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It’s (nearly) showtime! The highly anticipated trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is coming soon—but first, Tim Burton has given a first look at the sequel for his eponymous horror comedy to Entertainment Weekly. Who Should Be the New Doctor Doom? io9 PicksFront and center, of course, is Michael Keaton as you-know-which bio-exorcist; in the 1988 film, he was summoned to get rid of the humans who’d moved into the home of a ghost couple not quite ready to let go, and subsequently unleashed chaos in the lives of the Deetz…

Last October, White House hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a decision to switch parties in his presidential bid by exiting the Democratic party and running as a third-party Independent. The move was quickly denounced by members of his own family, including Oscar-nominated documentarian Rory Kennedy, who joined her siblings in posting a family statement. “The decision of our brother Bobby to run as a third party candidate against Joe Biden is dangerous to our country. Bobby might share the same…

Colm Tóibín, Marlon James, Jeanette Winterson, Rory Stewart and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall are among those scheduled to appear at the Hay literary festival next year.On Tuesday, the festival announced 29 “early-bird” events set to take place between 23 May and 2 June 2024 in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, described as a “taster” of the full programme released next year.Tóibín will be discussing Long Island, the sequel to his Booker-longlisted Brooklyn, while James will mark 10 years since the release of his Booker-winning A Brief…

Boston Red Sox Chairman Tom Werner and owner John Henry speak to the media during spring training at the Player Development Complex on Feb. 19, 2018.Matt Stone | Medianews Group | Getty ImagesAnother sports powerhouse has joined the ownership ranks of the golf league being developed by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.Fenway Sports Group, owned and run by John Henry and Tom Werner, will be the second of six teams to join TGL, the primetime golf league set to begin competition in January."We are excited for this new journey,"…

The odds of Wyndham Clark winning the U.S. Open were as long as the shin-deep fescue surrounding the Los Angeles Country Club bunkers.Clark had just one PGA Tour win under his belt, and this was only his seventh appearance in a major.Hot on his heels was Rory McIlroy, a four-time major champion and crowd favorite whose only hiccup Sunday was a bogey on No.14.As for Clark, he notched his first PGA Tour win last month at the Wells Fargo Championship. Surely, the newcomer’s knees would be knocking down the…

Lessons about R, data science, and engaging an audience from SatRDays LondonPhoto by Teemu Paananen on UnsplashLast month, I did something I’d never done before. I attended an in-person event all about data science — specifically, doing data science in the R programming language.Conferences aren’t new to me. As a researcher in psychology, I’ve attended and presented at many conferences in my field. But, despite being a long-time R enthusiast, I hadn’t ever got the chance to go to a non-academic conference about data…

At 2.54am on 12 October 1984, a bomb, which had been concealed in room 629 of the Grand hotel in Brighton several weeks earlier, detonated with such force that it toppled one of the hotel’s five-ton Victorian chimney stacks. “Like a monstrous guillotine, it sliced through concrete, steel and wood, all the way to the ground floor,” writes Rory Carroll in Killing Thatcher, his meticulously rendered account of the IRA’s most audacious terrorist operation.Just two minutes before the bomb went off, its primary target, Margaret…

Joe Budden has fired back at his former co-hosts, Rory and Mal, after the pair criticized the former for being ranked No. 1 on Complex’s Hip Hop Media Power Ranking list.During the latest episode of the New Rory & Mal Podcast, the duo ripped Budden, referencing their past financial issues which ultimately led to the trio’s demise.“The thief!” Mal said while him and Rory ran through the ranking. “The cat burglar. Big integrity … look at the cat burglar staring off into the next house he wants to run in. That’s big cat!…

“Today we were unlucky, but remember we have only to be lucky once, you will have to be lucky always.” The IRA’s statement after its bomb exploded in a bathroom on the sixth floor of the Grand Hotel, Brighton, in October 1984, was cleverly sinister but, with its repeated emphasis on luck, oddly airy. It took responsibility off the shoulders of the killers and placed it on those of Dame Fortune.This way of framing the horror that descended in the middle of the night during the Tory party conference was cruelly dismissive…

The pros and cons of the most popular approaches to R programmingPhoto by Chris Wynn from PexelsProgrammers are passionate people. They’ll enter enthusiastic debates (read, heated arguments) about their favourite languages and frameworks, defending their preferred approaches from critics. Among R programmers, one of the biggest sources of debate is the choice between two frameworks; Base-R, and tidyverse.Base-R refers to all the functionality that comes built into the R programming language. The tidyverse is a collection…