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A Mortal Kombat 1 mod has gone viral, after showing Woody from Toy Story using one of Kung Lao's gruesome fatalities to tear apart Sulley from Monsters Inc. The video shows off the kinds of shenanigans PC players can get up to with a modded game--even if said mods are potentially childhood-ruining.The initial video shows Woody taking the upper hand in a fight with Sulley, who has been superimposed over fighter Reiko. The mod is surprisingly well done, with Woody's cowboy hat taking the place of Kung Lao's…

Streaming your favorite shows and movies is fun. Less fun: paying for six different services, remembering multiple passwords, figuring out which service has which program—and toggling to live TV so you can watch news and sports. Guess who says he can help? The cable guy.Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Streaming your favorite shows and movies is fun. Less fun: paying for six different services, remembering multiple passwords, figuring out which service…

The singer-songwriter offered a glimpse at his favorite new musical practice: Playing the harmonium and singing whatever comes out Shawn Mendes offered fans a glimpse at the musical exercise he’s embraced during moments of “extreme anxiety or fear” over the past year. The singer-songwriter shared a clip on Instagram of him playing a harmonium and allowing himself to just sing whatever he wants “with full trust.” It’s a practice, he noted, that went a long way toward helping him “ease the pain.”…

The woman who was pinned under a food truck when a driver fleeing police plowed into pedestrians in midtown Manhattan early on New Year's Day has been identified as an actor who has appeared in films such as Black Panther and The Color Purple. Carrie Bernans played one of the Dora Milaje women in Black Panther. Actor and stunt performer Carrie Bernans suffered broken bones and chipped teeth and is in a great deal of pain following the crash near Penn Station on Monday, her mother posted to Instagram. Wrap up…

A new compound, discovered through extensive screening of 27 million potential drugs, has shown efficacy in reversing chronic pain in animal studies, with minimal side effects. This research represents a significant advancement in pain management. The compound, CBD3063, targets the Cav2.2 calcium channel in a novel way and has outperformed existing drugs like gabapentin. Ongoing research aims to refine this compound and bring it to clinical trials as a safer, more effective pain relief medication.Researchers have…

When the Indigenous hip-hop artist Charmaine Jasmine Armstrong – also known as Dizzy Doolan – started spitting rhymes 22 years ago she was one of a handful of women in Australia’s rap scene.There was no one to teach her how to put songs together, promote herself, apply for grants or even upload music. In the early 2000s the Australian scene was dominated by white men – groups like the Hilltop Hoods.“There was no other female rappers that I knew of really doing their thing,” Dizzy says. “There was no one to look up to,…

In March 2011 the head of a school in London asks one of her teachers, Khaled, who is from Libya, to give a presentation to students on the unfolding movement soon to be known as the Arab spring. No, he says, he’d rather not. He doesn’t “know much about politics”. The lie is transparent. As Khaled’s friend Hosam says to him, history is a “tide” and no one from their country can swim away from it. “We are in it and of it.”Hisham Matar’s own life has been cruelly disrupted by that tide. His justly acclaimed work of…

Being overly worried about getting sick may, actually, help send you to an early grave, new research out this month suggests. The study found that people diagnosed with hypochondriasis were noticeably more likely to die during the study period than those without it. An increased risk was seen across both natural and unnatural causes of death but was especially large for suicide.Freewrite Alpha Is the Little, Expensive E-Typewriter That CouldHypochondriasis—previously called hypochondria and now also known as illness…

University of Pittsburgh scientists have developed a spinal cord stimulation technique that restores sensation in amputated limbs and reduces phantom limb pain, offering new hope for improved mobility and quality of life for amputees. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Spinal cord stimulation by University of Pittsburgh researchers effectively reduces phantom limb pain and restores sensation in amputees, marking a significant advance in prosthetic technology. Spinal cord stimulation can elicit sensation in the missing foot and…

Recent research by the University at Buffalo has uncovered a “suicidal” reaction in ion channel receptors, particularly TRPV1, which undergo dramatic and irreversible changes when activated by heat. This groundbreaking discovery, which defies previous expectations about receptor stability, could significantly impact the development of more effective pain relievers. Scientists have a ‘Suicidal’ mechanism discovered in ion channel receptors which enables the sensing of heat and pain. The ability to accurately detect heat…