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Working overtime has its pros and cons. Pro: you can earn more money, which seems more and more relevant as the cost of living rises. In fact, 57% of Americans said in 2022 that they wanted to work overtime because of growing expenses. Con: you risk burnout and health problems as your stress levels might increase.But sometimes, working overtime can have more advantages than disadvantages, and that’s what happened to this Redditor. Their boss asked them to stay and work late, but the catch was that the OP didn’t have any…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDonald Trump may have hit out at Jimmy Kimmel’s hosting of the Oscars, but he’s no stranger to lambasting the Academy Awards. In fact, Trump’s criticism of the show is something of an Oscar night tradition.During tonight’s Oscars, which saw Oppenheimer and Poor Things dominate the wins, Kimmel read aloud a statement posted by Trump on his social media site Truth Social in which the…

Curious minds tend to be interested in various things, from plants and animals to laws of physics and ballet, among others. That’s why seeing netizens delve deeper into another random topic nowadays is becoming far less surprising, yet not less interesting.Take the discussion started by ‘sceneybeanie’, for example. The user asked members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community about the craziest declassified CIA documents, and apparently, quite a few redditors had something to share. Scroll down to find their answers on the list…

Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lander "Odysseus" deploys from the upper stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket to begin the IM-1 mission.NASA TVMuch like Intuitive Machines' spacecraft, its stock has been flying to the moon the past week.In a little over a month since hitting all-time lows, and with its IM-1 mission on the way to the lunar surface, shares of Intuitive Machines have climbed more than 300% since early January. It's a rally that Wall Street analysts describe as fueled by retail investors' excitement for the space…

Last week, The Browser Company, a startup that makes the Arc web browser, released a slick new iPhone app called Arc Search. Instead of displaying links, its brand new “Browse for Me” feature reads the first handful of pages and summarizes them into a single, custom-built, Arc-formatted web page using large language models from OpenAI and others. If a user does click through to any of the actual pages, Arc Search blocks ads, cookies and trackers by default. Arc’s efforts to reimagine web browsing have received…

PJ Harvey paid tribute to one of her biggest influences, Captain Beefheart, by reading some of his poetry at a London art gallery a couple of weeks ago. The singer posted a video from the event to her Instagram. The singer-songwriter — who befriended the pioneering art-rock bluesman, whose real name was Don Van Vliet, late in his life — recited a poem he wrote for her in 2001 titled “Man Can’t Anticipate Cat” at Michael Werner Gallery. The gallery is showing Van Vliet’s paintings in an exhibition titled “Standing…

Credit: Tara Winstead from Pexels Three researchers on Monday won a $700,000 prize for using artificial intelligence to read a 2,000-year-old scroll that was scorched in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The Herculaneum papyri consist of about 800 rolled up Greek scrolls that were carbonized during the 79 CE volcanic eruption that buried the ancient…

Researchers peering back through 800 years of history have concluded that Mayapan – the capital of culture and politics for the Maya people of the Yucatán Peninsula in the 13th and 14th century CE – may well have been undone by drought.That drought would have led to civil conflict, which would, in turn, have brought about political collapse, according to the researchers.People would then have retreated to smaller and safer settlements.As well as giving us a useful insight into the history of this ancient people, the 2022…

Confident that Styles would find a way to watch The Tonight Show from wherever he was celebrating his 30th birthday, the comedian shared his poetic tribute to the musician What kind of birthday gift do you buy someone who likely already has everything they need or could ever want? According to Jack Whitehall, you get them a poem. During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday, the British comedian and actor celebrated Harry Styles‘ birthday — an unofficial national…

On Sunday night, Robert Downey Jr. secured the Critics Choice Award for the best supporting actor in a movie. However, instead of delivering a traditional acceptance speech, the “Oppenheimer” star decided to take a lighthearted approach by sharing some of his most memorable and amusingly harsh reviews from critics. Kicking off his speech, Downey noted that he had been contemplating the reviews of his work earlier that day from members of the Critics Choice Association. “I was thinking this morning, I…