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The Goodwood Festival of Speed runs 13-16 July this year and it is a destination event for anyone who appreciates two-, three- and four-wheeled mobility and its glorious history. Not surprisingly, Bonhams' annual auction that accompanies the Festival of Speed always throws up interesting automobiles, from a 7.1-Litre Mercedes-Benz 38/250 SSK, to Fangio's W196R Silver Arrow to Tim Birkin's Blower Bentley to a Scuderia Ferrari Fearsome Four Nine. Bonhams' FOS lot list always contains a number of unexpected delights and…

The Timna Park Site 25 “Chariot Engraving”. Credit: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (2023). DOI: 10.1057/s41599-023-01742-7 A groundbreaking study conducted by a multidisciplinary team that include a computational archaeologist, artist, and computer programmer has revealed new insights into ancient rock engravings and the techniques used by ancient engravers. The research, carried out at Site 25 in Timna Park,…

By The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences June 18, 2023In space, you can see impending earthquakes. Not so literally, as in the above collage of photos, but still clearly – in the changes in the intensity of cosmic rays recorded by observatories on the surface of our planet. Credit: IFJ PAN/NASA/JSCScientists have found a strong statistical link between changes in cosmic radiation and seismic activity, potentially aiding in earthquake prediction. However, the ability to predict…

Hailee Steinfeld’s Spider-Man journey ‘comes full circle'(Photo Credit: Bang Showbiz) Hailee Steinfeld feels her Spider-Man journey has come “full circle”. The 26-year-old actress was a big fan of Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man during her younger years, and Hailee is now thrilled to have voiced the part of Spider-Woman in ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’. The Hollywood star told HeyUGuys: “Tobey Maguire was sort of my introduction into the world of Spider-Man and it’s so crazy to now be here and be a part of this ……

A Neanderthal premolar tooth from the Almonda cave system, Portugal, seen from different angles. Isotopes of strontium were used to track the movement of this individual over the 2 to 3 years the enamel took to form. Credit: João ZilhãoAn international group of researchers, led by the University of Southampton, has offered a fascinating look into the hunting strategies and dietary habits of Neanderthals and other human groups residing in Western Europe.The team scrutinized the chemical composition preserved within tooth…

via 20th Century Fox On their own, steampunk and fantasy are two perennially popular mediums with plenty of rich stories to choose from, but combing the two in a blockbuster movie almost always ends in disaster, with 2019’s Abigail living up to the reputation of its predecessors by failing to find favor with critics or audiences. In a world where Mortal Engines became the biggest money-losing failure in Hollywood history, which came after the likes of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Golden Compass,…

Y can’t Sims crawl? Thanks to a reader, this lengthy thread of Sims 4 fun facts from Twitter user OnlyAbiDoang came across my desk and I couldn’t look away. Even if you haven’t played The Sims series yet you likely know someone who has: or at least experienced it by osmosis through some sort of weird factoid throughout the years. It’s that ubiquitous. But I didn’t realize just how wacky I could get. LIST OF THE SIMS FUN FACTS THAT I'VE SHARED HERE – a thread – (For a video version, feel free to check out "50 Sims…

Film: The Lost King Cast: Sally Hawkins, Steve Coogan, Harry Lloyd, Mark Addy, James Fleet, Lee Ingleby, Adam Robb, Benjamin ScanlanDirector: Stephen FrearsRating: 3/5 This Stephen Frears-directed film is based on a true story (detailed in Philippa Langley’s excellent book The Search for Richard III) about the amateur historian who defied the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III`s remains, which were lost for over 500 years. Already fascinated by the Richard III story after an…

A clever riff on the time-travel genre, Andrew Legge’s small but mighty feature debut begins with a title card announcing the discovery of a mysterious cache of film reels in the 1940s. The grainy and jagged black-and-white footage, shot on a 16mm Bolex, turns out to be home movies made by Martha (Stefanie Martini) and Thomasina (Emma Appleton), two orphaned sisters who have devised a machine that can intercept broadcast signals from the future, and which they have named after their deceased mother.The film impresses with…

via Magnolia Pictures Female-driven war stories with fantastical twists has the potential to be one of the most fascinatingly unique subgenres in cinema, but it’s never going to catch on if the movies themselves keep on vanishing without a trace. First there was Chloë Grace Moretz’s batsh*t Shadow in the Cloud, which was swiftly followed by writer and director Karen Cinorre’s Mayday. They’d definitely make for one hell of a double feature, though, seeing as both stories focus on battle-hardened women dealing…