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A creepy, parasitic fish that thrives by sucking the blood out of its hosts – earning the nickname "vampire fish" – is making a comeback in the Great Lakes after the pandemic interrupted population control of the species.The fish, which has a circular row of teeth, a serrated tongue, and an eel-like shape, is called the sea lamprey.According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, sea lampreys are native to the northern and western Atlantic Ocean but invaded the Great Lakes around the early 19th century…

The Cyborg actor took to Twitter to share a series of screenshots of tweets exchanged between himself and James Gunn. In the screenshots, Gunn can be seen liking a tweet in defense of Joss Whedon, leading to Ray Fisher responding. Gunn replied with what Fisher has called a "pseudo" apology after discovering Gunn's apology tweet had been deleted. "The way @JamesGunn uses fake grace on Twitter is really funny," wrote Ray Fisher. "Him going to bat for Joss Whedon, pseudo-apologizing for it, and then deleting…

Robert Townsend moved to Los Angeles in the early 80s, determined to become a Hollywood star. And though he had quickly emerged as a draw on the standup circuit, the Chicago native struggled to reckon with the structural racism he encountered while auditioning for bit parts on film and TV – the vast majority of them ham-fisted stereotypes, from snitch to slave.Before long, Townsend’s casting call stories – some of them humiliating, most of them hilariously tone deaf – became too overwhelming for his regular postmortems…

Beyond Meat Inc. BYND -4.06% parted ways with its operating chief, who had been suspended after being arrested for allegedly biting a man’s nose and threatening to kill him. The plant-based meat company said Friday in a securities filing that Chief Operating Officer Doug Ramsey was no longer with the company. Beyond Meat suspended the executive last month after his arrest following what authorities said was a fight in an Arkansas…

Douglas RamseySource: Washington County, ArkansasBeyond Meat said its operating chief Doug Ramsey has been suspended, effective immediately, after he was arrested Saturday evening for allegedly punching a man and biting his nose.The company said in a statement on Tuesday afternoon that Jonathan Nelson, the company's senior vice president of manufacturing operations, will oversee Beyond's operations activities on an interim basis.Ramsey, 53, has been Beyond Meat's chief operating officer since December. The news of his…

Beyond Meat Inc.’s BYND -5.10% chief operating officer was arrested in Arkansas over the weekend, after a physical altercation in which he allegedly bit a person’s nose and threatened to kill him. Doug Ramsey, 53, of Fayetteville, Ark., was arrested Saturday night and charged with terroristic threatening and third-degree battery, records from Arkansas’s Washington County show. He was released the…

Douglas RamseySource: Washington County, ArkansasBeyond Meat Chief Operating Officer Doug Ramsey was arrested this weekend after allegedly biting a man's nose in an Arkansas parking garage following a college football game.Ramsey, 53, was charged with terroristic threatening and third-degree battery and booked in the Washington County jail on Saturday evening. He was released Sunday, according to the Washington County, Arkansas, information page.Ramsey and Beyond Meat did not immediately respond to requests for comment…

Do Revenge, a sharp Netflix dark comedy starring Camila Mendes and Maya Hawke as vengeance-obsessed high schoolers, is a virtual parade of teen movie nostalgia – a shopping mall of homages, if you will. The students at posh Rosehill Academy in Miami wear ludicrously elaborate outfits, a la Clueless. Popular kids lounge on a fountain, a la Scream. There’s a tour of Rosehill’s cliques – the zodiac thoughts club, the theater nerds – a la Mean Girls and 10 Things I Hate About You. As in She’s All That or Clueless or countless…

Reports of tiny and aggressive isopods have been surfacing in Southern California. The “mini-shark” isopods, known officially as Excirolana chiltoni, or water-line isopods, have reportedly been attacking the feet of beachgoers visiting Mission Bay. Citizens around the area say the tiny bug-like creatures swarmed their feet when they put them in the water, biting and latching onto them. Meet the mini-shark isopods of Southern California’s Mission Bay Image source: sinhyu / AdobeThese mini-shark isopods…

Triangle of Sadness has won the coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival. The movie was awarded the prize on Saturday (28 May). It is the second time that Swedish director Ruben Östlund has won the award, having picked it up in 2017 for The Square starring Claes Bang, Dominic West, and Elisabeth Moss. Triangle of Sadness generated buzz last week after it earned an eight-minute standing ovation at Cannes Film Festival over the weekend.The movie, which stars Woody Harrelson, received a rowdy and overwhelmingly…