Buried

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeFew characters in HBO’s luxurious drama series The White Lotus could be described as heroic. The titular holiday resort – think a swanky Butlins for the absolute worst people you’ve ever met – seems to exclusively house sociopaths and sex fiends, dopes and delinquents. But then there were Lucia and Mia, season two’s sneaky, scheming besties and the most aspirational sex workers in…

Film sets are like families, says Hirokazu Kore-eda. They are loose social structures, nominally hierarchical and ideally geared towards a common goal. While the Japanese director accepts that this puts him in the role of the father, he disputes the suggestion that this automatically makes him the boss. He supposes the cast are the children – often literally so. “The time we all spend together,” he says, “is very intense. The cast and crew become very important to me.” But at the end of each shoot, the unit collapses, the…

Enthusiasts are invariably perceived to be an odd bunch, outliers who tend to congregate among the safety of one another. There they stand on station platforms and near airport runways, in cagoules, jotting down numbers of trains and watching jets take off. Those who contain their obsessions indoors might treasure stamps or mount butterflies on pins. It passes the time.The writer Nicholas Royle collects books. When he’s not reading them, he’s writing them (he’s the author of seven novels, two novellas and four short story…

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Ariana Tibon was in college at the University of Hawaii in 2017 when she saw the photo online: a black-and-white picture of a man holding a baby. The caption said: “Nelson Anjain getting his baby monitored on March 2, 1954, by an AEC RadSafe team member on Rongelap two days after ʻBravo.’”Tibon had never seen the man before. But she recognized the name as her great-grandfather’s. At the time, he was living on Rongelap in the Marshall…

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.Dave Bautista Opens Up About His Relationship With Denis VilleneuveAriana Tibon was in college at the University of Hawaiʻi in 2017 when she saw the photo online: a black-and-white picture of a man holding a baby. The caption said: “Nelson Anjain getting his baby monitored on March 2, 1954, by an AEC RadSafe team member on Rongelap two days after ʻBravo.ʻ”Tibon had never seen the man before. But she recognized the name as her…

Burial 19: joint interment of a dog and a human perinate. Photo by S.R. Thompson, courtesy of SABAP-VR Soprintendenza archeologia, belle arti e paesaggio per le province di Verona, Rovigo e Vicenza. Credit: Laffranchi et al., 2024, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Some people from an ancient community in what is now northern Italy were interred with animals and animal parts from species such as dogs,…

"It's astounding to feel this kind of redemptive power that we may hold now because of AI and tomography and computation," Seales said in an interview before the grand prize announcement.It might seem like a lot to go through but Michael McOsker, a researcher who has studied the scrolls, estimates all these efforts could yield what amounts to about 200 new books. The collection is also the only surviving library from antiquity."We have probably less than 1% of … all the literature that was written," he said. "Any gain…

Credit: Tara Winstead from Pexels Three researchers on Monday won a $700,000 prize for using artificial intelligence to read a 2,000-year-old scroll that was scorched in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The Herculaneum papyri consist of about 800 rolled up Greek scrolls that were carbonized during the 79 CE volcanic eruption that buried the ancient…

Everybody is always trying to sell something. But while that’s understandable most of the time, on some occasions, it’s quite unacceptable.One of the best examples of that would be this Redditor’s story. The woman received a phone call before Christmas from the funeral home where she had laid her husband to rest a few years prior. While initially it seemed like a nice gesture that pleasantly surprised her, the emotions quickly changed when this turned into a sales pitch. Scroll down to read the full story!More info: …

Celeste Glazer, left, walks with her daughter Bridget, right, 15, in Capitola, Calif., on Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. Glazer was nearly swept into the ocean Thursday in Capitola, but her gymnast daughter Bridget saved her.  (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group)  It was Celeste Glazer’s athletic daughter Bridget who saved her from a potential watery grave in Capitola this week, but it was 21st-century technology that saved the San Jose biotechnology executive’s phone. Glazer and seven family members had evacuated Thursday morning…