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Earlier this month, the Defense Department released a long-awaited report designed to address renewed public interest in unidentified flying objects. UFOs—or, UAP, as they’ve recently been rebranded—have been back in the news a lot lately, thanks largely to a few true believers who think the government has been hiding evidence of extraterrestrials.How Important Was it for Jason Reitman to be a Part of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire?The most influential of those true believers is a former high-ranking intelligence official,…

Sophia Bush and Nia Batts have signed on as executive producers to Another Body, a documentary that dives into the world of deepfake pornography. The doc, which premiered at last year’s SXSW film festival, follows a college student who discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online and searches for answers and justice. The doc uses deepfake tech to help tell Taylor’s story and the larger narrative of how the tech can be weaponized. Sophie Compton and Reuben Hamlyn directed Another…

Photo: NICK OTTO/AFP (Getty Images)The city of Stockton, California, began a UBI experiment in 2019 that, by all available metrics, has been a big success. The SEED program, as it’s called, doled out monthly unconditional sums of $500 to 125 low-income participants for two years. An analysis of the program showed that it helped improve the life experience of the people involved, who felt “healthier, showing less depression and anxiety and enhanced well-being” than people who had not received the funds. The analysis also…

Rep. Cori Bush is the subject of a Justice Department investigation concerning the misappropriation of federal security funds, the “Squad” member confirmed on Tuesday. The investigation was first reported by Punchbowl News.  Bush (D-Mo.) wrote in a statement that “the Department of Justice is reviewing my campaign’s spending on security services,” and that she and her office are “fully cooperating in this investigation.”  “Since before I was sworn into office, I have endured relentless threats to my physical…

The band is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year with a greatest hits tour Not to be outdone by No Doubt‘s reunion announcement, Bush stopped by The Tonight Show to perform their 1994 single “Glycerine.” Frontman Gavin Rossdale appeared on the late-night show ahead of the band’s upcoming greatest hits tour, showcasing the grungy song with a string quartet (and, oddly, no other musicians). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZiGfju5tdc Bush will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year…

Credit: Marcus Wallis/Unsplash In Australia we have a long history of taking children outdoors to learn about the natural environment. But thanks to computer games, tablets, and busy lifestyles, children aren't getting as much exposure to nature as they used to. "Bush kinders" are one way to counter this. In a bush kinder, children…

My friend Paul Bush, who has died aged 67 in a road traffic accident, was an experimental film-maker and film teacher. His film-making work focused on replacement animation, in which objects are replaced between frames, lending a magical instability to the physical world.Paul’s first short film, Furniture Poetry, replaced pieces of furniture and fruit, but later he went on to replace actors, with his films Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Pas de Deux de Deux swapping out two pairs of protagonists between each frame of film,…

B y the time Kate Bush called Zeke Manyika to ask if he would drum on her new record, he had already helped reinvent one great band of the Eighties and launch two more. There was Orange Juice, Scottish indie’s consummate cosmopolitans. There was his playing on the first singles by the Style Council, Paul Weller’s group after the Jam. And there was his work on Soul Mining, the debut album by his friend Matt Johnson as the The. Manyika’s show-stopping tom-tom solo on the closer of Soul Mining, called…

Doctor Who usually likes to save its returning stars for anniversary events, but withthe upcoming trilogy of specials to celebrate its blockbuster 60th already jam-packed, now it’s up to Doctor Who’s 14th season to shoulder a few surprise appearances—and its latest certainly is quite the surprise.Spoilers of the Week: July 1stToday the BBC confirmed that Bonnie Langford would reprise her role as Melanie Bush, ‘80s companion to the Sixth and Seventh Doctors, in the next season of the show alongside Ncuti Gatwa’s 15th…

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.Making Paint Cool in the Face of HeatTwo decades ago, when the world was wising up to the threat of climate change, the Bush administration touted ethanol — a fuel usually made from corn — for its threefold promise: It would wean the country off foreign oil, line farmers’ pockets, and reduce carbon pollution. In 2007, Congress mandated that refiners nearly quintuple the amount of biofuels mixed into the nation’s gasoline supply over…