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In 2011, Lesley Paterson was interviewed in Scotland’s Daily Record after becoming the off-road triathlon world champion. The headline crowed: “I beat my demons to be world champ … now I want an Oscar.” It was hard to know whether Paterson was rash, brash or simply delusional. The athlete had no track record in film. By then, she had spent five years trying and failing to remake the first world war epic All Quiet on the Western Front. It felt like a grand folly. Even her loved ones thought it was a pipe dream.This week,…

The University of Wyoming’s law school has launched a new center for gun research funded in part by executives from the firearms industry, which its founders say will bring new viewpoints to the field of study.While Second Amendment advocates have funded academic studies and research before, the new Firearms Research Center at the University of Wyoming is the first venture of its kind at an academic institution in recent decades, according to gun researchers. Most other gun research at universities is funded by the…

Elon Musk said he could've sold his SpaceX shares to take Tesla private when he took the witness stand again to defend his 2018 "funding secured" tweets in a lawsuit filed by the automaker's shareholders. According to CNBC, Musk proclaimed: "SpaceX stock alone meant 'funding secured' by itself. It's not that I want to sell SpaceX stock but I could have, and if you look at the Twitter transaction — that is what I did. I sold Tesla stock to complete the Twitter transaction. And I would have done the same here." He didn't…

In a move that will almost certainly do nothing to raise his miserably low Q rating out of the basement, actor and world’s least beloved MAGA talking point parroter Kevin Sorbo has put down his phone and joined the cast of Alien Storm, and independently produced science fiction film currently raising backing on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYSbmuh79SI Alien Storm is produced by Mahal Empire, makers of Bus Party to Hell, Art of the Dead, and Attack of the Unknown, and is currently…

Jim Carrey literally spent decades turning down the opportunity to make a sequel to Dumb and Dumber, and while the eventual result did end up making a tidy profit at the box office, it was a pale imitation and altogether more spiteful exercise in gross-out comedy than its beloved predecessor. Refitting Carrey’s Lloyd and Jeff Daniels’ Harry as outright idiots and borderline creepy old men instead of the bumbling buffoons audiences had fallen in love with back in 1994, the Farrelly brothers’ follow-up took a pasting from…

Cryptocurrency exchange FTX secretly funded media company the Block for over a year with money sent to the Block's chief executive, Axios reported, citing sources. The Block's employees were previously unaware of the payments, according to the report.Read Also FTX did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment, while FTX's former Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried did not respond to a phone call and text message seeking comment. Regulators around the globe, including in the Bahamas where FTX is based and in…

The increasing risk of wildfires in Colorado is driving insurance carriers to raise premiums on homeowners’ policies — if they decide to insure them at all — and now the state’s insurance chief is suggesting a publicly funded pool of money be established to provide property insurance for those who can’t find it in the open market. Colorado experienced massive, destructive wildfires in the past few years, including the Marshall fire, which caused an estimated $2 billion in property damage on Dec. 30, making it the most…

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has launched Ceer, the first Saudi electric vehicle brand, expected to be available in 2025, the state news agency (SPA) reported on Thursday. Ceer will attract over $150 million of foreign direct investment and is projected to directly contribute $8 billion to the kingdom’s GDP by 2034, SPA added. The company is a joint venture between Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (Foxconn), SPA said. Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth said on Thursday…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Being an intercultural citizen—someone who supports the principle of a multicultural state and also demonstrates positive personal attitudes towards diversity —is considered essential from a human rights perspective. What kind of learning best supports its development? To try to answer this question,…

Elon Musk closed the $44 billion deal announced in April to take Twitter Inc private and took ownership of the influential social media platform by firing top executives immediately. "The bird is freed," he tweeted in an apparent nod to his desire to see the company has fewer limits on content that can be posted. But Musk provided little clarity on how he will achieve his goals. Earlier this month, Musk brought the deal back on the table after previously trying to walk away from it. Musk had said he was excited to buy…