord (AKA Filthy Frank) turned sadboy musician. This is a record on which the enigmatic Japanese-Australian artist – best known for his 2022 piano ballad “Glimpse of Us” – conjures a restless inertia over 19 sketchy tracks that never reach the three-minute mark. Looking back at reviews of Joji’s last album, Smithereens, I noticed the word “underdeveloped” got thrown around a lot. He’s since left his former label, 88Rising, and is releasing Piss in the Wind under his own, Palace Creek. Now he doubles down on the lo-fi sound and impressionistic songwriting …

People Are Revealing 7 Simple Lifestyle Changes That Completely Turned Their Mental Health Around

People Are Revealing 7 Simple Lifestyle Changes That Completely Turned Their Mental Health Around

Published by Jenni Sidey

The strain of life can put pressure on your mental health and make it feel like you need to turn everything around and head the opposite direction. Before you pull a complete 180-degree shift in all aspects of your life, consider some simple lifestyle changes. A few tweaks to your daily habits and routines can make all the difference for improving your mental health when the pressure of the world makes you want to run away. People are revealing 7 simple lifestyle changes that completely turned their mental health around: 1. They put the phone down for an hour Dmytro Sheremeta via Shutterstock Put your phone and computer away for at least an hour a day to enjoy life and the people around you. Research on the effects of excessive smartphone use on physical and mental health associated smartphone use with a variety of serious psychiatric, cognitive, emotional, medical, and brain changes. Put down the phone and get face-to-face with a friend. Nothing is more energizing than a good laugh with the people you love. RELATED: 11 …

Revealing the epic story of ancient humans: Best ideas of the century

Revealing the epic story of ancient humans: Best ideas of the century

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What has happened in the field of human evolution over the past 25 years can be summed up in one word: “more”. Archaeologists have found many more fossils, species and artefacts, in more places – from diminutive “hobbits” who lived on an Indonesian island to the mysterious Homo naledi known only from a single deep cave in South Africa. In parallel, researchers have developed more and better techniques for analysing all these remains. There is, quite simply, a huge amount of information about our origins and extinct cousins. Two major lessons have emerged from this blizzard of discoveries. First, since 2000, the hominin fossil record has been extended much further back in time. In the late 1990s, the oldest known hominin was the 4.4-million-year-old Ardipithecus. But in 2000 and 2001, researchers found an even older Ardipithecus, Orrorin tugenensis from 6 million years ago and Sahelanthropus tchadensis from 7 million years ago. A second Orrorin species, Orrorin praegens, was quietly described in 2022; it seems to be a little more recent than O. tugenensis. The discovery of these early hominins was …

X Stops Grok From Editing Images of Real People in Revealing Clothing

X Stops Grok From Editing Images of Real People in Revealing Clothing

Published by Daniella Wilson

Grok, the AI chatbot created by xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by and majority-owned by Elon Musk, last week switched off its image creation and editing function for non-subscribers after an uproar over sexualized and violent imagery created with it. The restriction came amid threats of fines or even an outright ban on X in the U.K. Now, it has expanded restrictions to all users, including subscribers. “We remain committed to making X a safe platform for everyone and continue to have zero tolerance for any forms of child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity, and unwanted sexual content,” an X post said late on Wednesday. “We take action to remove high-priority violative content, including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) and non-consensual nudity, taking appropriate action against accounts that violate our X Rules. We also report accounts seeking Child Sexual Exploitation materials to law enforcement authorities as necessary.” The post also highlighted updates to Grok: “We have implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing, such as bikinis. This restriction applies …

Scientists discover Africa’s oldest cremation pyre revealing complex rituals from 9,500 years ago

Scientists discover Africa’s oldest cremation pyre revealing complex rituals from 9,500 years ago

Published by Jenni Sidey

A team led by University of Oklahoma anthropologist Jessica Cerezo-Román and Yale University anthropologist Jessica Thompson has documented something archaeologists have long struggled to find in Africa’s hunter-gatherer record: a clear, intentional cremation on an open pyre from about 9,500 years ago. The work, published in Science Advances, centers on a rock shelter site in northern Malawi called Hora 1, also known as HOR-1, at the base of Mount Hora. The researchers say it is the earliest evidence of intentional cremation in Africa and the world’s oldest known in situ cremation pyre holding the remains of an adult. “Cremation is very rare among ancient and modern hunter-gatherers, at least partially because pyres require a huge amount of labor, time, and fuel to transform a body into fragmented and calcined bone and ash,” said Cerezo-Román, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. HOR-1 site (11°39′S, 33°39′E; 1470 m above mean sea level, white stipples) relative to published excavated LSA sites. (CREDIT: Science Advances) “Not only is this the earliest cremation in Africa, it …