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It was a nightmare born out of a pandemic: a silent killer that arrived from a faraway land, rapidly spreading a delirious fever across the domestic population and leaving its hosts in an anaemic stupor.By channelling contemporary fears around infectious diseases in the wake of the 1918-20 influenza pandemic, the 1922 expressionist masterpiece Nosferatu founded an entire genre of vampire horror movies and inspired claw-fingered monsters that would spook generations to come, from Freddy Krueger to the Babadook.A hundred…

Boy Meets Girl – aka George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam – enjoyed a global smash in 1988 with their iconic single ‘Waiting For a Star to Fall’. The duo were also the songwriters between two of Whitney Houston’s biggest hits – ‘How Will I Know’ and ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ – which have lived on long after the late star’s passing. Following the recent release of the deluxe version of their EP ‘Five’, I spoke with George and Shannon to discuss their enduring hits, writing for Whitney Houston and adapting to the…

Graph analytics framework designed for identifying enduring effects of COVID-19 on Healthcare Systems using Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs)Image by authorIntroductionThe Graph Analytics FrameworkExplanatory Modeling with Exponential Random Graph ModelsImplementation of ERGMsConclusionOne of our recent studies published in the ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (ACM TMIS) has shown the potential of graph analytics in identifying the enduring effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. You may read the…

When emo legends Paramore made their comeback with new single This Is Why in October, something about its blend of danceable guitar work and lyrical anxiety felt more than a little familiar. Speaking on her BBC podcast Everything Is Emo, frontwoman Hayley Williams revealed an unlikely source of inspiration for her band’s new direction and, indeed, their career as a whole.“From day one, Bloc Party was the number one reference because there was such an urgency to their sound that was different to the fast punk or the…

There’s a nasty case of Misleading Trailer Syndrome going around this season, with symptoms particularly pronounced among the spate of memoir films piling up as the year winds down.The spots for James Gray’s Armageddon Time and Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans sell us a pair of rosy-cheeked coming-of-age pictures about young, Jewish auteur-avatars navigating the travails of 20th-century boyhood, their partial comprehension of their families’ class and ethnicity nurtured by a loving, wise older relative. They’ll both face…

via Universal The Lonely Island have developed a rather unwanted habit on the big screen for crafting widely-adored movies that end up tanking at the box office. The Watch is the odd one out because it was terrible on almost every level, but the comedy trio’s feature-length collaborations on Hot Rod, MacGruber, and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping all bombed horrendously in theaters. Of course, all three went on to enjoy long-lasting life as cult favorites that fans still quote to this day, but you get the…

Using a neural network computational model, scientists have gained new insight into how new experiences get processed during sleep.Using a neural network model, neuroscientists discovered that as the body moves between REM and slow-wave sleep cycles, the hippocampus and neocortex interact in ways that are key to memory formation.What role do the stages of sleep play in the formation of memories? “We’ve known for a long time that useful learning happens during sleep,” says University of Pennsylvania neuroscientist Anna…

Hurricanes and their effects cause billions of dollars' worth of damage each year. And it's only going to get worse as storms get stronger. PNNL scientists are using a broad range of capabilities to help us prepare for and respond to these extreme events. Here, the eye of Hurricane Dorian is seen from the International Space Station in an image captured by astronaut Nick Hague in 2019. Credit: NASA Hurricane damages cost an…

The sad news of the death of Angela Lansbury, just a few days shy of her 97th birthday, brought to an end one of the longest and most storied careers in Hollywood history. While she will perhaps be best remembered for the 265 episodes (and four feature-length movies) she spent playing best-selling mystery writer Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, a stint that earned her a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “most prolific amateur sleuth”, Lansbury packed her eight decades on stage and screen with a host…

The sad news of the death of Angela Lansbury, just a few days shy of her 97th birthday, brought to an end one of the longest and most storied careers in Hollywood history. While she will perhaps be best remembered for the 265 episodes (and four feature-length movies) she spent playing best-selling mystery writer Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, a stint that earned her a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “most prolific amateur sleuth”, Lansbury packed her eight decades on stage and screen with a host…