Sensation

It’s six hours before showtime and a queue of teenagers already lines the street outside east London’s EartH arts venue. They are sitting patiently on the pavement and finishing their homework or playing Uno, hoping to get to the front of the stage for the first of three sold-out shows by 24-year-old singer-songwriter Laufey Jónsdóttir. Overhead, the grey February afternoon threatens to break into rain.Inside, sitting next to the peeling walls of her dressing room in a pristine gingham dress, Jónsdóttir is unfazed by the…

Recent research utilizing optogenetics challenges existing views on sensory processing in the brain, showing that sensory modulation during movement is primarily influenced by inputs from the secondary somatosensory cortex and sensory thalamus, not the primary motor cortex. This discovery has significant implications for developing technologies that mimic human sensory-motor integration, offering new insights into the brain’s complex functions.Scientists have revealed new understandings of the way body movements impact…

The US Presidential elections always impact the overall trends of the crypto market. With positive indications from pro-crypto candidates like Asa Hutchinson, established tokens and new projects like BlockDAG Crypto have gained the attention of investors and analysts. BlockDAG (BDAG), with its next-generation consensus mechanism, presale allure, and X-Series home miners, has blurred the Pullix price prediction and Ethereum Classic’s resilience. The rapid sellout of BDAG coins in batch 1 of presale and the…

Are you also one of those people who “Just Can’t Get Enough” of the 1980s? Or perhaps you feel nostalgia for a time you weren’t alive for. Either way, one content creator has managed to bring a transformative decade back, keeping the 1980s alive and well through her vintage outfits and, most of all, her visits to dead malls.20-year-old Jordan Rumsey isn’t your typical Gen-Z; she’s quite the opposite. At first glance, you would think she has just time-traveled from a Back to the Future movie premiere with a special…

Erika de Casier is uncomfortable. She is sitting cross-legged on the floor of what looks like a building site, cables hanging above her head, an unopened box to her right, and what appears to be an upturned sofa to her left. “Excuse the mess,” she says, adjusting her laptop on the bare wooden floorboards of her newish home in Copenhagen as we video call at the end of 2023. “I moved in a year ago but I haven’t really been home, so now I’m renovating it all. I’ve been living in a suitcase,” she sighs.De Casier spent most of…

Despite earning upwards of $560 million at the box office while showing remarkable staying power in theaters around the world, it’s still too early to say whether or not The Little Mermaid is a flop. After all, it was estimated prior to its release that the live-action Disney remake needed to clear at least $600 million in ticket sales to even consider breaking even, although it’s admittedly in a much better position now that Rob Marshall’s underwater epic is available on digital and VOD. Screengrab via Disney Having…

Anyone who could have predicted that a $14 million thriller dogged by controversy and contention that shot five summers ago would end up as the single biggest box office breakout of 2023 should probably take a stab at guessing the lottery numbers, because Sound of Freedom blindsided everyone. Upstart Angel Studios has already made a killing after the Jim Caviezel-fronted tale of trafficking raced past $100 million domestically in a matter of weeks, and its staggering performance that’s seen takings increase on a regular…

R&B singer, songwriter, and producer Chlöe is set to embark on her highly-anticipated solo headlining tour, The In Pieces Tour, in celebration of her debut album ‘In Pieces’. The North American leg of the tour has already garnered critical acclaim, and Chlöe is gearing up for a massive UK show at London’s O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Thursday 21st September 2023.The debut solo album, ‘In Pieces,’ was released to rave reviews on 31st March and features the lead single ‘Pray It Away’, along with collaborations with…

Image via Bontomfilm Only on the internet could a Czech animated movie that boasts an art style that could generously be described as rudimentary become a viral sensation a whole 15 years after it first released, but if you spent perhaps too much time online, then the chances are high you’ve stumbled across Goat Story in one form or another. To be more specific, you’ll have seen the character Katie, with he buxom maiden becoming a phenomenon that’s been repurposed for all sorts of memes, GIFs, reactions, and…

Presence hallucinations are those feelings that someone is close by, even though you're actually all alone. Following on from research showing they're common in people with Parkinson's disease, a new study suggests they might predict cognitive decline in the condition too.One in two people with Parkinson's are thought to regularly experience hallucinations, the researchers report. For a third of patients, they show up before more widely known symptoms, such as trembling.Data was collected on 75 patients with Parkinson's…