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Harry Reis was instrumental in launching the field of relationship science. The University of Rochester psychologist offers his research-based insights on dating and love in the digital age. Credit: University of Rochester illustration / Sarah Mossey Psychologist Harry Reis knows a thing or two about romance. For nearly five decades, the Dean's Professor in Arts, Sciences & Engineering at the University of Rochester in…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBritish director Piers Haggard OBE has died aged 83.The film, TV and theatre director is perhaps best known for his 1978 BBC drama series Pennies From Heaven, for which he received a Bafta, and for establishing the directors guild Directors UK.Haggard’s agents Casarotto Ramsay & Associates announced the news on Twitter, writing: “Our beloved client, Piers Haggard was a truly…

New York indie-rock stalwarts the Yeah Yeah Yeahs will headline the 2023 Just Like Heaven festival. The third edition of the Goldenvoice concert is set for Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on May 13. Future Islands, Empire of the Sun, M83 and Azealia Banks are among the other acts announced on Tuesday. MGMT will perform its 2007 debut album, “Oracular Spectacular,” in full.The inaugural Just Like Heaven festival took place in Long Beach in 2019 and didn’t return until 2022 because of the pandemic. Interpol headlined…

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is breathing on his own and football fans are breathing a sigh of relief. The broader public, hanging on the story of a player needing nine minutes of CPR on the field just to avoid death, are breathing a sigh of relief. At the NFL offices on Park Avenue in New York, league officials are also breathing a sigh of relief but perhaps not for the same reasons as everyone else.Commissioner Roger Goodell’s NFL is an economic leviathan, by far the most popular sports league in the United States.…

The virtual representation of physical objects, processes or service, that either exists currently or that is intended to be developed is called Digital Twin. It can be a replica of an object as small as a switch to a giant thing like a windmill or can represent a geographic region. Most of the time the developed replicas are used to study a process under controlled settings. In other words, it is a kind of simulation of the object or the process meant for collecting data, being fully present in a form similar to the…

Mastery is what you would wish for in a 27th collection and it is what you find in Philip Gross’s The Thirteenth Angel, shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize. And as we are counting, it seems worth adding that Gross is a poet who seeks to quantify the unquantifiable. In Psalm: You, he rushes straight in with the question: “who can number the waves on the sea” and, at different moments, marvels at the impossibility of keeping score – a reminder at once of the mystery of things and the scant control we have over our lives. His…

Image: Kirra CheersWhat do you think of when you imagine the angels of the Bible? Renaissance paintings of these divine beings pictured beautiful, toga-clad creatures with wings like doves, but those depictions aren’t in line with many Biblical, Hebrew, and Islamic descriptions of Gods’ messengers. “We’re talking wheels of fire,” Bob Johnson said at an October 17 book event at Barnes and Noble in New York City. “Eyes everywhere. Winged rings of animal heads.” Johnson is the creator of the new graphic novel, Head Wounds:…

It’s time to accept that cloud gaming is the future of gaming. At least for some people and even though Stadia failed. But that group of people is becoming larger every year. For the past few weeks, I have been playing video games on a brand new device — the Logitech G Cloud. But my games weren’t actually running on Logitech’s gaming handheld. Instead, I relied on cloud computing service Shadow to run those games. And I have to say that this experience has completely changed how I feel about cloud gaming. Playing on…

https://madcavestudios.com/Sana Takeda and Marjorie Liu are a creative force to be reckoned with, one of those rare comics partnerships that tend to start new conversations based on the quality and complexity of their work. This was the case with their award-winning series Monstress, a fantasy-horror story about magical beings that can create psychic links with monsters, all in an intricately built world where politics and persecution make for a dangerous life for those with powers. There’s nothing like it on the…

Born in Florida, Jason Derulo, 33, attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Los Angeles. In 2009, his debut single Whatcha Say was a huge hit, and other chart-toppers include Wiggle, Take You Dancing, Acapulco, Savage Love and this year’s Slidin’ (ft Kodak Black). Derulo has sold more than 200m records worldwide and has more than 52.5 million TikTok followers. He lives in Los Angeles.When were you happiest?When my son Jason King Derulo was born.What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?I dislike my…