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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeIf there are no other pleasures to Wicked Little Letters beyond the tome’s worth of expletives launched by Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley, then so be it. That’s plenty enough to sustain this witty, joyously written piece of forgotten history, scripted by comedian Jonny Sweet. Colman plays Edith Swan, the Littlehampton resident who, in the early 1920s, found herself inundated with…

Film: Puppy LoveCast: Lucy Hale, Grant Gustin, Nore Davis, Jane Seymour, Michael Hitchcock, D.J. MausnerDirector: Nick Fabiano, Richard Alan ReidRating: 2/5Runtime: 106 min This romcom is about mismatched people eventually getting together because of their love for their respective canines. Couldn’t be a lamer excuse for an archetypal millennial romcom…could there be? A mouthy, take-charge Nicole (Lucy Hale) and fidgety, full of complexes Max (Grant Gustin, last seen in ‘Flash!’) happen to go…

NASA has made a significant discovery of a ‘super-Earth’ planet named TOI-715b, located 137 light-years away in the habitable zone, suggesting it could be a potential candidate for hosting life. The exoplanet is 1.5 times larger than Earth and orbits a small, reddish star that emits temperatures suitable for liquid water to exist on the surface — a crucial component for supporting life. Scientists, led by the University of Birmingham, utilized Earth-based telescopes in conjunction with NASA’s…

January 5, 20243 min readBuying out and razing homes harmed by Hurricane Sandy boosted business development, jobs and property values in nearby neighborhoodsBy Thomas Frank & E&E NewsA beach-front house and a car are damaged in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in Belle Harbor section of Queens, in New York, November 1, 2012. CLIMATEWIRE | Local property values and business development increased after a large government program was used to purchase flood-damaged homes in the wake of one of the nation's most…

President Bola Tinubu Thursday in Paris, France, said the ongoing reforms introduced by his administration would be sustained for a more competitive economy that attracts Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). He urged investors to take advantage of the opportunities in Nigeria. Mr Tinubu announced the removal of fuel subsidy during his inauguration on 29 May. He also approved the streamlining of the exchange rate in the country. “We are ready for business, prepared to welcome investments,’’ he said while receiving the…

Half a century ago, a small group of esteemed thinkers that called itself the Club of Rome got together to chew over a thorny question: What would happen if humanity continued to consume the world’s finite resources as if they were limitless? Their efforts generated the now-famous 1972 paper “The Limits to Growth,” in which they modeled what might lie in wait for humanity.It wasn’t a pretty picture. The world, they predicted, was on a trajectory to overshoot its capacity to support continued growth at some point in the…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Recent major earthquakes in Turkey and Syria have prompted a surge of international support for those affected, but research from Flinders University has found what triggers people to keep providing support for those suffering humanitarian crises. The researchers learned that donations to appeals currently…

Earth, currently, is our only blueprint for planetary habitability. There may be life elsewhere out there in the big, wide galaxy, but ours is the only world on which we know, for a certainty, that it has emerged.The problem is that we've found nothing out there that's exactly like our own planet: of the same size and composition, occupying a similar spot in its planetary system, at just the right "Goldilocks" distance from its star for temperatures amenable to life as we know it.Most of the 5,300 worlds we've found to…

Credit: Shutterstock Much of World Pride has been about the visibility of LGBTQIA+ people. This is important to affirming who we are, our place in the world, and celebrating ourselves as LGBTQIA+ individuals. Social media offers new opportunities to be visible, and many people have shared their celebrations of Pride during this time. However, not everyone. …

ShareChat, the Indian social media startup backed by Twitter, Google, Tiger Global and Temasek, has laid off 20% of its workforce — or over 400 employees — just a month after eliminating more than 100 roles. The startup informed its employees about the decision on Monday morning. It deactivated access to accounts and wiped out all data of impacted employees, a person familiar with the development told TechCrunch. In December, ShareChat laid off nearly 5% of its workforce of 2300 employees as a…