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Following the March release of her Buckles Laboratories: The Intermission EP, Mariah the Scientist returns with her latest single “Bout Mine.”Co-directed by Mariah alongside Cam Busby, the accompanying music video stars the R&B singer as a spurned girlfriend seeking revenge on her lover, entertainingly laying waste to a record label office in the process. “Feelin’ lost, feelin’ nervous and I know I don’t deserve this/What’s it cost? ’Cause I want you back, babe, goin’ sad lately,” she sings on the WondaGurl-produced…

Fatally flawed characters, most especially the protagonist. Check. Dirty deeds acted out covertly and compelled by the darkest human emotions. Check. Plenty of violence, including an industry based on choreographed gladiatorial events. Check. An ending with nothing gained after much ventured, and a grappler sprawled on a canvas apron littered with broken dreams. Check. The wrestler as a soul damned by his own anger issues, his own ego, and navigating his own downward spiral of vicious cycles. Check. The solicits asked if…

There is no perfect parallel in Earth’s past for present-day climate change—human-driven warming is simply happening too fast and furiously. The closest analog came 56 million years ago, when over the course of 3000 to 5000 years, greenhouse gases soared in the atmosphere, causing at least 5°C of warming and pushing tropical species to the poles. The cause of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) has long been debated, with researchers invoking exotic mechanisms such as…