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Celebrity pets are destined to be the big winners following Oscar season this year, with two gifts aimed at the four-legged featuring prominently in the annual goodie bag.Cats can enjoy complimentary bags of raw dehydrated super food from organic Canadian brand Smack, while dogs will be cheered to learn that for each recipient of the goodie bag, plant-based company v-dog will donate 10,000 canine meals to Peta’s Global Compassion Fund.Splashier items include three holidays, one in a Swiss chalet, a holistic wellness…

Scavenging amphipods from Kongsfjorden, Svalbard. Credit: Alfred Wegener Institute / Charlotte HavermansFirst observation of marine invertebrates eating live and dead jellyfish during Arctic winter.In the dark and cold of the months-long polar night, food resources are limited. Some groups of marine organisms in the polar regions overcome this challenge by going into a metabolic resting state in winter, surviving on reserves accumulated during the short growth season. But others, such as several species of marine…

There’s a comforting, soothing aspect to both food and music. When I’m offering food to somebody to nourish them or when I’m offering music to nourish their spirit or their soul, I realise I’m doing the same thing.I cooked super-early; I was cooking at six. We were cooking dangerous food, too. My first was french fries: hot grease, flame and a kid on a chair. Crazy, but yeah, we did it and it was fun.When I think of childhood memories I’m like, “Oh, wow, I was doing everything these farm-to-table chefs are doing!” When we…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeEmily Blunt has spoken about the “monumental” toll Oppenheimer’s lead role took on her co-star, Cillian Murphy. The Irish actor, 47, stars as “the father of the atomic bomb”, Robert J Oppenheimer, in Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated biographical war drama about the devastating effects of the World War II invention. Blunt, 40, plays Oppenheimer’s wife, biologist Kitty Oppenheimer.…

The past week in L.A. has felt, at least to me, unseasonably cold for this time of year. And I happen to live in one of those apartment complexes with old gas heaters that mean you either leave it off and freeze or turn it on and suffocate under a wave of oppressively hot air. So my coping strategy is to use my oven for all my meals — it’s enough to take the chill out of the air but not generate so much heat that I feel like it’s summertime again. I throw everything I want to eat on a sheet pan and let it all cook…