This week's episode looks into finding Finnish friends.
"Mary Poppins" was Julie Andrews' first film. Her second film was "The Sound of Music." If she had never made another movie, she might still be one of Hollywood's most endearing and beloved stars and generation after generation would still be singing along. Though that was just the beginning of a career literally in its eighth decade, it's a very good place to start. Because now, Julie Andrews is a writer of children's books, with co-author, and daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton. Their latest is...
The city-based podcast and newsletter media company City Cast is on pace to generate $3 million in revenue and expand into its twelfth and thirteenth markets this year, according to founder David Plotz. The company is not profitable, and the revenues are relatively small for an 80-person outlet. But the figures also reflect substantial growth in a short timeframe: Following a March 2021 launch, the company began monetizing in 2022, generating $100,000. Last year, it brought in $700,000. ...
Though Boy Kills World (the feature debut of German writer-director Moritz Mohr) tries its best to conjure a snarky, gory action flick à la Deadpool, a sorely lacking script, bloated runtime, and aimless direction render this revenge flick aggressively tepid. Starring Bill Skarsgård, Jessica Rothe, and Michelle Dockery, Boy Kills World follows the titular Boy (Skarsgård), an orphaned young man living on the fringes of a “totalitarian hellhole” of a society that operates under the boot of the...
A little over five years ago, I launched the Law Bytes podcast with an episode featuring Elizabeth Denham, then the UK’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, who provided her perspective on Canadian privacy law. I must admit that I didn’t know what the future would hold for the podcast, but I certainly did not envision reaching 200 episodes. I think it’s been a fun, entertaining, and educational ride. I’m grateful to the incredible array of guests, to Gerardo Lebron Laboy, who has been there to...
The character had been previously voiced by Griffith in Shadow the Hedgehog in the TV series Sonic X and video games Shadow the Hedgehog and more. The 43-year-old voice actor spoke with TMZ about Keanu's casting, revealing he thinks, 'It's a great choice.'. 'Shadow is now being voiced by Ted Theodore Logan, John Wick and Neo, so I think that's pretty good company to keep,' Griffith began.
Many famous singers have distinctive voices. But why do we prefer some singers to others? A team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has investigated what determines our preferences for singing voices. The results are published open-access in the journal Scientific Reports.
A provocative fresh study has unearthed a correlation between left-wing convictions and both elevated intelligence quotient (IQ) scores and genetic markers thought to be linked with heightened intelligence. As elucidated by psychology researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in their novel paper, published in the journal Intelligence, a plethora of intelligence assessments revealed […]
A cat rescue received a box with a note that said the sender found this "kitten" while on a walk, but Sierra Pacific Furbabies discovered a big surprise.The California-based organization specializes in rescuing cats and kittens on euthanasia lists or strays from local shelters across the state, then connecting them to their forever homes. But recently, David Loop and Sierra Pacific Furbabies received a box dumped off at their office.The box was covered by a blanket, which revealed a note when...
'Dora The Explorer' voice actor Kathleen Herles returned to voice Dora's Mami in the new reboot 'Dora' on Paramount+.
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Methane that's trapped beneath the surface of Mars is occasionally released. Scientists found that underground salts deposited into the soil form a crust. This crust traps the methane, which is released when temperatures go up. READ MORE: