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The volcano signal is interesting because it neatly illustrates the power and reach of the remarkable Pacific event.Hung...
20/01/2023

The volcano signal is interesting because it neatly illustrates the power and reach of the remarkable Pacific event.

Hunga-Tonga produced the highest ash cloud ever recorded, sending rocky particles more than half way to space.

But the energy involved also shook the atmosphere, despatching so called Lamb waves in all directions.

These are energetic waves in the air that move at the speed of sound, along a path guided by the surface of the planet.

The situation is poor across the board, with adverse trends across marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments," it ...
19/01/2023

The situation is poor across the board, with adverse trends across marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments," it said.

Of the 23 environmental targets it looked at, it assessed 14 as "off track" while the remaining nine could not be assessed because the evidence was not available.

It said progress towards climate change adaptation was poor, and "particularly concerning" in the agricultural sector.

A spokesman for Defra said it would publish a new environmental improvement plan later this month that would help it to meet its targets to protect the natural world, tackle climate change and halt the decline in species populations by 2030.

Now Lauren, 35, and Carley, 38, have jobs in different departments of the same university, and meet several times a week...
10/01/2023

Now Lauren, 35, and Carley, 38, have jobs in different departments of the same university, and meet several times a week for lunch or to exercise. They often hang out in the evenings and weekends with their children and families, too. Each plays a fundamental role in the other’s life, from being a round-the-clock confidant to serving as a tireless source of moral support and encouragement in personal and professional decisions.

“We are each other’s biggest cheerleaders and as the eldest, I will always be fiercely protective of Lauren,” says Carley. “We know we are there for each other, no matter what.”

For Lauren and Carley, theirs is a joyful, nurturing relationship that adds to their lives. This makes sense; research shows that positive sister-sister bonds can boost confidence, offer constant companionship and even increase feelings of self-love. Indeed, 2020 research published in the Journal of Family Psychology found that sister-sister pairs are most likely to report warm relationships compared to other sibling gender compositions.

Babylon mixes fact, fiction, and lore with a head-spinning number of historical Easter eggs, making it both profoundly c...
06/01/2023

Babylon mixes fact, fiction, and lore with a head-spinning number of historical Easter eggs, making it both profoundly cine-literate and also incredibly dense with references. And while not all of it clicks entirely – it can be too unwieldy and OTT to really lock onto a central thesis much of the time – Babylon is also a film with a series of insightful, gorgeously-wrought, delightfully funny set pieces riffing on real historical issues. In particular, there's one where Nellie tries – and fails, repeatedly – to get a scene right in her first-ever talking picture. Even the wrong sole on a shoe can cause background noise with the primitive sound technology, so movement is suddenly restricted on camera in a way it never was in the silent era; and films can no longer be shot side by side on set, with a western shoot-out within spitting distance of a period romance. Much of this is absolutely correct to the difficulties of early sound tech, and there's a hilariously over-egged moment when the cameraman, locked in an insanely overheated sound-proof box, passes out from the temperature.

The biggest challenge is in the title: The Way of Water. The storyline sees Jake and his family targeted by human coloni...
29/12/2022

The biggest challenge is in the title: The Way of Water. The storyline sees Jake and his family targeted by human colonisers, who want to make Pandora the new home for Earth's populations, so they flee their forest-based home and seek refuge with an ocean community of amphibious Na'vi, known as Metkayina. This means the vast majority of the film takes place in, under or around water, which involves a new level of environmental and technological understanding. "Light travels differently underwater," says Landau. "So we needed to create a whole different capture system to work with the reflective markers and a different system above the water, and for those to work together."

“We both agreed that the easiest thing was for me to stay put until the situation with Covid became clearer,” she says.F...
21/12/2022

“We both agreed that the easiest thing was for me to stay put until the situation with Covid became clearer,” she says.

For a few months, the pair were able to live apart, with her remaining in their jointly-owned flat, as Tucker’s ex decided to stay with his parents for the duration of lockdown in order to assist with his mum’s medical needs. But six months later and with lockdowns lifting, they made an unconventional decision for going forward.

“I knew that I would never be able to afford to buy property again, and the prospect of renting in London forever was increasingly unpleasant,” she says. “My ex and I talked quite a bit during this time, and eventually he decided to move back into our flat.”

Since then, Tucker and her ex-partner have remained living together. They sleep in separate bedrooms, and even recently got a couple of cats to complete the set-up. And although their decision is unconventional, they are far from alone.

This joyous Pixar coming-of-age cartoon introduces a 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian (voiced by Rosalie Chiang) who transfo...
19/12/2022

This joyous Pixar coming-of-age cartoon introduces a 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian (voiced by Rosalie Chiang) who transforms into a giant fluffy red panda whenever she gets stressed. Her fast-moving misadventures are rendered with all the expertise you would expect from Pixar, but Turning Red is more personal than the studio's other releases. From its multi-cultural urban setting to its positivity about being a proudly nerdy teenage girl, everything in it seems to come straight from the heart of its director and co-writer, Domee Shi. It's just a shame that the film went straight to streaming, rather than getting the cinema release it deserved. (NB)

In one recent study in Germany, for example, researchers found Christmas tree plantations could represent important refu...
14/12/2022

In one recent study in Germany, for example, researchers found Christmas tree plantations could represent important refuges for declining farmland birds such as yellowhammers and common linnets in intensive agricultural areas. The results chime with another 2018 study in Sauerland in Germany which found the plantations are important strongholds for woodlarks. Meanwhile, a study in Belgium found that beetle diversity – including of threatened species – was higher in Christmas tree plantations than maize fields, although lower than in spruce plantations for timber, which are left to grow for longer and use less fertilisers and pesticides than Christmas trees.

Meanwhile, in naturally forested areas of the north-east US, younger, open forests like Christmas tree plantations can provide higher concentration of insects or grasses to support birds and mammals in certain parts of their lifecycle, says Finton. "Especially if the Christmas tree farm is part of a much larger landscape or a mosaic of habitat types, including mature, larger, intact forests, I think there's a real ecological niche that it's fulfilling."

Another universal bias relates to the human brain’s desire to take shortcuts. As with foreign accents, listeners find it...
12/12/2022

Another universal bias relates to the human brain’s desire to take shortcuts. As with foreign accents, listeners find it more work to decipher ‘non-standard’ native accents. Because the brain has to work a bit harder, memory and comprehension can be lower – making it more likely that listeners will lean into preconceptions associated with those accents. “We are kind of lazy listeners, and we rely on stereotypes when we don’t have other things to go by,” says Sharma.

That means it’s common to make instinctive assumptions about someone’s criminality, intelligence or attractiveness based on the way they sound. People form these assumptions very early in life – for example, when children watch dim-witted cartoon characters with exaggerated Appalachian accents in the US, or Andalusian accents in Spain – and are generally linked to broader biases against the group with a particular accent. “Almost all bias related to accent is about … some social characteristic,” explains Sharma.

She Said is a film that demands you actively listen to the words, conversations and testimonies of female survivors. It'...
08/12/2022

She Said is a film that demands you actively listen to the words, conversations and testimonies of female survivors. It's also about the power of women confiding in each other instead of staying silent, which is the subject of another film that has been making waves this autumn, Sarah Polley's Women Talking. Based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Canadian writer Miriam Toews, and set in 2010, the film centres on a closed-off, fictional colony of the Protestant Mennonite sect, where a group of women must grapple with their faith and the reality that their menfolk have been drugging and ra**ng them for years. Rage, fury, frustration, sorrow, humour, solidarity and empathy lace the varying perspectives of characters played by Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara and Judith Ivey, who are tasked with debating and deciding what they must do to live in a community without fear. Polley, like Schrader, never shows us the violent assaults – purposely keeping the abusers in the periphery so there is never any doubt about the importance of women being at the centre of their own stories of survival.

Although the practice filtered through the social classes, it was primarily popular with women of the privileged classes...
06/12/2022

Although the practice filtered through the social classes, it was primarily popular with women of the privileged classes – a demographic that, while in a position of financial privilege, was still regarded as inferior to its male counterpart. In a time when women were not encouraged to be outspoken, these floral accessories allowed them to communicate with their peers, offering a means for them to speak out without impeding their societal status.

"Young women of high society in this era embraced the practice, sending bouquets as tokens of love or warning, wearing flowers in their hair or tucked into their gowns, and celebrating all things floral." Roux explains. "Many of them created small arrangements of flowers, called tussie-mussies or nosegays, by combining a few blooms in a small bouquet. Worn or carried as accessories, these coded messages of affection, desire, or sorrow allowed Victorians to show their true feelings in an enigmatic and alluring display." Tussie-mussies were also thought to help ward off disease.

O Barco was originally created in 2021, and now appears in London, presented by Somerset House on the 10th anniversary o...
01/12/2022

O Barco was originally created in 2021, and now appears in London, presented by Somerset House on the 10th anniversary of the 1-54 fair dedicated to contemporary African art. The artwork is accompanied by live performances made up of song, music and dance. "I would call it many things," Kilomba tells BBC Culture, "a sculpture, an installation, a performance and poetry. I'm not interested in one discipline in particular, but in telling stories… I first worked around the Greek myth of Antigone, a woman whose two brothers kill each other for power. The new king, Creon, allows only one to be buried in the city, while the other one is left to the dogs. To me, it became an important story about ceremony and memory, and human dignity."

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