Glitter

All that glitters is not gold. Actual glitter, for instance, can be a surprisingly harmful environmental pollutant, as a new study demonstrates.Despite its association with fun and frivolity, glitter has a dark side. Flecks of glitter reduce the amount of sunlight that penetrates into bodies of water, the new study shows, potentially impairing the ability of some aquatic plants to photosynthesize.Glitter is essentially a microplastic in disguise, whose whimsical nature distracts from its insidious contributions to…

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week, Mary Ann, Kirsten and Alex gathered to chat through a massive sheaf of news. A note before we get to the rundown: Reddit filed to go public after we recorded this episode, so we didn’t get to talk about its IPO in this episode. We’ll definitely discuss its S-1 filing in due time, so make sure to tune in again! Here’s the…

Depending on who you ask, glitter bombs are either fun or incredibly annoying. But either way, they can make for a pretty fun prank.It’s even more fun when that prank, like in this Reddit story, accidentally turns into an improvised anti-theft system. As the author shared, they packed a glitter bomb into a decorative present as a prank for their director, who loves jokes like these. However, when the said gift disappeared and a volunteer covered in glitter was seen making complaints, the whole situation got a lot more…

Collectors of trading cards or Pokémon are always on the hunt for super-rare shiny variants – and now astronomers have found the exoplanet equivalent. The shiniest planet ever found, LTT9779 b, is an ultra-hot, cosmic disco ball thanks to clouds made of glass and titanium.Located about 262 light-years away, LT9779 b is a gas giant around the size of Neptune that orbits a Sun-like star very closely – in fact, a year lasts just 19 hours there. Its close proximity to the star makes it, unsurprisingly, ultra hot, with daytime…

via Marvel Studios With the notable exception of Chris Pratt’s very human Star-Lord, virtually every member of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise’s principal cast needs to spend at least a little time either in the makeup chair or kitted out in a motion capture leotard. It’s something Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Zoe Saldana, Pom Klementieff, Sean Gunn, Michael Rooker, and many others had gotten used to over the years, but it was a brand new experience for Will Poulter, who makes his Marvel Cinematic…

Gary Glitter has been freed from prison after serving half of his 16-year sentence for sexual abuse crimes, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed.The former pop star, who had a string of chart hits in the 1970s, was jailed in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls.The 79-year-old left HMP The Verne – a low-security category C jail in Portland, Dorset – on Friday after eight years behind bars.He was freed automatically halfway through a fixed-term determinate sentence and will be subject to licence conditions.Glitter,…

No one wants to see their kid get mangled up, says Ariyana’s dad. His pint-sized daughter is nine years old and already a champion in a sport that is statistically one of the world’s deadliest: bull riding. “Never scared” it says on Ariyana’s belt. But watching her skinny little body swinging off the back of an angry bull is white-knuckle terrifying.German directors Anna Koch and Julia Lemke follow four cowgirls on the rodeo circuit in a low-key observant documentary that makes no judgments – though you may pass one or…