Dying

Remember TikTok Now, the BeReal clone built directly into TikTok? Exactly. Today, TikTok has announced that it is killing off TikTok Now, the company’s clone of the viral social media app. Matt Navarra, a consultant and analyst in the social media industry, grabbed a screenshot from the TikTok app announcing the end of the feature. We’re updating the TikTok experience and are discontinuing TikTok Now. To view your previous posts, go to your Profile > Private Tab > Now Memories. We encourage you…

via Warner Bros. When the news broke earlier today that Warner Bros. was open to licensing certain content to Netflix under the right circumstances, everybody knew exactly where the conversation would be heading sooner rather than later. After all, the big screen DCU has found itself in such dire straits that Black Adam – which was deemed enough of a disappointment to have star and producer Dwayne Johnson cast out in record time – will handily defeat The Flash at the box office to reign as the superhero saga’s…

For a film about assisted dying, Sunlight takes an unexpectedly life-affirming approach. A promising feature debut from Claire Dix, this Dublin-set odyssey follows recovering addict Leon (Barry Ward) as he attempts to commandeer the final day of his terminally ill NA sponsor Iver (Liam Carney). Leon hopes to change his friend’s mind about dying, by showing Iver how much he is loved – an affection that is measured in the numerous lives touched and in pints of Guinness. But Leon comes to realise that the best way to show…

From the choice of schools to safety to access to green spaces and healthy food, the neighborhood where a child is raised can play a determining role in their future health. And because structural racism can systematically silo nonwhite people in certain neighborhoods, those local factors shape the health of millions of people of color in the United States. Now, census data link Black children’s neighborhoods and mortality rates in the early 20th century,…

There are lots of literal grey areas in the Australian film-maker Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s very compelling and heart-rending documentary about the final week of Bob Rosenzweig, a 65-year-old Jewish man living in Washington who has Parkinson’s disease and decides to end his life through assisted dying. From the opening shot Courtin-Wilson draws a stony overcast aesthetic, beginning with an ambiguous image of what seems to resemble a foggy, ashen skyline before a vague human outline emerges. Later there are shots of misty…

Long the fixation of religions, philosophy and literature the world over, the conscious experience of dying has recently received increasingly significant attention from science. This comes as medical advances extend the ability to keep the body alive, steadily prying open a window into the ultimate locked room: the last living moments of a human mind. “Around 1959 humans discovered a method to restart the heart in people who would have died, and we called this CPR,” says Sam Parnia, a critical care physician at NYU…

Shawn Mendes Releases A Song Titled ‘What the Hell Are We Dying For?’ On Climate Change Amid Canadian Wildfires – Deets Inside (Picture Credit: Instagram) Singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes again sang about climate change in the wake of Canadian wildfires. The singer-songwriter released a new song called ‘What the Hell Are We Dying For?’ and said he wrote the song this week amid the Canadian wildfires that’ve sent a blaze of smoke throughout many areas of the United States, causing air quality issues, reports People…

A team of astrophysicists has determined through simulations that the debris shed by dying stars may be a source of gravitational waves—those ripples in spacetime predicted by Einstein over a century ago.First Full-Color Images From Webb Space TelescopeGravitational waves are predicted by the general theory of relativity; they are ripples in spacetime generated by massive accelerating objects. The waves are also produced by the interactions of such objects, like binaries of and mergers between neutron stars and black…

Until now, we’ve only detected gravitational waves originating in binary systems, from the merger of black holes or neutron stars. But researchers from Northwestern University have potentially discovered a new non-binary source of gravitational waves: the debris ‘cocoon’ that forms around a dying massive star.Gravitational waves are invisible but incredibly fast ripples in spacetime caused by some of the most violent, energetic processes in space. Traveling at the speed of light, gravitational waves squeeze and stretch…

A pill for lung cancer has delivered impressive results in newly published research over the weekend. The pill, called osimertinib, was found to cut the risk of dying in half over a five-year span in those who received it alongside surgery. The treatment is intended for patients whose tumors carry a relatively common type of mutation.Boogeyman Star Sophie Thatcher Wrote Howl's Moving Castle Fan Fiction | io9 InterviewOsimertinib was developed by the company AstraZeneca and is sold under the brand name Tagrisso. It belongs…